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Import HTML Sites into Joomla with HTML2Articles

One of our OSTraining members had a very old HTML site.

They wanted to import that old site into Joomla and were wondering how to do it.

HTML2Articles is a very good solution for this. It will take your old HTML files and import them as Joomla articles.

Here's how HTML2Articles works:



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Learn to Control Multiple WordPress Sites with ManageWP

Managing multiple WordPress sites can be a challenge.

There are always plugin updates, theme updates, backups, comments and more to deal with. ManageWP is a great solution.

In our new class on ManageWP, Rod Martin takes you through the basics that you get for free. Rod shows the benefits of easy site maintenance that ManageWP brings to your day-to-day work.



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A Beginner Guide to Joomla CCK's

The acronym "CCK" comes from Drupal and stands for "Content Construction Kit".

A CCK allows you to expand the information you add to your site, beyond simply a title and body field.

In this presentation, Jon Neubauer introduces you all of the popular Joomla CCK solutions. Jon looks at K2, ZOO, Seblod, and Fabrik, as well as how each of them stack up against each other, and Joomla!'s core content features.

If your business or website relies on being able to present content in your website with a variety of information, different front-end presentation requirements, or being able to organize different types of content or data for your users, you'll want to watch Jon's talk:



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Joomla Website Security by Tony Perez

Sucuri are one of the biggest names in website security, keeping many thousands of Joomla and WordPress sites safe.

Tony Perez is the co-founder and CEO of Sucuri. He gave this talk on Joomla security at Joomla Day Atlanta.

Tony starts by explaining that between 85% and 90% of hosting companies are infected at some point. Tony talks about all the different ways that a website and server than be compromised.



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Clean Up the Drupal Content Form

Drupal comes with a lot of options. For some users, all those options can be overwhelming.

One of our members asked for our advice on cleaning up the content form so that only the essential options remained.

Here are three steps to clean up your Drupal content form:



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OSPositions - Always Show Joomla Module Positions

OSPositions is a simple Joomla plugin that keeps adding tp=1 in your URL so you can view your template's module positions on all pages.

Now you can navigate through your site and see where your module positions are.

This is a dream come true for people building sites that use many modules.

Here's how to use OSPositions ...



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Building a Really Fast Server Stack

Nic Rosental is a developer based in Atlanta and he recently gave a great presentation on how to build a really fast server stack.

Nic defines a stack as, "The components that make up your application. From the web server to the code."

Nic starts with a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). He explains that the normal LAMP stack isn't optimized for speed and then he goes to look at a wide variety of server setups and tools.

During the presentation he compares PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.5 for speed. If you use PHP at all, you really should watch and see how much faster 5.5 is.



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How to View the Source Code of a Website

WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal are primarily powered by PHP.

However, as a user on a website, we don't actually see what's going on behind the scenes in the server. We only get the final output from the server, which is in the form of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. That's the code that creates the webpage that we see.

This tutorial will show you how to see the code behind the front-end design and nicely formatted page. It will show you the HTML, CSS, and Javascript that your browser uses to display a page nicely to a user.

And it's quite easy. Let's get started.



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Where Do I Edit Content in Joomla?

One common problem we see with CMS sites is that new users often find it hard to understand where to edit content.

In most CMSs, content can be stored and edited in many different places.

So, we've created this guide for new Joomla users.

We hope it will help users find and edit content, even on complex sites.



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Drupal Book of the Year: Drupal 7 Explained

Writing a book is a long and painful process involving many hours crouched over a desk.

So when a writer finially emerges with a finished book they just hope it's well-received. We've been lucky with Drupal 7 Explained.

Drupal 7 Explained launched at DrupalCon Portland last spring. In the year since then, it's become the best-selling and best-reviewed Drupal book.

Last week, it won "Drupal Book of the Year" at DrupalCon Austin.

The decision was part of the Blue Drop Awards.



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