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How can I make my Joomla site more secure?

Mon - 02 Nov Written by Administrator

Excellent question! No need to live in fear but there are a few caveats to be aware of.
1. No public facing website or server can be 100% secure or we wouldn't hear about the Department of Defense and MIT having their systems broken into.
2. While you can generally improve any site's security there is always something to miss that will be missed as if Murphy's law didn't apply to code.

Follow these steps to ensure your Joomla site is secure:
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How can I get rid of the logout page and just logout in Joomla 1.5.x?

Mon - 26 Oct Written by Administrator

Joomla has a built in page that asks if you want to logout even though the only way to get to the page is to click logout. This is aggravating and can be annoying to visitors. Want visitors to be logged out when they click you menu links that say logout instead of having to go to another page and click anothe logout link?

Try this:
Create a menu item for a external link and copy and paste the following code in it:

index.php?option=com_user&task=logout&return=aW5kZXgucGhw

this will logout the visitor an dreturn them to the homepage. You can use any base64 encoded url you want. Base64 encoded you say quizzically? Don't worry about it - just go here and enter your url and then copy and paste after the = in the url above replacing the aW5kZXgucGhw which is base64 for index.php.

Time to dump Black Canvas Gmail Signatures

Fri - 16 Oct Written by Administrator

If you're like me and millions of others you use Google apps. Sure Gmail has been a little sketchy latley but what do you want for free?

It's no secret that leveraging your email sig is good practice but Gmail lacks any html ability. Luckily, FireFox has had a solution for this for years. The BlackCanvas Gmail signature addon. Until October 13 of this year I was great supporter but the project admin has decided to abandon the project and so have I.

The new WiseStamp addon for signatures goes much farther than the BlackCanvas addon by allowing you to add sigs to all IM's Blog posts and emails. WOW!

I have just installed this addon and will follow up once I have had a chance to try and break it.

Preview Joomla 1.6

Sun - 06 Sep Written by Administrator

This is an excellent lecture on the upcoming changes to Joomla in the 1.6 release. Client's who have done away with legacy mode will be in excellent shape and templates will have to be reworked as well as new nested categories but overall upgrade should be smoother than from 1.0.x to 1.5.x.

The presentation portion of the video is here in pdf form for those who want to follow along or skim over and skip the video. http://downloads.joomlacode.org/frsrelease/4/1/7/41772/lifting_the_lid_on_joomla_1.6.pdf

Lifting The Lid on Joomla 1.6 from Andrew Smith on Vimeo.