Its fairly common for a new Joomla site to have a few bugs when Search Engine Friendly URLs are turned on. Examples I’ve come across in the last few weeks have included a "Go to the Top" link breaking, and several links breaking in old versions of GroupJive. One culprit was to blame: sefRelToAbs.
This is a sponsored review from errr .. SponsoredReviews.com. I’ve never done one of these before, but I’m up early on a Saturday morning, in the U.S. and waiting for English football games to start on Irish TV (!) and doing a review seems like fun. There are several requests waiting so it only seemed fair to tackle the first one in the list … stylishwebdesign.us.
Want to get your head around how far Joomla has come since the early days of Mambo? Download and install one of these 5 and 6 year old versions. Mambo 3.0.4, released in May 2001: Mambo 3.0.5, released in June 2001: Mambo 4.0.6, released in December 2002:
Open Question Thursday again: Most people reading this blog make some money from the internet. For some, perhaps even a majority, its your largest source of income.
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Brian Teeman discusses accessibility and “read more” links on Joomla sites:
Can we expect a major announcement from Joomla shortly? Early today there have been a lot of rumblings and changes in the Joomla 1.5 section over at Joomlacode.org. Add this to the codefreeze announced a week ago and it looks as if big news really could be coming soon for Joomla 1.5 …
Hi All . We’ve some important news for people using the Alledia affiliate program. Because the product is no longer supported, we’ve stopped using Joomlaelement.com’s discontinued integration of iDevAffiliate and Joomla. We’re now using iDevAffiliate’s own integration of iDevAffiliate and Joomla. There are Three Important Changes Involved in this Move All affiliate URLs have had to change. This is because iDevAffiliate’s Search Engine Friendly URLs don’t work with the new integration. We’ve redirected all active affiliates to their new URLs. That means that if you’ve sent us more than two or three visitors over the last few months, we’ve created…
Over the next few weeks I thought it would be fun to throw out a few open question. We’d love to here your answers to the first questions: What kind of success do your Joomla sites have with Google Alerts? Are your blog posts always picked up for the keywords you’re targeting? Do you end up in the blog or news category? Do you have any particular tricks to make sure your posts are emailed to as many people as possible? My personal experience is that I can set up a WordPress site tomorrow and have 100% of the posts…
Late last year, I blogged about a popular Joomla component that contained hidden advertising links. Since then more people have contacted us about other extensions that employ the same dirty trick.
National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S. have announced their "Top Web Gadgets of 2007" … the winners are Joomla and Drupal! Everywhere you go nowadays, these two projects seem to be paired together as the leading lights of Open Source website software.