The CMS Expo in Chicago was amazing. It’s always amazing but this year was really special: iJoomla won the award for “Best App Developer for Joomla”! That’s a fantastic feeling and it really is great to be acknowledged. We owe a big thanks to everyone in the Joomla community and especially to our customers who [...]

The amazing CMS Expo is fast approaching, and all the best developers and speakers will be attending. Don’t miss it! It’s in beautiful Chicago, it’s going to be lots of fun, and you’ll get to hang out with other Joomla users and many Joomla developers too… including me (but come anyway.) You’ll get to learn [...]

You know it’s important to have a blog on your website. Google loves fresh content, and many companies report they get more traffic to their blog than to any other page on their site. Joomla does have some blogging capabilities built in. You can create a category and a menu item that links to a [...]

Joomla 1.6 alpha is already here, and the beta version will be released in August 2009.In this presentation Andrew Eddie explains the changes and the new features of Joomla 1.6. Unfortunately, like with the case of Joomla 1.5, this is not going to be a simple upgrade (currently there is no upgrade plan). The good [...]

Over the years I’ve been involved in Joomla, I’ve seen some great improvements in templates. Many templates are now very sophisticated, slick and beautiful. Just compare the early work of any of the veteran template providers with their recent efforts to see the quantum leaps they’ve all made. But while looks have improved, front-end usability [...]

Website real estate is so important. You want to make the most of each of your pages, especially the area “above the fold” that users can see before they scroll down the page. Joomla’s new login module though is HUGE. In fact, at 159px X 258px, it’s about 43 percent taller than the old version! [...]

While I was working on this new iJoomla.com site (version 1.5), I noticed that every time I logged in to the admin, the number of “online users” had grown. Only four people were working on the site — myself, the designer and a couple of programmers — but the number just seemed to keep getting [...]

SEO may sound complicated and expensive, but there are a number of things you can do to improve your search engine ranking that won’t have you spending a dime or tearing your hair out. Our friends at Alledia.com have put together a list — just for iJoomla’s newsletter subscribers — of the 10 simplest SEO [...]

Joomla has over 3,000 extensions. Some are good. Some are bad. Some are useful. Some you’ll never use. And some are cooler than a polar bear in sunglasses. These are the ten extensions that I think are the neatest. iJoomla SideBars – My favorite iJoomla product. Okay, I admit it. I’m biased. But I still [...]

In this edition, I’m going to be talking about RSS reader modules for Joomla. RSS Readers allow you to display articles or news reports that appear on someone else’s website on your Web pages. RSS reader modules let you display this content in a module position. You’ll get free and fresh content from another site; [...]