JForm is one of the most exciting new features to be introduced as part of Joomla! 1.6. The intention is to provide XML configurable forms complete with custom field types and form validation. I cannot stress enough just how much easier this is going to make life as a Joomla! developer. In this article we take a look at how to define JForms and how to display them.

Far and wide across this great nation, Joomla! users have been waiting. Waiting for their voice to be heard. Waiting for their vote to count. On October 16th at the footsteps of Washington DC, the wait will be over. We will finally be hearing from the President himself... Mr. Ryan Ozimek, President of Open Source Matters!

For many months now, NoVA Joomla has quietly lobbied from inside the...

The relationship between SEO and Usability is now clearer to me than I can ever remember it being. It might be that Search Engines are promoting this fact more, or that the web community is discussing it more, or simply that over the past few years my degree of interest in these two areas has increased. I’d like to tRead More...

Works are progressing really well with the new Joomla admin template we are building. Niche Studio has produced some quite advanced drafts. We think they are doing a great job. The overarching principle has been to reduce the clutter all over the page compared to the current Joomla 1.5 and particularly at the top of the page. This is somewhat selfishly motivated in my case by my use of a...

I've heard a lot of talk lately about whether or not Joomla can handle large-scale websites, or if it's best used for small mom-and-pop sites. I can say emphatically that the answer to that question is that Joomla is not only useful for small mom-and-pop sites, but it can also be used to build it medium and large-scale sites. There are a few popular examples of large-scale websites built with...

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Waaaaaay back in January, I took the time in this column to discuss with you the concept and need to patch your site. Since that article was written till now (May 16, 2010) there has been about 180 report vulnerabilities for Joomla extensions. And some number of them for the Joomla core (to be fair only a few).

Given that you might be using one of these, its important to revisit this...

Have you ever browsed to a website only to find that half the content is unreadable? Or that certain characters are being displayed in strange and mysterious ways? Or perhaps you wanted to enter a foreign or unusual character but found that the result was a garbled mess.

The chances are you have been subject to poorly managed character encodings. Joomla! extensions are no exception to these...

In recent months, there have been a few issues in the Joomla community and with Joomla's leadership that have caused some people to get upset with how decisions are made and with the lack of communication between the leadership team and the community over certain decisions. Steve Burge has formed a team to address these issues and come up with a solution for better communication with the...

There is no secret to becoming a Joomla rockstar. In fact, it's really easy if you think about it. Here are 3 (yes, 3) easy steps to becoming a Joomla rockstar:

Step 1: Build a website with Joomla.

Step 2: Learn from your mistakes.

Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2.

Today's security topic is inspired by a recent exercise I went through - testing a server for PCI compliance. For those who are not aware PCI is a security standard for accepting credit cards.

According the website for PCI they state their mission as follows:

"The PCI Security Standards Council’s mission is to enhance payment account data security by driving education and awareness of...