Roundup of Great Blog Comments
One of the best things about running a blog is the opportunity to read comments posted by people who are smarter and more experienced in many areas. Today, I’m going to dig back into the Alledia archives and pull up…
Steve
Are You Selling Fear or Solutions?
We received an email this morning from Phil-Taylor.com listing security holes in various Joomla components. I have an awful lot of respect for Phil and his work developing Mambo and now his components. However, I think the tone of the…
In Defense of Search Engine Friendly URLs
Earlier this week I was tagged by Barrie North over at Compassdesigns.net. He was talking about SEO improvements to Joomla and mentioned that: “You?ll see much of the discussion about SEO revolving around various SEF components. These components allow for…
Yahoo Site Explorer Deals with Dynamic URLs
Recently we’ve talked about how Google’s Webmaster Console has been getting better, although it still needs a lot of work. Today it got a stiff kick in the backside from Yahoo who keep rolling out neat new features for on…
Joomla South East Meets Wednesday in Atlanta
Wednesday night should a lot of fun because its the first meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world. We’re meeting from 7.00 to 9.00 pm at the 5 Seasons Brewing…
Domains Names as Real Estate? Don’t Make me Laugh
Sometimes a comparison can confuse more than it can explain. One of most common is domain names are "21st century real estate". A quick search of Google reveals nearly 2 million results for the phrase, coming from companies as big…
How to Make a 2 Level Menu with Extended Menu
Yesterday we talked about how to create a professional-looking tree menu using Extended Menu. Today we have a quick tutorial on how to connect two copies of Extended Menu to make a menu thats twice as good. Well, maybe not…
How to Create a Vertical, Expanding Menu
In today’s post we’ll show you how to get add a clean and SEO-friendly menu to your Joomla site. This tutorial was inspired by several recent site audits we’ve done that revealed serious problems with dropdowns menus. Four Frequent Problems…
We All Mess Up – Just Not As Badly As This
Admit it – you’ve been making changes to a live site and something went wrong. You screwed up the site and spent an hour or more fixing it while visitors kept coming and kept wondering what on earth was going…
The Eighty – Twenty Percent Rule
First up, apologies in advance but posting will be light this week. I’ve managed to write every workday this year, but my family are visiting from England and I’ll concentrate on spending time with them for a few days. I…