The first Extension of the Month for 2008 comes with a very strong recommendation … after all, over the last few months it has become a cornerstone here at Alledia.com. Account Expiration Component (AEC) from globalnerd.org allows you to offer paid site memberships.
Many, many thanks for all your support, help, comments, emails and friendship during 2007. I wanted to give you all a quick heads up about Alledia.com over the holidays … As a ex-pat living in the United States, I’m returning to England for Christmas and will be there from December 24th until January 7th. I’ll be traveling with my laptop and will be online every day but it won’t quite be the same as working full-time: . If you’re an SEO Club member, you’ll still be able to get Site Reviews and answers to all your SEO questions within 24…
Joomlatwork.com have updated their metadata patch for Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate 4. The patch is free to download by clicking here.
With free and commercial integrations of phpBB3 planned for Joomla 1.5, we’re soon going to have several excellent forum extensions available for Joomla. However, for Joomla 1.0 Fireboard is still the best and easiest option. Here are three great ways to spice up your Fireboard installation:
People love short cuts. People particularly love short cuts that they think will reach 1000s of new customers. So, its easy to understand why people might love automatic translation tools. "I’ve just translated my site into 12 languages by installing a module! Cool! "Hey, my website’s in Chinese now … thats a billion new customers!" However, this is a clear case where easy is not best.
There’s been a lot of hype this week about Google’s new Knol project that people have been comparing to Wikipedia, and there’s a Joomla connection… Who are the owners of Knol.com? Its a Dutch vacuum cleaner company who have been in business since 1969. They have a Joomla website using Virtuemart and a Rockettheme template. Apparently it crashed in the aftermath of the announcement, but its back online now and the owner Hilco Knol says he’s not selling: "Till now have google don’t take contact with us we are positif suprised for using the name KNOL because it is my…
Back in the summer of this year where we had a short series offering free site reviews to companies who didn’t mind having the advice made public to help others learn. We had an email this week from John Parker who asked us to examine his site va-home-loansonline.com which provides home loans to Texas military veterans. You can see what the site looked like before the review at Archive.org. He’s really done a great job of taking our suggestions from the analysis and SEO Book, and then implementing them successfully. Here’s his update, 6 months after the initial review:
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Over the last week we’ve been working really hard on changes? here at Alledia, aiming to make the site better for SEO Club members and people who are just visiting. Changes for SEO Club Subscribers New chapters of the SEO Book dealing with Joomfish, multilingual sites, international sites plus case Studies with real-life examples of improvements we’ve made to clients’ websites and the impact they’ve had. New checklists making it easy to ensure you’ve optimized your site for launch, for local search and when you’re upgrading. A really active and supportive forum helping you to get all your Joomla SEO…
Its a Friday close to Christmas now and I hope most of you are winding down a little as the weekend and holidays come closer. I thought today might be a great day to talk about three things that you really don’t need to worry about as much as you thought: