OGO Sense Blog: Business Joomla Consulting, Templates, Components, Downloads, Modules, Software, Tutorials, How Tos and Professional Help http://www.ogosense.com 2010-09-09T02:53:02+00:00 text/html 2010-08-29T18:31:10+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/password-protect-joomla-backup.html <span style="font-family: Arial; color: #000000" class="Apple-style-span"><div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333" class="Apple-style-span">Inexperienced Joomla designers or business users who manage their own Joomla websites don't know why or how to encrypt Joomla site backups.&nbsp;<br /><br /><b>Why: </b>Considering that you should have backups of your website on multiple locations so that there is no single point of failure that could easily <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/password-protect-joomla-backup.html">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-28T17:36:47+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/joomla-access-control.html <p> Many Joomla fans are very excited about the upcoming <a href="http://docs.joomla.org/ACL_Tutorial_for_Joomla_1.6" target="_self">Joomla 1.6 Access Control List feature</a>. </p> <p> However, I predict that only a limited number of small business users will utilize the feature because:&nbsp; </p> <ul> <li><b>The feature is not of high value. </b>Most small business websites barely keep their Joomla content updated and I don't see <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/joomla-access-control.html">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-26T23:32:05+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/security-emblem-for-joomla-virtuemart <div> Many experts recommend Joomla security seals and here is my take on it: <br /> <br /> </div> <div> <b>Advantages:&nbsp;</b> </div> <ul> <li>most online shoppers feel better about a site when they see these Joomla security symbols.&nbsp;</li> <li>external scanning completed does protect against some common website threats.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <div> <b>Disadvantages:&nbsp;</b> </div> <ul> <li>additional costs</li> <li>may create a false sense <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/security-emblem-for-joomla-virtuemart">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-24T14:08:26+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/virtuemart-decorating.html <p>Clients and prospects often complain to me that their Virtuemart checkout process is not looking good and optimized. Here is a set of screenshots that illustrate that example:&nbsp;</p><p>{gallery}myfurnituremarket-checkout-screenshots/old{/gallery}</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px">More often than not, the primary reason for a non-optimized checkout process is a lack of time and money invested in decorating&nbsp;the Virtuemart <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/virtuemart-decorating.html">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-23T13:18:37+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/best-joomla-backup-file-locations.html Where should you store your Joomla backup files? Actually, &nbsp;there is no single best answer because you should keep copies of your backup files on multiple locations.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> However, the following should work well in the most cases:&nbsp;<br /> <br /> <b>1) Store more frequent copies with an external hosting provider.</b> For example, if your current hosting provider <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/best-joomla-backup-file-locations.html">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-19T15:14:54+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/store-joomla-form-submissions-to-csv-file.html Do you currently have your website form submission just emailed to you? If so, you may consider storing them in your website database for the following reasons: <br /> <ul> <li><b>It will be easier to import your leads into your CRM. </b>Your Joomla website is probably not the most suitable for managing your client information. Therefore, having the leads stored <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/store-joomla-form-submissions-to-csv-file.html">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-18T14:44:51+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/joomla-backup-frequency <p> Do you have a Joomla website backup? Well, I should know better and ask you: </p> <ol> <li>How frequent Joomla backups do you make?</li> <li>What is your oldest backup?</li> <li>What is your most recent backup?</li> </ol> <p> <b>Why do you need a recent backup of your Joomla website? </b><br /> If you need your website recovered&nbsp; from a file <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/joomla-backup-frequency">Read more...</a></p> text/html 2010-08-17T22:41:10+00:00 http://www.ogosense.com Ognjen "Ogy" Nikolic <ogy@ogosense.com> http://www.ogosense.com/blog/virtuemart-horror-stories.html <p> These are some examples based on real stories and clients that I have had in the past. So if you are running or considering creating a Virtuemart shop, then consider NOT making the following mistakes: </p> <ol> <li>Sell everything under the sky on your shop. Sell unrelated products from helicopter toys to dishes that have nothing in common.</li> <li>Sell <p><a href="http://www.ogosense.com/blog/virtuemart-horror-stories.html">Read more...</a></p>