Over the next few days we will be implementing a new download manager for our extensions.

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is coming.

Effective immediately we will no longer be offering or supporting the following extensions:

On December 31, 2018, all support for PHP 5.6 will end.  This means that if a vulnerability or bug is found after support ends, there will not be a patch released by the PHP project and your site/hosting account could be easily hacked as soon as someone finds and publishes a vulnerability.

We've released a new RSForm plugin that allows you to capture leads into CiviCRM from your RSForms.

If you use the Joomla forum extension Kunena, here's an easy way to remove the obnoxious footer backlink.

There will be cases where you need to set up a permanent redirect from an old path to a new path. It also allows search engines to know they need to update the links. I would recommend using redirects via your htaccess file rather than using the redirect manager in Joomla! unless it's only temporary.

Using an email relay server can save you from being labeled as a spammer. Using ElasticEmail is very affordable SMTP relay service to send bulk mail.

So you procrastinated too long and didn't renew your domain name or there's a specific name you want that's already in use...

I recently had a few queries about URL’s, using www, not using www, using both and forwarding different names. In summary, all of the questions were pretty much the same.

Extension Submission Queue Update

The Joomla! Extensions Directory now houses over 7300 extensions and is growing at a rapid rate!

Readability is probably one of, if not the most important aspect of a web site's design. After all, what use is your site if it's an eye sore and no one can bare to look at it? Here are a few tips to help improve readability

Fonts have been around since the invetnion of typesetting in the 1880's. After 130 years of technological advancement I can only guess there are tens of thousands of different fonts and styles out there. All too often I get a request for a logo design using a font that the customer has seen used somewhere else on the web. Sifting though the internet compairng fonts to find that exact font is usually a fruitless task.....until now.