Joomla is one of the most powerful and flexible content management systems (CMS) available today. With its extensive customisation options, it allows businesses, bloggers and developers to create unique websites that reflect their brand identity.

If you're looking to make your Joomla website stand out, customisation is key. In this guide, we’ll explore various ways to enhance your Joomla site and make it unique.

A slow website isn't just frustrating for your visitors; it's a death knell for conversions and SEO. As website design experts, we've seen countless businesses struggle with sluggish sites, and trust us when we say it's a problem you can solve. If you're running a Joomla website, you're in luck! There are many ways to optimise your site's speed and deliver a stellar user experience for your customers.

If you’ve been using Joomla 3 for your website, you may have heard that it’s reaching its official End of Life (EOL). This is a significant milestone for anyone using the platform, and it's essential to understand what it means and how you can prepare to ensure a smooth transition.

Find out how to backup your Joomla website using Akeeba Backup. Ensure no website data is lost by taking regular backups of your site.

Joomla is an excellent tool for building websites, and once your website is up and running, sometimes it’s easy to forget that you need to maintain your software. Without maintaining your CMS, your site may be slowed down by unnecessary files, out-of-date modules and clutter in your database.

So you’ve logged into Joomla to manage your website and you want to edit an article but there’s a lock next to it and you can’t get in… what do you do?

Is your Joomla website running slow? There are a variety of reasons why your Joomla website is slow to load and we go through a range of different areas to check to ensure your site's speed doesn’t become an issue for your users or Google.

So you have a Joomla website and you want to give someone access to the back-end so they can go in and make edits and updates… how do you do that? It’s a very simple process – all you need to do is set them up as a user.

Almost every website needs some type of contact form to help customers contact you and get in touch about your products or services. If you’re using Joomla there are a whole bunch (43 in fact) of form components you can choose from the Joomla Extensions Directory, but which is the best one?

When you’re working on your Joomla website and you’ve come across an issue or you need to find out the answer to something specific, sometimes you need to find out the Joomla version you’re using to search for answers.

If you’re using the latest version of Joomla (version 3.8+) you might have noticed that some of the URLs on your website may have numbers in them.

We’ve been working with Joomla for around 10 years now and in that time we’ve learnt the system pretty much inside out. We’ve used all versions of Joomla from 1.0 upwards and sometimes we’re so used to doing things in this system we forget that what might be simple or trivial for us, could be a revelation for a customer. One of these simple tricks recently came to our attention so we thought it would be wise to share it in our blog. This simple trick can let you see any published page on your Joomla website without knowing what the URL is.

Have you ever set up a blog category in your Joomla install only to have the blog page layout look a little, well... wonky? The blog layout is a great way to display multiple articles on the one page as blogs can be a really effective SEO tool for your website, but if the layout isn’t up to scratch, people are likely to not read through your content and click to a competitors website.

If you’ve used Joomla for any length of time you have no doubt stumbled across the anomaly of when setting up a page, your homepage modules show up on the page – even though you haven’t allocated a homepage template to the page (if you’re using a system like Gantry) or allocated homepage modules to that page. What gives and why is this happening?

If you're using JCE Editor and you're finding that it's stripping out some of your website elements like YouTube videos, online forms, particular bits of html code or iframes, there's a way to set JCE Editor so it recognises these elements and doesn't strip them out. 

So you’ve got your Joomla website looking great. The design is done and you’ve spent loads of time getting the content and images just right but when you open your site in Chrome or Safari, some of the modules look not quite right or out of alignment. You can change the .css file but that also changes how it displays in IE and Firefox. So you ask yourself - How can I change the css for a module in Joomla so it only changes in Chrome or Safari?