ichamentor: Hello webmasters, please I need help with this hiccup. I have a website running on the joomla platform that I am managing. Recently, I added a new article to the back end but it does not appear on the front end. Currently, I have noticed that no changes made at the backend reflect on the front end. I tried changing the background image, nothing happened. I changed the template, nothing still.
I have turned off the cache, cleared it as well. As per the article, I have cross-checked that all the needed publishing parameters are as they should be.
I am wondering if any one has experienced something similar to this, and I look forward to hearing suggestions as to how to rectify it.
Thanks

First, what Joomla version are you on ?

Secondly, do you have a link referencing to the Joomla article from the homepage ?

Lastly, have you created the article under a particular category and expect it to automatically appear on the homepage ?

If the last question is yes, then I'm guessing that you have not created a module that auto publish articles

In most cases, people forget to link to the created articles or forget to publish the article in a category that had been set for a published module to read from..

Anyway let me know how it goes.

tomholly: WEBMASTER HELP NEEDED

Is it possible to access my Joomla website backend via the cpanel? ...

I think there are many ways you can retrieve your lost joomla password. Your web host may be able to help you with the task.

Should you want to do this yourself follow these steps; (Takes Less than 3 minutes to complete)

Wait, be careful!!! I advice that you make a database backup before you start getting practical, databases are not everyone's cup of tea. So apply caution when playing with your database! Anyway, getting nitty gritty.

1 - Login to cPanel
2 - Click the phpMyAdmin link
3 - Select your database
4 - In your selected database, look for jos_users and click it (assuming jos is your database prefix)
5 - This will load a list of users in your database
6 - Look for the name of your joomla admin and click to edit it, the default is usually admin
7 - Open a new tab and launch Google, search for MD5 Hash generator and generate MD5 Hash for a new password, copy the result
8 - Back to your phpMyAdmin, according to step 6, mouse to the password field and delete all the content in the field
9 - Enter the MD5 Hash you generated in step 7. Now click the "Go" button
10 - Refresh your browser, clear cookies and visit your joomla admin area again. Now you should be able to login

Other Option
Some people resolve this by running a simple SQL query (Takes less than a minute to complete) If this what you need let me know. Again your web host may be able to help you out.

I hope this helps.

360crest: I have onlly 200 naira to offer

Ok, Good luck.

360crest: Wat I want u guys is to help me create is a banner like any of those on nairaland ad section...

Make it 500 Naira and I will get you a quality banner that matches the look and feel of your website within an hour.

Dimension: 318 x 106 Pixels
Format: PNG & JPG
Source Included: PSD

You need to provide content information, your preferred fonts and the image you want on it.

http://www.hostnigeria.com.ng - is the fastest growing web hosting company in Nigeria that offers quality hosting services for individuals, small and medium sized enterprises.

coolsix:

lol, i think it is a risk i am willing to take. I used One card to verify both accounts

But i will close/delete the Nigerian account because right now, its really of no use because i cannot receive with it, only pay. But with another country, i can receive and still send/pay.(Verified with Nigerian Card )

It's a risk not worth it, PayPal have this habit of terminating accounts they find suspicious, even worse, if you have enough balance in your account, they will seize it. I think it's better that you keep a better standing account and close the other one. Don't give them reason to start monitoring your activities, specifically. PayPal make money from things like this... Why do you think paypalsucks.com exists ... lol

coolsix: When i first registered my First account and verified.. They refunded me thesame day.

Then my second account(Another country, so that i can receive payments).. They refunded me 3 weeks later

Your second account ? be careful, they will freeze both accounts bro.

Joel3: Today i signup for paypal account using my uba africard to register and verified the account.

I register the Paypal account with my prepaid visa debit card UBA africard and I was instantly debit N167 for the registration alone.I got debit alert.

Then I proceed to verify paypal. I entered my uba africard information and select visa instantly again I was debited N326. I got the debit alert sms including the PP* code.

According to paypal it will be returned immediately but for several hours now nothing has been received so far is this how uba africard works? Can one even received funds from paypal on it?

Kindly confirm this please. Someone with experience.

You need to wait 5 working days. Although it feels longer with Saturdays and Sundays. Don't panic, they will refund you.

Samcathe: Can anyone recommend a reliable webhositing company for me that has been operating for at least 5years in Nigeria?

Your recommendation will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

hostnigeria.com.ng

egift: @WebHostingPal and LoadedHost:
Am sure both of you understand what am saying. Paypal is useless for us because we are unable to accept payments for the services we offer and items we sell online.

If you read the post both of you made, you will know that the admiration you gave to paypal in Nigeria is that both of you can now accept payments from Paypal Users in Nigeria (You are receiving).

