Category Product Reviews

In this section you can read Alledia blog posts containing product reviews.

Review of the Missing Metadata Module

Missing Metadata Module

Dan Rahmel’s Missing Metadata module has been floating around the “top rated” list on joomla.org for some months. The module was created as an example for Dan’s book Beginning Joomla!, but is it useful as more than a coding demonstration?

Review of SmartSEF

Richard and his team from Joomlatwork have been busy. Just a couple of weeks after releasing the SEF Patch, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 metadata, they’ve launched SmartSEF, which greatly improves Joomla 1.5 URLs. Here’s our review of the beta…

Review of the SEF Patch for Joomla 1.5

Joomla SEF Patch

If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a few days, you’ll know I strongly recommend two components to improve SEO on Joomla 1.0: sh404SEF from extensions.siliana.net SEF Patch from joomlatwork.com ( winner of an "Extension of the Month"…

Review of Accessible Joomla

Deaf Joomla

This is a guest post from Judy Gunter of DeafJoomla.com, reviewing Accessible Joomla (or a8eJoomla) from a8eJoomla.com. Accessible Joomla is a hack to Joomla’s core files that allows webmasters to conform to web accessibility guidelines and web standards by removing…

Review of the SE Keywords Module

SEO Keywords Google

A few people have emailed to ask what module we’re using to welcome people who visit from search engines. If you reach Alledia.com from Google and Yahoo, you’ll see the following text: The module is SE Keywords, developed by Pietro…

Run Video Perfectly in Joomla

Seyret

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been involved in setting up a couple of Joomla sites that have relied heavily on video. Man, it was frustrating. After a day or so, I ended up with a website full of…

Add your Virtuemart Products to Froogle

I’m very careful about recommending products on this blog, plugging only about 10% of the stuff that gets sent. Thats mainly because so many developers harvest email addresses and send out a mass mailing. Just a two-line, personalised message and…

Review of Heavenly Titles Module

One of Joomla’s inbuilt SEO flaws is how it handles page titles. The titles of your Joomla page probably look like this: <td class="contentheading" width="100%">My Page Title</td> That makes about as much sense as wrapping up the paragraphs on your…

Review of JoomSEO Mambot

As part of a my goal to review every SEO tool for Joomla, I’m moving on to mambots this week.   We’ve previously reviewed Search Engine Friendly URL components such as Open-SEF, SEF Advance and Artio SEF and patches such…