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To achieve an image mouseover effect with CSS, you only need a few lines of code an a single image. No javascript and no dependency on clunky onload() or onmouseover() events.  Another great part about this method is that you will be utilizing a single image, rather than two images (inactive state and active state).

Help! My .htaccess doesn’t work on Godaddy hosting or ‘blablabla’ hosting. I hear this a lot, and as a professional website developer I have used Joomla! with search engine friendly URLs on more hosts than I can count.  There are some that are trickier than others and even a few that just plain won’t work no matter what.

Installing Joomla! 1.5 Templates is easy! Simply follow the procedure below and you will be up and running with your new template in no time.

Creating a round module is a fairly common need with creators of a Joomla! 1.5 template, and it’s actually quite easy.  The creators of Joomla! put in a pre-set module type just to deal with this need, and made it easy to access.  By simply making changes to two files for the template, you can create your own rounded Joomla module.  The two files ‘template.css‘ and ‘index.php‘ can even be edited from the Administrator console directly if you are scared to access your site via FTP.

There are two methods for linking to a Joomla! 1.5 article available, and depending if you are using Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs you should use one or the other.  As of the writing of this post, there is no built in method for inserting direct article links while typing in another article, although there are several extensions that will do this.  However, if you know what you are doing, it is very easy to accomplish yourself without any extension usage or writing.

One of the great methods for optimizing an existing website to rank well in search engines is simply by re-organizing the existing content.  Depending upon the CMS system that you are using, the methods are different but the end result is always the same… Silo Silo Silo…

Now that both Joomla and Wordpress can be considered very mature, it is a good time to evaluate the merits of both.  Both have active communities, tons of add-ons, and more plugins/templates than you can count.  There are several other CMS systems that I am going to ignore for now because they are either very early in development or technically inferior to these two systems.  Drupal is a notable exception, it is a very good, mature CMS but all things considered has too many cons to make it a serious contender to either Wordpress or Joomla.

If you do any sort of AJAX scripting, whether it be heavy duty database driven websites or just a simple flashy script using Mootools or any other framework, your life just got easier. The typical way you had to utilize these scripts is to go to their website, download, extract, and install into your own site FTP. Then, you also have the task of keeping updated with version changes and compatibilty. Plus, its simply just a big pain to have to download all of these different libraries seperately every time you need to use a single function.