I have been looking for scripts to build a intranet or/and extranet website, after several hours of searching I found some interesting web scripts.  I found Alfresco, Open Atrium, MediaWiki, LifeRay and a few others and installed most of them. I was pleasantly surprised but also slightly scared by the sheer amount of features that were enabled out of the box. Then came the thought, why not use something that I use every single day in my job.

Due to the frequent question: “How to recover a corrupted site / database?”. I will describe three practical and easy ways to recover the website in case of failure. But remember, your main duty is to have an efficient copy.

Akeeba Backup is a tool which allows you to create security copy of whole Joomla! environment in a fast and easy way. Copies created with with Akeeba Backup help include all files connected with an installation given and database screenshot; so give possibility to move our work to any server which fulfill Joomla requirements.

There are many ways to speed up loading a web page. Of course, I assume that you use a fast web hosting service. First of all, remove anything You or Your Client don’t really need – especially from the first page.

First of all, programmers from Azurl have released an update to JomSocial 1.6, JomSocial 1.8 and JomSocial 2.0 to address a security issue found recently. This patch addresses an issue where attackers might be able to execute arbitrary Javascripts (XSS Injection). That’s why I also recommend to apply the patch immediately.

Joomla! is one of the most popular content management systems (on the licence of GNU GPL) in the world. In retrospect I can say that it is now much easier to learn the CMS than a few years ago.

We often need to test web pages and services in remote and away from the Internet. This is how to detect failures to build pages or sites to show to clients, using the simplest form, without having to resort to external housing or complicated changes and strange DNS.

From the time that Facebook has become popular, everyone wanted to have something similar for themselves. Everyone wanted to catch a comparable number of users and keep them within their website. Of course, social networking, as we know, really took off with Friendster.com, launched in 2002.

As we know only a page that does not exist on the Internet is secure. Yes, I know this is a sad truth. Even during a new installation on our well-known domain, we are exposed to potential attack by the hacker. So what to do, how to teach our Joomla! self-defence?

Some days ago I started to read a new book “Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook” (from packtpub.com) written by Tom Canavan. After reviewing a few pages, I was going to put it down when I came to Chapter 7: Managing Articles Using the Content Construction Kit K2.