MissionControl is a FREE Joomla Administrator template that was created to provide a more pleasing admin experience as well as improving efficiency and reducing clutter for an overall improved user experience. Traditionally it has been hard to justify switching the administrator template from the default one because they did not add much tangible value, and were either too complicated or too troublesome to use. MissionControl attempts to alleviate these issues by providing a simple and intuitive interface that focuses on efficiency as well as general good looks while maintaining core similarities to the default Joomla administrator you already are familiar with.

This list contains a few features that will improve your life when you configure and manage Joomla using MissionControl.

Websites today are much more than a few pages, cobbled together and put on the Internet. If you’re a blogger, they are your life’s worth of thought. If you’re a business, they are your storefront. Your websites mean a lot to you. But websites can crash. From something as simple as deleting the content of the wrong article, to something as major as a server crash, to something as sinister as a hacker, websites can crash unexpectedly. You most certainly need a backup to recover your precious websites when disaster strikes.

Not to long ago, I got a request from a user about the best way to add some custom CSS to a template. I replied that one of the best and most “Joomla” ways to add extra CSS definitions to your site would be to create a simple Joomla Plug-in. To me this, is just a few minutes of work, but I can understand that it could be a little daunting to people who have never done this kind of thing before. This article goes through the steps necessary for creating a simple plug-in if this kind so you can take and expand this idea for your own needs and requirements.

The web design trends of yesteryears are nothing like what’s hip today. Remember when you’d land on a page and suddenly a man on the right hand side of the page greeted you and explained what the website was all about? Or do you recall the first site that automatically played music? It was like an instant party. Nowadays, these are annoyances people would rather not deal with at all. Animated GIFs, elaborate Flash videos, and unconventional navigation bars are all design elements that may scare away prospective buyers in droves.

The new attribute selectors introduced in CSS3 offer developers an unprecedented level of control over when, where and how their CSS properties are applied. Before these new attribute selectors, designers had to plan very far ahead and write long, meticulous CSS stylesheets and large clusters of corresponding CSS classes within their HTML. In many cases, both the HTML and the CSS had redundant code, making for unnecessarily bloated site files, slower websites and many extra hours spent pouring over confusingly-repetitive HTML and CSS documents.