This week should be a lot of fun in Atlanta as there are two interesting CMS groups meeting. The Atlanta Drupal Group are meeting on Tuesday night and the Atlanta Joomla group on Wednesday. Both meetings are from 7.00 to…
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been involved in setting up a couple of Joomla sites that have relied heavily on video. Man, it was frustrating. After a day or so, I ended up with a website full of…
After the Chaser’s week in the world’s spotlight, another Joomla website has caused an online sensation. MarryOurDaughter.com received 20 million page views in the last two weeks and seemed to be a site where people could sell their teenage daughters…
Sometimes an author really should put their biography on the front of a book. Before Tom Canavan sent me his new book: “Dodging the Bullets – A Disaster Preparation Guide for Joomla! Web Sites“, I didn’t realise just how impressive…
Sometimes you see a quote that perfectly brings together many varied, trailing thoughts you had yourself, but haven’t been able to sum up. "It takes a hell of a lot of people skills to make money on the internet from…
Ever wondered how a Joomla site would handle a Digging or Slashdotting? Pretty well it seems as one Joomla site has been part of the world’s biggest news story during the last week. The Chaser, the Australian magazine / comedy…
Some components to a great job of incorporating basic SEO ideas giving you the chance to add metadata, unique page titles and more. Other components are so stubbornly opposed to basic SEO thats its best to just tell Google to…
Google Analytics is far and away the most common statistics package for webmasters to use. Thats particularly true for ecommerce webmasters who often appreciate the fact that it integrates with AdWords. There’s one problem: using GA in a mambot or…
Today’s Virtuemart SEO tip is short and sweet: how to set up a sitemap for Virtuemart. First Choice By far the best choice is the SEF Service Map in combination with its Virtuemart plugin. After installing the SEF Service Map,…
Yesterday we talked about the downside of URLs in Virtuemart and how you can easily end up with too many URLs pointing to the same page. Today we’ll talk about how to solve those duplicate content problems and about how…