We’re pleased to release the next episode in our occasional podcast series. This time I head out of the studio to visit ACT Senator Kate Lundy. We discuss using Web 2.0 applications such as Twitter, WordPress and Joomla, get her views on the proposed national broadband network and how she feels about funding to community organisations.
To listen to this podcast head over to the official CASE podcast page!
In this tutorial you will be shown how to upload an image to your website using Joomla’s Media Manager.
In this tutorial you will be shown how to use Joomla’s built in WYSIWYG text editor to add a hyperlink to your article, insert an image into your article and add a “Read More” link in your article.
If you’re running Joomla on any of your websites be aware that there is a major security update available. This update will protect your site from a range of exploits discovered in the current verson of Joomla. From the security mailing list:
[20090302] – Core – com_content XSS
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 10:08 AM PDT
Project: Joomla!
SubProject: com_content
Severity: Low
Versions: 1.5.9 and all previous 1.5 releases
Exploit type: XSS
Reported Date: 2009-March-12
Fixed Date: 2009-March-27
Description
A XSS vulnerability exists in the category view of com_content.
Affected Installs:
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.9 are affected.
Solution:
Upgrade to latest Joomla! version (1.5.10 or newer).
[20090301] – Core – Multiple XSS/CSRF
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 10:02 AM PDT
Project: Joomla!
SubProject: Multiple
Severity: Moderate
Versions: 1.5.9 and all previous 1.5 releases
Exploit type: XSS and CSRV
Reported Date: 2009-February-15
Fixed Date: 2009-March-27
Description:
A series of XSS and CSRF faults exist in the administrator application. Affected administrator components include com_admin, com_media, com_search. Both com_admin and com_search contain XSS vulnerabilities, and com_media contains 2 CSRF vulnerabilities.
Affected Installs:
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.9 are affected. The com_search XSS vulnerability requires that “Gather Search Statistics” be enabled to be exploitable (Disabled by default).
Solution:
In this tutorial you are show how to install a template into Joomla 1.5.
So if you’re running Joomla or thinking about running Joomla, you might want to check out this humorous page over at the official Joomla documentation Wiki. It lists the top ten terrible things you could do while using Joomla, and how to avoid doing them. If you are guilty of doing any one of the ten, you need to change the way you do things!
Three of my favourites are:
4. Trust third-party extensions.
7. Use the same username and password for everything.
9. Don’t waste time with regular backups.
Click here to check out the whole list.
In this latest CASE video tutorial you are shown where to find the login page for the Joomla! administrator’s area. Once you’ve found it, bookmark it!
At CASE we’ve just begun to produce a series of free, online, video tutorials that address issues with software that our member organisations use to do their job. Starting with the web content management system Joomla! we plan to release a host of videos that teach the simple (and the not so simple!) lessons that we’ve learned over the years. To start off with, logging into Joomla 1.5:
We’re pleased to release the second episode in our podcast series. In this episode Sam and Amanda talk about web Content Management Systems, specifically Joomla. This podcast gives a brief introduction to what a CMS is, what the popular ones are, and how Joomla can help you and your organisation.
Click here to go to the Podcast page to listen in!
Yesterday I flew down to Melbourne (managing to make my day trip for the city’s hottest day, ever!) for Joomla Day ’09, hosted by the Melbourne Joomla User’s Group, at Melbourne University.
The day was well balanced and very valuable. The audience of around sixty comprised of people who had never used Joomla before, to seasoned gurus, and everyone in between. For the uninitiated, the first hour was used to show how quickly and easily Joomla can be set up in a variety of environments. A very thoughtful suggestion from Raoul Callaghan for people who don’t have their own web hosting account was to use JumpBox, a virtualisation package that allows for a nearly instant install of Joomla for you to play with! Being told about JoomlaPack, a Joomla backup and migration tool, probably made my day! CASE is always looking for handy tools to make things easier, and JoomlaPack looks to be one of them.
The day moved onto discussions about templating, general design and then security….
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