If you've ever tried to post a YouTube video into Joomla, you may have been surprised after refreshing your site, the video won't show up.

You have to turn off the TinyMice editor, or it will strip the coding out of the script.  Just turn it off before posting.  And don't forget, if you open the item again later with the editor on, you will strip the coding again.  We create  a seperate account that we use for posting the videos.  We just leave the editor turned off.

September 13th, 2007 by Akede (from Joomla.org)

In August this year we had two very successful conferences and Joomla!Day's. First the Thai community welcomed Joomla! on the Thai Open Source Festival and on the weekend afterwards on the first Joomla!Day in Bangkok Thailand. After that the Joomla! team presented the latest Joomla! 1.5 news on the other side of the world at the Linux World Expo in San Francisco and down south in Brazil on the first Joomla!Day in South America. We like to thank everybody from the event teams for their help and their support to make those events a great success.  >> more

We tell all our new clients to get a free PR6 back link by signing up for this great service at Best of the Web. 

Basically, you sign up and get free top spots in your category for 2 months advertising. Most of these pages are ranked PR6.  You can cancel any time before the 2 months is up.  The point is that you get your website indexed really quickly, and thatis what search engine optimization is really all about, esspecially if you have a new domain name.

FREE FOR THE FIRST 60 DAYS!

Drive Targeted Traffic to your site.

Control your anchor text and marketing message.

Premier placement in a relevant category.

Featured visibility in BOTW search results.

Exclusivity - Only three Ad spots per category.

Full online account management.

 2007 Open Source CMS Award Overall Winner Finalists

Joomla won the award in 2006, and has made it as a finalist in 2007!  We are happy to see this, because it validates all the time we spend working with it.  Thanks to the developers who work so hard to keep it simple, safe and powerful.

The following five Open Source Content Management Systems, listed in alphabetical order, have made it through to the final of the Overal Winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award.   CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, Joomla!, PHP-Fusion   congratulations  to all.

 This is terrible!  I admit I went and checked all my back ups after reading about this.  A catastrophe like this reminds us all how important it is to have a good back up of your website.

If you don't currently have a back up plan for your Joomla website, you better get on the ball.  We reccomend JoomlaCloner - backup and restore.  It will back up the database and all other files and put it into one nice little zip file.  As long as you have this file, you can get your site back up an running in less than an hour on any server.

 Here's an excerpt from Louis Landry's blog  at Joomla.org

...This morning Rob and I were sleeping in a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska on our way back to Rob's parents house for a couple of days before I head back home to New Orleans.  About 8am this morning both of our mobile phones started beeping at the same time with an alarming message, “Joomla.org hacked”.  Rob sprang to life and immediately logged in to talk with the guys that were up already assessing the situation.  Unfortunately for us, we had to be on the road today as we are on a pretty tight time schedule over the next couple of days.  The logs were pulled down and the sites restored.  As it turns out this was a mistake as we had not done a thorough enough evaluation of what had happened.    Read full story

We just launched a new website for Iles Agency. They sell AIG insurance (auto, household and personal liability) to US military and civilians in Germany.

They wanted a website with a simple insurance quote request, blogging component, RSS feeds and simple polling. We design the logo and all the graphics.

We will also be handling the design of new graphics for print advertising and also the search engine optimization.

Visit the site:  Insurance Germany

We will begin serious work on the project once we get all the exact requirements from Joe DuBois.  Here's the mock up site if you want a sneak peek at the beginings of thier new website design. 
Allison DuBois Mock up

We recently sent Jill Dahne (one of the worlds top psychics) a mock up for a new web design.  We just heard back and she loves what we have done so far.  We are designing a beautiful flash header for her site now.

She just signed a contract, and will have her own TV show soon.  They are currently filming for the first season.  Jill also just finished her first book "When one door closes, another Door Opens, Conversations with Jill Dahne"  Jill has been on the radio since she was 14 years old, and we plan to convert many of her radio shows to flash format for easy playback on her website!    Check back in a few weeks to see the finished site. Visit Mock-up

We just received notification from World Wide Web Awards that currentpage.com has recieved the Silver  award for 2007!

As one of Worlds peak internet bodies, the Awards of The World Wide Web Awards™ are amongst the most prestigious available and hence, amongst some of the more difficult to win on the web.

Congratulations! Your site at: CurrentPage Joomla Design has been selected to receive the World Wide Web Awards™ "Silver" Award.

A Listing and link of your site has been placed on our winners list. We see all the hard work and dedication that you have put into constructing your web site and your efforts are well deserved. Your site displays: A clean and organized design, user friendliness, quality content and informative information for your visitors.

Silver Award Criteria: The Silver Award represents outstanding web site design, interesting content and is user friendly with easy navigation. The winning site has scored between 80 and 89 points, which is not easy to do.  A Silver award winning site is also error free from broken links and error messages of any kind. This site is well organized and uses some advanced features, such as flash or java scripting.