I’m very careful about recommending products on this blog, plugging only about 10% of the stuff that gets sent. Thats mainly because so many developers harvest email addresses and send out a mass mailing. Just a two-line, personalised message and…
This month’s award goes to one of the best Joomla extensions and one that is almost certainly the most under-appreciated. JACLPlus is a hack that allows you to create an unlimited number of new user groups and give them fine-grained…
This post is a follow-up to our previous discussion of automapping, and why it can be really useful in helping you avoid duplicate content problems on your Joomla site. For those of still thinking about how to handle duplicate content,…
There’s a great thread over at Domainstate.com, reacting to the news that ICANN, who control top-level domains on the Internet, have decided to create yet more extensions. After the runaway success of .aero, .coop, .museum and .name, people are clearly…
Ok – time to walk the walk. Yesterday, I praised GroupJive and said how important I though it was for the future of social networking with Joomla. I also mentioned that until this week, not enough people had been contributing.…
Sad but true. When our clients ask for social networking we almost always them advise them to use Drupal. Its user profile system is comparable to Joomla’s Community Builder, but Drupal is a better choice because of its immensely powerful…
One of Joomla’s inbuilt SEO flaws is how it handles page titles. The titles of your Joomla page probably look like this: <td class="contentheading" width="100%">My Page Title</td> That makes about as much sense as wrapping up the paragraphs on your…
As promised – we have a major bonus available today for Joomla SEO eBook Subscribers. We’ve opened a new Joomla SEO Forum. Over the next few months, we’ll build the forum into the most comprehensive Joomla ranking resource on the…
Some quick updates from the world of Search Engine Friendly URL extensions for Joomla: Emir has added automapping to SEF Advance which is a great and much-needed extra feature. Plus, he now as an sef_ext.php file for Fireboard ready. Open…
A warning in advance – today’s blog post is a little disconnected. It is really a collection of thoughts I’ve had as people struggle through the question of “How 3rd party developers make money in the GPL’ed Joomla world?” Size…