Export your Joomla users to a new site

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Written by Marco Conti Thursday, 27 November 2008 18:35

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How to move your Joomla! users to a new site with PhpMyAdmin.

I needed to move about 300 registered users from my site www.hondagb500.com, built on Joomla 1.5RC3 to a staging site using Joomla 1.5.8. Back when I built the site, I made the mistake of using a Joomla 1.5 RC3 version, thinking that it would not be that much different from the final release, but I was wrong. As it turned out, very wrong. To make a long story short, by the time Joomla 1.5.8 rolled around I figured I neglected my users for way too long and the guilt was eating me alive.

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New tutorial on JCE available

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Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:13

I have just made available a new tutorial on the JCE (Joomla Content Editor) on "How to make a Mini Photo Gallery in JCE" for Joomla 1.0.x.

The tutorial is a bit outdated now because it was made for the older version of Joomla and JCE, but with a bit of adaptation and ingenuity it can still be relevant for the new versions. The tutorial was made with Wink. Learn more about Wink here.

I hope you'll enjoy the tutorial.

Joomla! 1.5 and Dreamweaver CS3 - Part 1

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Written by Marco Conti Monday, 10 November 2008 12:32

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How to use Dreamweaver CS3/CS4 to edit your Joomla! 1.5.x website and templates.
Revisiting the issue 2 years later...

Over 2 years ago I wrote my first blog post on how to incorporate Dreamweaver into your Joomla development and template design. It is time now to revisit the issue and update the technique for the newer version of Joomla and Dreamweaver.

At the time of this writing, Dreamweaver CS4 is out in Beta and it promises to bring even more streamlining into the process. As soon as I upgrade DW to the newer version I will rewrite this post, but I suspect most of the steps will remain the same. UPDATE: I have just downloaded the new CS4 triial and it promises to bring some changes, but no radical departures from the workflow described below. I will point out any differences/shortcuts as necessary.

If you are a traditional web designer, you are probably wondering how it could be possible to edit a Joomla website, the template more specifically, with a tool like DreamWeaver.

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Joomla Master Installation

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Written by Marco Conti Monday, 27 October 2008 13:12

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I have been working with Mambo and then Joomla for several years now and things have only been getting better. The real strength of Joomla, compared to other Open Source projects, in my opinion does not reside so much in the CMS itself as it does into the sheer wealth of third party add-ons available for the platform and the way they integrate almost seamlessly with Joomla.

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