Well currently 12 16 ways but with your help we will make it 101! I’ll update the post as and when we get more ways to speed up your joomla site. What with Matt Cutts recent (ish) interview with Web Pro News, he mentions that google will be taking page load times into consideration when they rank your website. What does this mean for all the joomla users? Can joomla keep up?
This tutorial was written written after a request in one of this week’s Drupal classes: “How do I show different Drupal themes on different pages?”. The answer is a module called “Sections”: Installing Sections to Your Drupal Site Step 1: Click here to download the latest version of “Sections”. Step 2: Extract the files into a folder on your desktop. The folder will be called “sections”. Step 3: Login to your site’s files via FTP and navigate to If there isn’t a folder called /modules/ here, create one. Step 4: Upload the “sections” folder to /sites/all/modules/ Step 5: Go…
This tutorial is similar to last week’s in two ways: becaue it’s the answer to a question asked by a user in our support forum and also because it deals with managing people signing up on your Joomla site. It has one important difference however … it’s much shorter! This week’s tutorial explains how to approve Joomla users when they register. You might have a school website and only want to approve parents or students. You might have a club website and only want to have members join your site. This tutorial will show you how. We’re
Why Add a Sitemap? I’ll be honest and say that I don’t believe sitemaps improve your ranking in search engines. However, they do make sure more pages get indexed and that they get indexed more quickly. This article presents evidence that the difference is astounding: Google with a sitemap: 14 minutes Google without a sitemap: 1375 minutes Yahoo with a sitemap: 245 minutes Yahoo without a sitemap: 1773 minutes
Perhaps the #1 most common question WordPress we get from beginners is: “How do I change the logo on a theme?” This tutorial is the answer: Step 1: Go and download the Firefox browser, if you haven’t done so yet: Firefox is much better than Internet Explorer or Safari for working on websites. Step 2: Start Firefox so that you’re browing the web with it. We’re now going to install an extra toolbar for Firefox. It is called the “Web Developer” toolbar. Visit this page:
I’m actually quite fascinated with this little tool from Google… apparently its quite controversial and I can see why. So far I’ve not really done a lot with it, other that leave complaints on websites to warn other people about dodgy dealings… one of the main comments that sticks in my mind is a site where I bought my girlfriend some flowers and she did not get anywhere near the amount of flowers that were in the picture, I complained directly and got little worthy response, so decided to take action. I think people are usually more driven to complain…
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to place a Twitter feed inside a block. You can then display that Twitter feed anywhere around your theme. There are many different Twitter options out there but most have a couple of limitations: They post tweets as nodes rather than in a block. If they post to a block, they require very complex setups normally involving creating Views. Thanks to Expedition Post, we’re going to suggest a much simpler way to show tweets in a block on your site. They’ve created a script that is very cleverly called “Twitter Block”.
Sometimes it’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day decisions. Not just resolving problems with a particular client, or a bug just won’t get fixed. Not even whether you should be focusing on Drupal, WordPress, Joomla or something else entirely. There are much bigger trends and decisions to make. If you’re reading this there’s a good chance you’ve already made a very smart career choice … building an Internet business. It’s sad but I’m reminded why every time I leave the office. We live in North Georgia, less than an hour’s drive from Atlanta. It’s a fairly prosperous area but…
This tutorial is the answer to a question asked by a user in our support forum … “how do I collect more information from my members when they register?”. The user’s problem is that the normal Joomla registration form gives you precisely 5 fields: Name Username Email Password … and, er … Password again. That’s it. If you want to collect people’s location, birthday, opinion or any more information about them you’re stuck. What we’re going to show you in this tutorial is how to collect more information from your users when they register.
You may have noticed a countdown clock on the right of the site, ticking away each day. We’re counting the days until we make a major product launch on February 1st. It’s now 2 weeks before the launch and we’re rolling out an early change here at Alledia: Open to Your Guest Posts and News Yes, we’re opening up Alledia.com to your news and blog posts. Over the years we’ve had many guest blog posts here on Alledia covering topics from accessibility, events affiliate programs, RSS feeds, Virtuemart and much more. Up until now it had also been an informal…