Am I alone in thinking that we’re doing Joomla beginners a big disservice by recommending that they start with a local installation? Almost every Joomla tutorial starts with a description of how to install Joomla on your computer and it…
Apologies for the lack of blogging over the last few weeks, I’ve been wrapped up in something else since the beginning of September. Over the last couple of years, I’ve always tried to be honest with people and acknowledge that…
Back to the Mile-High City … We had the great fortune to be in Denver last year as winter arrived and the CMS Expo rolled into town. We’re back again next week with one of our day-long Joomla training classes.…
This is a guest blog post by Edward Rid from Bestjoomladesign.com. Don’t forget that the official Joomla showcase site is also available at community.joomla.org On our website we’ve been trying collect examples of sites that can be inspiring to Jooma…
Over the last year our business model has evolved quite substantially. From being a traditional webdesign firm we’ve increasingly focused on Joomla training. After starting slowly last summer, we’re now holding up to 15 classes per month. We’re proud to…
Sometimes its hard to think of ideas for a blog post, so here are ten topics that will guarantee a really popular Joomla article: Why Drupal sucks Why WordPress sucks Why Drupal and WordPress both suck Why the GPL is…
Back in March I was able to test iJoomla.com’s new SEO component called, somewhat appropriately: iJoomla SEO. It didn’t impress me much. You weren’t able to add metadata to menu links or third-party extensions which meant that the homepage and…
For several months now I’ve been hinting that we have a major geographic domain name to launch on Joomla. Well, life got in the way … the Joomla training classes became really popular, we had other sites to launch and…
Student: “What’s going on with Joomla 1.6?” Steve: “User management is going to get more sophisticated, you won’t be restricted to sections and categories for articles any more.” Student: “OK, but these guys are volunteers, right? How much have they…
One of the confusing things for anyone optimizing a Joomla site is that there are so many options out there. We ran a Joomla SEO class in Atlanta last week and one thing became clear … it was easy to…