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Helix3 framework makes it easy to build a complete website quickly. It comes with a built-in page layout which you can customize to showcase desired elements as you wish. The major part of the Helix3 framework is its Layout Manager which has a set of tools to organize and present website contents. Let’s get introduced to the mostly used features and options of Helix3 Layout Manager.

Security has no boundary. It’s much more than a complex password. What if we could prevent attackers from getting into the login page entirely? This would give your site a better state of security. The default admin login URL of a Joomla site looks like “www.yoursite.com/administrator”. This address brings the admin login area by default. Now we will see how to change this URL to hide the backend login door.

As we may say true is horrible but unknown is even worse. You'd be surprised how many people, companies live in blissful ignorance that safeguarding of their websites have been defeated. Never before malware authors and hidden advertising were not so good at disguising their malicious code.

Google uses many factors for ranking websites, HTTPS is one of them. Those websites which don't have it or use mixed-content are "punished". Lots of webmasters/site owners bought SSL-certificates and switched to HTTPS for their websites. But after enabling SSL, instead of a green padlock, they have a yellow padlock icon in the address bar. Most people wonder, why it happened and how to fix it. In this blog post, we will help you diagnose a common problem with your SSL enabled site and show the way to solve it.

If you own or administer a website, may be there are several reasons to hide the backend as much as possible. The login form is necessary for any membership site. One might like to remove its “Forgot username” and “Forgot password” links from the login area. In this tutorial, I’ll show how to remove these two links from a Joomla site’s template.

It seems that holiday has begun for school children, many parents now thinking about sun and free time with family. Also students have finished their exams, but one question still remains: Will all my Joomla 3.x websites be safe and can I leave them without worries for couple of days? What I should do.

You have Joomla 3 installed which is quite fast CMS itself, but have you ever wondered why your website loads so slowly. What aspects have a decisive influence on those delays. Notice that speed has become a major issue when it comes to SEO. By speeding up Joomla, you can also offer a better experience for your customers, improve site perception. Here are my reflections and thoughts.

Quite often web developers/ web masters are obligated not only to make a full backup or update site(s), but also to transfer site from host A to host B. In most cases it takes too much time, especially if do not have it. But there is a solution which can speed up this process.  

Since the time when Google Maps introduced paid subscription, a lot of developers fall behind in the web developing race. Not every one of us has the luxury to buy premium subscriptions. Does that mean we could never use a powerful tool like Google Maps? No.

Joomla is a very flexible and powerful CMS, it has many built-in options. In Joomla 3.7+, you can use more than one templates on your website. It means that you can create a web page with groups of subpages, or even individual subpages that have a unique style/appearance. For example with the default WordPress capabilities, this is not possible.

At JoomShaper we always offer our best efforts to develop the most user friendly and easy to use products. This week we are immensely proud to launch our brand new Joomla magazine template Newedge. This fully responsive magazine template comes with each and every feature required for a publishing website. If you run a blog, news site, magazine portal or something else that offers dynamic contents- Newedge is the must-have and only template needed for the project.

Joomla! is second largest CMS (after WordPress) downloaded over 68 million times and latest research by SUCURI reveals second infected website platform. Joomla! sites, especially ones running older versions of the CMS or it’s extensions are a very popular target for both experienced hackers and script-kiddies alike. In this guide, we’ve taken some time to detail a few measures which can be taken to address Joomla! Security – the basic security checklist for Joomla! (and not only).

We, the JoomShaper team is immensely happy and excited to share that we are co-presenting the JoomlaDay Malaysia 2016. JoomShaper is the co-presenting sponsor for the event. It’s a part of our continuous efforts to uplift the spirit of the open source community. We have some more exciting news about the occasion.

Joomla World Conference 2015 was held in Bangalore, India on 6-8 November this year. JoomShaper co-sponsored the event. Four of our team members joined the occasion. Our CEO Kawshar Ahmed, CTO Nayem Majhar, senior developer Rifat Wahid Alif and design head Risat Rajin visited the grand Joomla event. Here is a look back on the JWC15.

