Brian Teeman

The second most common odd question I get asked is "Why is the default userid 62?"

Andrew attempted to give the most complete answer but the truth is the answer is lost in the dim and distant past.

There is nothing you can do about it.

On every install a superadmin user is created with username "admin" and userid "62".

I have blogged before why it's so important for your web site security to remove these known values.

If you have been following the development of Joomla 1.6 you will have noticed that one of the new features is nested categories.

This means that you are no longer limited to the Section-Category-Article paradigm but can have as many levels of categories as you wish.

I've explained before how the current system works and how to understand the limitations by comparing it to a filing cabinet.

Personally I have never had an issue keeping my back-end filing system and my front-end navigation system separate but I know that many many people do. It's been this way since the early Mambo days so I guess I have grown up with the structure and it's not a problem for me.

We all know that the vast majority of email is spam or UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and that there are people out there whose sole aim in life is to harvest your email address.

I'm sure that you are very careful about placing your email address online, ensuring that it is protected by javascript, or using contact forms with hidden email addresses.

But when you add your email address to a newsletter or service do you consider the security of that list?

Drop Down menus suck!!

Not the whole menu of course just the bad habit of site builders who add functionality to the top level link.

For the last few months I've been working hard with a team of amazing developers, designers and user interface gurus on a top secret project, protected by stacks of Non Disclosure Agreements, contracts and other legal protections.

I'm excited that at last I can reveal that Apple's new pad/tablet/slate (sorry still can't reveal the name for another 24 hours) ships by default with an application management and help system written using the Joomla framework.

With every web browser on the planet rendering differently it's a constant battle ensuring that your beautifully and painstakingly designed web site looks just as gorgeous on all browsers.

Personally I build a site entirely using Firefox and only at the end of the build process do I look at it in other browsers, curse and swear and then start to fix issues.

But what is the best way to check your site on multiple browsers?

If there is one thing I am fairly confident of this year is that touch will become an even hotter topic.

The recent CES saw a plethora of new touch enabled computers, Apple is still promising to release the iSlate (maybe even this week) and more people are browsing the web every day on their mobile phone.