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So you want to know how your Joomla site is on SEO?

09.05.09

It has been a while since my latest post, but I really have been busy working on new website building projects. So my time is already limited, because I do all this stuff on the Internet after my normal daytime job. Why? because I like to share knowledge, get in touch with new idea’s and try them [...]

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Joomlashack University is officially 1 year old this month! It's our ANNIVERSITY! Hard to believe we've gone from a handful of sign-ups to almost 2100 subscriptions in just under a year's time--making us the #1 source for online Joomla training! When I created Joomlashack University in October 2009, I had one goal. I wanted to make the the hands-down best way to learn Joomla.

Last week Mark wrote the first Production Working Group Leadership status blog.  At last Saturday's meeting, for some strange reason I volunteered to write one this week.

Work continues on 1.6.  As Mark stated last week, the biggest task remaining for the release of 1.6 is ACL.  The other night Louis showed me some mockups of one of the UI widgets and they look quite sharp.  It is pretty exciting to see this much sought after feature finally starting to come together.  Hannes and Andrew have also been working hard to get all of the pieces together.  Once this gets to a workable stage we will be really close to 1.6 going beta!  Keep an eye on the branches in the SVN to get a look at what is happening.

The other area of focus is the Joomla! Labs Project. As most are aware, one of the struggles we've had as a project is figuring out how to open our doors to fresh developers. The Labs Project is one piece of the puzzle that will change the way we do development.  Stay tuned for more details.

Well, those are the highlights - we've come so far with 1.6 yet we still have some distance to travel as we head towards the beta process.  Can't wait!

Just recently I wrote about how to improve you Joomla Feed and select different categories to create different Feeds. No just last week www.joomlafun.com released version V1.1.o , a stable release with a few new features. One of the things I like the most is that you no can select a Section! Instead of putting all categories [...]

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Nested categories are one of the most discussed new features in Joomla 1.6. However, many people have categories confused with tags. Let's look at how nested categories function in Joomla 1.6 and compare that with tagging -- a feature promised for Joomla 1.7. Yesterday, Heidi and I met with a wonderful group of women running a startup. They have a Joomla website, but they have had a nightmare dealing with their Joomla developer. Time after time, they have requested something to be done on their site, their developer says no problem, and the developer fails to deliver. Furthermore, the developer would send them invoices, charging hours and hours of time for "research", which never materialized into a solution for their problems. The client was funding this developer's learning curve, to no benefit of their own website! Tomorrow, on July 19, Joomla 1.7 will be released. You're probably wondering how you can come up to speed quickly on another new version of Joomla, including what documentation and training videos are available.

It's 2011 and it's a great time to start a freelance web design business. What's even better is to do it providing services for open source CMSs, like, say, Joomla! To help a budding freelancer start 2011 firing on all cylinders, I have gathered a massive giveaway drawing packed with subscriptions, hosting, books and clubs worth thousands of dollars. Will you be the lucky one? Read on to find out how to enter the drawing.

Registering your Joomla! User Group gives your JUG some special privileges such as:

Using the "Joomla" name in your JUG
Being listed on our Registered Joomla! User Groups page on the Joomla Community site.
Announcing your meetings on our Joomla! User Groups Calendar.
Networking with other Registered JUG Contacts on our JUG Contact mailing list

If you are interested in registering your Joomla! User Group, here are a few items that you can do to prepare yourself as it will help us with processing your JUG once you apply.

1. Read our FAQ as it answers the common questions about registering your JUG.

2. Register your domain name with OSM if it has the name "joomla" in it.

3. Verify if all the Joomla! logos that you currently have published on your site are compliant with our Trademarks. Please read our Logo Usage and Brand Guide

4.  Verify that your JUG follows the standard naming policy. Please take note of, "Is there a special naming structure for Joomla! User Groups?".

Please welcome with me all the new Joomla! User Groups that been registered the last few months.  You can find a link to their web Site and contact information on our Registered Joomla! User Group Listing page.

Joomla! User Association Deutschland
Joomla! User Association Finland
Joomla! User Association Norway (Foreningen Joomla! i Norge)
Joomla! User Group Albuquerque, NM
Joomla! User Group Austin
Joomla! User Group Bay Area
Joomla! User Group Central Coast
Joomla! User Group East Africa
Joomla! User Group Greater Los Angeles
Joomla! User Group Greater Seattle
Joomla! User Group Humboldt
Joomla! User Group Indonesia
Joomla! User Group Italy
Joomla! User Group LA Westside-Santa Monica
Joomla! User Group Lithuania
Joomla! User Group London
Joomla! User Group Milwaukee II
Joomla! User Group Mongolia
Joomla! User Group MPPRE Venezuela
Joomla! User Group New York City
Joomla! User Group Nicaragua
Joomla! User Group Norwich
Joomla! User Group Puerto Rico
Joomla! User Group Pune
Joomla! User Group Senegal
Joomla! User Group Southeastern Michigan
Joomla! User Group South Florida
Joomla! User Group Sri Lanka
Joomla! User Group Upper Midwest

 

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.

