Steve’s Blog

May 29, 2007

New List of Joomla SEO Extensions

Today I’ve added a complete list of the SEO Tools to Alledia.com. I believe its the only place online where all of these are gathered together in one easy-to-read list. These are all extensions that I feel can safely be recommended for use with Joomla. Each one helps improve search engine optimization on your Joomla site in at least one key way. Some, such as JPromoter and JoomSEO are included in several categories. Each category is listed alphabetically. Click here to see the complete list of Joomla SEO Tools.

May 29, 2007

Joomla SEO Tools

Below is a complete list of the SEO Tools that we can safely recommend for use with Joomla. Each of them helps improve search engine optimization on your Joomla site in at least one key way. Some, such as JPromoter and JoomSEO are included in several categories. Each category is listed alphabetically. We’ve included a link to download each component and a link to Alledia’s review of the extension. If we’ve missed any, please feel free to contact us. Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs Artio SEF (Review) Some commercial add-ons JPromoter (Review) Commercial ($25) Open SEF (Review) Remosef (Review) SEF…

May 29, 2007

Review of the JPromoter SEF URL Extension

May 28, 2007

Drupal Looking for New Revenue Sources

Fascinating to see Drupal considering different ways to raise money for their project. It seems that every successful Open Source project ends up asking the same question: “How can we get the resources to keep growing and improve our standards?” Some Drupal community members are already raising pertinent questions in the forum so it will fascinating to see how this plays out: Drupal Association membership pricing survey. The Drupal Association is working to set up a membership program. The goal is to design a open, fair, and effective way for individuals and companies to financially support the Drupal community directly…

May 25, 2007

6 Reasons Why SEO and Design Don’t Work

I don’t often piggyback on someone else’s work in blog posts, but this article was too good not to share (and besides, I became an uncle again in the last week and so I’m heading off to see the little one soon). This article comes from Margie Zable Fisher via Guy Kawasaki’s How To Change the World blog. Guy asked Margie a simple question: "Why PR doesn’t work?" She gave ten reasons. Replace "PR" with SEO or design, and I’m sure you’ll agree there’s a lot of truth in what she says. I’ve republished the best six here:

May 24, 2007

Why Should You Choose a Website Font Carefully?

As webdesigners, there is one question that we get more than any other from people thinking about their first website: “Can I use my favorite ultra-rate XYZ font?” The answer, more often that not, is “unfortunately not”. In this post, I’m going to give a quick overview of what you need to know about web-fonts for your website.

May 24, 2007

Domain Millionaire Tries to Shake Bad Reputation

The unveiling of one of the world’s biggest domainers has made a huge splash in the domain industry this week. The story about Kevin Ham has the wonderfully sensational title of "The Man Who Owns the Internet". Why all the fuss? He struck a deal with Cameroon that redirects anything all unregistered .cm domains to his own servers. In effect he’s typo-squatting the whole of .com but doing it legally because none of the typos are actually registered. He’s "a devout Christian" but accusations are flying around that he makes money from genuine typosquats such as BritiskAirways.com and from adult…

May 23, 2007

Easily Become a Joomla SEO eBook Affiliate

Last month we launched the complete SEO guide to Joomla, and today we’re happy to be rolling out? an affiliate program. We’re using the iDevAffiliate integration from JoomlaElements.com, which allows us to completely integrate the affiliate program into Joomla and Community Builder. No extra registration, no wait for approval. You only need to take four simple steps:

May 22, 2007

Make Your Joomla Site Search More User Friendly

As Microsoft will tell you, one of the hardest things in the world to get right is search. Neither Simple Machines, Drupal or Joomla have acheived really satisfying search results. In fact I’ll often go outside of the Joomla forums and search them using Google because the results are more relevant than SMF’s own answers. Its not surprising – Google emply 1000s of people to get their results right. Open Source projects don’t have that luxury.

May 21, 2007

Edit All Joomla Content from the Frontend

Today, we’ve released a small hack of MyContent from Joomlicious.com. MyContent is a great component that allows people to edit their submitted content from the frontend. We needed a small change: one of our clients needed to edit all the articles on the site from the frontend, regardless of who submitted them. This hack allows them to do that.