Hiding site title on home page of Joomla!

This comes up over and over again and I always forget where to do the edit.

By Default, Joomla shows the Site Name on the Home Page. If you set this to something long and detailed for SEO use or you have an interest in attractive design, or are a bit of a control freak like me, it is important to know how to hide the site title.

In your Joomla Control Panel, Click on "Menus" - then "Main Menu" - "Home"
On the right side of the detail page that loads, click "System Parameters"And check the 'No' radio button next to *Page Title*And Page title will be hidden from the front-end Home Page. Whew.

Joomla Install with SSH

What a huge improvement!

I always lost files when I uploaded Joomla! via ftp then had to painstakingly determine which files were lost.
Never again.

Now I ftp the (much smaller) zip file of the full Joomla package to my main public directory.
Enable SSH through my Host control panel - a simple one click in my Security section and choose a password.

Launch Putty - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Login to the host with the SSH username and the password you set.

type the command cd public
type the command unzip Joomla_1.5.9-Stable-Full_Package.zip (in this case)
Voila - magic - no files lost - 2 minutes from start to finish.

Go through the online install and it all worked.

Okay then I tried to delete the installation folder with ftp and realized it wasn't empty
Back to SSH
rm -Rf installation/
Beautiful.

Who else has a time saving idea?

JoomlaPack Backup and Restore

If it sounds too good to be true....
Well not really.

Joomlapack is a great extension. But as with any install of Joomla, make sure your ftp program uploads the whole thing! and in ascii where needed.

If you can unzip right on the server, my goodness what a miraculous extension joomlapack is.
I designed sites on my local server and test them thoroughly adding all content there as well as by connecting to my local database directly to cut and paste much more rapidly.

To be able to backup and then upload to an empty host and automagically install and restore the exact site in minutes is incredible: content, newsletters, forum entries - everything ported over well.... now if only my ftp program would stop losing folders during upload.

have a look at http://ideinrise.com.previewmysite.com
- a development server online - once I switch the DNS it will not need the previewmysite.com portion.