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A Closer Look at Joomla 1.7's Redirect Component

Joomla 1.7 now features a terrific redirect component, which will make preventing 404 page not found errors in your site redesigns and migrations much easier. This component is particularly important now that many are starting to migrate their sites from Joomla 1.5 to 1.7.

There is a new Joomla User Group in Vermont, the second for the state!

The first meeting of the North VT Joomla! User Group will be held on Thursday, April 30, 2009, from 5:30-7:30 PM.

Location: Johnson State College, Johnson VT, Martinetti Hall, 2nd Floor, Room MAR 213A (it will be sign posted)

Agenda:

# Welcome and Introductions

# Organize the group, set standards for future meetings

# Discussion Time ... Joomla Questions, Display of Sites . [...]

Ecommerce in Joomla has popped its head up several times over the last few days. First, over the weekend I got a question from a potential Joomla hosting customer at Simplweb asking if we offered any shopping cart extensions. Then I read an article on the Joomla Magazine about best practice for ecommerce in Joomla. Last was an announcement from JoomlaJunkie about using PayPal checkout. For most ecommerce applications I have seen from clients, I think that in most cases, an integrated Joomla shopping cart extension isn't the best solution. Keep is simple and use a 3rd balanga application to take orders and checkout your customer.

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. 

A while back I talked about Do You Have a Refund Policy, and how important they are. Another similar need is a privacy policy.

We are updating our privacy policy at Joomlashack and we came across a handy tool to generate a privacy policy by answering some basic questions about your business and website.

http://www.dmaresponsibility.org/PPG/#form

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

Ever wondered what people do when they visit your Joomla website? Curious where they go, what they do, and why they don't do what you expect them to do?

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Since I first started using Joomla
 years back, I've always felt that with a little knowledge of html and css making a template is quite simple - all you really have needed to know is where you want which blocks to be displayed on your site.

In fact, you've been able to do a lot with Joomla templates, and now with 1.5 can do even more - in making dynamic interfaces for websites which handle termin in creative ways.  Without getting to deep into the topic, I know there are a bunch of folks who are attempting to build sites with Joomla that don't really know any html and shy away from 'code.'  For them, some neat tools are coming out like Joomlashack's Template Builder . 

Basically, Joomlashack's created a tool to allow their customers to easily reconfigure color options of their templates by hitting up this website, changing some options in a form and previewing the result, then pasting the output code into their Joomlashack-bought Template Builder-compatible template.

I don't think this tool revolutionizes Joomla theming but its a nice step forward for commercial vendors catering to Joomla sites; though Joomlashack may pitch it as saving time and encouraging creativity, I feel its a service tool that all template sellers should offer their customers. 

Simplweb is excited to announce their new Mailchimp integration now available for all customers! Simplweb brings power to the people, content management website power. This month another powerful feature has been added to the lineup, one critical to success for a modern website, email marketing and newsletters. After much consideration, Simplweb choose to offer a Mailchimp integration to their client websites. It's used by people like Gawker and The Economist, and with its free 2000 subscriber pomysł it's the best solution out there for email newsletters. From now through Thursday night, you'll save 20% on both of the Developer Template Clubs at Joomlashack, thats $119 off their Lifetime Dev Club Membership. For 3-Days-only, you can get..

On September 1, we celebrated Joomla's 6th birthday. In September 2005, Joomla's 20-odd founders forked the Mambo project and established Joomla. Six years later, Joomla is one of the three top open source content management systems in the world. The founders had no pomysł that Joomla would be so successful, but six years later, thousands of people all over the world make their living with Joomla, and millions more update a Joomla website every day.

In the last week, Joomla's PLT, CLT, and OSM have posted information about their goals for 2012. Please go read these and comment on them, as their goals impact your business. Proposed PLT 2012 Goals | Discussion Proposed 2012 CLT Goals | Discussion Community feedback requested on OSM's top 2012 goal ideas | Discussion Google Doc describing the planning process 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…

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.

Seems like its going to be one of those skraj days...

/rant on

I just found Yet Another Post About Wordpress SEO (YAPAWS) that is saying its better than Joomla's.

This is simply not true!!!!!

Last year I tested Wordpress and Joomla SEO, and guess what? There was no real difference, if anything, Joomla was better!

If anyone can show me with objective scientific evidence that Wordpress is better for SEO than Joomla I will give you a free Joomlashack Develop [...] Joomla - A User's Guide is the best selling book on Joomla, has been translated into over 6 languages, and is the highest reviewed title on Joomla at Amazon.com. Now you can get your own signed copy by signing up for Joomla hosting at Simplweb.