Until we too can receive payments, Paypal is useless to us. Majority of what we can pay for with the account as it is now, we can get it elsewhere or with other payment option.

@Paypal, activate full options for Nigeria or shove it elsewhere. Someone who can't earn, will not spend on the long run - Business is Buying and Selling.

I totally understand you bro.

egift: Paypal is useless to me until I can accept payment. I have programmes that are stranded till I can accept payments.

If you think about it, commercially it's not. Because you can now conveniently pay for foreign products and services.

Keep in mind that PayPal is only testing the waters at the moment, it's now up to Nigeria account holders to use their PayPal accounts wisely.

PayPal is so antifraud, so if people use their PayPal account according to the set regulations and not try to abuse the system, I believe PayPal will activate the ability to receive PayPal payment in Nigeria this could be in a year, two, three or more.

We accept PayPal payments at HostNigeria! the only thing is that users paying us via PayPal have to change the Naira currency to USD or GBP in order to pay with PayPal. Unfortunately PayPal does not accept the Naira denomination at this point in time.

Successdude: Do they charge any commission to send money or to verify the account ? Yesterday being 9th august, i verified my account and about 320 naira was deducted from my account .that means about 167 naira per dollar.

It's free to send money or pay for items with PayPal. We pay 2.9% and 20p for every transaction received.

See here for more info... https://www.paypal.com/ng/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

AlJarzirah: Lies. They just did.

Lies! for twitter handles ? that's a new one. You said "They just did" , who just did? do you mean just the one person above ? yeah right I can see they just did.

AlJarzirah: Let's share and exchange our Twitter handles here.
Mine is @CNNGeorge

A lot of similar posts on here. Unfortunately nobody follow anybody, although hundreds of twitter handles on here

remmyz:

Trash. Trash. Trash.

Gutted, it would have been productive if you pointed out what you mean by thrash!

akereconfi: Hi all, I need help on how to make a site appear as the first when a keyword "Nottingham Taxi" is searched on google.


Please any clue as to how I can do this.

Thanks

This is the basic method, http://www.google.co.uk/submityourcontent/tools.html#web

You can further optimise your website for search engine friendliness.

Guessing you are in the UK, we are developing a chauffeur booking system for a UK company at the moment, so if you need further assistance let me know, I may be able to help, cos I know how the UK postcode system works...

hulkhiharitoz: I will be really appreciative if anyone could help me create a blog for free
#thanks
#TeamWebmasters

You can't create a blog, how do you intend to manage it ? Why not do a research on blogging, learn about it, once you have acquired a basic knowledge, then pick your niche. Once you are ready, create your blog.

Don't be like so many of our people that create blogs because they think they can get rich quick from it. Create a blog, maintain and manage it with passion, be rest assured that other benefits will follow.

Hope this helps.

chitex88: Thanks for your response. I appreciate.
Thank you for your help. Can woocommerce get the job done well using wordpress?

No woocommerce can not get the job done well. You need to remember that Wordpress is a blogging system, no matter how modified it is. And you can never compare a purposely built ecommerce system to a blogging system.

If you are looking for free ecommerce system, ZenCart tops the list, you have Magento, osCommerce, OpenCart, Spree Commerce, PrestaShop and the list goes on.

Joomla and WordPress have their own ecommerce components and plugins, but you can't compare them to the list above.

Almost everything in Nigeria is WordPress, many Nigerian online stores and websites are powered by Wordpress, this is because that's what people know and comfortable using here, even though it's not the best solution.

Hope this helps.

chitex88: Pls I need help. Can anyone help me with an approxoimate cos of developing a website like Konga or Jumai. Just a rate for clothing company. Thank you all as I await your response .

You are talking about 120k up... Konga was built with Magento and Jumia is custom built. Don't settle for less cos there are load of cowboys out there.

Hope this helps.

ocheejemb:

Theres no doubt about its functionality and speed....

Again just changing the UI should not affect the SEO or functionality at all....

Gotcha!

coolsix: You all never cease to amaze me...

Hello buddy, first adverts are meant to be made and second, customer's satisfaction is paramount.

You need to understand that there are very few good web hosting companies in Nigeria. Not name dropping or dissing any one, a lot of Nigeria web hosts don't have the necessary technical capability to deal with issues first hand so when problems beyond their control arise they completely ignore their customers requests for resolution and as a result badly letting the customers down, driving local customers to foreign hosts. Mind you, "Foreign Hosts Don't Pay Taxes Here in Nigeria"

Talking of foreign hosts, not blowing own trumpet, I feel it's necessary to let you know that I have worked for two popular web hosting companies abroad and I'm a qualified system administrator, so I'm not jumping on the bandwagon here.

