In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about Joomla tips and tricks.
There’s been a lot of talk in SEO circles recently about conversions.
Its easy to tell how much money you’re making, but how do you test how well your site is converting well? How do you tell which pages are inspiring people to buy your products? How do you find out where the good customers are coming from and which sites are just sending you time-wasters and tire-kickers? Goals in Google Analytics.
"What the bleep is the Title Alias? Do I fill it in? Should I leave it blank? Help!"
This is definitely one the most common questions I get from clients using Joomla for the first time. Theres nothing to indicate what its for, and if you click on the "Help" button you get something thats less than helpful:
"Title Alias: Enter a short name for this Item."
Thanks for that! So this is my best attempt to answer that question and save myself from answering it again too many times in the future… Just what is the Title Alias for?
One of the best things about running a blog is the opportunity to read comments posted by people who are smarter and more experienced in many areas.
Today, I’m going to dig back into the Alledia archives and pull up and some great tips and tricks posted by readers.
Yesterday we talked about how to create a professional-looking tree menu using Extended Menu.
Today we have a quick tutorial on how to connect two copies of Extended Menu to make a menu thats twice as good. Well, maybe not that good, but will allow you to create a neat parent-child menu. You can see an example of this menu working on Ludhiana.net.in.
This way to doing this things has one major advantage and disadvantage compared to the more common child-parent setup that you can see on site such as AJC.com.
Continue reading “How to Make a 2 Level Menu with Extended Menu”
In today’s post we’ll show you how to get add a clean and SEO-friendly menu to your Joomla site. This tutorial was inspired by several recent site audits we’ve done that revealed serious problems with dropdowns menus.
Ok – time to walk the walk.
Yesterday, I praised GroupJive and said how important I though it was for the future of social networking with Joomla. I also mentioned that until this week, not enough people had been contributing.
Today, we’ll show you had to add a useful feature to GroupJive – posting comments on all group messages.
Worried about all those PDF and RSS feeds from your Joomla site that keep popping up in search engine results?
Theres a great post over at SEOMoz.org this week, talking about some of the topics we’ve covered on Alledia before:
Their advice? Use a no-index tag on the links. If you’re wondering how do that, check out our PDF hack here. For what its worth, solving this problem led to 25% more visits from search engines to their old blog posts.
RSS Feeds are a great way to build visitor loyalty and to keep them coming back to your site.
They’re also good for link building as people keen to keep their sites regularly updated are always looking for good RSS content. The benefit for you is that you get a link back to your site and hopefully some added traffic.
So what’s the best way to set up RSS Feeds within Joomla? I’m glad you asked….
Currently people building websites with Joomla are in an odd situation.
There’s no upgrade path from Joomla 1.0.12 to Joomla 1.5, so we need to make a choice. Do we recommend the current stable version or do we ask customers to be patient and wait for the new, shiny updated Joomla?
A simple tip today. This small Joomla code hack is designed to help those of you who have a lot of people submitting content to their site.
Everyone writes and submits in their own way, so its easy to end up with some contributors just writing a single line in the "intro" box and others entering their whole article.
With this hack, it doesn’t matter. You can cut off all frontpage items with a "Read More…" after 200 words, giving your site a clean, professional look.
Continue reading “How to Control the “Read More” on Joomla’s Frontpage”
One of the most? frequently asked questions on the Joomla forums is “What is the Itemid and what does it do?”. Its something that frustrates even experienced developers … witness the post called “Damn you, infernal item IDs!!!” on WhyJoomla.com.
I thought a quick tutorial would be useful and along the way we can break down other aspects of Joomla URLs.
One of the most interesting Joomla developments in 2007 has been a new magazine created every week by one man – Brian Teeman, a former member of the Joomla core team.
Each weekly release has the following features:
It really is a labor of love for Brian and that attention shines through the PDFs.
You can read the discussion about each issue in the Joomla forums and you can download each issue from the Joomla forge.
Issue #7 is due out tomorrow (Sat, Feb. 23rd) and the theme is going to be "Television". It would be great if as many Joomla people as possible could subscribe, contribute and support to Brian in his work.