I've always said that once you start using joomla it's like a highly addictive drug that is impossible to let go.
So when I stumbled upon this unattributed chart comparing drug dealers and geeks I just had to produce a joomla version.
Read more: Joomla Sections and Categories explained
The number one mistake I see with newcomers to joomla is a failure to understand the Section, Category, Article structure of content.
How many times do you see people either reject joomla or spend hours developing complicated and convoluted solutions to satisfy their desire to have nested sub-categories?
And yet the truth is you don't need them. The problem is that they are trying to match their frontend menu structure with their backend filing system.
Read more: Joomla RSS newsreader
A few weeks ago I was chatting on skype with Fotis from joomlaworks.gr discussing the merits of various different RSS news readers or aggregators.
Despite trying several neither of us really were satisfied with what we had found.
