Joomla Sport Template

In case you had not heard, Joomla 1.7 will be released on July 19, 2011. This is is the first release under Joomla's new 6-month release schedule.

There have been many posts about Joomla's new release cycle and how it will impact your sites and your business .Unfortunately, Joomla does not always do the best job communicating consistently and clearly with its community. Fortunately, Barrie and Jen are here to help you with all of your Joomla 1.7 questions!

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla 1.7 Beta 1 for download. This is the first release made within the new six-month release cycle that started with the delivery of Joomla 1.6 in January 2011.

One area in Joomla 1.6 that I’ve written about awhile ago is the new Joomla Redirect component that comes with the new Joomla 1.6. Its a great little extension that picks up 404 errors and allows you to safely redirect them to the correct area in your website. It usually helps with search engine optimisation and also your web site users. Everyone hates landing on 404 pages.

Today I finally found both the cause and solution for a problem one of our clients was facing some time ago. The problem was an unwanted /en in the URL of their website (a problem many others seemed to be facing as well, judging by the amount of unanswered topics on the Joomla! forum about this topic).

One of the changes in the new version of Joomla! 1.5.23 includes changes to .htaccess file. This will improve mod_rewrite processing speed by at least a factor of three, achieved by
re-arranging the rule order, and optimising the RegEx patterns. In particular, the new code eliminates a large number of slow and unnecessary disk reads for requests that will never be rewritten to the index.php script.

Joomla!’s temporary off-line mode is a very handy option to temporarily take your site down while performing maintenance —e.g. updating the Joomla! core or an extension— and is even suggested by the official documentation for the unfortunate time that your site has been compromised. However, is this really off-line, or are there any pitfalls you should be aware of?

As you might have guessed from the title, the off-line mode is not so off-line as you would think it is. As a matter of fact, the off-line mode is a magic trick, performed like any illusionist would have done. While your site works normally below the hood —component running and plugins executing— Joomla! performs a magic trick just before it sends the page to the browser, swapping the real page with the off-line system template. It is the very reason why you can type in http://www.joomla.org?tmpl=offline in your browser bar and see the official Joomla! site being apparently off-line when it’s not. Let’s see how Joomla! performs this class act of illusionist trick, the implications and a viable workaround for truly taking your site off-line in the unlikely case of an emergency.

If your website is running on Joomla , then you might have installed a lot of components, plug ins, templates etc or may even have a lot of articles, that affects your website performance by slowing down your site’s loading time considerably.Even search engines prefer websites that load faster and rate them higher page rankings. And in case if you do not know any of the coding or do not want to get into the messy coding stuff to do your own optimization, or you may even might not have the money to switch to a dedicated server from a shared hosting service.So here I have put together some of the tips and tricks for you to speed up your Joomla site