Removing the “Welcome to the Frontpage” text On Joomla’s Home page

While Joomla is an incredibly useful tool to manage website content, it does have its quirks.  If you are a newbie, you will surely run into some problems.  One of the most common questions asked about first installing Joomla 1.5 is, “How can I remove the text on the home page that reads, ‘Welcome to the [...]

Website Security, SSL, TLS, https and how it all works.

Are you ever curious how your browser knows which website to trust and how your private information is protected on the Internet?
Check out this article by, Jeff Moser.
http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

Test-Driven Development

We are all guilty of it. We are eager to code, so we turn on the laptop and let the logic flow from our brain right through our hands and onto the keyboard.  Before you know it, you have blasted through 1000 lines of code, a rack of red bull and 8 Tylenol.
 
Unfortunately, this is [...]

Using the DirectoryIndex property in .htaccess to improve search engine optimization and web site manageability

How it’s used:
Enter a line in your .htaccess file similar to the following:
DirectoryIndex  example.php
Special Notes:  This works with the Apache Web Server and does not work with IIS.  When editing the .htaccess file in a text editor, make sure “text wrapping” or “wrap text” is turned off.  Using “text wrapping” or “wrap text” will cause [...]

URL Rewriting with IIS (Internet Information Services)

In one of our recent posts, we wrote about the importance of using URL rewriting. In the post we demonstrated URL rewriting using Apache, Linux, and htaccess. While Apache is a very popular and stable web server, it is important to consider using Microsoft’s web server — IIS (Internet Information Services).
To accomplish URL rewriting in [...]

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