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Monday, 28 July 2008 16:08

Joomla! 1.5.5 Released

Written by Mike Carson
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The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.5 [Mamni]. This is a quick turnaround release to address the Duplicate Title error from 1.5.4 . This release also contains important SEF URL improvements and fixes for com_content in addition to a number of bug fixes and improvements. It has been nearly three weeks since Joomla! 1.5.4 was released on July 8, 2008. The Development Working Group 's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates…
Monday, 28 July 2008 14:43

How Much Market Share Does Joomla Have?

Written by Mike Carson
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{mosimage}  Yesterday Water & Stone released the first extensive survey of market share in the open source content management system market. The survey shows that three systems lead the race: WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. The survey concludes that these three systems have opened up a large lead on the rest of the pack to become the dominant brands in the market. What remains to be seen is which of these three brands will emerge as the leader.    The first…
Monday, 28 July 2008 13:49

Why do I need a tune up? Isn't Joomla Secure?

Written by Mike Carson
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    The question often comes up "WHY" do you need a security Tune UP? Isn't Joomla Secure?   One of the most overlooked and ignored areas of a Joomla website is  the topic of how secure is the website? Will it get hacked? Can it get hacked? What would I do if my site ends up HACKED?  
Monday, 28 July 2008 13:06

Top ten tips for implementing e-learning

Written by Mike Carson
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  If you are about to develop or implement e-learning within your organisation, then keep in mind these Ten Tips from Jane Knight of the e-Learning Centre.    
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    Well, not all everything. But the one you’ll very frequently encounter went something along these lines: a search engine likes text. Therefore, if you’re building a Flash heavy website, its position on search engines will, by definition, suck.    
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    There are many tips that you can use to become an event planner and become one of the best, however, you need to know that to become an excellent event planner you need to pay attention to the fine details and offer the best to your clients. This can take a lot of time from your day-to-day activities. To become an event planner you need to put forth a lot of energy and time.    
Monday, 28 July 2008 12:31

Top 16 Guest Speaker Directory Sites

Written by Mike Carson
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Hiring a professional guest speaker is an important step in planning an event. Most events feature guest speakers, or at least one professional guest speaker. Sometimes, the main feature of your event is the celebrity guest speaker, so finding one is usually on the event planning agenda. The following list of event speaker directories and bureaus should provide a thorough resource the next time you are trying to locate the best person for your event. There are lots more than…
Saturday, 26 July 2008 07:53

Extensions No Joomla Site Should Live Without

Written by Mike Carson
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  We have put together a list of Joomla Extensions that we believe that EVERY Joomla website should take into consideration. No matter what kind of Joomla website you have, these are the very basic extensions that you should install first on your websites. These Joomla extensions are crucial to the operations of any Joomla website no matter what kind of site you are maintaining.  
Wednesday, 23 July 2008 21:35

New Joomla Video Tutorials

Written by Mike Carson
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  We are glad to announce the start of our Joomla Video Tutorials collection.  Joomla can be a tricky content management system.  Without any training it can be extremely frustrating. And now with the new version released (Joomla 1.5) things can get very confusing. We are here to help you through it all.
Saturday, 19 July 2008 12:41

SEF and Joomla 1.5

Written by Mike Carson
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In Joomla 1.5 you have the possibility to activate Search Engine Friendly URLs that will remake the structure of URLs in order to gain more importance for search engines spiders. There are also many modules and components available for download that will allow you to improve the structure of URLs and overall Joomla performance.

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