OK, I’ve got to admit to being pretty nervous when I announced a series of training classes back in September. Fortunately things have gone well and there’s clearly a good number of people out there who want to learn Joomla.…
Congratulations to Drupal which won both of Packt Publishing Open Source CMS awards this year. Drupal also won last year and Joomla won in 2006. What interested me wasn’t really the decison but the explanation: "Comments were also reserved for…
This is a guest blog post from David Towers of GoodWebPractices.com. Today is Breast Cancer Awareness day in the UK. It’s important to be aware of breast cancer because one in nine women develop breast cancer during their lives. To…
Are h1 tags any use? At last as far as SEO experts go, there’s a lot of disagreement: Russ Jones: “In my opinion, the second most important HTML tag available.” Todd Malicoat: “I can’t imagine h1 tags having very much…
Forget all that advice floating about good grammar, declarative sentences, keywords in the title and all the other advice you’ve been giving about blogging. That’s just the icing on the cake. I reckon there’s only one way to write a…
This Sunday will be the 1st birthday of the Joomla SEO Club! We’re celebrating by releasing our first extension, an SEO-optimized (are you surprised?) template called Bolt. Bolt is named in honor of Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, because…
Breeze – the World’s Easiest Joomla Template It’s named “Breeze” because it’s so speedy and lightweight and because installing is a “breeze”. Here’s how to set it up: Install Joomla Upload Breeze Upload your logo Enjoy your template! It’s that…
Someone mentioned to me this week that they were worried about Joomla because not much work was being done on the project’s code. To reassure them I headed over to Ohloh.net which keeps useful data on the amount of work…
Official support for Joomla 1.0 will end in 281 days. That announcement was made by Wilco Jansen on joomla.org. July 22, 2009 will be the two year anniversary of the first Joomla 1.5 release, and it seems an appropriate day…
Hitting the wall: “In endurance sports, particularly cycling and running, hitting the wall describes the condition when an athlete suddenly loses energy“. (via Wikipedia) Hitting the open source wall: “In building a project, particularly when giving it away free, hitting…