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How often have you struggled to remember the wierd and wonderful syntax of a plugin?
How often have you wondered how you tricked Joomla into doing something?
How often have cursed yourself for not making notes?
Read more: White space is good
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Browsing the web all day some trends really start to stand out. Designers seem to be under the misapprehension that white space is bad and that they need to fill it.
Of course in the Joomla world we have all those wonderfuly useless eye-candy gadgets (oops I meant to say modules) to chose from to fill that white space.
But do they add to the site or does the site become so busy that your visitor misses your important content?
Read more: Is your Joomla password secure?
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I bet you are amongst the majority of internet users who use one password for everything.
A password is only as strong as the weakest link and if you use the same password on multiple sites it is only as strong as the security on the weakest site.
And if you recently had an account at typo3.org you just found the weakest site as their site was compromised over the weekend.
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Top secret photo of secret joomla base
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Joomla trademark in a domain name?
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Portable Joomla training suite - have bag will travel
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