September 22, 2009
Posted in iJoomla Extensions by merav | 1 Comment
When the Internet was young and dotcoms could write their own start-up checks, meta keywords were all the rage. They determined search engine rankings, and the rankings determined income. So they got spammed. Marketers stuffed them with all sorts of irrelevant terms and search engines responded by… well, ignoring them. Google’s Matt Cutts explains in the following video that:
“Our web search disregards keyword meta tags completely. They simply don’t have any effect in our search ranking at present.”
And yet, iJoomla SEO allows you to manage all of your meta tags in one page. If Google doesn’t use them for [...] read more »
September 21, 2009
Posted in Extensions Reviews, Joomla, WordPress by merav | 3 Comments
Tags: corePHP, WordPress
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 list of articles in blog format. It’s simple enough, but it’s also missing many of the cool features available for WordPress, the most advanced blogging software available.
So how can you keep your Joomla site and still enjoy all of the benefits of WordPress?
It used to be [...] read more »
August 27, 2009
Posted in iJoomla Extensions by merav | No Comments
Tags: iJoomla Ad Agency, New Features
iJoomla Ad Agency has always been a very strong extension, but we want to make it the perfect advertising solution for any Joomla site. So we’ve added a bunch of new features that we’ve been thinking about for a while, many of them prompted by your emails and feedback on the forum.
We’ve also put a lot of work into the interface.
Because iJoomla Ad Agency is so feature-rich, some users have said that they struggle to find their way around. We’ve tried to make that simpler by adding “grayboxes” to different pages. These allow you to add advertisers and advertisements without [...] read more »
July 12, 2009
Posted in Joomla by merav | No Comments
Tags: joomla 1.6
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 news is that ACL and Nested Categories will be included. We at iJoomla.com, plan to start modifying our extensions to work with Joomla 1.6 within 2-3 months, and hopefully by the time it’s stable, we will be supporting it (no promises though).
Thoughts:
If you’re still working [...] read more »
July 08, 2009
Posted in Tips & Tricks by merav | No Comments
Changing the favicon (the icon on your browser window) can be pretty easy, if you know the right way to do it.
How to replace your favicon video Video summery:
Create an image for the favicon, the width and height should be the same
Go to http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ and upload your icon
Download the favicon and save it on your computer
Find out where the image is located on your server
If you don’t already have it, download and install Firefox and the “Web Developer Tool Bar“
Find the location of the image
If you don’t already have it, download and install extplorer extension on your Joomla admin
Find and [...] read more »
July 03, 2009
Posted in SEO, iJoomla Extensions by merav | 1 Comment
Tags: New Features, SEO
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!
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July 02, 2009
Posted in Joomla by merav | No Comments
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!
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June 30, 2009
Posted in SEO, iJoomla Extensions by merav | No Comments
Tags: New Features, SEO
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.
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June 13, 2009
Posted in iJoomla Extensions by merav | No Comments
Tags: iJoomla Ad Agency, New Features
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.
The other feature people are requesting a lot is banners rotation. So [...] read more »
June 01, 2009
Posted in Templates, Usability by merav | No Comments
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 [...] read more »
