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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Template clubs, template clubs, template clubs. There are literally dozens of template vendors jostling for attention in the crowded Joomla market, trying to compete for your $30 / $50 / $80 per year. While free components are still produced…
Ever since Google released its Code Search feature which made it next to impossible to safely create and store backups on a webserver, we’ve been struggling with a security question: Backing up MySQL databases every day is easy, but…
People have already proven that big companies can be built using Open Souce software. 15 years ago Linux started as the hobby of a Finnish university student. Companies such as RedHat have built on his developments and created multi-billion dollar…
We’re delighted to announce a new feature here at Alledia. Every Monday for the next few weeks, we’ll be interviewing people closely involved in developing for Joomla First up is Cory Webb, the talented web designer who is involved in…
A while ago we blogged about the slow death being suffered by the Open Directory. On October 20th their servers crashed and since then no-one was able to submit sites and editors could not update categories. Finally, two months…