Foreign web hosts don't trust Africans when it comes to web hosting and other things, I know this for sure, have you ever wondered why so many websites in Nigeria got shut down ? or why fellow naijas have to verify accounts when you host abroad, I can give you tons of stories on that one.

So my campaign is to let anyone that cares about web hosting in Nigeria know that they can now host in Nigeria with the International standard they've been craving for.

We pay tax and we are contributing to the Nigeria economy, knowing what very few of us know, why would I suggest a fellow citizen to go host abroad when they can get what they need here, or do you think we are less professional because we are Nigerians ?

Godwinsilas: I paid for hosting plan with Gigalayer since on the 11 of last month, i installed my script it was not coming up all you just see is white page, i went for free hosting install the same script it was working fine. I have made alot of complain but no solution.
Right now my site is down because of free hosting and am planning to use foreign host, what should i do?

I can understand your frustration, don't go to foreign host. Host here in Nigeria, try HostNigeria! the fastest growing Nigeria web hosting company. The only Nigeria web host with monthly payment plans from 165 Naira, this allows you to test the service. We have a few people in here hosted by HostNigeria! without complaints, they can testify to the quality of the services.

With the fastest response time for technical support throughout the country, make no mistake, HostNigeria is raising the web hosting standards in Nigeria. 4 Highly skilled staff with International experience, 18 years of experience combined and 2 interns. We are truly the most qualified web hosting company in Nigeria.

If you want to be a part of a progressive company, then I will suggest that you try us out today, after all, what have you got to loose trying out a service you never used before ?

JewelDiamond: For someone who deals on shoe and plumbing materials.Reply needed asap

You need to provide more information on what you need exactly, website goes beyond how much.

It's sounds like you would need an ecommerce website, either for showcasing your online products using your site as an online catalogue or allowing people to be able to purchase products online for home delivery.

Or if you only need a basic website to represent your business online.. It's all about what you want. Your best bet is do search for a handful of web design and development companies and write to them via their contact forms, requesting for a quote, explaining in details exactly what you want, then you will be able to get proper responses from the actual companies. Then you can take it from there.

There are so many cowboys out there , so you need to be careful who you end up using to develop your website.

Hope this helps.

ocheejemb: I was wondering why Nairaland has such a basic, and (sorry to say) unattractive UI and UX?

The colours are quite drab, and the headings at the top? FT, FB, LK, show very bad design practices even for hardcore-programmers.

As far as community is concerned, Nairaland is great (most times), and very helpful to thousands of Internet users if not more. The other day I saw people from Malaysia and Pakistan asking for advice on certain issues, and they got it.

Why isn't Nairaland trying to improve this?

Simon says, that Nairaland would loose values should there be an attempt to change the layout and feel of the website. Although it is possible, but a great care had to be taken. If I were the owner of Nairaland, I would not bother to change anything, perhaps he knows this himself.

Come to think of it, most of the greatest website today are as basic looking as you want it. Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, ebay, paypal etc... PayPal is just making attempt to change bits and bobs in their user area and a great work had been done to achieve what they have achieved today, same as ebay.

The design of a website is part of SEO and Google is quite happy with Nairaland at the moment and personally I wouldn't trade that for anything, I don't know about yous...

Website is never about the design, but the contents of the website, designs are supplementaries, so having a great looking website with all bells and whistles does not make your web site SEO Ready....

In a not shell, I think Nairaland is fine because it is accessible to every user, it's fast loading and SEO friendly and I wouldn't change it for anything if you ask me

Abiodun2014: My site can't send emails externally?! What could be the problem?! I really need u guys help! Anybody got an PHP/SMTP code for me to fix into the site?

Sorry, I'm responding to the wrong topic.

ediko5: Hello,
I just open my site www.crossbearerevangelicalministry.com and when i entered other pages outside the home page, some images covers the header section of the site and also the width of the is expanded and there are other contents in the expanded width area of the site. It seems a harmful website is trying to cover the site. My anti-virus alerts me of a threat each time i open the site.

Please how can i solve this problem.

The thing is that any site can be hacked... not necessarily the fault of the web host, it could be as a result of a customer using a malicious script as well... However, the willingness of a webhost to address the issue as soon as they were informed is paramount.

Hope you resolve this as soon as you can. In between, why use foreign host when you can host here in Nigeria ? foreign web hosting companies are not better you know ? Checkout http://www.hostnigeria.com.ng for an ultimate web hosting experience.

geniusng: I have been hosting my website at Web4Africa for many years but so many things has gone wrong with their services. Their customer service is ZERO, there is no Nigerian phone number on their website and even when you send ticket, it will take donkey years to get a reply.

