Steve’s Blog

May 30, 2008

Need Security for your Joomla Site?

I’ve never made a recommendation for anyone else’s services on this blog, but I’m going to break that habit today. A Joomla Security Expert Its easy to find templates, extensions and web-designers but in some other areas high-quality people are in short supply. One of those is security. Few people have the server knowledge and Joomla know-how to effectively protect a Joomla site. If you have been hacked or need a security audit to pre-empt problems in the future … we recommend Tom Canvan from JoomlaRescue.com. He doesn’t know I’m writing this blog post, but he deserves it. Here’s why…

May 29, 2008

WordPress Training Courses

Open Source Training is a partner company of Alledia.com and a major provider of WordPress training classes. With over a dozen teachers across the United States, Canada and Britain, we have classes running almost every week. Students get six months of support after each class. We hold WordPress beginner, intermediate and theming classes. Upcoming WordPress Training Classes {source}<?phpinclude_once(‘classes/wordpressclasses.php’);?>{/source} Details of Our WordPress Training Classes How long are the classes? 7 hours. We start at 9 am and finish at 4 pm. We provide lunch for students and regular breaks. What do I need to bring? Nothing. We provide computers, all…

May 29, 2008

Drupal Training Courses

Open Source Training is a partner company of Alledia.com and a major provider of Drupal training classes. With over a dozen teachers across the United States, Canada and Britain, we have classes running almost every week. Students get six months of support after each class. We hold Drupal beginner, intermediate and theming classes. Upcoming Drupal Training Classes {source}<?phpinclude_once(‘classes/drupalclasses.php’);?>{/source} Details of Our Drupal Training Classes How long are the classes? 7 hours. We start at 9 am and finish at 4 pm. We provide lunch for students and regular breaks. What do I need to bring? Nothing. We provide computers, all…

May 29, 2008

Joomla Training Courses

When Apple, Sun and IBM need to learn Joomla,here’s what they do … Every day, people are building great websites with Joomla.With Open Source Training, they have access to online classes and support from the best teachers in the Joomla world. Our professional teachers have created videos and tutorials for you that walk you step-by-step through everything you’ll need to build wonderful Joomla websites. These are the same lessons we use to help clients like Apple, Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and NASA. Learn Joomla Or Your Money Back … We’re so confident that you can learn Joomla with our classes and…

May 28, 2008

Google Bug Affecting Joomla Sites

Back in Janaury I mentioned that I’d met a puzzle I couldn’t solve … Google was indexing a lot of search results on Joomla sites. The problem appeared all on kinds of Joomla sites and with all kinds of URL extensions. I just couldn’t work out what where the bug was in Joomla. It turns out the bug was in Google.

May 25, 2008

SEO Checklists

These checklists are designed to help you complete common tasks with your website. You have the right to rebrand these with your own logo and reuse them with clients. Choosing SEO Extensions Download as PDF Download rebrandable Word document. Launching a New Site Download as PDF Download rebrandable Word document. Updating an Existing Site Download as PDF Download rebrandable Word document. Getting Started with SEO on Your Site Download as PDF Download rebrandable Word document. Giving Your Site a Full SEO Audit Download as PDF Download rebrandable Word document. Local Search Optimization with Joomla Download as PDF Download rebrandable Word…

May 23, 2008

Open Question: Do You Have a Joomla Site with Great Rankings?

Earlier this week I posted my talk about Joomla SEO from the JoomlaExpo in Chicago. The penultimate slide was a list of sites that ranked #1 on Google and some people responding with details of their own success with Joomla. I’m going to be giving variations of this presentation a few more times in months to come and so I thought I’d give you an opportunity to boast: Do you have a Joomla site with great rankings? Feel free to post as many or as few details about the site as you wish. I’ll include the best ones in the…

May 20, 2008

Joomla SEO Presentation from JoomlaExpo

This is my presentation on Joomla SEO from JoomlaExpo. Increasingly we’re going to be recommending two SEO solutions for both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 … sh404SEF and the SEF Patch. I’m in the process of rewriting the SEO Book to make those our clear recommendations for most 1.0 and 1.5 sites, but this is the first time I’ve explained that publicly.

May 19, 2008

JoomlaExpo Was a Huge Success

I arrived back from Chicago just before midnight yesterday and I’m still buzzing today. The JoomlaExpo was a huge success. I’ve a whole bunch of stuff to organize and post over the coming week from Powerpoints, handouts, Expo recaps and news of the big Joomla project that was announced with the City of Chicago. There were over 280 people at the Expo including some from Malaysia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and many other places. The whole event was pulled together by excellent organization from the JoomlaChicago members. Click here and also here to see photos of the event.…

May 19, 2008

How the Washington Post is Ruining its Brand Online

Note: Please be aware that this post contains some disturbing quotes to make its point. What on earth is wrong with the Washington Post. The Washington Post is one of the oldest newspapers in the U.S. and one of the most important because it’s read by D.C.’s powerbrokers. It’s famous for numerous stories from the Spanish-American war to Watergate. The Post is allowing decades of its reputation to be destroyed online. Their site has already been in trouble for posting spurious chain-emails as facts, but it seems as if they’re sinking even lower at the moment.