We’ve run a couple of trial Joomla training classes in Chicago and Atlanta and overall things went really well with over 70 students in total. We’re keen to do some more sessions and so we’ve done some reorganizing here at Alledia.
Things were getting a bit messy with as the number of projects on alledia.com. We’ve decided to keep Alledia.com for SEO-related activities and spin off the training classes to a new website called (appropriately enough) JoomlaTraining.com.
For a long time now I’ve recommended sh404SEF for most Joomla sites. Recently however, theres been a long post on the SEO Club Forum with users saying how much they like Artio SEF. Some reasons they gave:
Joomla 1.5 has really taken hold in recent months, overtaking 1.0 to become the more popular system. The aim of this post is to compare the URLs in 1.0 and 1.5 so that you know what to expect in the new version.
Joomla has always shipped with two different URL possibilites, the “Default” setting and the “Search Engine Friendly” setting. In Joomla 1.0 the phrase “Search Engine Friendly URLs” probably wasn’t accurate. Google and Yahoo never found much to love about them. It would be fairer to just call them “Shorter URLs”. Joomla 1.5 offers the promise of better URLs. Lets see if thats true:
Last week I mentioned that we were approaching 2000 comments on the Alledia blog and that whoever posted number 2000 would get a free lifetime SEO Club membership.
Søren from notwebdesign.com in Spain is the winner after leaving a comment on our post about big companies using Joomla. He’s also the developer of Linx (for reciprocal links) and Linkback (which shows the most popular incoming links to a page).
We’ll be offering this same prize every time we add another 1000 comments, so look for more free lifetime memberships when we reach 3000, 4000 etc.
Thanks to everyone who has posted over the last 18 months! We have some big changes coming up at Alledia in the next couple of months and we’ll be running more competitions alongside the new features.
I’m sure most of you have heard the trick question for webdesigners: “which browser do you use?”.
(The correct answer is “all of them”, because designers need to check their work in every major browser.)
SEO people will give you a different answer: “Firefox”.
It so many great plugins available that it really is the best browser to use. In honor of Firefox 3’s huge launch, here’s a rundown of the best plugins available for SEO work:
Just got back from Joomla Day Vancouver at around 3 this morning, having enjoyed every minute of it.
With over 300 emails to answer and our monthly Atlanta Joomla meeting to organize for tonight, I hope you don’t mind if I leave most of the recap to other people.
Here’s an online roundup of the conference:
I’m off to Vancouver tonight and I’ll be taking my wife, so in addition to going to JoomlaDay Canada, I’ll have a couple of days vacation. The new Vancouver.com is incredible and its really whetted my appetite for a day or two off in such a beautiful city.
Posting will be light so I thought I’d post a short round-up of whats going on:
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Mambo has been dying a slow death since the split from Joomla. In fact, the last time I visited their site was when they were forking again!
Its sad to see a once-great project in such a state. Several links on the homepage are broken, only three users were in the forum compared to over 800 in the Joomla forums and the “Download Mambo” didn’t work.
There are even paid links on their homepage. Scroll to the bottom of Mamboserver.com and you’ll see “CYLON: Internet Marketing, Check out our Customers:” and underneath a list of links including “Phone Card | Used Cars | Geh?use Netzteil USB | Phone Cards | Business Web Hosting”.
Even more shocking was that Siteground, whose antics we’ve covered here before, seem to have taken control of Mamboserver.com.
We run live training classes for Joomla and Drupal across North America. Click below to buy tickets for our upcoming classes:
Around 5 weeks ago, we annouced Joomla training classes in Atlanta.