If you read the Alledia blog regularly you know we’re doing training for Joomla beginners across the eastern, southern and mid-USA. You can find a full list of classes on JoomlaTraining.com.
Each week, with about 2 months before the class, we’re giving a rundown of the training in each city.
Last week we covered the November 7th class in Washington D.C.. The second class is a week later in New York City – downtown Manhattan to be precise.
Back at the beginning of 2007 I wrote about why I’d love Joomla developers to stop encoding components and gave a rundown of why encoding bugs me.
However, sometimes the only solution, short of writing your own, is to use an encoded extension. We’ve faced that problem this week, moving a large and popular site to Joomla. To evaluate whether or not to use encoded work, we came up with a list of criteria that might be useful to some of you:
Continue reading “Open Question: Using Encoded Joomla Components”
Can I pat myself on the back? 18 months ago, I asked if Drupal or Joomla could produce a company like Red Hat.
It turns out that Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert wants to do just that. At the beginning of this year, his company Acquia received $7 million in venture capital funding.
Where has that money gone? Over at Information Week, Acquia marketing VP explains:
Continue reading “Drupal’s Founder Tries to Emulate Red Hat”
A couple of weeks back, I announced that we’d be doing Joomla training classes across the United States from Tampa in the south, New York up north and St. Louis and Denver in the midwest. You can find the full list on our Joomla Training website, including Barrie North’s training class which is this Friday in Boston.
Each week until the classes I’m going to give you a brief introduction to each class, including the who, what, where, when and answers to other important questions.
Our first class, 7 weeks away now, is in the nation’s capital. Here’s what you need to know about the Joomla training class in Washington D.C.:
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Brian Teeman who follows on from Kyle Ledbetter of Joomlapraise.com who asked whether Joomla admin templates are worth the effort.
Joomla is great and does everything I want (well it doesn’t make my coffee but we can’t have everything). But there are times when I just tear my hair out at the poor usability of the backend.
Continue reading “How can the Joomla 15 Admin Process Be Improved?”
I try to avoid quoting other people’s opinions and articles on this blog, but over the weekend I found a newspaper article about the interaction of search engines and the stock market that was absolutely fascinating. It also seems like an appropriate topic with this week’s events on Wall Street.
Quite a few people have been asking lately about the benefits of using Google SiteSearch.
In theory, it’s great idea because people can use Google’s own search engine to search your site without leaving it. There’s even a slick module that allows you do this easily on Joomla 1.5. This should produce more accurate results, right?
Wrong. Here’s six reasons why you’re better off using your own site search rather than relying on Google:
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Kyle Ledbetter of Joomlapraise.com asks whether admin templates are worth the effort.
Over at JoomlaPraise we make Joomla templates and extensions and have recently released AdminPraise, an administrator template for Joomla 1.5 that falls somewhere between a template and extension.
However, the question we’d like to ask is … do Joomla users want/need an alternate admin template? The admin template system is obviously in place for this reason, but no one really uses it. We’ve seen slight variations on the Khepri template, but that’s about it.
This how-to came from a question posed by an SEO Club member:
“How I do move from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 yet still keep all my /content/view/24/32 URLs?”
I’ve talked with him before and explained that redirecting URLs to a new version is a disaster. My experience it brings a 30 to 50% drop in traffic, so keeping these old URLs was vital.
I did some digging around and found the Backlink plugin. This is a great little tool that is almost completely unknown. I found only around 10 Joomla forum posts and a single blog entry about it which has since disappeared from Joomla.org. Fortunately I was able to dig out the Google cache of Sam Moffatt’s post which helped me understand how it worked. It’s really pretty simple, once you’ve migrated the content to 1.5:
Continue reading “Moving Joomla 1.0 Default SEF URLs to 1.5”
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I don’t do many of these before, but I’m working late, watching a soccer / football games to start and doing a review seems like fun. There are several
requests waiting so it only seemed fair to tackle the first one in the
list … Forums-Free.com.
The site is, as the name implies, a free forum hosting website. It allows you to create forum boards with phpBB3. Its a free forum but is it any good?