Choosing the right typeface is a critical decision that influences a website's aesthetics, readability, and overall user experience. While web fonts are popular for their versatility and creative possibilities, they come with their fair share of disadvantages. In this post, we'll explore the drawbacks of using web fonts and showcase a new feature in Joomla 5 to make better use of system fonts ..read more

It's hard to believe that more than three years have passed since I first embarked on the journey of hosting my websites with ScalaHosting. As someone who relies heavily on a robust and reliable hosting service, I am thrilled to share that my experience has been nothing short of exceptional. I want to reflect on the last three years and highlight how ScalaHosting continues to exceed my expectations with outstanding support and innovative features ..read more

Over the weekend I was asked how to create a joomla 4 module to display images in an attractive way without installing and third party extensions. I did this for the gallery on the home page of my demo site (https://www.testingthis.website) and I realised I had never shared the steps taken to achieve it ..read more

Showcasing the power of Joomla 4 out of the box with no additional extensions I produced this website (https://www.testingthis.website). One of the features I created was a masonry style view (https://www.testingthis.website/trips) with no javascript or css edits - just some simple template overrides ..read more

Showcasing the power of Joomla 4 out of the box with no additional extensions I produced this website (https://www.testingthis.website). One of the features I created was a masonry style view (https://www.testingthis.website/trips) with no javascript or css edits - just some simple template overrides ..read more

Unlike many other CMS that are page based, Joomla is much more dynamic with everything based on the menu item. When you select a menu item Joomla decides which view to display, which blocks to display and even which theme. One of the major advantages of this approach is that content can inherit the settings of a parent so you don't have to design every page. At the same time this inheritance can be source of confusion, despair and even anger ..read more

After seven years of hosting all my sites and my client's sites with SiteGround I've moved everything to a new hosting provider, ScalaHosting. I've held on to this post for a few months to make sure that everything worked as intended. I wouldn't want to publish a recommendation until I had truly tested it in the real world ..read more

To make a powerful application such as Joomla understandable is not an easy task. It is something that I think we have done a reasonable job with over the years but there is always room for improvement ..read more

Web accessibility is the process of making sure that your website is accessible to everyone. Far too many people assume that accessibility means adding an alt description to an image and making sure that the colour contrast is ok. Perhaps they have even heard of something called WCAG or ARIA. Or maybe they have even used a browser based accessibility checker tool. Those are all important but they are only a small part to removing barriers ..read more

Joomla means “all together”. From the founding of Joomla we have taken pride in reducing the barriers to entry. We removed the barrier of cost, we removed the barrier of language and we removed the barriers to change found in a closed source application. For many years we have talked about responsive web design - the ability to use a website on any device. What we don’t talk about is responsible web design - the ability for everyone to use a web site equally ..read more