We are running our next Joomla training course on 20 February 2010 in Johannesburg. The course is a hands-on course for newbies to Joomla and use a case study to go through the whole process of creating a website in Joomla, from understanding how to structure content, to manipulating and loading images, to installing components and plugins, to making your site SEO friendly.
The course is hands-on and intensive for the whole day, and at the end of the day you will be fully equipped to build your own Joomla website. The course comes with a full support manual, a CD with the most useful plugins and components, and free Joomla templates
So you have wanted to upgrade your joomla 1.0 site to joomla
1.5 but scared to make the jump in case you lose your current content? Well you
no longer need to worry about that any more as in this tutorial we can show you
how to migrate your Joomla 1.0 content to Joomla 1.5.
Click on the read more link below to get to the meat of the matter.
I have used Google webmaster tools for a while now. I just love the way that it gives you a peek into the 'behind the scenes' world of your website. Using Google webmaster tools you can see where your site is positioned in the various versions of the search engines, and whether you have problems with your site indexing. It also gives you the opportunity to submit a Sitemap, which can really help to get your site spidered quickly.
I have written about the Google webmaster tools before, but recently Google made an update to their interface and changed some things around. Let's take a look at what has changed...
Stock images, rightly or wrongly, are one of the best ways of spicing up an otherwise dull website page.
Pictures speak to the emotions and portray a specific image - in fact, as any advertising agency would probably want to tell you 'image is everything'.
In the web design world this is actually not true and I can get really frustrated with the idea that the actual graphic design aspects are placed on some type of pedestal and that it is a case of 'graphics über alles' - actually, if your website content matches up to what your website visitors are looking for then the actual design of the site does not really matter that much. No really!
Nevertheless, for a corporate website or a brochure type site, stock images can be used very effectively to add interest to a web page.
Click on the read more link below to find some good sources for stock images to use on your site.
A Quicksite Package enables you to get your website online quickly and, very importantly in today's economic climate - cheaply! This is an entry level fully functional website, designed without sacrificing quality and speed. The website includes a contact us form and provides you with the option to expand your site later with more pages and more functionality, such as image galleries, forums, blogs and so forth.
COST?? Getting your own website with our Quicksite approach means that you can get a professional looking website up and running in the matter of a couple of days, at a cost of R1824. Hosting fees are R75.24 per month, and this package includes free domain registration for the first year, valued at R114. (All prices include VAT)
NOTES TO REMEMBER: Your Quicksite can have up to 10 pages with 2 images per page.
Click here to load a page
(You can load up to 10 pages for your site. After you have uploaded one page, you will be returned to this page so that you can upload further pages by just clicking on the same link)
I recently had to use a Newsflash module on a website that had to be tailored a bit from the standard Newsflash. This site was still built in Joomla 1.0.15 so this review is based on the available modules for this version.
Online reputation management (ORM) is a relatively new branch of Internet Marketing but it is getting increased exposure and a lot more companies are realising the importance actively managing their reputation on the Internet.
This component of our SEO and Internet Marketing activities consists of ensuring that websites have a greater exposure in the search engines by making sure that the website's reputation increases through the fact that it is positioned in such a way that there are numerous other sites linking to it.
The second activity to perform is 'on-site optimisation'. This is usually what is understood by most people to be the bulk of work of what is popularly understood under 'SEO'.
