This document provides tips and best practices for building a Joomla 3 website correctly and avoiding common mistakes. It discusses planning the site structure properly using categories, tags, menus, and content. It recommends using Joomla's core features like versioning and ACL permissions. The document also suggests optimizing performance by caching, combining, and compressing files as well as securing the site, backups, and regular updates. Common extension recommendations and maintenance best practices are also provided.

1. Joomla 3
Are you Building it right ?
The build it right checklist & Common Mistakes to
avoid
Presented at Joomla User
Group Pune, 2nd
August 2014

2. Parth Lawate
Strategic Marketing Manager,Joomla
CEO, Techjoomla
parth.lawate@tekdi.net
@parthlawate, @techjoomla
www.techjoomla.com
Cook
Bookworm Gardener
JUG Pune
Joomla Freak
Trekking
Entrepreneur
Joomla Day India
Open Source
Software Architecht
Marketing
Content Strategy
Hiking
CEO, Techjoomla Director, Tekdi Technologies

3. Getting the best out of
the Joomla core

4. Remember Joomla 3 has a lot to
offer !
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Tags
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Content versioning
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Kick ass ACL
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Install from Web
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Automatic Updates
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Quick & Easy
Multilungual sites

5. Plan it Right
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Categories
* Remember there's
Tags as well now !
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Menus
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Content
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Extensions
There is no excuse for
bad planning. It can

6. Dont over do extensions
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The JED with its 8k+
can be like a toy
store for a kid
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Its ok to try lots of
extensions but
choose & keep the
bare minimum you
really need

7. Content
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Use Typography to
make your content
better looking
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Use optimised images.
Dont drag them small
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Article Alias creates
the URL
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No Word code please
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Dont use non
responsive tables in
content
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Use Alt & Title tags –
make your site
accessible

8. The ItemID
the ultimate Joomla villain
This guy can make a ton of things go seriously wrong..
So be especially careful !

9. The Menus & the Menu items
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No 2 Menus pointing
to the same item
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Use the 'levels'
configuration to
show partial menus
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Clean out menus you
dont need from your
trash as well
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Doing your menus
right can avoid item
Id issues

10. Modules
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Use modules
intelligently
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Avoid redundant
copies
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No Number's
advanced module
manager can save
you a lot of pain
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Again item ids can
play havoc with
module assignments

11. Before you Go live

12. Change the Defaults
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Global Config – Site
Title & Meta Data
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Make sure your email
config works
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Delete all mock data
– menus, categories,
content & empty
your trash

13. Optimise Optimise Optimise
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Caching
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Combine
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Compress
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Gzip
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Client Side Caching
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Optimise your
images

14. Is it Seccure ?
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Seccure your Host
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Seccure your application
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Setup Automated
Backups
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Run a MyJoomla security
scan
Admin tools Pro &
Akeeba Backup can make
your job easier

15. ●
Akeeba Backup Pro
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Admin Tools Pro
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Email Beautifier
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Cache Cleaner
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Advanced Module
Manager
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Simple Image gallery
& All Videos plugins
Must have Extensions

16. Maintenance
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Update the core as
well as any
extensions you use
regularly !
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Backup before you
update
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Test updates on a
staging site
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Run regular speed
audits
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Run regular security
audits
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Educate clients if you
are not maintaining
for them

17. Questions ?

18. Thank You !
Stay #jpositiv !!
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Parth.lawate@tekdi.net
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Twitter @parthlawate