Drupal’s Founder Tries to Emulate Red Hat
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…
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Joomla Training Class in Washington
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…
How can the Joomla 15 Admin Process Be Improved?
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…
Search Engines Can Create Reality
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…
6 Reasons Not to Use Google SiteSearch
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…
Are Joomla Admin Templates Worthwhile?
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…
Moving Joomla 1.0 Default SEF URLs to 1.5
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…
Sponsored Review of Forums-Free.com
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…
Beta Testers
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…
Adding No Follow to Joomla Menu Links
If you don’t want pages to indexed by search engines, it’s standard SEO practice to add rel=”nofollow” on links to that page. Pages you might not want indexed include “Terms and Conditions”, “Privacy Policy” and other pages that contains content…