Splash Media Design Graphic & Website Designers 

Joomla Essential Upgrade Task Force

If you have had a website designed in Joomla in the last year, by a reasonably new or inexperienced web designer (or one that is overseas) who has NOT been upgrading your website since building it, then the chances are you could have a time bomb ticking on your website server.

It's not your designers fault, as these products were designed to be handed over to those with little to no technical knowledge, but unfortunately in recent months hackers on a wide scale have discovered and been exploiting hackable code in small business websites, in such a way that it has even challenged those who do have technical knowlege.

We have been removing code and virus from high profile websites, its totally bizarre and senseless and at the moment appears be relatively harmless and just nuisance factor - but that is what is happening!

The problem has the potential to become much more serious in the future.

Upgrade Immediately!

If your site fits in this category, then it is imperative to have your website upgraded immediately, and consider entering into an Upgrade Agreement with either your existing designer or Splash.  We would also suggest you consider putting up a website firewall to protect your Joomla website from future attacks.

We are putting together a special task force to do this now - if you would like to take advantage of this service (approx $100 Upgrade and $100 per annum for the Firewall) please use our quotation form to advise us details of you and your website.

Issues you may be experiencing ...

• Your Shopping Cart has become extremely slow to use and does weird things like wobble when you attempt to enter products into it 
  
• Your WYSIWIG editor will not save images and text any longer
• Your Stats say you are receiving a huge number of hits from yourself - yet you never went near your website.
• Your visitors say you have anywhere up to 90 visitors in one minute, but no visitors show up in your AWSTATS

Now if more women were involved in the development of software, this problem would probably never have occurred (grin)