Joomla and WordPress Blog and SEO Information
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
If you have worked with Joomla, you know about its syndication function, right? If not, go publish the module called "Syndication" but most likely you hae seen it on the Frontpage after a new installation of Joomla! Click on the RSS 2.0 icon and look how it turns out.... o, and the articles you see there are ONLY from the frontpage! Here are some screen shots of you … [Read more...]
I found these very nice simple tutorials on the Internet that you might want to check out, because they provide simple plain English information about Blogging and RSS Feeds These are video animations about why you want to Blog: And how people are going to use the RSS Feeds you will be creating with Joomla! Have Fun! Technorati Tags: Blogs, … [Read more...]
To separate your Blog form the rest of your Joomla based website, you should give it his, of her, own Menu module. To do this you simply create a new Menu Module. You can do this by going into your Administrator panel and choose Menu -> Menu Manager, you now see als the menu's that are already in the system. Click new, and Fill the two fields with the text of … [Read more...]
So, you have got the categories and sections done, created you first post and it all went fine. The Joomla Blog Layout options for your Blog menu is working fine, but as you look at the frontpage of your site, it doesn't look like a Blog, does it? So I your really want to get a great looking Joomla based Blog, then the template should also be a bit Blog-styled. Now … [Read more...]
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