Steve’s Blog

Bolt Template Now Has No Conflict Guarantee

No Joomla Script Conflicts

Our goal for you is simplicity.

For this first time ever in the Joomla-world … we’re offering a 100% money-back guarantee if our template has script conflicts with any Joomla extension.

I hope this doesn’t make us broke, but hopefully its a useful and practical promise … You don’t want to waste your time figuring out what works with what. You just want to get up and running.

 

We guarantee Bolt will work first time with any extension … or just ask us for a refund.

We’re not aiming to compete with other template developers when it comes to features, options and plugins, but hopefully we can provide you with something that’s fast, optimized and easy-to-use.

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Burger King’s Tasty Joomla Site

Burger King JoomlaAlright, I’m obssessed – I love seeing Joomla used for large mainstream sites.

Here’s a tasty Burger King promotion called BKHotKicks.com. It used the “Hot or Not” extension for people to vote on their favorite sneakers. The site was done for a 6 week-long competition and has not been taken offline.

Hat tip to Steven. See the full list of Joomla sites for major companies here. Feel free to e-mail with any sites you see to [email protected].

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The Dangers of Bland Text

My favorite discussion at the CMS Expo was during the basic SEO class. We ended up talking about bland, happy talk on websites:

"We provide first-class widgets to satisfied clients", "We offer premier widget solutions to our clients" and other such meaningless, corporate text.

People came up with some great examples and we saw that webdesign companies are the often the biggest offenders:

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Open Question: New Holiday Discoveries?

Thanksgiving TurkeyGot to be honest, as a Brit in the United States, Thanksgiving has always been a turkey of a holiday.

It always seemed like Christmas-lite a few weeks early. People watch sports, sleep, eat turkey and even listen to Christmas songs. Besides, it also messes up the school semester. Kids work for 12 weeks without a break, have Thanksgiving and then go back for just another 3 weeks. If I ever pull an Arnold Schwarzenegger and run for office, I’ll propose moving Thanksgiving to middle of October.

Anyway, this year I finally saw the point … it’s a few days off work to discover cool new resources. Rather than just get my head down and work, it was nice to just browse the web and try things out. Here’s the best of what I found:

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Googles SearchWiki and You

Google Search WikiI’m catching a flight in a couple of hours but had so many emails about this that I’ll try to sum up my thoughts:

Google made a major change overnight, allowing people to vote and comment on listings. You can vote websites up or down using the arrow buttons and remove a site completely using the X button.

The project is called “SearchWiki” and is another stage in their attempt to personalize search results. So if I searched for “Mambo, I’d get the software, if a dancer did the same search they’d get the dance and if the surfer did it, they’d get the clothing company. That’s the goal anyway.

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