Steve’s Blog

January 9, 2009

Pagination Indignation

OK, indignation might be taking it a little too far, but pagination is annoying. What’s Wrong With Pagination? What’s the point? Does anyone say “I really want to go to page 68 of the blog?” No – they use the search. Weak link text. From an SEO standpoint, does the link text “68” help Google understand what a page is about? Impossible to optimize. Take page 68 as an example. You can optimize that page, but when you’ve published a few more posts all the content will move to page 69 and your work has been wasted. Most pages like…

January 5, 2009

Advertise

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January 5, 2009

We Sponsor a New Version of Ninjamonials

We’ve just sponsored Daniel and his team at Ninja Forge to create a new version of their Ninjamonials component for Joomla 1.5. Ninjamonials allows you to easily add customer testimonials to your Joomla site. Ryan over at JCE sponsored the other part of the conversion. You can see a live demo at JoomlaTraining.com. Why a sponsorship? There’s been a double-whammy for Joomla developers recently with the recession and the need to move to a GPL license. Now is definitely a time to be trying new business models and looking for extra sources of income, so we were very happy to…

December 30, 2008

Joomla! Day Las Vegas in April

Last spring the North American Joomla Day was in Vancouver. This time its down in Las Vegas, Nevada. Joomla! Day Las Vegas is going to be an one-day conference of Joomla! experts presenting on Joomla! basics, design, development and advanced topics. Presenters will include almost the entire Joomla core team including Andrew Eddie, Anthony Ferrara, Louis Landry and Rob Schley. Registration costs $45 and includes a personalized Joomla! Day Las Vegas t-shirt.

December 28, 2008

A Proposal to Move Joomla Forward

This is a post that’s been lying around in various forms as a draft for over a year. I’ve dusted it off and decided to publish after the series of announcements made by the Joomla team over Christmas. The announcements were about decisions concerning the Joomla Extensions Directory where I’m an editor. The decisions were to remove extensions that were for Joomla 1.0 only, weren’t licensed under the GPL or violated Joomla’s trademark. Over the holidays, I’ve been talking closely with people who agree with the decisions and those who don’t. There are a good number of people on both…

December 22, 2008

3000 Comments and a Special Prize

In June this year we reached 2000 comments on the Alledia blog. It took us about 18 months and over 400 blog posts to get there. We’re now nearly at 3000 comments, and it took only another 6 months. As with the 2000 mark, whoever posts number 3000 will get a free lifetime SEO Club membership. We’re at 2975 right now, so 25 more to go …. Thanks to everyone who has commented and guest-posted over the last 2 years. Enjoy the holidays!

December 19, 2008

Open Question Joomla Holiday Coupons

Ho-ho-ho, and happy holidays to everyone. Here’s a round-up of this year’s holiday offers from lots of Joomla companies. Alledia – 25% with coupon “allediaxmas” extended until New Years Day Joomla Training – 25% with coupon “allediaxmas” extended until New Years Day SEF Advance – 25% until New Year Simplweb – 33% until 300 members JoomlaPraise – 25% with coupon “jollyfellow” until New Year JoomlaBamboo – 20% with coupon “xmas08” JomSocial – $30 with coupon “hol8day” Phil Taylor – 33% off everything until New Year Open Source Support Desk – 10% with coupon “HOLIDAY08” XHTMLSuite.com – 20% with coupon “joomla-xmas-holiday”…

December 19, 2008

TimesSquare.com and Epson Both Run Joomla

Getting ready for New Years Eve? We’ve got the perfect Joomla site for you … TimesSquare.com. The site ranks #1 in Google for “Times Square” and is a 1.0 site using JomComment, SEF Advance and Tagbot among others. The site has information on a lot more than just New Years Eve, but they do have a whole section of the simply dedicated to that night.

December 17, 2008

Bolt Template Now Has No Conflict Guarantee

Our goal for you is simplicity. For this first time ever in the Joomla-world … we’re offering a 100% money-back guarantee if our template has script conflicts with any Joomla extension. I hope this doesn’t make us broke, but hopefully its a useful and practical promise … You don’t want to waste your time figuring out what works with what. You just want to get up and running. We guarantee Bolt will work first time with any extension … or just ask us for a refund. We’re not aiming to compete with other template developers when it comes to…

December 10, 2008

Burger King’s Tasty Joomla Site

Alright, I’m obssessed – I love seeing Joomla used for large mainstream sites. Here’s a tasty Burger King promotion called BKHotKicks.com. It used the “Hot or Not” extension for people to vote on their favorite sneakers. The site was done for a 6 week-long competition and has not been taken offline. Hat tip to Steven. See the full list of Joomla sites for major companies here. Feel free to e-mail with any sites you see to [email protected].