HowToJoomla! Blog: Miscellaneous

There is no secret to becoming a Joomla rockstar. In fact, it's really easy if you think about it. Here are 3 (yes, 3) easy steps to becoming a Joomla rockstar:

Step 1: Build a website with Joomla.

Step 2: Learn from your mistakes.

Step 3: Repeat steps 1 and 2.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I will no longer be writing "Blog" posts here at HowToJoomla.net. I will continue writing tips, tricks & tutorials here as often as I can, but all blog posts will be written over at my new blog, http://blog.corywebb.com/. The main reason for this is that I want to keep HowToJoomla a place for tutorials, and I feel like my blog posts here are distracting from that purpose. I will also no longer be writing blog posts at JoomlaForm.com in favor of blogging at my new blog. So, if you are interested, head on over to http://blog.corywebb.com/ and check it out. There is only one post there for now until I have time to get everything set up and start writing. Thanks for visiting!

I just read on Steve Burge's blog that Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's website is running Joomla! Not only that, but he is running RS Gallery 2 as his photo gallery, and I designed the logo for RS Gallery 2. The logo is used as the default image for a gallery with no images, so the logo appears on the photo gallery page of his website.

I can now tell everyone I know that something I designed ended up on a presidential candidate's website. Too bad it's not a candidate I support.

Warning: This article is a rant about a specific comment spammer who has spammed this website on multiple occasions. Today was the last straw.

About a month ago, I got a comment here from someone named "Shannon" supposedly asking about a new website offering Joomla! services. It seemed to me like a blatant attempt to promote that website by masquerading as a user wondering if anyone had ever used that website. I left the comment there, but removed all links to the website. Then, I offered my opinion about the templates offered at that website, and gave "Shannon" several suggestions of template companies that offer much higher quality templates.

Today, I got three more spam comments trying to promote the same company. Here is the comment without the links to the website:

I am not a security expert. In fact, I know very little about how one would go about exploiting holes in software to potentially cause damage to a website. But, I'm trying to learn as much as I can because I recognize the potential vulnerability that exists when developing a website with PHP. That's why I was excited to find this article which explains "Basic PHP Security".