Yes they do. Over the last few months, I’ve run across quite a lot of companies who have avoided blogging on Joomla and instead posted on free blog sites such as Blogger.com, Blogster.com or WordPress.com. Today’s post is a quick rundown of the reasons why you should only blog on your own domain.
I’m delighted today to be able annouce the launch of our Joomla SEO eBook. It is the only comprehensive guide on to how to manage Search Engine Optimization for your Joomla website. Other guides talk in generalities that may help you with a static HTML site, but our aim is to precisely target the problems and solutions you’ll face when trying to earn high rankings with your Joomla website.
Its not often that a brand new, really useful and completely free Joomla component comes on the scene. Anthony Ferrara has managed that with his Page Cache component.
This is the only SEO eBook written specifically for Joomla! The point of this book is to get down and dirty with managing Search Engine Optimization on your Joomla! website. Joomla! is the Ferrari of Content Management Systems. It is wonderfully powerful and it allows you to create large amounts of search engine friendly content in a short period of time. However, just like a Ferrari, it is easy to spin out of control with Joomla. This book will give you the tools and skills to keep your website on the road to search engine success. Having Search Engine troubles…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.