Looking for an easy way to quickly add a flash banner, video, or other hosted or external SWF file to Joomla articles or to a custom HTML module? Look no further. The BIGSHOT Flasher can help you do just that.

Strong passwords are important. A strong password should contain uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. The use of a child's name or common dictionary words is not advised and can easily be fooled. If you have problems remembering cryptic passwords, consider using character substitutions to make bad passwords at least decent passwords. Following is an example of how that works.

Some of you may not be aware but BIGSHOT's own Kenneth Crowder has authored a Joomla book titled Using Joomla along with fellow Leadership Team member Ron Severdia. Combining years of experience, they have written 400 pages of easy to read information to give you a firm understanding of how to build and more importantly, manage your Joomla web site. The book is published by the leader in technology books, O'Reilly Media.

This book is easy to read and covers all aspect of the Joomla content management system including the upcoming Joomla 1.6.

We are excited to say that after months of writing and editing, Using Joomla was sent to the printer yesterday and will be shipping soon!

Pre-ordering is available through Amazon.com

Recently, we had a client who had issues with spammers registering on their web site. Typically they do this to spam your forum. Since oftentimes this is done by bots and not humans, setting the "New User Account Activation" option in Global Configuration to "Yes" will prevent them from ever actually activating the account. On top of that the email address is often not legit either. This does not solve the problem of Administrators getting the New User Registration emails.

Over the last I do not know how long, I have been looking for a solution. I am pleased to say that I have found one that I am very pleased with. It is called AlphaRegistration. And, it's free.