Recently, one of our clients wrote me about issues he was having with my favorite Joomla Content Editor:

I have to tell you – I am VERY unhappy about how Joomla deals with text being pasted into it from text or word – I have been playing with this interface since I started using it to try and figure out why I have such MAJOR formatting issues with text. Again, I have just wasted 1 hour of my time getting this very poor text editor to recognize my spacing. I have allowed this to go on since I started, but today is the final battle I will play with this terrible formatting tool – I really need you to tell me how I can better control or get Joomla to maintain my pasted text spacing.

Here is the advice that I provided which later worked for the client above and I thought other Joomla business users may find it useful as well:

If you have any further or other questions or issues with editor usage, please contact us. I really have no problems with my favorite Joomla editor (JCE) and would be happy to understand issues that you are having so I could help you.

Also, feel free to let me know what you think of your Joomla editor in the comments section.
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Now that joomla.org has announced that it will discontinue support for the aging Joomla 1.0.15 this summer, many businesses are thinking if they should build their new website using this "dead" Joomla 1.0 technology or what to do next about their nice looking and well working Joomla 1.0.15 website if they already have one. 

For the future website projects that OGO Sense starts in 2009, we are going to use the following criteria when determining if Joomla 1.0 or Joomla 1.5 should be used:

• Big projects with completely custom component integration and/or few existing Joomla extensions.
• Small projects with few 3rd party extensions.
• Projects for which critical 1.5 components exist and Joomla 1.0 extensions do not.
• Available budget is big enough for fixing bugs in existing Joomla 1.5 core and extensions. Additional required testing, maintenance and human resources would not represent an issue.

• Big projects with many 3rd party extensions.
• Small Businesses and Organizations with a need of a very stable site for a fairly small or fixed budget.
• Large projects where there are many customizations and where fewer upgrades are desirable to keep the maintenance expenses fairly low. 

I know hard core supporters of Joomla 1.5 may challenge this article below in the comments but I would  certainly be happy to point them in a direction of small business owners who are frustrated and lost sales and profits because of their initial love as well with Joomla 1.5 and its extensions. Obviously, if a larger budget is available for testing and troubleshooting, I have no problem with using Joomla 1.5 except most businesses and organizations do care about their budget and ROI.

Our recommendations and decisions were based on:

• Designing Joomla websites completed over the past 2 years.
• Maintaining and upgrading Joomla 1.0 and more recently 1.5 sites over the past 2 years.
• Joomla site migrations completed from 1.0 to 1.5
• Joomla security and hosting.
• Website budget and best ROI for our clients.

From the business perspective, many business users or I do not see enough functional or financial incentive to migrate to or even build sites in Joomla 1.5. Therefore, I have decided that OGO Sense will continue to support any Joomla 1.0.15 website for up to 3 years after the official Joomla.org support for 1.0.15 is discontinued.

Then within the following 3 years, as businesses and organizations need to make major changes to their website (design, functional or seo), we'll offer to migrate it to Joomla 1.5 when we find it cost effective and when Joomla 1.6 is already out at least in beta form. So while Joomla 1.0 is officially discontinued in summer 2009, you should continue maintaining your Joomla 1.0.15 website with OGO Sense.

For a new website design with OGO Sense or maintenance of your existing Joomla website, please contact us.
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Ogy Nikolic | Managing Director | OGO Sense | www.ogosense.com
US tel.+1 (617) 418-4646 | UK tel. + 44 20 7617 7508 | US fax +1 (617) 446-1468 | skype: ogosense 

As the global economy goes bad and small business cut expenses, Joomla! CMS could assist in making your business much more productive and profitable. To operate at existing business levels with fewer people and resources you need to automate many of the manual tasks so using Joomla! looks good now particularly for small businesses and organizations. As you have less money to spend on employees and other resources, it is the perfect time to build a Joomla! site that will increase automation and profitability in the near future.

Joomla! is an award winning, web based, Content Management System(CMS) that gives website administrators the power to control their website by adding, editing and deleting content. To request a private demo on how our Joomla! solutions could improve your business, please contact us.

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