When is Joomla 1.6 coming out? What has changed in Joomla 1.6? Should I use Joomla 1.5 or 1.6?

In the same way when 1.5 came out and people were wondering about their 1.0 websites, the same questions are being asked again of Joomla 1.6.

Let's look into our crystal ball and try and answer these three questions!

When is Joomla 1.6 coming out?

Right now Joomla 1.6 is in alpha. That's the first of a series of stages that it will go through before its ready to use on a prod[...] Joomla 1.6 and 1.7 introduced some new features regarding search, which may be helpful to you when building websites.

I have recently been working with an Education School - The Upper Valley Educator Institute - to migrate their internal email systems to Google Apps Education Edition.

Their email was stored on a traditional server and everyone was using a different email client (no-one had backups!). Google Apps would provide some clear advantages in efficiency and management.

Joomla with its standard well thought out structure will give you a perfect platform to get your keyword clusters together and boost your website into the search engine ranking of your main keyword, just read here on how to set things right...

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How to Optimize your Joomla site with Keywords | Optimize Joomla Keywords

With the release of Joomla 1.6 RC1, one of the first areas of this new version of Joomla to catch the attention of the community is the ACL portion of the site. ACL stands for Access Control Levels. Many people think of ACL as "who can see what" on the website. For example, when I log into the website, I can see articles A, B, and C. But when you log into the website, you see articles A, C, D, and F. That is definitely a part of ACL, but it's only a small part of the whole picture. ACL also controls who can create, edit, delete, publish, or configure what, and who is the administrator for the website. Adding this level of ACL creates significant complexity for your Joomla website. If you've never attended a Joomla Day event, you are missing out on great fun! Joomla Days are the Joomla community's regional events, spreading the word about Joomla and showing how it works. Each Joomla Day is a unique experience, happening in a variety of environments, with different tracks and themes. One thing they all hold in common, though, is terrific networking, making new friends and catching up with old ones, putting faces to those social networking names, and beer.

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Registering your Joomla! User Group

09.05.09

Registering your Joomla! User Group gives your JUG some special privileges such as:

Using the "Joomla" name in your JUG
Being listed on our Registered Joomla! User Groups page on the Joomla Community site.
Announcing your meetings on our Joomla! User Groups Calendar.
Networking with other Registered JUG Contacts on our JUG Contact mailing list

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Joomla! Multimedia – A Book Review about Images, Video and More… | Joomla Mulitimedia

17.07.10

I received a review copy of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia from Packt Publishers and was expecting to read a lot that I already know about Images and the image manager in Joomla!. But instead it was an eye-opener about the possibilities that Joomla! and some special extensions gives you to create a complete multimedia experience for your visitors. This [...]

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Joomla! Multimedia – A Book Review about Images, Video and More… | Joomla Mulitimedia

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What Happened to the Donation Page ... Revisited

17.06.10

You probably didn't notice, but recently we have republished the "Support Joomla!" page. We also have a new "Support Joomla!" module for anyone to use. This is exciting because for the past several years we have not been able to ask the Joomla! Community for financial support. What happened?

As I mentioned back in February, at the advice of our attorneys, and with a lot of reflection, the board of Open Source Matters (OSM) had been exploring the possibility of "correcting" its corporate charter. Those corrections have now been made, and this post will explain what that means. The specific changes could not be discussed previously because they were legal advice, but now we can do so. There are complicated legal and financial reasons for making these changes which I am going to try to explain in this post. It will be a little heavy going, so before I start let me stress the two main points:

OSM will always remain a not for profit organization.
This change will allow OSM to ask for money for support of the Joomla! Project.

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Joomla Tools and Resources from Mashable

09.05.09

I just read a great page that gives you lots of website links with high quality information about Joomla. Altough the Title of 30+ Joomla Tools and Resources doesn’t really give you tools like modules or components, a lot of the sites featured in this post do have some fine extensions for your Joomla website. I know I [...]

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Open sourcing leadership lessons learned at Open Source Days 2011

08.03.11

I look back at the Joomla project's more than five years of history as something that could be the makings of either a great book or at minimum a documentary on success and challenges in open source leadership.  We've been through it all, the highs and lows, and we continue to keep moving forward.

So when I sat down last week to make some changes to my presentation for Open Source Days 2011 at the Copenhagen Business School, it quickly moved from a little refactoring to a full rewrite.  A ten hour rewrite.

The topic for the session was something I'd always wanted to write about for the open source community:  leadership lessons learned from a large volunteer-based open source project.  While I've only been president of Open Source Matters (OSM) for less than a year, I've spent nearly four years on the Board of OSM, and have my share of stories to tell.

My goal for this March 5, 2011, session was to give fellow open source project leaders a grab bag of success stories, pitfalls to avoid, and an uplifting approach to embracing change.