by Jake Rayson

One of the joys of moving into a new house is fitting a new kitchen, and I have learnt a lot about kitchens over the past few days. When you're fitting kitchens, modularity is king. I had the fortune to watch the builder assemble a B&Q kitchen, and you buy the units, the doors, the handles, the worktop and it all (kind of) magically fits together. But not across brands. Which is a pain, because I have some old kitchen units I was hoping to re-use...

by Hari Qumar

Flux Services, Inc. is a web hosting service provider giving full featured, high quality hosting services at amazingly low prices. As a one stop site we not only host your website, but provide a variety of services including web hosting, domain registration, website templates, and others. Clients can host as many websites in a month for just  US$7.95.

Flux makes use of powerful Dell Dual Intel Xeon web servers with 2 GB+ RAM connected by an 18GB/s redundant backbone. The variety of features provided by Flux include loaded online control panel, live online support, PHP, JSP, mySQL databases, Perl, log file accessibility, automate tasks using cron interface, built in web stat programs, CGI-BIN, SSI, GD, and ImageMagick. Other services provided by us include cURL, virus protection, custom error pages, guestbook, sub-Domains, Zend Optimizer, SPAM protection, unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts, SPAM assassin, image galleries, webmail, hot link protection, password protect directories, free installable PHP forums, chat programs, free search engine submission, bloggers, support programs and much more!

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Learn What is Windows Hosting?
Windows Hosting is nothing but hosting of a website on a server that uses Microsoft Windows server software as operating platform. This facility allows websites to develop web pages using basic HTML, ASP and .NET tags.

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Windows hosting allows websites to make use of numerous features. Windows hosting allows website creators to develop websites with personalized email addresses using own domain name. Windows hosting is a fast, secure, and scalable version of previous IIS editions. Windows hosting allows hosting of websites created using minimal technical skills, as and when there is requirement. Our Various Hosting Packages .

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Flux Services, Inc. allows its customers to manage their own domains, in which ever way they think it is suitable for them.

Learn what is a Domain Name?
Domain name can be distinguished by their 2 different contents. Domain names have 2 or more parts separated by dots. On the left is a name that specifically tells about the content for eg, name of business, product name, trademark; and on the right is the general name that classifies the website address.

Learn the Need for a Domain Name
A domain name of a website should not only be easy to remember, but distinguish it as business or social portal. A domain name is something that people would relate to and actually search for. The domain name of a website is registered and reserved in the name of the person/company who owns the website. Even if a domain name exists but is not connected to a server, a business can still have an e-mail address, without having a real website.

This requires other servers to handle the mail on behalf of the listed domain name. A server can have more than 1 domain names, but a domain name leads to only one server. For example, yahoo.com, mail.yahoo.com, and workshop.yahoo.com lead to the same server, but each domain name finds its way only to 1 server. Register your domain names; change and view status, expiry dates, contact information, DNS information, and others. Flux Services, Inc. registers domains such as .com, .net, .org, .bz, .ws, .nu, .us, .info, .biz, .name, .tv, .com.cn, .org.cn, .ca, .cn, .net.cn, .co.uk, .org.uk and .tm. Flux offers Domain Names for US$13.95 .

Website Applications
Flux Services, Inc. provides a variety of free website applications alongside some professional applications. The applications provided by the company for its clients´ websites are easily installed using our hosting control panel and are full of more scalable and latest features. These include Coppermine, Drupal, 4images, b2 evolution, phpBB, Joomla, WordPress, osTicket, osCommerce, PHP-Nuke, Moodle, and TikiWiki. Among these Joomla and Drupal are the most used applications.

Difference Between Drupal Vs Joomla:

1. Scribe: It's designed to pair programs such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, but it can be jiggered to pair others.
   Price: $4,000 and up, depending on which programs you want to link
   
2. DataSync: This open-source application links up other open-source applications (such as Zimbra and Joomla) so that you can access them all with a single sign-on.
   Price: Free to download, and up to about $40 a month per user for a hosted version with tech support
   
3. Jitterbit: This open-source program, which has a drag-and-drop interface, is ready-made to merge a variety of programs and databases.
   Price: Free to download, $10,000 a year and up for tech support
   
4. Microsoft BizTalk Server: This software for servers can hook up large enterprise applications. It plays well with other Microsoft offerings such as Office and SharePoint.
   Price: $8,499 for the standard version, $34,999 for the enterprise version
   
5. SnapLogic: This open-source program is designed to connect Web-based applications, like Salesforce, to other Web-based or desktop applications.
   Price: Free to download, $7,500 a year and up for support

Synapse Communication Pvt. Ltd. is a leading company for providing result-oriented services of Joomla integration into its website development technology. Excellent services in forms of making anything from personal webpages to corporate websites are provided by Synapse.

Synapse Communication Pvt. Ltd. has step forward for providing result-oriented services of Joomla integration into its website development technology. The company delivers excellent services in forms of making anything from personal webpages to corporate websites by using the essentials of Joomla framework. With the implementation of this new technology, Synapse aims at providing better satisfaction to its clients and catering to the emerging market of the Joomla requirements especially in the UK.

