How Long Should a Website Take to Build?
I met with a client a couple of weeks ago who admitted that his knowledge of the internet was more or less zero, yet he managed to make me rethink the way we handle a lot of our website projects.…
Steve
10 Easy Ways to Professionalise Your Joomla Site
We’ll begin with 5 ways to make your Joomla site as professional as possible: Create a new favicon.ico. Yes, the default black Joomla logo is cute, but people bookmarking your site they need to see something that identifies your site…
Open Source Projects Not Really Open?
(After reading this post, please scroll down to the comments section where there is a response to these issues from the founder of Moodle.) Over the last few weeks a debate has been running over at the Joomla forum about…
Interview with Andy Milller from RocketTheme
This week we’re delighted to welcome Andy Miller from RocketTheme.com to the interview chair. Andy founded and runs Joomla’s largest template club with over 13,000 members. Oh, and in his spare time he has found time to be the creator…
Using Firefox to Help Clients
One of the first things we do when working with new clients is ask them to install Firefox. Originally this we did this because we wanted them to get into the habit of viewing their site in both IE and…
A Very Happy 6th Birthday and Version 5.0 to Drupal
There’s been a very gratifying exchange of support and kinds words between the Drupal and Joomla communities during the last few days. It started with the announcement of the release of Drupal 5.0 on Drupal’s 6th birthday. That news…
January Search Engine Optimization Test Update
After just a month, our Search Engine Optimization test is already producing some really interesting results. Our WordPress test site already has a sizeable lead with Drupal in second place and Joomla quite a way behind. On the most important…
10 Reasons to Love .info Domains
info is a keyword which makes it great for SEO. If you consider people searching for golf, you have a good number of people searching for "golf info" but no-one would ever consider looking for "golf net", "golf org" or…
Interview with Barrie North of Joomlashack.com
In Week 2 of our series of interviews with people in the Joomla world, we’re delighted to welcome Barrie North from JoomlaShack.com and CompassDesigns.net. Barrie was kind enough to take a while out of his busy schedule to talk about…
Europe has Wide Lead in Joomla Development
JoomlaYellowPages.com has been going for 4 months now and in that time we’ve found Joomla developers in 42 countries. It seems like a good time to run down where the commercial Joomla world is today. Which areas of the world…