There are many webmasters that need assistance with their Joomla site. Most problems webmasters have to deal with will be avoided by following these 7 simple guidelines for using a Joomla site:

1. Article Manager
The "pages" on your site are referred to as articles, the main content for each page. One of the first things you always want to do when creating a new page on your Joomla website is create a new article. Content Management Systems work by controlling how your site handles information, so it is natural that this should be your first step.

2. Menu Manager
When you work with menu items, you must remember that these are just links that tell your site which article it is pointing to. Menu items help you assign modules to specific pages, rather than having to show them on every page or none at all.

Actress Jharna Bajracharya has started writing her own Blog.  Now her fans will be able to read her views on life and work on the website www.jharnabajracharya.com.  she said that she will be writing a lot on the spiritual path recently discovered inspired by many teachers.

In her Site there are two major sections. “Spirit” and “Living”. In “Living” Jharna’s general background and her experiences with work life can be found and in “Spirit” we can read her articles. “I know that many loose themselves in their own thoughts”…. “The root of many of the human problem originates from the thoughts itself”. She has written these words in one of her article “Watch the Thinker’.

Joomla is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications or web portals. Joomla provides many useful features that simply make it a good choice to opt from a traditional HTML-based website to Joomla. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Here are the 10 most powerful features of joomla content management system:

1. Multiple user access
   It proves as good help to multiple users as they can access the website at the same time; each user can access the website with his or her own user permissions. While developing a traditional website, developers have to add authentication and user access features but in Joomla, this is a built-in feature. Using it with extensions you can build a social networking website for little or almost no cost with faster rate compare to engaging developer to build the same.
2. Supports many international languages

   This will be really useful to you because if your business covers many regions across the world and only English readers are not your customers. When you install Joomla, it will work with a language extension, it is possible that for your website visitors to select a language in which they want to view your website. Imagine you will be able to customize the language with just one click of the mouse.
   

Joomla is widely used Content Management System (CMS). With its popularity it becomes important to optimize sites created in Joomla. Recently, Joomla has become a popular tool for those looking to develop a website or blog. Unfortunately, Joomla isn’t very search engine friendly, and users will need to optimize their sites in order to attract the attention for search engine spiders.

While it is true that all websites need to put some effort into their search engine optimization, it is especially true of Joomla sites. Following are a few basic tips to start optimizing pages created in Joomla:

1. Create a URL that is search engine friendly:  Joomla’s URL’s simply are not search engine friendly. You can make yours more friendly several different ways. Joomla has a plugin designed to assist you – the SEF plugin. This plugin is not active by default but can be easily activated on the global configuration page.  There are several ‘paid’ functions that can be purchased to assist you with your URL.  Finally, many choose to hire a consultant to ensure their URL is properly configured.

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.20 [senu takaa]. This is a security release that addresses issues with the Joomla 1.5.19 packages.  We recommend users upgrade immediately.

Just a day after the release of Joomla 1.5.19 with Mootools 1.2.4 support, the Joomla project announced another update: 1.5.20.

Apparently, there were some issues with 1.5.19. These have been adressed in this release.

 “OSHW” is used as a acronym of Open Source Hard Ware? 

Open Source Hardware (OSHW) is a term for tangible artifacts — machines, devices, or other physical things — whose design has been released to the public in such a way that anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things. This definition is intended to help provide guidelines for the development and evaluation of licenses for Open Source Hardware.

It is important to note that hardware is different from software in that physical resources must always be committed for the creation of physical goods. Accordingly, persons or companies producing items (”products”) under an OSHW license have an obligation not to imply that such products are manufactured, sold, warrantied, or otherwise sanctioned by the original designer and also not to make use of any trademarks owned by the original designer.

Just when you thought Like was everywhere, it appears somewhere else. Sometimes, in the course of your comments, you’ll find something that you really like.  Now, you can express that thanks to Facebook implementing the Like function on all comments.

According to the Facebook Blog:

"Since first launching the "Like" feature in 2009 and the ability to comment on News Feed stories in 2008, we've seen these features become central to the way people communicate on Facebook. They're two of the most heavily used features on the site and have proven to be a simple way to discuss posts and show appreciation for the content friends share on Facebook.

These days, google is irritating us. when we try to do some quick search it redirects us to http://www.google.com/sorry/ page saying "We're Sorry... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. To continue searching, please type the characters you see below: ". It looks disgusting to us. But what is the reason behind it?

Google prevents automated queries

Sorry page is the page Google serves you (or an application) when you fail to answer it's human-verification question. Google has instituted this new policy - randomly checking to see if queries submitted to it (ie. searches) are done by human beings (as opposed to software applications). The purpose of this is two-fold. On the one hand, blocking the search query and redirecting the user to sorry page alerts the user to potential spyware on their PC; on the other hand, it prevents users from utilizing software to query the Google search engine.

There isn’t a sport in the world that is loved more than football. Its truly a worldwide sport equally popular from Europe to Africa, Asia to America – all throughout the year. However, as the World Cup approaches, the excitement knows no bounds as fans are looking all over the internet for their favorite players and teams.

This list consists of 15 such sites, which would stream the matches and you get to watch them for free online. There are many other sites, mostly paid, which will offer live online telecast of world cup matches. But here are the top 15 list of sites which offers you free services.