1guywebdesign rambles on about open source technologies like joomla and wordpress.

Or, keep the crackers guessing..

If you’ve got an active website online chances are you’re aware of the presence of those nefarious types who, for whatever unscrupulous reasons, attempt to breach the security measures of your website for their own personal gain or glory.

Sure, it’d be nice if everyone could just get along, respect each others stuff and enjoy their time online, both in publishing and browsing but.. “That ain’t happenin’ anytime soon” so…

I’ve taken the liberty of putting together a few articles on “hardening joomla! CMS “, “domain and website security measures 101″ and “10 effective tips for responsible website administration”.

All overly titled and official sounding but, even if you are the type who would rather skip the readme.txt and go straight to the install, you should find something of value that may perhaps, save you a day or three from rebuilding one or more of your projects which succumbed to a security breach.

Just a note to mention to folks looking to try a little something different in the way of Administration Templates for their joomla or a8ejoomla website. We’ll be releasing our initial “default” a8e admin template to the public the first week of September.

Details and sneak previews can be found over on the a8e.org website (though, as of this post they’re not published yet.)

As Duvien mentioned over on a8ejoomla I’m in the process of taking up the mantle of developer bottle-washer emeritus.

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A number of folks have requested a version of trikea coded up for joomla I’ve gone ahead and done it for you. It’s styled up specifically for a8ejoomla but will work/display almost as intended in joomla (due to the few remaining nested tables in joomla, there’s an extra bottom border (or two) that I’d not intended) but…

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