Apr
16
Reset Joomla Password
07:34 pm
I have recieved a problem of lost of joomla admin password of one of my friend. He was asking how to change the Super administrator password on a joomla powered website.
It is quite strange that even i am working on Joomla from past one year i have never paid attension to this problem.So now i have to get over this as my clients may face this problems in future. So i googled for this issue and i discovered that, there is way to CHANGE THE PASSWORD not RECOVERING of it.
So Here we go with the tutorial for changing/reseting the password for joomla super administrator.
In joomla passwords are stored using one-way MD5 hash which prevents recovering the password. so you can reset the password by editing the password field in the database. Password is store in the “Jos_users” table password field. Using MySQL utility such as phpMyAdmin or MySQL Query Browser to edit this field.Open the table, find your admin username, and then select that row for editing.The password must be hashed, you cannot simply enter text into this field.
So you need a Hashed value for your password so that you can change it.For this Use these encrypters to get your password hased.
Using any one of these tools you can generate your MD5 hashed password and simply paste it in your jos_users table Save it.And you got your new working password.
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Apr
05
Designing website layout?
09:24 am
Designing website does not mean that you should know how to operate PhotoShop or tools like that. It’s more of visualizing the business model, understanding the target market and then relating both of them to envisage theme and then bring it on the canvas. Many times it happens that people start designing a website by just knowing the nature of application to be deployed. For example a garment store looking for an online presence for its business, most of the people will think it like a regular e-commerce store selling garments. With this approach yes for sure a design can be done but will it really attract the customers, maybe and maybe not. The chances of customers not liking it will be more as it’s not designed from the perspective of targeted market rather it is designed from the perspective of an online store. The features and functionality will for sure offer its customers the ease of shopping online, but they will never reach that stage of placing the order as the interface and design of the site is not to cater to there taste. Thus the effort goes waste.
You may use any software for designing a website, but the basis of how the website should look like should depend on: -
- Nature of the business
- Who are the target customers/users
- What targeted market will like
- Why they will stick to the website and revisit
- Opting the color schema to match with the liking of target audience
Apart from look ‘n’ feel of website the user interface also has to be easy to use and should be designed considering the following factors: -
- How internet savvy the users will be
- Steps user will have to follow to perform an activity on the website should include least possible inputs
- Navigation from one section to another should be thru minimal clicks
- If a series of inputs are required from the user, it should work like a wizard to offer support to the user entering these inputs.
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Apr
03
Domain names tutorial for newbies
10:04 am
It’s been two years since I have started my business. I am very much satisfied with my old web host.But now i have to change the hosting services to diffrent host provider.Because of crash on my old server.I have lost much of my data in that crash.So i have decided to write this article which is going to touch on one of those areas: various concerns related with domain names.This information will help the newcomers to learn much about domains and hosting related to those domains. What is multiple domain hosting?
Many times you will see that a web host offers multiple domain hosting. In simpler words it means that on buying an account you will have the ability to get multiple websites. For instance, if the plan provides you with five domain names, you can use one domain for your website and you will still have four domain names leftover to use. The advantage of this scenario is that you can resell these four domain names to your clients.
What is Domain Parking?
If you are planning to build up a website and have decided on a name for it you then must purchase that domain name from a domain registrar: i.e. your domain name gets placed on a name server so that you can use it later on. This is known as domain parking. Even if your website content is not ready, it’s better to park your desired domain name. Otherwise, it might be possible that in future somebody else acquires that particular domain name.
What are sub domains?
Sub domains are ‘third level’ domains in the sense that they are used solely to organize your website content. They are simply folders under your root directory, but to access them a special URL is used.
For instance, http://www.samirkamble.com is a regular URL without a sub domain.
http://demo.samirkamble.com is an URL with the sub domain name: “demo”.
Here the:
.com: is the first level domain,demo: is the second level domain,
demo: is the third level domain
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Mar
28
Why SEO?
11:18 am
Why is it important for your company to get search engine optimisation (SEO) services for your company website?
Competition on the Internet is tough. As of March 2006, there are around 50 million websites and 80 million registered domains on the Internet. Each one of those websites has a product to sell and a message to deliver. With over one billion people worldwide surfing the Internet on a day-to-day basis, the goal of each website is to corner a share of that market in order to make money. To do this, a company must drive as much traffic to their website as possible, and from the volume of traffic going to the website, the company forms its customer base.
Research has shown that 90% of all Internet users use the three major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN. These search engines are designed in such a way that whenever a user types in the needed search keywords, the search engine will bring up a list of websites ranked according to their relevancy to the keywords typed in. The more relevant a website is to a set of keywords put in, the higher is its ranking is on the search engine’s results.
How does a getting SEO service come into this picture? You see, most search engine users only take the time to visit the top 20 websites listed on the results page brought up by the search engine. They usually do not bother anymore with websites with lower rankings. Thus, most of the traffic goes to the higher-ranking websites while the lower-ranking ones are left high and dry.
It is clear then that to earn money with your website, your website has to have a high search engine ranking. To achieve this, it has to be search engine optimised.
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