When looking at the top rated extensions for your Joomla website you need to identify the objective you are hoping to achieve. You should also check Joomla’s Vulnerable Extensions List. When designing a website to restrict access to files by specific users access. Some of the top extensions for use with your Joomla sites may include the following: • Absolute floating menu • Captcha — ReCaptcha • Content Restriction • DOCman • EXTman • FILEman • JSN PowerAdmin • TinyMCE Absolute Floating Menu by JTricks.com. This tool allows you to create a module and then using CSS to positioning the module into the appropriate location on your web site page. Since this extension uses the module interface, you can specify which pages you wish to display the custom content. Captcha or ReCaptcha. When creating a form for your web sites, you need some method to prevent the spam-bots from auto populating your forms and then submitting the miscellaneous data over an over again filling your email or database with random spam or useless data. Google’s ReCaptcha enables you to require that the user input the characters / numbers displayed on the image into the form submission, before the form will be accepted. The characters and numbers cannot be read by the spam-bot and so the entry must be entered by a human. Google’s ReCaptcha is built into Joomla version 2.5.x. Content Restriction by webconstruction.ch. When you create user defined pages and wish to setup these pages so that only the user who logs in can see a specific page, this is when Content Restriction comes in handy. You use a method such as {access public}, which is used to turn on the block of content you wish to be displayed for the group “public”, to close the block of data you use {/access} which tells the Content Restriction extension where to end by using the ! symbol, meaning NOT you can set up a group to exclude the public users such as {access !public}. When setting up access groups you can then specify which groups are allowed access to the data by specifying {access group name} content {/access} this is most effective when creating a page with content for each user group and then specifying the documents that the user can see, when the user access this page only the documents that the user has access to will be displayed where as there may be several different users defined with the documents linked on that specific Category:Home › Other • Pomegranates: A newly discovered superfood • Where did the joke why did the chicken cross the road come from and why is it funny? • Can mothers diagnosed with bipolar disorder make good parents? • Spiritual evolution of human consciousness • Tips for getting a college basketball scholarship • Living with Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) • Caring for the caregiver • Technologys impact on society
