Alledia News

This is probably the most satisfying post I’ve written in the three years of this blog … this weekend we relaunched LakeLanier.com using Joomla.

About LakeLanier.com

The site has been a labor of love. We live on the lake and I can see the water out the window while typing this post.

The launch also marks the end of a long process. The site had only one previous owner and he’d run it for around 15 years, having registered the name back in the mid-1990s. It took around 18 months to go through the sale process and then another several months to build out the site on evenings and weekends.

About Lake Lanier

The lake is an hour north of Atlanta and its really a beautiful part of North Georgia if you ever get the chance to visit. The Olympic rowing events were held in here in 1996 and the Superbowl of fishing, the Forrest Wood Cup, will be here next year.

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iJoomla.com have just relaunched the website in Joomla 1.5. They’re now using Bolt (aka. the world’s fastest Joomla template).

Big news on the Alledia front: we’re getting ready to launch the .com version of Georgia’s biggest tourist attraction … using Joomla and Bolt … eating our own dog food … getting very nervous.

Any guesses as to what the site is? The answer will be revealed in a full blog post about that launch in the first week of February. Its being moved from a static HTML site so the SEO and technical challenges will both be interesting.

You can see an updated list of live sites using Bolt here.

We ran a series of successful Joomla training classes last year in Atlanta, Tampa, New York, Washington and Chicago. This time we’re taking things up a notch and and running 16 classes in 15 cities.

Even to me this seems like a big challenge, but we’ve done our research and are confident there’s enough Joomla interest in these 15 cities. Some of the classes, for example New York and the first Atlanta class, are already half sold-out.

The structure is almost the same as last year, except that we’ve added in an e-commerce session to the afternoon and we’ll be unveiling a bunch of wonderful, new free resources for the students.

If you haven’t been to a class yet, feel free to browse our training site and see testimonials from past students. If you’d like to help promote the classes, we’ve an affiliate program paying out $50 per sale.

Here are the class dates:

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We’ve just sponsored Daniel and his team at Ninja Forge to create a new version of their Ninjamonials component for Joomla 1.5. Ninjamonials allows you to easily add customer testimonials to your Joomla site. Ryan over at JCE sponsored the other part of the conversion. You can see a live demo at JoomlaTraining.com.

Why a sponsorship? There’s been a double-whammy for Joomla developers recently with the recession and the need to move to a GPL license. Now is definitely a time to be trying new business models and looking for extra sources of income, so we were very happy to help test Daniel’s idea.

If I know one thing at the beginning of 2009, it’s that Joomla developers with only one source of revenue are in an even vulnerable position than normal. More thinking like Daniel’s is needed. My advice is to diversify, diversify, diversify:

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In June this year we reached 2000 comments on the Alledia blog. It took us about 18 months and over 400 blog posts to get there. We’re now nearly at 3000 comments, and it took only another 6 months.

As with the 2000 mark, whoever posts number 3000 will get a free lifetime SEO Club membership. We’re at 2975 right now, so 25 more to go ….

Thanks to everyone who has commented and guest-posted over the last 2 years. Enjoy the holidays!

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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We’re selling JoomlaYellowPages.com.

• What is it? The biggest directory of Joomla developers. It has been online since August 2006 and has over 300 developers are listed.
• Rankings? They’re good. They’d better be as we’re an SEO company! The site is #1 and #2 on Google for "joomla companies, #2 for "joomla designers", #3 for "joomla developers". It also ranks very well for geo phrases such as "continent joomla", "country joomla" and "state/province joomla".
• Revenue? Subscriptions, Adsense and webdesign clients contacting us via the site.

• Software? Joomla 1.0, Mosets Tree for the directory, MamboCharge for the subscriptions.

• Reason for selling? It could be doing a lot better. We used it to find webdesign projects but we don’t do much client work any longer.
• Interested? Feel free to email me via [email protected] and I’ll send traffic and revenue stats.

I’ll also throw in DrupalYellowPages.com and OSCYellowPages.com to the lucky buyer.

OK, I’ve got to admit to being pretty nervous when I announced a series of training classes back in September. Fortunately things have gone well and there’s clearly a good number of people out there who want to learn Joomla. Two classes have sold out and we have three seats left in the other cities:

• Washington – SOLD OUT
• New York on November 15 … 3 Seats Remaining
• Tampa on November 22 … 3 Seats Remaining
• Atlanta – SOLD OUT

You can use the coupon “alledia” for a $100 on both the New York and Tampa classes.

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This Sunday will be the 1st birthday of the Joomla SEO Club!

We’re celebrating by releasing our first extension, an SEO-optimized (are you surprised?) template called Bolt.

Bolt is named in honor of Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, because this template loads so much faster than its rivals.

We’re not launching yet another template club, but staying based in Joomla SEO, aiming to offer you some optimized extensions.

The philisophy behind Bolt is to remove anything that stops the template from loading as quickly as possible. There are no heavy scripts, no conflicts with other extensions and we’ve even disabled Joomla’s heavy Javascript file.

• Speed: So stripped down that it can make as few as 4 HTTP requests.
• Lean Code: Uses only 8 images and 15kb of files.
• Flexibility: 7 different background colors and 15 different module options.
• Menus: It comes with both a dropdown menu and a split menu.

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