Joomla Search Engine Optimization - SEO
If you are using Joomla CMS, SEO is in many ways a much easier task to undertake. There are link building components with auto link check features, friendly URL components, title tag creators, Google site map creators, built in site maps and many other "little programs" which automate many of the tedious optimization tasks for the webmaster. When you build a new website with Joomla, there is a list of components that should be installed and configured right from the very beginning of your project.
5 Steps to Make Your Joomla Website SEO Friendly.
1. Install the latest version of Joomla The core Joomla install package (1.10) now comes with better built-in usability features such as label tags being added to Site module and component output, and the mosHTML::selectList and mosHTML::radioList automatically provide the correct label tag.
Joomla! 1.5 SEO, a book you must read!
I was reading the helpful Joomla! 1.5 SEO book in the last 2 monthes, the need for this book arisen while I was looking for a way to increase the number of visitors to one of my Joomla! web sites.
The author of this book has chosen to go directly with readers to the practical and clear steps to increase the number of visitros to Joomla! web sites, by telling you how to utilize the variant Joomla! cabapilites and features to get better rankings in the search engines.
To achieve this goal, you will need to implement some SEO techniques on your Joomla! web site, which I have read much about it, but most of the information are kind of abstract and theoritical advices, which is helpful to understand WHAT is SEO, but for HOW TO SEO, this is the role of Joomla! 1.5 SEO.
Memory Limit Plugin (Joomla! 1.5 Native)
This plugin is for joomla users who don't know how to adjust memory_limit parameter of php to fix the error that says:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of [number] bytes exhausted (tried to allocate [number] bytes) in [filename]
This error is usually fixed by changing the memory_limit parameter in php.ini or in .htaccess file, but some web hosting companies do not allow you to modify php.ini, or you can't use .htaccess, or you don't know how to use them to fix this error, so you can use this parameter easily.
This plugin has only one parameter, it is named 'Maximum Memory Size', by entering an integer number , say x, in this parameter, the plugin sets the memory limit to x MB for the whole joomla website.
The default value for this parameter if not set is 32.
Fix for: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in
One of my clients asked me to debug his site, because when php5 is enabled from the control panel the site does not show anything, just white pages!
The site was built using Joomla! 1.5, so I enabled debugging mode and set the error reporting level to maximum to know what is the problem.
Then this error was displayed when opening any page:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in filename:lineno
Create professional templates, ONLY 4 STEPS
Being a newbie to Joomla! world, it is not hard for you now to create profissional templates.
Being a Joomla developer without strong background in web design, now you can build complete websites with worring about the template design.
Being a profissional web designer, now you can build many templates in shorter time.
It is the The Automated Web Designer ...
Create Your Own Professional Website using Joomla
If you new to building website, there’s no more easily than today as you can start having
Joomla is a free content management system CMS. This is a very powerful tool that you just need to download and install it on your webhosting server.
Joomla is 2 sided, front-end and back-end, your visitors can only see the front-end, and you can manage your website from back-end. It sounds confused and complicated but it’s very easy indeed.
Once your Joomla website is up, you just need to login to your back-end administration and write you content and publish it, all is done in WYSIWYG manner, simply unbelievable. You don’t have to learn the HTML or Javacripts or PHP or MySQL, if you know how to use windows, then you can use Joomla.
Most of the time people define website professionalism by 2 criteria, contents and website design.
How to Create a Photo Gallery Website - The Fast, Friendly, and Free Way to a Custom Photo Website
Move Over Photo Sharing Websites, I'm going Solo
There's a time and place for community-centered-photo-service-websites for the masses (whew!). But sometimes you need something all your own -- you know what I mean? If you've found that it's time that your photography skills and photos are worthy of a dedicated website of their own, read on to discover one of the most painless ways to create a stunning photo gallery website. You'll find that it's a lot easier than you think! With a little web programming knowledge and motivation, you can even build your photo website in one day or less, if you really wanted to.
How to Create a Photo Gallery Website In Less Than One Day
Now you don't have to build your website in one day -- I'm just saying it's possible, if you really, really wanted to (by all means take your time!)
I'll let you in on a little known secret to the world of building websites. Most major sites you see on the internet today were not made from scratch.
Starting A Website Development Business With Joomla
A couple years ago, when I was working for a web hosting company, it was may first time to get to know about Joomla and what content management system (CMS) is. I was amazed by how easily it is to setup a CMS website with just a few clicks. The installation process was so similar to installing a program on Windows.
Meeting Business Requirements
Since then, I have been playing around with Joomla and I have even used it to setup a few websites for some business clients, making some money out of the small projects. There are a lot of plug-ins for Joomla that can meet specific business requirements. For example, a wedding centre has asked me to setup a website for them with the following requests: