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21.07.10

Joomla! Best PHP Open Source Content Management System… Don’t take my word on it, this is the what the Packt Publishing Award judges say: http://www.packtpub.com/article/joomla-wins-best-php-open-source-content-management-system Joomla Wins Best PHP Cms But it is nice to see ”Once again, judges commented on the size and responsiveness of the community, which translates to potential problems being dealt with quickly.”   You are reading a [...]

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Any web page, including one generated by Joomla can have "meta tags" or "elements" in the header information. The one's that get the most focus are the Title tag, the Description tag and the Keyword tag. This is mainly because it's thought that these have the most influence on Search Engine Ranking (which is not entirely true). There are other tags/elements such as robots or language that provoke less discussion that the title, description or keyword, but are still important. Lets take each Tag in turn and see how they are used in Joomla. Increasingly, websites are offering a bit of HTML you can paste into your site to show some cool feature: Facebook or Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, badges from site or another. You try copying and pasting the HTML into a Joomla article or a custom HTML module, and you find that the code gets stripped, removing critical tags like script or iframe, so it doesn't work correctly. Then you try to go find a Joomla extension that will allow you to post the information. It's frustrating!

$50 off CMS Expo- April 30th & May 1st in Chicago!

Our
friends at the CMS Association are back this spring with another
spectacular conference for Joomlaheads and open source CMS fans
generally- the second annual CMS Expo in Chicago!

Here's how they explain what CMS [...]

The Joomla Project is currently looking for volunteers to act as webmaster for our community.joomla.org site. 

Background:

This particular website is one of our newer, but also growing sites. We feel it's success is also linked to the successful growing and maintaining of the Joomla Community as a whole. Currently the site is maintained by a few capable people, but we feel having an injection of fresh blood into the mix may be just the thing needed to keep this sites growth on track.

It should be noted that we already have a number of responsible people adding information and maintaining parts of this site already. For example, the Translation section of this site is maintained by the Translation WG.

Duties will include (but not limited to):

• Assuming overall management of the users that are given access to this site.
• Working closely with other parts of the project to supply 'space' on this site as the need arises.
• Liaising with members of the Development Team if/when certain parts of this sites code needs adjusting (added functions etc).
• Overseeing the approval of comments to blog and community submitted content.
• Working on or with people as template adjustments may be needed to accommodate changes to the site.

You will need:

• The ability to work well together and get along with others.
• A good grasp of Joomla administration.
• Some basic template skills would be advantageous.
• To be familiar with the Joomla Community.
• To be able to commit regular time each day to manage this site.
• To be committed to the success of Joomla, and want to be a sharer in that. 
• A good grasp of English.

It is anticipated that perhaps one of two individuals may be able to work together to spread the load managing this site in the future as well, so don't let the future growth of the site scare you.

Being the webmaster of such a high profile and high traffic site like this would certainly look good on your resume, but we'd like to think you'd also be applying so you can contribute to Joomla.

Only serious candidates should apply. Please make application by sending as many details as to why you are the person we're looking for to: webmaster_position@community.joomla.org (this email address will be removed once we have filled this position)

Replies to this blog post will not be treated as applications.

 

We have a winner for our Joomla Freelance Web Designer Giveaway Greg from Australia! Congratulations Greg! With so many unexpected people entering, we'll be rustling up some consolation prizes... check your email inbox over the next few days for more details.

We are really excited to release our latest template from Joomlashack - eBusiness.

We have been blogging about some of the underlying features of this new template at Joomlashack, its powerful and flexible 960 grid framework and its super fast loading times.

If you need a rock solid SEO platform for your Joomla website, ou need the latest Joomla template from Joomlashack - JS eBusiness

JS eBusiness is a web 2.0 template with lots of white space, bold fonts and raw SEO power, JS eBusiness makes a perfect template for business and organizations launching themselves into the web 2.0 world.

