Joomla Resources

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.

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.

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.

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:

You need to display K2 extra fields in the related items section in the item view, but this is not supported by K2, here is how to do it...

Its a common problem for K2 newbies, when they try to configure K2 to allow users to submit/edit items on the front-end:

When you try to submit/edit items on the front-end I get this message: 403 - You are not authorized to view this resource

To make front-end edit/submit works smoothly, there are some parameters need to be configured properly: