Steve’s Blog

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.

May 21, 2007

JoomlaYellowPages lists over 200 Joomla companies

JoomlaYellowPages.com now has listings for over 200 Joomla companies. If you’re looking for a Joomla developer in Fiji or a designer who speaks Belorussian, then you’ve come to the right place. We don’t just approve anyone – all the companies on the list have Joomla experience, a clear online explanation of their Joomla services and a browsable portfolio. Africa: 19 companies Asia: 16 companies Australasia: 18 companies Europe: 96 companies North America: 46 companies South America: 8 companies To add your company to the site, simply register, browse through to where you live and then click "Add…

May 17, 2007

Microsoft Announces a Patent on the term FUD

Microsoft has announced that they’ll be suing open-source companies and bloggers for patent infringement—on 235 patents related to the term FUD. Microsoft has made its broadest challenge to date against free speech, claiming that FUD and related phrases violate Microsoft patents and saying it will seek license fees.

May 17, 2007

10 Steps to Great RSS Feeds with Joomla

RSS Feeds are a great way to build visitor loyalty and to keep them coming back to your site. They’re also good for link building as people keen to keep their sites regularly updated are always looking for good RSS content. The benefit for you is that you get a link back to your site and hopefully some added traffic. So what’s the best way to set up RSS Feeds within Joomla? I’m glad you asked….

May 16, 2007

Joomla South East Meets Tonight in Atlanta

Tonight’s going to be a lot of fun because its the first meeting of Joomla South East, one of a growing number of Joomla User Groups around the world. We’re meeting tonight (Wednesday, May 16th) from 7.30 to 9.30 pm at the Eclipse di Luna Restaurant (). For those of you that know Atlanta, we’ve tried to make the meeting as accessible as possible be hold the meeting close to the center of the city, where i85, i75 and i20 all meet.