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.
Around 5 weeks ago, we annouced Joomla training classes in Atlanta.
This is a straight-forward tutorial explaining how you can place different header or logo images on different pages of your site. For example, your sports site may need a baseball player on top of the baseball section, a golf player in the golf section and so on.
Create a different template for each page. Believe me, I’ve seen this done with over 30 header image, which means over 30 extra templates.
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Do you know of any major companies using Joomla?
I’ve decided to set the bar high by looking for sites that do over half-a-million uniques per month or belong to a truly substantial company. A good rule of thumb is “do they have a Wikipedia entry?”
Here’s what I’ve found so far:
Feel free to post more sites in the comments and I’ll add to this list whenever we find a new one.
I’ve never made a recommendation for anyone else’s services on this blog, but I’m going to break that habit today.
Its easy to find templates, extensions and web-designers but in some other areas high-quality people are in short supply. One of those is security. Few people have the server knowledge and Joomla know-how to effectively protect a Joomla site.
If you have been hacked or need a security audit to pre-empt problems in the future … we recommend Tom Canvan from JoomlaRescue.com. He doesn’t know I’m writing this blog post, but he deserves it. Here’s why …
Back in Janaury I mentioned that I’d met a puzzle I couldn’t solve … Google was indexing a lot of search results on Joomla sites.
The problem appeared all on kinds of Joomla sites and with all kinds of URL extensions. I just couldn’t work out what where the bug was in Joomla.
It turns out the bug was in Google.
Earlier this week I posted my talk about Joomla SEO from the JoomlaExpo in Chicago. The penultimate slide was a list of sites that ranked #1 on Google and some people responding with details of their own success with Joomla.
I’m going to be giving variations of this presentation a few more times in months to come and so I thought I’d give you an opportunity to boast:
Do you have a Joomla site with great rankings?
Feel free to post as many or as few details about the site as you wish. I’ll include the best ones in the presentation.
This is my presentation on Joomla SEO from JoomlaExpo.
Increasingly we’re going to be recommending two SEO solutions for both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 … sh404SEF and the SEF Patch. I’m in the process of rewriting the SEO Book to make those our clear recommendations for most 1.0 and 1.5 sites, but this is the first time I’ve explained that publicly.
I arrived back from Chicago just before midnight yesterday and I’m still buzzing today.
The JoomlaExpo was a huge success. I’ve a whole bunch of stuff to organize and post over the coming week from Powerpoints, handouts, Expo recaps and news of the big Joomla project that was announced with the City of Chicago.
There were over 280 people at the Expo including some from Malaysia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and many other places. The whole event was pulled together by excellent organization from the JoomlaChicago members.
Click here and also here to see photos of the event. More to come later in the week when I’ve had more sleep. If you haven’t done so already, I’d definitely recommend attending a Joomla event near you. Next up is Vancouver.