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Useful resources, plugins, modules for Joomla, WordPress, websites
Posted on April 21st, 2009 No comments
Golumolu’s recommendations for resources, plugins and other solutions to common tasks/issues that one may encounter while designing web content. Most of these are related to Joomla and WordPress
Description of Task/Issue Solution / Web resource Move Joomla from the sub directory in the web server to the root. For e.g. http://domain/joomla to be moved to http://domain http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_move_Joomla_to_another_directory.html Want to track web site hits, hit counter, entry/exit pages, tracking search engine phrases Online XML Sitemap generator to submit to Google http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/details-golumolu.in.html How to place ads on WordPress Blog Sidebar http://247-coach.com/create-add-ads-wordpress-blog-sidebar/ How to embed an RSS feed into an article in Joomla http://www.howtojoomla.net/20090228104/how-tos/mambots/plugins/how-to-embed-an-rss-feed-into-an-article-in-joomla Create a favicon for your website How to not count your own hits to website by your tracking tools like Google Analytics http://www.epikone.com/blog/2006/07/11/count-me-out/ How to add Google Analytics to Joomla http://www.goodwebpractices.com/joomla/add-google-analytics-to-joomla.html EULA,License Analyzer http://www.spywareguide.com/analyze/analyzer.php yvComment – Commenting solution for Joomla! 1.5 http://yurivolkov.com/Joomla/yvComment/index_en.html#InstallyvComment How to take WordPress Backups http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups Custom Home page design for WordPress http://robmalon.com/wordpress-custom-home-page-design-widgetized-front-page/
http://www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page
http://thedesigned.com/2008/05/08/make-a-custom-wordpress-front-page/
How to enable Web page compression using GZip? http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php Web Page Analyzer – free website optimization tool, website speed test, performance report http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Website Speed Test Tool http://www.joomlaspan.com/webtools/website-speed-test-tool.php Manage Ads on WordPress Website, from John Kolbert http://www.johnkolbert.com/portfolio/wp-plugins/smart-ads/ Colour Scheme Chooser Tool http://websitetips.com/colortools/sitepro/
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Tips for speeding up your Joomla website
Posted on March 31st, 2009 No commentsSo your Joomla website, the front page, especially has slowed down. Dont worry. I am sure there are many who are in the same boat where the website response time has exceeded 10 seconds, which is the upper tolerable limit for website response times.
1. Template OptimizationOne of the most common problems that is seen with Joomla – there exist literally thousands of templates made specifically for Joomla, and most of them look quite nice, but most have some severe performance issues. The problem is that some of the templates out there use upwards of 70 separate images to display the page. Each image generates a new request and has to be downloaded. The problem is compounded when the images are not as small, and when they are not optimized. The following site will help you determine what template optimizations need to be done. Make sure to run your site through it after ever major change to measure the performance of the website –
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html2. Enable Joomla Cache
You can enable caching from your Joomla admin area > Site > Global Configuration > System.At the right side of the System page, under Cache Settings, next to Cache you should select Yes. Then click Save at the top right menu to enable caching for your Joomla
3. Disable all unwanted statistics counters.
Use GoogleAnalytics to track users. Avoid going in for 3rd party counters that are indicated as free but can slow done your site as they are basically small programs to collect more data from your website.4. Remove modules, components that are no longer used.
Remove even if they are in “not published” state. If you look through the Joomla Extension directory, you’ll find a component to do everything you could want. The problem is that some of these components are REALLY inefficient and end up slowing your site down dramatically.5. Enable GZip compression for HTML
The gZIP compression of your files improves the performance of your website and highly decreases its loading time. For complex websites it is highly recommended to enable it.For example, in Joomla you can turn on the gZIP compression from Global Configuration > Server > gZIP Page Compression set to ON.
You can test whether the compression is working by using this useful tool – http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
6. Check the number of images, objects on your website.
This is a useful website that provides insight into the number of images, objects on your site. Too many images, objects, bigger page sizes can slow down your site.
http://www.joomlaspan.com/webtools/website-speed-test-tool.php7. Optimize MySQL tables from the backend.
1. Login to your Joomla’s mySQL database via phpMyAdmin
2. Display the tables and then scroll down to the session table.
3. Check the check box next to the table (session table or any tables having overhead values) and select the Optimize option from the drop down select list. -
Easy,fast,economical way to create a website
Posted on March 22nd, 2009 No commentsIts amazing how easy it is these days to put up a new website and it can come quite cheap also.
We all know that you can even put up your own blog or a website for free on many shared websites like geocities.com, blogger.com (from Google) etc. But this post specifically focuses on what it takes to have a dedicated website with a name and suffix (For e.g .com, .in, .org) of your choice, which is of course not possible with shared sites.
Lets look at step-by-step procedure for creating your own website-
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