Let say that you want to have or  create a splash screen page on your Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress where users can choose what what language their prefer, or you just want to put an a huge image to greet your visitors. And suddently you're wondering "How on earth I'm supposed to do that kind of thing?".

Actually it is easy to enable Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs in Joomla. You only need to do a few steps to enable it.

By default, Joomla and Mambo provides several module position. But if you feel that is not enough, you could create more module position (custom module position) from Joomla or Mambo backend, and you could named it anything you like.

Just like Drupal, we could also use multiple templates with Joomla. But, compare to Drupal, using multiple templates or themes in Joomla or Mambo is much easier because we don't have to install additional module or components to do this.

Please note that Joomla templating system uses the ItemID to determine which template to show. This is why only menu items are shown in the list of pages to which you can assign templates. For an example, we are going to assign two different templates to our Joomla site.

Joomla's front page will automatically list all new content items that have been set to the frontpage. You can also make a static page as your site front page. When you set a static page to the front page and no Joomla content item set to the front page, Joomla will give you a message like "There are no items to display". Can we avoid this error message if we want to use Joomla static content page in the front page? Yes, we can.

For those of you who use OpenSEF in your Joomla site, you probably know that OpenSEF could make your site load much slower (and i mean really slow). This is caused by the huge OpenSEF query loads in MySQL.

In relevance to Moving Joomla Site From One Server To Another post the other day, today i wrote a simple guide on how to backup and importing your Joomla database. You could use phpMyAdmin to help you with the backup and import database process.

These are a few steps you need to do and prepare if you plan to move your Joomla site from one server to another. These tips also helpful if you plan to move your Joomla site from your localhost to a live site.

First thing you need to do is relax and stay calm, hmm maybe you'll a cup of coffee too :). Ok, off we go now...

As a human being, we sometimes forget about something. But what if we forget about something important to us, such as our web administrator password.

If you use Joomla, if you forget your password you could just simply click on the "Forgot password" menu, and the new password will be sent to your email address.

But what if your Joomla site is still in your computer (localhost), and your computer couldn't send email because there's no mail server or you are not connected to the internet.

Using an open source Content Management System (CMS) sometimes can be a pain in the ass. An open source CMS is very easy to get hacked if you don't know how to use and take care of them.