My favorite discussion at the CMS Expo was during the basic SEO class. We ended up talking about bland, happy talk on websites: "We provide first-class widgets to satisfied clients", "We offer premier widget solutions to our clients" and other such meaningless, corporate text. People came up with some great examples and we saw that webdesign companies are the often the biggest offenders:
Here are my three presentations from the CMS Expo. There was a flow to the presentations from basic to advanced so I’ve ordered them accordingly. For my and other people’s thoughts on the Denver Expo, please click here.
1) Organization Wow – outstanding. Both Expos have run like clockwork. If you think Open Source people are flakes, you haven’t seen an event organized by John, Linda and their team from Chicago. 2) Core + Commercial It was great to see Anthony from the Joomla core in attendance. Hopefully we’ll see commercial developers at April’s Joomla Day in Las Vegas.
Got to be honest, as a Brit in the United States, Thanksgiving has always been a turkey of a holiday. It always seemed like Christmas-lite a few weeks early. People watch sports, sleep, eat turkey and even listen to Christmas songs. Besides, it also messes up the school semester. Kids work for 12 weeks without a break, have Thanksgiving and then go back for just another 3 weeks. If I ever pull an Arnold Schwarzenegger and run for office, I’ll propose moving Thanksgiving to middle of October. Anyway, this year I finally saw the point … it’s a few days…
Over the last few months, we’ve had some fun spotting major companies that use Joomla. Here’s another … earlier this year India’s Tata Motors made a huge splash by unveiling their Nano car. It’s designed to cost just $2500 and bring car ownership within reach of more Indian families. The car’s website is built in Joomla. Hat tip to Ivo Apostolov from Joomfish.
I’m catching a flight in a couple of hours but had so many emails about this that I’ll try to sum up my thoughts: Google made a major change overnight, allowing people to vote and comment on listings. You can vote websites up or down using the arrow buttons and remove a site completely using the X button. The project is called “SearchWiki” and is another stage in their attempt to personalize search results. So if I searched for “Mambo, I’d get the software, if a dancer did the same search they’d get the dance and if the surfer did…
This is a guest blog post by Steve Moseley of Hannisdal Express. He previously blogged here on alledia.com, discussing his new site www.simliteraturemedia.org. That project led him to discover a problem with Search Engine Friendly URLs and IE6. This post is dedicated to Andy from Rockettheme.
This is a guest blog post by Steve Moseley of Hannisdal Express. Steve is a web developer from Ohio and originally posted a link to a site he helped to develop on the SEO Club forum. I was so impressed that I asked him to blog about it. The website is SimLiteratureMedia.org.
We’re selling JoomlaYellowPages.com. What is it? The biggest directory of Joomla developers. It has been online since August 2006 and has over 300 developers are listed. Rankings? They’re good. They’d better be as we’re an SEO company! The site is #1 and #2 on Google for "joomla companies, #2 for "joomla designers", #3 for "joomla developers". It also ranks very well for geo phrases such as "continent joomla", "country joomla" and "state/province joomla". Revenue? Subscriptions, Adsense and webdesign clients contacting us via the site. Software? Joomla 1.0, Mosets Tree for the directory, MamboCharge for the subscriptions. Reason for selling? It…
As many of you may know, Yannick is the developer of sh404SEF perhaps the most advanced SEO extension available to Joomla. This weekend he went to Joomla! Day Switzerland and gave a very detailed presentation about sh404SEF. He talked about the project’s history, showed how to use it, explained some little used features and unvieled some future plans.