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Friday again already! The calendar is whizzing by these days.

In 2003/4 I used to have a pretty busy forum here on Storebuilder. In those days the site was built in PHP Nuke and whilst it did a job of sorts, it was so vulnerable security wise that eventually I closed the forum down as it became over run with spam.

Fast forward to 2009 and now we have a secure CMS in Joomla but no forum to run with it. If you want to run a forum alongside a joomla installation then you have...

Storebuilder Blog - Site Building

Up bright and early this morning and headed off to the gym for a 45 minute stairmaster workout. Another 500 calories in the bank and another sufferfest.

It seems odd but considering what a great workout the stairmaster is, there is...

Storebuilder Blog - Site Building

I made it to the gym again. Four times this week. 450 calories burnt in 45 minutes on the stairmaster which beats my PB so this is looking good. When you are suffering on the treadmill that pint of Stella pro rata calories taken in looks less attractive second by second.

I've removed the headlining stuff as I'm working out that it's just distracting folks from what you want them to do.

And what do you want them to do?

Well obviously you want them to "do"

Storebuilder Blog - Site Building

I was going to start looking at the Joomla SEF404 component for a combination of shorter URL's and also to get some decent IP banning in place to try and put a stop to all of the pesky .ru domains that keep finding ways around the anti spam filters.

Then Joomla released another upgrade and we are onto 1.5.15

The biggest fix for me in this release is the fix to stop showing the admin password in the configuration.php file which was always a car crash waiting to...