Check out the eBusiness Features

• Joomla! 1.5 Native
• Valid XHTML & CSS
• 4 Bundled Color Themes
• SEO-ready Template
• Multiple Layouts - Middle column flexible
• 960 Grid Powered
• W3C Valid Overrides
• EZ SEO optimized header
• Graphic Source Files
• Super Fast Loading
• SEO Source Ordered
• Over 30 Module Positions in 4 Variations
• Pure CSS Suckerfish Dropdown Menu System

As part of the normal budgeting process, the Production Leadership Team has come up with four goals for 2012. Those goals concern releases of the Joomla Platform and the Joomla CMS, continuing maintenance updates, and outreach and promotion to a technical audience.

This new project will bring some blogposts that will suite as a Case Study for building a Search Engine Optimized website with Joomla 1.5.x or any other CMS as well...

Post from: Joomla SEO Blog by Pathos-Seo.com

Some of Joomla 1.6's search engine optimization (SEO) improvements have been lost in the buzz of excitement about ACL (permissions) and nested categories. After all, these are very tiny, incremental improvements -- but for those working with SEO in Joomla, they will make a tremendous difference.

If you're like me, one of your 2009 resolutions is to upgrade all Joomla 1.1x sites you have kicking around into fully updated 1.5x versions.

There are a number of configuration options available to you in 1.5 for the first time [to Joomla] - and one of the easiest to miss is due to the new parameter button layout (when you click on a component, or core function the parameters for that function of the site are accessible by clicking on a particular button, not located in the main admin menu.)

Specifically interesting is the new article HTML Filtering system.  You can now filter out specific tags in your articles automatically; this is great because you can avoid your contributors publishing erroneous or potentially harmful bits of code, as well as choose which user groups are allowed to post full HTML (for limiting 3rd party video embeds etc).

Avoid head-scratching; go to Content>Article Manager>Parameters and then in the Filtering Options, choose 'registered' and 'blacklist' - now all registered users can submit only tags*not* in the list you then fill in; play around from there.  With this setting, and no tags filled in of course, users can submit full HTML - like youtube video embed codes etc...

SEOMoz just posted a great list of 14 best practices for modern SEO that they are using with their consulting clients. Some real interesting tips, like the lack of importance of H1 tags and  meta keywords.

Keep reading for review of the 14, with some notes about possible Joomla implications.

You can read more about these at SEOMoz: SEO Best Practices

Title Tag Format

Primary Keyword - Secondary Keywords | Brand
Or
Brand Name | Primary Keyword [...]

We will be having live streaming of the Joomla Roadmap Meeting happening in New York City this Friday, October 21. The meeting is scheduled to start at 10 am EDT. See this link for the time in your area: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Joomla+Roadmap+Meeting&iso=20111021T10&p1=12&ah=7

The link to the stream is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/joomla-roadmap. During the breakout sessions in the afternoon, we will be adding a second stream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/joomla-roadmap-ch2 if needed. (Edited to change the second link)

The suggested twitter hash for this meeting is #jroadmap.

Incase you didn't catch the heads-up on joomla.org yesterday - a new security patch for and full version of Joomla 1.5x has been released.

Apparently a bug in 1.5.5 was allowing unscrupulous fellows to change people's login passwords... which is quite a big deal in my book.  Typically the error is reported to leave the main site admin account open to editing!  You can read more on this issue in the Joomla Developer Blog .

Security bugs are always a little scary but one thing to note with Joomla in general is that the loopholes always get closed very quickly - in fact, when you cruise through the Joomla forums its hard to find many posts reporting sites being hacked due to security flaws in Joomla core. 

I recommend upgrading your Joomla 1.5.x site immediately to 1.5.6 - there are simple patches available on joomlacode.org (scroll down to the 1.5.6 upgrades section) which you can download and just upload on top of your current install; a process which takes just a couple of minutes. 

This past weekend, July 29-31, was the Joomla Leadership Summit, held at eBay in San Jose, California. Members of the Production Leadership Team (PLT), Community Leadership Team (CLT), and Open Source Matters (OSM) were in attendance for a discussion of the Joomla project, its leadership, and its future direction.

During the past years the amount of Joomla community channels grown substantially. New ideas were developed and many of them came with a new subsite somewhere in the joomla.org family of sites. Today actual Joomla information can be found on many places, you possible need to visit several sites to keep yourself up to date, maybe too many meanwhile...? And are all these subsites still needed and relevant? Or do we need to combine them in a new improved channel that fit all our needs?

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