I've been experimenting with a plugin offering a further layer of security for the admin login, and so far it's worked well to prevent automated attempts to access the admin area with stolen logins. This kind of attack is an increasing problem: I'm notified by email every time there's a failed login attempt on a Zipfish site, and they come in their hundreds every day. The plugin works by adding a password to the URL for the admin login, so instead of going to http://www.mywebsite.com/administrator/index.php you'd go to something like http://www.mywebsite.com/administrator/?UnguessablePa88word . That small change means that the automated scripts bombarding sites with stolen logins won't be able to find the login form.

If you frequently offer downloadable files via your website, there are Joomla! extensions designed to make upload and organisation simple - but if you simply want to add a one-off download to an existing article, it's possible to do it manually. Here's how:

Before you start, check that the name of the file for download has no spaces in it and isn't too long. E.g., 'A history of beer mats in the Ukraine.doc' could become 'ukraine-beermat-history.doc'. NB: If the filename contains spaces, the upload process will fail.

Upload the file to your website's media manager

1. From the admin area's top menu, choose 'Content' then 'Media Manager'.
   
2. Click on the 'downloads' folder to open it (if there is one), or create a new folder called 'downloads'.