Google April Fools Day 2012

Susan With Google Fiber Bar

Google has done several April Fools video's and webpages in the past, they are at it agian today with these two options: http://youtu.be/re0VRK6ouwI Where Google goes into the food sector with http://www.google.com/fiber and this one: http://youtu.be/1KhZKNZO8mQ They bring back Morse Code to get you into tapping your messages … [Read more...]

Joomla Blogging and SEO for Joomla Moved

seo-4-blog-domain-setup

A few weeks ago the WordPress.com based Blog on Joomla Blogging and Seo 4 Joomla were closed down by WordPress.com for violating their Terms Of Service. I also had a Dutch WordPress.com site shutdown and after an email to the people of WordPress that was brought back up. The problem with all three of the sites was the fact that they linked to my website about Joomla … [Read more...]

Joomla SEO and Blogging

joomla-1.5.-seo.book

I recently finished my book on Joomla 1.5 SEO by Packt Publishing, you know the company behind several great Joomla Books and of course the Open Source CMS Awards. One chapter in the book is about Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds. This chapter is now made free for you to download! Use this link Joomla! Blogging and RSS Feeds to get download the PDF file. Here is a … [Read more...]

A new Joomla Blog Template that stands out

JA Uvit Joomla Blog Template

Joomlart.com released a new template called JA Uvite and it is really one of the greatest templates I have seen that you can use on a Joomla based Weblog. The templates features some module's in its footer that you could use for Related items, Recent posts and even for recent comments if you have a Joomla comment component and modules installed. A great homepage … [Read more...]

How to use sh404SEF to Improve MojoBlog SEF and SEO

basic-sh404sef-items

As I mentioned in an earlier post about MojoBlog, that the only thing missing with this Blog tool for Joomla where the SEF options to create nice SEF URLs, and missing the Title tag for each post. Reading some posts from www.goodwebpractices.com and www.alledia.com I wanted to see if the options in the advanced settings of the SEF Component sh404SEF would help to … [Read more...]

Giving your Joomla Blog section a different Template

Assign Template to Home

Did you know you can assign different templates to different sections that are called on by your Joomla menu? Let's say you want your Joomla Blog categories to have a different Template then the rest of your website, how would you do  this? First you have to create a menu item that holds your section, or the categories like you did in Creating your Blog … [Read more...]

Fix for Categorie editing goes into endless loop

It recentrly came to my attention that ther was a Bug in the Productbook component < 1.0.3 that gets into an endless loop if you edit a categorie and select a categorie that is the same categorie. That means if you already have one categorie and you start to edit it, you could select that categorie, or one on a higher level, to make it its own parent. The easy way to … [Read more...]

Joomla 1.5 Stable release now ready for Download and How to go Further

Joomla 1.5 Stable

Today Joomla 1.5 Stable release is a fact, Just read the announcement form the Joomla Core team and Download your version form the Joomla 1.5 Files.   So how to move forward from here, and what will bring Joomla 1.5 use in SEO and SEF options? I will not be writing about this release here, but on my own Joomla, WordPress and SEO Blog, because I don't have … [Read more...]

Phoca.cz brings a Productbook menu module

Today I found a great addition for the productbook component, which as a very pleasant suprise, since I am very busy with other projects and website building for customers. The Productbook menu module The Module of Phoca can be seen active on the right site, and will display all categories and sub-categories defined and published in the productbook component. If you want … [Read more...]

Putting your Joomla Blog set up on the Frontpage

Main Menu Joomla First Position

I have set up an example Blog to let you see some of the nice components you can read about at the Joomla Blog Components page Especially with the mojoBlog component as the frontpage of the website. To get the mojoBlog, or any other component, to load on the frontpage instead of the Joomla frontpage you have to do two things. First, create a menu item linking to … [Read more...]