Due to popular demand, we've decided to add meta tag support to K2, the popular extension by JoomlaWorks.gr, to our iJoomla SEO.  So now, you will be able to edit all your K2 meta tags in one place, easily. This feature will be available in the next version of iJoomla SEO, coming in mid July 2009, stay tuned!

As promised, guys at the JED (Joomla Extensions Directory) have removed all the commercial (and non-commercial) NON-GPL extensions. This is a big hit for all the commercial developers who spent a lot of time and money developing these extensions, counting on JED to provide the traffic. As we knew this was coming, we've created our own directory, listing all the commercial NON-GPL extensions, so that developers can promote them and so that users can find them easily and rate/review them.

So if you need to find a commercial extensions, go to extensions.ijoomla.com, and don't forget to rate/review extensions you are using!

Here's a video that describes what are the new features that we've added to the upcoming version of iJoomla SEO. As you will be able to see, this new version is MUCH more robust, and allows you to monitor your keywords placement on Google, identify problematic pages on your site and fix them easily and create internal and external automatic links. These new features make iJoomla SEO a very complete solution for optimizing your Joomla site for Search Engines.

Today I've been working on specs for new features of iJoomla Ad Agency. iJoomla Ad Agency is very powerful and our customers are very happy with it. There is one feature though that people keep asking for and it's the ability to control which zone(s) applies to which package. For example, a package with a  zone that's "above the fold", has more visibility and there for should cost more. I'm attaching the mockup so that you can see how it will look like on the backend and front end.

THIS PRODUCT IS CURRENTLY IN BETA!!! AND ALL MY COMMENTS ARE JUST FOR THIS BETA RELEASE!!!

Morph is a new and revolutionary template from JoomlaJunkie.com. It's the first template I've seen that includes a component!

I had the pleasure of meeting founder Chris Rault at the 2008 CMS Expo. He is a very bright guy with some fantastic ideas for Joomla, and he’s determined to change the way we see and use Joomla templates. Chris asked me to perform usability testing on Morph BETA and I was very excited to do so.

I didn't read any of the template’s documentations because I wanted my experience to be "fresh." That led to one unpleasant surprise. In this limited beta version, Morph wipes out the site’s entire data, replacing it with template information. Chris assures me that this will not be an issue in stable releases. Users will be able to choose whether to keep their content or to install the Morph content.

There were a few other issues but they were very minor and as you will see in this usability testing video and in the summary below, I was very impressed with this template’s breadth. You can control every aspect of your site's design: logo, colors, width of different elements and so on. I tested only a few features but I am sure I will be testing and using all of them in the future.

Morph is going to change the way template developers and users see templates. It will also allow users to create user-friendly sites easily. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it evolves!