Am I alone in thinking that we’re doing Joomla beginners a big disservice by recommending that they start with a local installation?
Almost every Joomla tutorial starts with a description of how to install Joomla on your computer and it nearly always causes complete befuddlement amongst learners.
Last year I had the interesting experience of agreeing to be the technical editor for a Joomla beginner book. After a brief introduction, the next 50 pages were taken up by a detailed explanation of how to install XAMPP, troubleshoot Apache and configure ports. After thoroughly intimidating the poor beginner using a PC, users on Linux were given two paragraphs, and Mac users got the same treatment.
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Apologies for the lack of blogging over the last few weeks, I’ve been 
Back to the Mile-High City …
Over the last year our business model has evolved quite substantially. From being a traditional webdesign firm we’ve increasingly focused on Joomla training. After starting slowly last summer, we’re now holding up to 15 classes per month.
Sometimes its hard to think of ideas for a blog post, so here are ten topics that will guarantee a really popular Joomla article:
Back in March I was able to test iJoomla.com’s new SEO component called, somewhat appropriately: iJoomla SEO. It didn’t impress me much. You weren’t able to add metadata to menu links or third-party extensions which meant that the homepage and many key sites pages were missed.
For several months now I’ve been hinting that we have a major geographic domain name to launch on Joomla.