Accessibility and Read More Links in Joomla
In one of a series of guest posts here on the Alledia blog, Brian Teeman discusses accessibility and “read more” links on Joomla sites:
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Big News Coming for Joomla 1.5
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 …
Important Changes to Our Affiliate Program
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…
Open Question: Joomla and Google Alerts
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…
Time to End Hidden Advertising in Joomla Extensions
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.
NPR Chooses Joomla and Drupal as Top Web Gadgets of 2007
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.
Drupal Founder Earns $7 Million in VC Funding
Finally it looks like we may have an answer to the question I posed last year: can Joomla or Drupal produce a RedHat? Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert has launched a new company called Acquia that has picked up $7 million in venture capital funding. (Apparently the new name is meant to refer to “aqua” and Drupal’s original meaning of “drop of water”).
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Add Search to Your Robots.txt File
I’ve not been able to find the reason yet, but search engines been indexing a lot of search results on Joomla sites. It seems to be an issue with the component itself, rather than any particular URL setup. I’ve been able to identify the issue with several different setups:
One Thing You Must Do Before Launching a Joomla Site
There’s a lot to remember when launching a Joomla site, but theres one thing that you absolutely must do ….