Luckily a Joomla Developer Lied to You

Now how’s that for an opening… Actually I am very happy to see this post today of Jinx telling you about the lie about Joomla 1.5 and Loosing ItemID’s in the URL. Joomla! 1.5 Accessibility – Look Ma no Itemid’s  Read the post and check the URL examples he provides both with Mod_rewrite on and without! [...]

Ten Things to do after a new Joomla installation

Joomla Global configuration Items

Here are Ten Things that I do after a fresh Joomla installation, If you haven’t done this to your installation, you can always correct it ! Just kidding, its more like one of my Joomla best practice things… 1. Change the admin login name 2. Secure the Administration directory 3. Install SEF Patch 4. Install OpenSEF (or other SEF [...]

Using Metatags in Joomla for getting more visitors

I have been writing about using the Description Metatag in Joomla before on several Blogs. So I thought I will tell you about the importance of this special Metatag here as well. Joomla Meta Info Tab  As you might know, there are two special fields that show on the Meta Info tab in each content [...]

A Joomla SEO Forum brought to you by Joomlashack

Last post I give you link to the Joomla Templates Tutorial from Barry North. Now If have to point you to another great resources he brings to the Joomla community! As you know, I like Joomla websites to do well in all search engines. And to see a Guy like Barry focused on this subject is [...]

Building Joomla 1.5 Templates Tutorial

Today I got a great resource link via my Joomla! RSS feed of the Joomla! Developer Network. Barry North from Compassdesign has brought us a Sample Chapter of his new Joomla Book. You must know that I rank Barry North as a very Good Resource and highly knowledgeable person as it comes to Joomla!. And when [...]

Open-Sef and Normal Joomla URLs

Sometimes I get a question from a Joomla website owner. Mostly its about using a Joomla SEF Component, like Open-Sef. The website owner is often trying to get a better ranking for his website by using Search Engine Optimization. But on some keywords they already have a good ranking, that they don’t want to loose!! They sometimes have [...]

The Little Joomla SEO Book Ready

I finally got it ready! It was a project I was thinking about for a longer time. Picking it up, putting it down…started again… Until it began to bug me and I had to get it ready to help more people. So now its ready! And its a 22 pages Free e-Book on making Joomla Search [...]