The most annoying one is that one of their server known as KING was hacked and ALL the website I hosted on my reseller account was defaced and replace with another website and getting to 24hours as I write this, they have not send a single email at least to tell us what happened. To confirm what I am saying check this website: http://www.icidr.org

Why did you choose to host your website with a Ghanaian company anyway ? you are basically boosting Ghana's economy with your money . I don't know why our people believe in foreign web hosting companies than in Nigeria. I have worked years abroad with two well known web hosting companies and nothing those guys can offer that you cannot get here in Nigeria.

Bro, come back home and host with a Nigerian company and help boost to Nigerian economy, we have good web hosting companies now in Nigeria and HostNigeria! is the fastest growing Nigeria web host. We have so many people here hosted by HostNigeria! and they can testify that we are bang on the dot in our services. Try it out today http://www.hostnigeria.com.ng, if you are not happy with the service, pull out within 30 days, full refund no question asked.

You can even choose to pay monthly, we are the only web hosting company in Nigeria that accept monthly payment and best of all you can pay with your PayPal account, yeah the only Nigerian web hosting company that accepts PayPal payments. 120% trusted by PayPal, 18 years of experience, highly qualified staff with International experience.

Raising the web hosting standard in Nigeria is our primary objective...

kaysy: Hello Good Day,
Please i want to set up an e-Commerce website for sales of JAMB, WAEC etc scratch cards, am a blogger and knows nothing about web design & programming but am trying my best in the meantime, my questions now are....

Hi, if you are really serious about your idea, I wouldn't use Word Press, I will advice that you use an ecommerce system to achieve your objective. After all ecommerce systems are specifically developed for this kind of purpose. There are free ecommerce systems you can readily use and there are premium ones, Google is your pal.

Considering you are new to this, I would suggest that you hire someone with the knowledge to customise a free or premium ecommerce system for you. If this is a real business, I would advice that you avoid those that offer you cheap quotes

Hope this helps!

maekhel: I will like to know if there are professional certificates for web developers which one can take like the CISCO for networking.

CIW ... Certified Internet Web Master... only one training center in the whole of Nigeria I believe.

There is classroom taught, depending on the country you live in and you can also do the training online, self study.

Passing the exam is another thing, you have to pay for the exams every time you take it.

Hope this helps.

Jregz:
I know COYs like hostgator rent servers from softlayer and I definitely know bout the unlimited bandwidth sham... but They are reliable than a Nigerian host.... shikena.

I bet they are...

dazekid: The Nigerian paypal can't receive payments but the payment sending option works.

Yes, true. We can receive and send payments in Dollars and Pounds but not in Naira. For example, our clients change from local currency to dollars or pounds before they can make PayPal payments on our website.

Jregz:
to Be honest, Foreign hosts are more reliable.

I'm not directing this post to you buddy I'm just seizing your post as an opportunity to point out some important facts.

Out of interest, what gives you the impression that foreign web hosts are better ? or do you mean that there are more reliable foreign web hosting companies than in Nigeria ? the latter sounds more promising to me.

Also what do you term as real web hosting provider ? just to inform you and those that probably don't know, all web hosting companies are all middlemen including all those big companies you call real providers.

Are you thinking how did I know ? I used to work for two well known web hosting companies when I was in the UK and as big as these companies were and still are, I'm whispering it to you now that they have always rented the servers they are hosting their customers on.

I have discussed in full length about the web hosting companies I worked for in the UK and it's a shame that it's been lost when this nairaland website was hacked.

Here is another article I wrote in response to a guy that was talking about unlimited space and bandwidth, please read the article here.

In the article, I went a bit further discussing the hierarchy of the web hosting industry. Hopefully after reading that, people will stop dissing the few Nigeria web hosting companies that are truly working hard and stop tying everyone with the same brush.

One final thing is that, it's only a matter of time before the Nigerian government start taxing foreign companies that are tapping into the Nigerian economy without paying taxes. Should law be put in place now, I bet you will feel the pinch as well, just like every SME in Nigeria, because the foreign companies will start taxing you as well..

This is something that had already been done in the UK. You can read more about it here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20560359

If you really want to completely cut out the middle-men in the web hosting industry, please stop mentioning, easyspace, godaddy, hostgator and them lot. If you have the money and the expertise then you want guys like Rack Space, SoftLayer.

If you can combine my response here to the one mentioned above, you should have a better understanding of the web hosting industry

I hope this helps.