However, more important than showing ads is the need some for way of tracking which sales are coming from your PPC efforts. The solution to this is pretty simple. Just place your tracking code in the checkout.thankyou.tpl.php file, after the following line:

< ?php echo $VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_EMAIL_SENDTO') .": < strong>". $user->user_email . '< /strong>'; ?>

Thats it! Simple, isn’t it? If you have any queries/questions, please feel free to drop us a line here: http://www.matrixmarketers.com/contact-us/

There is a lot of gung-ho about CMS these days. Every website owner wants their website to run on a CMS. What exactly is a CMS? According to Wikipedia, a CMS is:

A web content management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential Web maintenance functions.

CMS is a multifunctional application. It is capable to create a powerful portal website in a matter of minutes and it has wide supporting community. The CMS portals offer intuitive administration and dispose of detailed tutorials. CMS consists of a content management application which enables the management and modification of content without advanced webmaster knowledge, and a content delivery application, that uses new information to update the website.

Now, lets take a look at the top Content Management Systems:

1. WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. WordPress is also what Matrix Marketers runs on!

2. Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

3. Drupal

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites.

4. SilverStripe

The SilverStripe CMS is a flexible open source Content Management System that gives everyone involved in a web project the tools they need to do their jobs.

5. Cushy CMS

Cushy CMS is a Content Management Systems (CMS) that is truly simple. It’s free for unlimited users, unlimited changes, unlimited pages and unlimited sites.

6. Frog CMS

Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. Born as phpRadiant in January 2007, Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well-known Ruby on Rails application. Although the two applications still share a family resemblance, Frog is charting its own development path.

7. MODx

MODx helps you take control of your online content. An Open Source PHP application framework, it frees you to build sites exactly how you want and make them 100% yours. Zero restrictions and fast to build. Super-simple templates in regular HTML/CSS/JS (any lib you want). Registered user systems and a killer community. Welcome to web-building nirvana.

8. TYPOlight

TYPOlight CMS is a web CMS that Uses Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies, has a live update feature for those of us who have multiple blogs, gives multi-language support and hosts a ton of other great features

9. dotCMS

The fully functional GPL version of dotCMS continues to forge ahead – providing bleed–edge features and the latest code to a thriving community of developers and users.

10. Expression Engine

ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website. If you’re tired of the limitations of your current CMS then take ExpressionEngine for a spin.

But, the fact remains, that it is not as difficult as it is thought to be. There has always been a debate on why a website should be W3C validated. From my point of view, it is good to have a validated website. Here are a few facts to support:

1. Validation helps debugging

While browsers generally do an awesome job in parsing the worst of HTML, some errors are not always corrected. Often, different browsers will handle errors differently, making it increasingly difficult to make the appearance consistent.

Using standard and validated markup and CSS style sheets offers a higher probability of web page displaying properly across browsers.

2. Validated Markup is Version Proof

If a web page is displaying fine in web browsers today, it DOES NOT guarantee that it will work fine tomorrow as well! As newer versions are released, it becomes highly possible that your web page will display differently or not display at all.

On the other hand, if you follow the web standards, it is almost guaranteed that your web page will display as required. Making you future proof!

3. Validation Eases Maintenance

Since HTML & CSS are coding style/standard which is accepted world-wide, creating web pages which follow this standard makes them easier to maintain, irrespective of the fact, if the person maintaining is the creator or some one else.

4. Validation Shows Professionalism

Need not say anything about this. Seasoned professionals will use the highest standards of coding to show their professionalism and also to take pride in their work. So a W3C validated web site does reflect the professionalism of the person creating it.

1. Go to Extension Manager

2. Go to Update tab.

3. On the top right you will see a button labelled Purge Cache. Hit that, since if you do not do so you might get an error “No updates found”.

4. Now you will be able to see available updates for Joomla Core & Extensions. Make sure you upgrade Joomla core first to avoid any errors.

5. Select Joomla 2.5 and hit Upgrade on top right.

6. You might get a success message or error message. Do not worry if you get error message! In both scenarios, go to  Database tab. Here you will see the current status. Hit Fix on top right corner and you are done.

Congratulations! You have just upgraded your website to latest version of Joomla.

The solution is a lot simpler and easier than thought. All you need to do is navigate to the ‘article manager’ and then click on the ‘Options’ icon at the top left of the window. A new window opens up and you need to choose the second tab, ‘Editing Layout’. Make sure that ‘Front end Images and Links’ and ‘Administrator Images and Links’ are selected as ‘Yes’.

That’s it! Enjoy making awesome sites with Joomla! and write amazing articles and share the knowledge!

“Multi-database support is a huge step forward for Joomla, which is already powering more than 1.6 million websites worldwide. It ensures companies and organization, both large and small, will save even more money and time by adopting Joomla,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a non-profit created to provide organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. “No longer will Joomla developers be tied down to a particular database or have to spend more money and time integrating other software to get Joomla to communicate with their database. This enhances Joomla’s scalability immensely.”

Other key features in Joomla 2.5 includes:

• Automatic notification when a Joomla or extension update is available. When logged into the control panel, site administrators will instantly have access to new notification buttons that allows them to see and act on the latest updates. In addition to updates for the Joomla CMS, a second button offers third party extension notification updates.
• A better natural language search engine to the Joomla core. Complete with auto-completion and stemming (for example if you type “running” in a search field you also see run), it is faster and more versatile than the standard search.

“We literally received thousands of pieces of input at ideas.joomla.org into what functionality should be added to Joomla 2.5, and overwhelmingly enhanced notifications and more elegant search topped the list,” said Mark Dexter of the Joomla Production Leadership Team. “In fact, the automatic notification for core and extension updates received the most votes for a feature that people wanted in 2.5. But we didn’t stop with just those two. Joomla 2.5 is a major overhaul with more than 24 new features that we have highlighted at joom.la/25features.”

Joomla 2.5 adheres to Joomla’s newly-adopted six-month release cycle that began with the previous  Joomla CMS release of Joomla 1.7 in July, 2011. Downloading the latest version of Joomla is the best way to ensure organizational and personal security needs are being met since it will have the most recent updates to protect against the latest security threats.

Joomla 2.5 is truly a collaborative community-driven software project developed with the feedback gathered from more than 2.5 million Joomla forum posts, 540,000 Joomla forum members and data from more than 8,800 Joomla extensions.  To download Joomla 2.5, go to http://www.joomla.org/download.html.