Information, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

Why Does My Joomla Web Site Have a Blank Page?

November 29th Information and Tutorials \ Joomla CMS So you've just installed a new component, module or plugin, or made some other change to your site's PHP code. You've enabled it on the Joomla backend and configured its settings just right. Then you browsed to your web site's home page and found that there is only a blank page displayed, a white screen with nothing else. Don't panic, you just have a PHP error. Continue reading...

What is AdWords and Pay-Per-Click?

May 23rd Information and Tutorials \ Monetizing Your Website Google AdWords is the pay-per-click advertising system that powers AdSense. Pay-per-click means that advertisers will pay every time a visitor clicks an ad that takes them to the advertiser's website. Advertisers pay to create their ads with AdWords, and publishers get paid to display those ads on their web sites with AdSense. You can use AdWords to bring targeted traffic to your web site by creating ads and choosing keywords related to your business. AdWords will then place your ad on Google when people search for your specified keywords, and into AdSense placements on related websites all across the internet. AdWords is a pay-per-click system so you only pay when AdWords brings targeted users to your web site.  Continue reading...

Solution for Error: Upload module - Failed

Upload module - Failed. There is already a file called /home/folder/www/modules/blah_blah_blah.php - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?

November 30th Information and Tutorials \ Joomla CMS This is an error I have run into several times with Joomla 1.0.x. You go to install a module, apparently one you've already installed previously. I've been frustrated with this before, and I know many others have as well. It's a very simple problem (which highlights a bug in Joomla's module handling, but will probably never be fixed in the 1.0.x version of the CMS) and luckily it has a simple solution. Continue reading...

The Difference Between Dashes and Underlines in SEF URLs

May 22nd Information and Tutorials \ Search Engine Optimization You may have heard that Google and other search engines prefer that you use dashes or hyphens (-) instead of underlines or underscores (_) as word separators in your URLs. Google actually recommends that you use dashes or hyphens when creating search engine friendly or search engine optimized URLs instead of underscores. Here's why.  Continue reading...