Joomla! Web Security is a new book from Packt that provides a concise overview of all the parts needed to construct and implement strong security measures for their Joomla! website. Written by Tom Canavan, this book teaches developers to secure their website by setting up an SSL and implementing disaster recovery features and using real-world tools to protect against hacks on their website.

Joomla! is one of the most powerful open-source content management systems used to build websites and other powerful online applications. While Joomla! itself is inherently safe, misconfigurations, vulnerable components, poorly configured hosts, and weak passwords can all contribute to the downfall of a website. This book will help conquer all these limitations and will show how to secure a website from security threats.

Based on customer demand, company introduces Joomla and Magento Commerce tutorials.

DemoWolf, a flash tutorial provider, today announced the release of 4 new tutorial series which help users get acquainted with Joomla, a Content Management System and Magento Commerce, an open-source ecommerce solution that provides merchants with control over store operations.

The company says that it has released the following series:

• Magento Commerce series (19 tutorials)
• Joomla Installation series (9 tutorials)
• Joomla Administration series (14 tutorials)
• Joomla Content Management series (10 tutorials)

It claims that the Magento Commerce series help users in everything from installation and setup, as well as management of their store. It further adds that it has created three separate tutorial series for Joomla, addressing installation, administration and content management issues.

"The production of these new tutorials marks the first time DemoWolf has used its new home-page polling script to find out what tutorials their consumers wanted DemoWolf to produce the most" says Rob Moore, president of DemoWolf. "Joomla was the most voted-for application, while Magento Commerce was voted for second most often. Since these tutorials have now been produced, they've been removed from the poll. DemoWolf will shortly be releasing tutorials for WordPress 2.7, the next most voted for application."

Joomla: A highly regarded CMS solution
by Mark Gibbs, Network World

As the Web has grown, the problem of content management seems to have absorbed more time and energy than even the effort required to create actual content. As a consequence the quest for the perfect Content Management System (CMS) has become high on the list of many corporations.

One of the more highly regarded CMS solutions is Joomla, a free, open source, cross platform product that has developed a huge following and is now used by the likes of the United Nations, MTV, Harvard University, and Citibank.

Joomla requires PHP and MySQL along with Apache or Microsoft IIS and can manage any kind of content including text, photos, music, and video. What’s even more impressive is that Joomla is also a content management framework that can be augmented to support other content and process management goals.

These modifications are provided by extensions and the Joomla Extensions Directory currently lists a total of 3,996 extensions that cover everything from adding CAPTCHA support through to file managers and RSS syndication to CRM, help desk, shopping carts, and wiki integration.

One of the extensions that is currently receiving a lot of attention is Teamlog published by YOOtheme GmbH, a Joomla development company.

Teamlog, which is currently in beta and free, adds an AJAX-driven time tracking interface to Joomla for project management. Designed to be very simple to use, Teamlog supports tracking of tasks and to-do items and is designed to be “foolproof” – essentially providing a working plan for multiple projects along with extensive reporting and statistics for teams of any size.

Teamlog is very impressive and I’ve heard from other users that it quickly becomes indispensable particularly in distributed environments.

If you are looking for a CMS, Joomla is worth considering; and if you need project-based time tracking, Teamlog is definitely worth considering.

Footnote: I have to note that on its Web site, materials promoting Teamlog YOOtheme includes some video tours of Teamlog. These are awful!

Here you have a terrific application and the voice over sounds like the speaker is disinterested and totally unenthused with what he’s presenting. Worse still the narrative is disorganized!

If your organization has any kind of presentation materials on line you must make sure that the effect of them is to sell and excite otherwise you are simply squandering opportunity.

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by Eric Brown

The Joomla! Bug Squad, with the help of the Joomla! community, has been striving to make Joomla! the best it can be. And with the recent runner-up award in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category in the 2008 CMS Awards by PacktPub.com, Joomla! continues to press to forefront of web and enterprise CMS.

Just two short months after Joomla! released its version 1.5.7, they release their newest version 1.5.8 — codename: Wohnaiki. Primarily composed of bug fixes and 2 moderate-level security resolutions, this release did not contain any additions of any kind.

Security Fixes for Joomla! 1.5.8
There were two moderate level security fixes that took place in the 1.5.8 update. Both involved com_… XSS issues.

Com_weblinks XSS Vulnerability
Allows raw HTML to be placed in the title and description tags for weblink submissions.

Com_content XSS Vulnerability
Allows entry of dangerous HTML in the default article submission. It only affects users with Author access or above and only if there are no filters set up in com_content configuration.

Both of these security issues affect all versions of Joomla! 1.5.x up through and including version 1.5.7. Download the newest version to fix these security issues.

Visit Joomla.org to see a full list of release notes and get the low-down on all the other changes made by the Joomla! Bug Squad.