JoomShaper, one of the leading professional Joomla templates providers feels honored by getting the opportunity of being the Social Event Sponsor in Joomla World Conference 2015. On the occasion, JoomShaper will come with many interesting offers and giveaways for the attendants.

Joomla is the second most used web technology, powering 3.1% of all the websites (CMS market share of 6.2%), has a lot to do to address all GDPR issues. Making Joomla-based sites GDPR compliant is indeed a tough job. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in last several years. This post is to inform all of our users that we are aware of GDPR, and we are taking this seriously.

What is GDPR?

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was designed to harmonize data protection and privacy laws across Europe. The GDPR applies to both organisations located within and outside of the European Union upon offering goods or services to, or monitoring the behaviour of, EU data subjects. It means that if you handle EU customers even if your online business is not based in EU, this directive applies to you too. Tip for UK webmasters, the GDPR will come into effect before the UK leaves the EU.

The policy was approved and adopted by the European Union parliament and will be effective from May 25, 2018. The EU ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) has the same territorial scope as the GDPR, carries an identical penalty regime for non-compliance and is also intended to come into effect on this same day.

What are the penalties for non-compliance? Your company can be fined up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 Million for breaching GDPR. Making your website GDPR compliant is indeed crucial.

The GDPR-ePR stuff and JoomShaper's approach

GDPR will have a huge impact on almost all web businesses, which will have a ripple effect on how your website integrates with your other digital activities. Email marketing, social media, e-commerce, registration, and even basic contact forms are also included.

We are well aware of the seriousness of the changes in the law, which is why we have already started the process of discovering what adjustments may be necessary for our extensions and templates including Helix to meet the requirements.

Here are some examples of what you can expect in the future to address GDPR compliance:

• Checkboxes (Opt-in) for all forms used in the extensions (like Contact and Form Builder Addon already have).
• Cookie notice bar for Helix Ultimate and Helix3 template framework.
• Extensions that allow user registration to create a new account (SP LMS, for example) will get systems that give users the option to entirely delete an applicable user account (“Right to Be Forgotten”).
• Access to information collected or submitted by them (via form) on your Joomla site.
• We will integrate options for users to modify or remove their submitted personal information.
• And other necessary measures.

In this post, our intention is to inform you about new regulations, and reassure you that we are carefully keeping an eye on what changes would be necessary to meet GDPR and ePR requirements. We suggest you to also check the 3rd party products that you are using (e.g. VM3, J2Store, HikaShop, AcyMailing etc.), to compare their features with GDPR requirements. Good luck!

The January template from JoomShaper is here. It’s Moview, the ultimate Joomla template for movie review and database centric websites. The title is loaded with a range of cutting-edge features that empower publishers to build a resourceful portal. The main purpose of the template is to offer information about movies, dramas and celebrities. Visitors can comment and rate on those contents. I have explored through the extensive offerings in Moview. Here I’ll share my hands on experience with it.

What goes up, can occasionally come down. If you are not spending a certain number of mouse clicks to find the right hosting provider for your website, there is a possibility that you are going to experience the worst-case scenarios with your web hosting nightmares.

"We Have All the Time in the World" is a James Bond theme and a popular song sung by Louis Armstrong. And it's quite true that time belongs to all of us, but we cannot back the time. So how we use our time it depends on us. Each person has its own timeline, so it has to manage his time left cautiously. It doesn't matter if you are a web designer, web developer, freelancer beginner or student. In following blog post I will give you some useful tips, how to manage your time effectively.

Let’s be honest. Forgetting password is a pretty common occurrence. Some users keep passwords in their default browser memory, after several months you can forget anything. Some of us don't even remember the password that they issued at the time of Joomla installation. This article describes how to reset the Joomla administrator password.