With the recent release of Joomla 2.5.3, there was a major security flaw discovered in previous versions of Joomla that include:

• Joomla 1.6.0 to 1.6.6
• Joomla 1.7.0 to 1.7.5
• Joomla 2.5.0 to 2.5.2

The major security flaw involves a privilege escalation that allows any member of the general public to create an administrator account through the front-end of your website. Once this account has been created the user will be able to log into your back-end and make unrestricted changes to your website.

I highly recommend that you immediately upgrade your Joomla site to the latest release and if you need help understanding how to do this please use the following resource http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_from_an_existing_version

For the first time in my life I will be shaving my head and taking part in the World's Greatest Shave.

In the past ten years I have always had a similar haircut and have never considered shaving my head.

All of the money I raise will help fund important research into leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood disorders.

Today, 31 Australians will get the news they have blood cancer and your donation will support them from the moment they are diagnosed.

Even if you can only afford a few dollars I will appreciate your generosity in this great cause.

Donations can be made through Paypal and via Credit card at the following url http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/michaelgarratt

On the 24th of January, Joomla have released their latest stable version known as Joomla 2.5.

If you're currently running Joomla 1.7 on any of your websites please be aware that it will no longer be supported as of the 24th of February 2012.

Some of the new features that Joomla 2.5 offers it's users are:

• Inbuilt CAPTCHA which uses reCAPTCHA  to protect your user registrations and forms from being attacked by robotic spammers.
• Update notifications that will let you know the exact moment a Joomla extensions or Core Joomla release has become available.
• Improved search functionality that is similar to how the google search engine works with its auto-completion and stemming.

For more information concerning the many new features within Joomla 2.5 please click here.

If you are currently running a Joomla 1.0 or 1.5 website and thinking to yourself whether it is worth updating to the latest version of Joomla you may be interested in this info-graphic.

Recently I have made a few small changes to my website.

With social networking being such an integral part of our everyday lives you can now easily keep up to date with all of my latest blog entries via facebook and a RSS feed  that I have recently launched.

Also I have made commenting on my blog entries very simple. You can easily make comments by using your personal google, facebook, twitter, yahoo and disqus accounts.

Thank you for all of your support and I'm looking forward to sharing with you a few tips and tricks that I have learnt recently.

Recently I have started using Joomla 1.7 and so far it has been quite a positive experience.

However one day I did notice that whenever I would do a css in-line style or add a piece of javascript to an article or module it would disappear once saved.

After a little bit of searching around I was able to find a solution to this issue.

By default, Joomla 1.7 has a setting that will blacklist the following: