Back at the beginning of 2007 I wrote about why I’d love Joomla developers to stop encoding components and gave a rundown of why encoding bugs me. However, sometimes the only solution, short of writing your own, is to use…
Can I pat myself on the back? 18 months ago, I asked if Drupal or Joomla could produce a company like Red Hat. It turns out that Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert wants to do just that. At the beginning of…
A couple of weeks back, I announced that we’d be doing Joomla training classes across the United States from Tampa in the south, New York up north and St. Louis and Denver in the midwest. You can find the full…
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Brian Teeman who follows on from Kyle Ledbetter of Joomlapraise.com who asked whether Joomla admin templates are worth the effort. Joomla is great and does everything I…
I try to avoid quoting other people’s opinions and articles on this blog, but over the weekend I found a newspaper article about the interaction of search engines and the stock market that was absolutely fascinating. It also seems like…
Quite a few people have been asking lately about the benefits of using Google SiteSearch. In theory, it’s great idea because people can use Google’s own search engine to search your site without leaving it. There’s even a slick module…
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Kyle Ledbetter of Joomlapraise.com asks whether admin templates are worth the effort. Over at JoomlaPraise we make Joomla templates and extensions and have recently released AdminPraise, an…
This how-to came from a question posed by an SEO Club member: “How I do move from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 yet still keep all my /content/view/24/32 URLs?” I’ve talked with him before and explained that redirecting URLs to a…
This is a sponsored review from errr .. SponsoredReviews.com. I don’t do many of these before, but I’m working late, watching a soccer / football games to start and doing a review seems like fun. There are several requests waiting…
Thank you very much indeed for agreeing to beta test our new product. This may come as surprise to some of you … others have been suggesting we do this for several months: What is the product? An SEO-optimized Joomla…