If you haven’t done so already, you need to head to Joomlacode.org and download Andrew Eddie’s presentation on Joomla 1.6. Its also on video at Vimeo. After reading, I’m more encouraged about Joomla’s future than I have been for months. The presentation has 39 detailed slides, so I won’t try to recap them all – look for that in a blog post next week. Today, I’ll focus on what’s important from an SEO perspective:
During the last few weeks I’ve been working on taking our Joomla training classes online and we’ve been sending out a free weekly newsletter with Joomla tips and tricks. Last week, I decided to spend some time answering two really common questions: “What happens if someone makes a mistake in an article? How can we roll back to a previous version?” “We have a legal requirement to track the articles that appear on our website – how do we do that?”
We had a student at our Cambridge class who put me on this trail of this … apparently British Telecom are rolling out Joomla for nearly all of their customers’ websites. With the exception of e-commerce,it seems to be their default system for building customer sites. For those of you not familiar with BT, it is far and away the biggest telecom company in the U.K.
It is that time of the year again … I’m headed back the U.K. for a couple of weeks. Mainly the trip will be family-orientated as I’ve sisters who are graduating, getting married and having babies. There’s a lot to catch up on! However, it’s a rare vacation nowadays that doesn’t involve Joomla in some way. So we’re holding two Joomla training classes, one in Cambridge on June 25th and another in London on July 1st. Both classes will be identical to the ones we run in the U.S. with the same materials, resources, price and even the same bad…
Joomla Day Netherlands took place this weekend and by all accounts it was a great success. There was the official release for Joomla’s new Resources Directory, a presentation with useful security tips by Brian Teeman, and a really good overview of how to create a Joomla SEO-optimized template: Rene Kreijveld from Webcreatives.nl does a great job of explaining how to create a basic source-ordered template. “Source-ordered” essentially means putting the unique, original text on a page higher up in the code, so that search engines don’t have to wade through lines and lines of repetitive code before reaching tha text.…
People who teach Joomla know they feeling … things have been going well, but suddenly there’s a blank look. The student’s stuck on one point. You’ve tried a few ways to explain it, but they’re not getting the big picture. You rack your brain and start, “well, Joomla’s just like a … ” and you try to dig out a comparison. Here are my top five favorite analogies to help people grasp Joomla’s key concepts. Please feel free to post your own in the comments.
Listen.. people be askin me all the time, “Yo Mos, what’s gettin ready to happen with Hip-Hop?” (Where do you think Hip-Hop is goin?) I tell em, “You know what’s gonna happen with Hip-Hop? Whatever’s happening with us” If we smoked out, Hip-Hop is gonna be smoked out If we doin alright, Hip-Hop is gonna be doin alright People talk about Hip-Hop like it’s some giant livin in the hillside comin down to visit the townspeople.” Lyrics from Fear Not of Man by Mos Def
I’m always on the lookout for business trends in our industry and I’ve spotted a significant new one in recent months. Increasingly CMS companies are supporting different platforms. The choice for each company is different, but the trend seems real: Examples of Joomla Companies Supporting Other Platforms Rockettheme: Joomla and phpBB3 Joomlart: Joomla and Magento JoomlaJunkie: Working on ProThemer.com and building for Joomla, Drupal and Magento JoomlaPraise: Working on CMSMarket.com CMSExpo: Started with Joomla and expanded to all kinds of Open Source CMS
Alledia is based down in the south of the United States in Atlanta. We started our Joomla training classes here and by the end of June we’ll have run almost a dozen Atlanta classes. Its time to spread the Joomla gospel (the Jospel?) a little further around the south so early next week we’re headed to Charlotte, North Carolina and the Music City of Nashville, Tennessee. We’ll be in Charlotte on Monday 8, and Nashville on Tuesday 9.
In the last two weeks I’ve been in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Washington, New York and even Alaska. Just one more short trip to Charlotte and Nashville left. The trip taught me something. For two weeks I kept in touch via email and cellphone but had no time for three things I’d been using every day. Two of them I really missed, the other … not so much.