Below is a list of the best Joomla extension providers. Some sell individual extensions and some offer them to people who subscribe for several months. Extension Club Logo Extensions Price Joomlart PHPList Bridge JA Iconmenu JA Module Collapse JA News JA Showcase 6 Months – $50 12 Months – $70 Ninjoomla 25 Current Extensions 23 Community Builder Templates 3 Months – $30 12 Months – $60 12 Months Developer – $100 Rocketwerx Coming Soon Coming soon
I’ve talked before about how having less pages indexed is often better and after doing SEO audits on several sites last week I was reminded of how important this was. Sites with only 200 or 300 genuine pages of content had over 1000 pages indexed in Google. Lots of Joomla components produce 100s and sometimes 1000s of unnecessary extra URLs that are then indexed by Google. A simple example is Mostree which is a very robust component but because it was built in pre-Ajax days, it creates separate 4 extra pages for each listing: recommend, rate, review and report listing.…
Part two of my video blog posts about creating HTML page titles in Joomla. This is partly inspired by Barrie from Joomlashack who pointed me to a great post by Copyblogger.
This is my first attempt to create a video tutorial in Joomla. Its an answer to a question we get a lot … "Whats the difference between a page title and an HTML title?" It also seems a good place to start because modifying page titles on clients’ sites has produced better results than anything else we do. Adding SEF URLs, generating more links and improving site structure are all less effective than page title improvements. Above all, I’m interested to see what you think. Are video blogs worth the effort?
As a follow-up from my last post which pointed about Brian Clark’s quote about reading more books, I’d love to highlight a great eBook I read over the weekend. At the last JoomlaSouthEast meeting, Brent from 3by400 showed me a great Google Analytics book called simply “Google Analytics Short Cut“. Wow, does it pack a lot of useful information into a $10 PDF. The book certainly isn’t an introduction to GA. Its pretty technical at times and won’t help beginners, but for people already familiar with GA its full of great information. I’ve reproduced some of the best tips here.
Great quote from Brian Clark of Copyblogger fame about how to become an expert: "I was chatting with a friend about this topic recently, and we both came up with same initial answer about becoming an expert—read books … most people don’t read and many of those who do swamp themselves with RSS news feeds instead of the foundational knowledge contained in books." RSS Feeds are like the news … interesting for keeping up with current events but completely lacking when it comes to building knowledge of value. I can honestly say I learnt more about Google Analytics from reading…
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Below is a list of the best Joomla template providers. Some sell individual templates and some offer templates to people who subscribe for several months. How to read the chart: 3 / 6 / 12 Months: Regular user subscription normally requiring you to keep a link back to the designer’s website 12 Months Developer: Subscription for developers and website builders who want to use the templates on clients’ sites. Template Club Logo Type Price User Reviews CMS Lounge Single Purchase $19 to $49 per template Click to read Design for Joomla Subscription 3 Months – $10 6 Months –…
Barrie North from Joomlashack.com sent me a copy of his “Joomla Admin Manual” a long time ago and I promised to review it. Yep … I’ve been slack. It was only when a client told me earlier this week that he’d been reading it and found it useful, that I realized I needed to get my butt in gear and read it myself.