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…
Its time for us to put the coffee on and get some more Red Bull … starting tomorrow we’ll have a really busy week over at Joomla Training. In total, there are 8 classes in 8 days coming up on…
Back in October 2008 we released Bolt which we marketed as “The World’s Fastest Joomla Template”. Several other template developers asked for copies to test against their own work, but the results were clear. Nearly 10 months later, someone has…
That’s the clear conclusion of the data from Google Trends. Drupal has been substantially behind Joomla in popularity ever since the two projects were founded. WordPress has constantly grown its following and may even overtake Joomla this year, whereasDrupal has…
Time moves quickly. We did our first Joomla class in June 2008 and little more than a year later we’re approaching class number 50. Our 49th class is in Phoenix this Friday and then the big #50 will be our…
Brian Teeman posted earlier this week about Joomla.me which tries to find the most visited Joomla sites. The results were somewhat strange with quite a few minor sites appearing high up. On closer inspection it seems that the major problem…
There’s a Japanese show that moved to the BBC as “Dragon’s Den” and is in the U.S. now as “Shark Tank”. The format is simple: one business owner stands in front of five millionaires and tries to get investment in…