If you’re upgrading an old version of Joomla, it can help to make sure your hosting is running both PHP5 and MySQL5.
Lots of people will still be on version 4 of both and while Joomla may seem like it installs OK, lots of components and modules with either not install or not display correctly.
However, many [...]

This is one of those niggling little problems I had this week. I usually build a Joomla site in a temporary directory of the domain it is going live on then move it to the root directory once the site launches. The normal process involves changing the temporary location in the Joomla configuration file and [...]

I’ve seen a lot of Joomla 1.5 sites recently where the homepage title is simply “Home”. Obviously this isn’t an ideal situation and you generally want your homepage title to include your best search term for the site. It’s very easy to fix though:

From your Joomla Admin Dashboard go to Menus > Main Menu
Click on [...]

Not best bedfellows it turns out. I’ve been banging my head against a Joomla site all morning, trying to get formatting to stick that I’d applied on pages and it just kept getting wiped out. I use JCE as the editor on the site in question and forgot I was using the Google Chrome browser. [...]