The economy is in turmoil, people are loosing their homes and more and more people are feeling the need to get out of their obligations.
As we wrap up another Christmas season and finish up 2008, the fraud stats are rolling in.

Any of you who sell products have encountered the notorious chargeback and the occasional "lost" package complaint.
You'll be unhappy to hear its not getting any better but you aren't alone. You're not the only retailer to suffer with fraud....

Well, today's been a busy day on the www.fitstartingtoday.com site.

I've install quite a few little applications and modules and did a video to show how to install Amazon's Astore application.

So, let's get busy looking at all the new things that's been put on the site. One of the first things I did was change some of the article features. One of the complaints about Joomla is it doesn't have the same blog type capabilities as WordPress. Meaning people can't post comments...

Social Bookmarking is a system that allows users / readers to store and organize bookmarks of page they enjoy on the internet. A great way to improve stickiness is to add bookmarking widgets to your site.
There are several available depending on the platform you are using.

Since we are using Joomla, a trip to Joomla.org extensions collection was the goal today.

I've used this particular plug in before and I noticed that they had updated it.
Have a look at the...

I always seem to be working on this site at the end of the day - right when my brain is turning to mush!

At any rate, I finally had enough of that gray text so I changed it. That is done in the CSS file. The trick is finding it. The new color is certainly easier on the eyes.

www.fitstartingtoday.com

Here are a few more tips when using Joomla. The front page is set up in a standard "Front Page Blog Format"
What this means is ANY article in the...

Today I added a neat little feature that allows me to spice up any keywords I want to turn into links
It's called SnapShots. Basically when your visitor mouses over a hyperlink, SnapShots shows a mini version of the link destination.
This is pretty cool because it works with YouTube videos and the reader can play the video right in the hovering SnapShot screen.
The visitor doesn't leave your site and the video doesn't take up a ton of room on your webpage.

For right...