It’s pretty common to have the same global navigation items it both the main navigation and footer links of a website. Be careful though, if you are using an SEF URL extension for Joomla 1.5, such as sh404SEF. Having multiple menu items pointing to the same article or ItemId can disable the active menu styling. Instead, use the standard Joomla menu links for the main navigation, and set up the footer navigation with external type menu items, pointing to the sef urls created for the main navigation.

I’ve been using the Breezing Forms fork of the Facile Forms powerful form creation component and module for Joomla 1.5 for a while now. During development of a recent project, however, I suddenly starting having problems. Upon form submission, I’d get sent to a 404 page with the error message “Article #0 not found.”

After addressing every possible cause I could think of, in desperation I tried turning Legacy Mode off. It worked! Go to Plug-in Manager > System – Legacy, and click off if it is enabled.

Of course I needed to scramble a bit to eliminate the need for Legacy mode. I found out the hard way that Joomla 1.5 Legacy mode and Breezing Forms don’t mix!

I’m in the process of evaluting various open source content management systems (CMS). A CMS based website is one that allows editing of structure as well as content through an administrative interface, and doesn’t require knowledge of coding. The open source CMS solution that seems closest to a standard corporate website out of the box is Joomla. I have a basic installation here:

http://www.tpdesigns.net/

Other open source CMS choices, like XOOPS and Drupal, appear to be geared more towards community websites, where many individuals post content in the form of blog entries. This is probably a better all-around format, as the web is evolving away from packaged corporate information, which is generally assumed to be mostly PR and therefore BS.