Should I Bother to Write Joomla Metatags?
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is, “should I use an automatic metatag generator?”. Should we leave our metatags for machines to create? My answer depends on your website…
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Joomla URL Week Part 3 – Artio SEF Review
In the third part of our series on optimizing Joomla’s URLs, we’re going to take a look at Artio SEF. Artio is the new kid on the block, having been in the hands of its current developers for less than a year. It has quickly earned a strong following with nearly 50 reviews on Joomla.org making it among the most talked-about extensions around.
How Can I Keep Track of People Visiting My Website?
Anyone like myself who spends all day online and browsing across many different websites, will be able to tell you one thing: “spotting an old-fashioned website is as easy as spotting an old-fashioned movie or car”. Wheres an old movie may be in black-and-white and an old car may have a running board, its easy to spot old-fashioned websites because they contain something that looks like this: These are hit counters, which increase by 1 every time a visitor comes to your site. They are the Ishtar and Yugo cars of the Internet. They are not only outdated but…
Is Flash a Good Choice for My Website?
Flash is it allows a web programmer/designer to implement animated graphics, movies, and even sound at a website. It can be used to create an entire website or just small pieces. It is the tool used for some of the most creative websites yet seen by web users, such as LeoBurnett.com. However, its popularity has been challenged because of various problems experienced by users. In this article, I’ll talk about those issues and help you decide whether a Flash website is right for you. 1) Not Everyone is Able to View Flash This problem is not as big as it…
Joomla Extension of the Month – April 07
As popular as Joomla is, its surprising how many gaps remain to be filled when it comes to having an extension to cover the needs of most normal websites. We’re still searching for a decent jobboard, advertisment management and customer support component among other things. Until recently, we also lacked a good portfolio component. A quick browse around the Joomla world show that most designers have just been putting their site showcases inside of content items.
What’s Your Favorite Joomla Extension Discovery?
OK …. A very simple post today and a test to see how many people actually read this blog 🙂 One of my favorite things about working full-time with Joomla is that even though I spend 12 hours per day with my head buried in the software, there’s always another extension around the corner ready to do something so great that it expands what I think Joomla can do.
Using Robots.txt to Keep Your Joomla Pages Under Control
The technical side of Joomla SEO can be summed up in one sentence: keep your URLs under control. Joomla really is a powerful tool for creating content-rich websites but its also easy to end up with a whole lot of useless URLs. In today’s post, we’ll use MosTree as an example of how to manage Joomla URLs, using the wonderful sounding robots.txt file.
How to Control the “Read More” on Joomla’s Frontpage
A simple tip today. This small Joomla code hack is designed to help those of you who have a lot of people submitting content to their site. Everyone writes and submits in their own way, so its easy to end up with some contributors just writing a single line in the "intro" box and others entering their whole article. With this hack, it doesn’t matter. You can cut off all frontpage items with a "Read More…" after 200 words, giving your site a clean, professional look.
Why Aren’t Open Source Projects on Digg More Often?
JoomlaCode.org was released last week, and it was a major step forward for Joomla. Despite this good news the story didn’t make it far beyond the Joomla community. Amy Stephen posted on her blog, urging people to vote for it on Digg.com, but the story ended up with 40 votes. That’s about 10% of the votes normally needed to make the Digg frontpage. That poor showing got me asking a simple question….Why aren’t Open Source projects more sucessfull on social news sites?
Interview with Ryan Szrama from Ubercart
Today, we’re delighted to have the chance to talk with Ryan Szrama who has just announced the launch of Ubercart, a new E-Commerce platform for Drupal. In our comparison between Drupal and Joomla, we noted that one of Drupal’s major drawbacks was its lack of strong ecommerce capabilities. After today’s very promising Alpha release, Ubercart looks as if it has the potential to solve that problem. Ryan very kindly took the time to explain more about the who?, why? and what? of Ubercart.