Joomla
7 Steps for Building Successful Joomla Web Site
Jul 7th
Step 1: Defining your business goals. The first step in this process is to clearly understand what the goals are for investing your time and money into this project. What practical results do you want to achieve with this initiative and who else will be involved in the process of achieving these goals. Very much like starting any new business you want a clear understanding of your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. More >
Blogging with Joomla
Jul 7th
Based on our Joomla experience, we have noticed that a small number of webmasters are using Joomla for blogging. I think that Joomla is offering a very well endowed environment and maybe the Joomla dev team should focus on attracting as many bloggers as possible. Right now, as you read these lines, there are more than 30 million bloggers all over the world …and counting. Even if a great deal of them is using free blogs, there are plenty of them that own or wish to buy their own blogging domain. If those would be attracted to Joomla, the number of Joomla users would exponentially increase. More >
Is Joomla CMS SEO Compatible?
Jul 7th
A lot have been written for and against Joomla Content Management System (CMS). The usual saying is that Joomla is not a best bet in terms of Search Engine friendliness. However, this is the view of those unprofessional who really don’t know how to optimize the power of this Content Management System. More >
Mambo falling, Joomla growing?
Jul 7th
Almost a year passed since Joomla became a real CMS. Now it’s time to make a little study to find if it’s still growing and if it’s more powerful than Mambo. A few days ago Google released Google Trends , a nice and helpful tool for webmasters. This study is based on searches made by regular users on Google. I must say that this tool has a small problem. It doesn’t show the number of searches (probably millions) but you will see that it give us a clue where Joomla is compared to Mambo. More >
Manage Content in Joomla
Jul 7th
Joomla offers you more possibilities to add content to your website. Joomla is a Content Management System and need to offer various option to add content.
The “classic” way is to create contents with sections and categories. To add a single page you need to create a Section. In that section you can create one or more Categories. More >
Reasons to Choose Joomla as your CMS
Jul 7th
If you are searching for a CMS and found Joomla stop searching. It’s the best CMS you can get. And it is free. You think Mambo is better for you? Well….is not. I will present you some reasons to choose Joomla. I’m sure you will agree. So, let’s start! More >
Understanding sections, categories and articles in Joomla CMS
Jul 7th
Articles
Let’s start with some definitions. In Joomla!, an Article is some written information that you want to display on your site. It normally contains some text and can contain pictures and other types of content. For many Joomla! Sites, articles build the majority of the information presented in the website. More >
What is VirtueMart Shopping Cart Solution?
Jul 7th
VirtueMart is a revolutionary Open Source ecommerce solution that integrates with Joomla!! Content Management System (CMS) to deliver a robust mechanism for managing every kind of shopping cart.
VirtueMart Shopping Cart Solution (VSCS) is a standalone mechanism for your every shopping cart need. Since both Joomla!! and VirtueMart are written in PHP/MySQL, the entire VSCS is user-friendly and delivers in real time. More >
How to configure VirtueMart to work with SSL?
Jul 7th
VirtueMart can use both a private SSL certificate and a shared SSL certificate. Below you will find guidelines how to configure it depending on the certificate you want to use. More >
What is Joomla CMS and its features?
Jul 7th
There are three basic forms of interfaces or platforms on which Joomla can be used. One is the intranet and the other two is the World Wide Web and Model-view-controller. Intranet is basically used to share information between different employees in the organization. People can transfer data and share information through internet protocol technologies. World Wide Web on the other hand allows publishing information through series of interlinked hypertext document. This interface is public where information is present as a cohesive model. Model-view-controller allows publishing, testing, maintenance and input of data through an independent data. More >