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October
Website Case Study: Big League Dreams
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- Written by: Sully Sullivan
- Category: October
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When a company that builds and runs sports complexes needed a new website to power its corporate presence that would integrate "micro sites" for its several locations with many features, Joomla! and its development community offered solutions which required minimal custom programming from its web development and creative agency.
Joomla! Day DC
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- Written by: Sully Sullivan
- Category: October
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Joomla! Day DC will be held on 16 October 2010 just one block outside the United States' capital city of Washington, DC. The event is being sponsored by the Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group. We caught up with its President, Bruce Scherzinger, to learn about their plans.
Community Leadership Team: Volunteer Profile-Jérôme Bussière
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- Written by: Paul Orwig
- Category: October
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The Joomla! Community Leadership Team has the responsibility to manage the Joomla! forums, the Community website, the JCM, the Joomla! Resources Directory, the Joomla! Extensions Directory, Joomla! Events, and Joomla! User Groups. For this issue’s article from the Community Leadership Team, we want to recognize Jérôme Bussière and his significant volunteer contributions.
Read more: Community Leadership Team: Volunteer Profile-Jérôme Bussière
Browse by Language
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- Written by: Alice Grevet
- Category: October
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Our Joomla! community spans the globe. The sun never sets on Joomla!, or on the people who create, develop and think up new ideas, every day, in dozens of different languages.
Team EaSE Article: eCommerce - Will they pay...
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- Written by: Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
- Category: October
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With the abundance of e-commerce solutions for Joomla! it is very easy building a great looking on-line store, showcasing your products and effectively convincing your potential customers to add them to the cart. Beautiful images, obvious calls for action, unique selling points and a smooth online shopping experience are easy to setup and help you “seal the deal” with the customer. However, this is only half the story. One of the most overlooked business decisions when building any kind of e-commerce site is the payment method. It’s what affects the very last step of the online shopping experience and the single most frequent reason to lose a sale.
e-Commerce for Joomla! Part One
As Joomla! has skyrocketed in popularity, Extensions available have multiplied exponentially. eCommerce Extensions, in particular, have seen phenomenal growth and maturation. Those of us who build Joomla! eCommerce sites have watched this growth with great interest and are pleased with the variety of choices now available for the Joomla! the powerful platform.
For many years now, when community members think of eCommerce for Joomla!, VirtueMart springs to mind. Next, consideration often goes to bridging a Joomla! website to another open source solution. This past year, however, two other major players have emerged in the eCommerce space, that being Tienda from Dioscouri Design and redShop from redComponent.
7 Simple Tips For Using Your Joomla! Site
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- Written by: Nirmal Gyanwali
- Category: October
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There are many webmasters who need assistance with their Joomla! site. Most problems webmasters have to deal with will be avoided by following these 7 simple guidelines for using a Joomla! site:
How can you charge that? Joomla! is free, right?
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- Written by: David Hurley
- Category: October
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“I looked up that Joomla! CMS that you said you were using for my project. I saw that I can download it for free. How can you charge me $XXXX? Joomla! is free, right? I just want you to install Joomla! and make it look good for me.”
Only a Ninja can kill another Ninja
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- Written by: Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
- Category: October
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If you were to provide a short list of the threats against your site, which one would be the number one threat? For me, it's script kiddies. Those pesky individuals who don't have a programming bone inside them, but still can cause a great deal of harm to our sites by using pre-packaged attacks against them. Their success rate is amazingly high, mostly due to our fault. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate some trivial techniques to add a degree of stealth on your site so that script kiddies can't launch their attacks and even if they do, they will most likely be fended off successfully. Just like a ninja, you'll learn how to have your site lurk in plain sight without being spotted by those pesky attackers.