Month: November 2005
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An Incomplete Guide to SEO
An Incomplete Guide to SEO How to earn $1,000Â’s a day with Search Engine Optimization and Joomla. “How you can profit from the EXACT SAME search engine optimization strategies that I used to charge clients $3,590 a day to implement!” In this web-based, no-hype guide, I’ll reveal my simple step-by-step…
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Joomla CSS Drop Down Menu Tutorial
Want a lean CSS drop down menu in Joomla? Meet the suckerfish! OK, if you have read my SEO guide, you might have noticed I am biased a little against flash and JavaScript. I like to emphasize W3C valid code and lean pages, neither of which is helped by these…
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5: Making a 3 column Joomla Theme for your joomla website
In this joomla tutorial, we will look at a 3 column theme for your joomla website. Most joomla websites use 3 columns and having the theme start with that is a good foundation. Then later we can hide side columns if there is no content in them for that page.
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4: A Blank Template CSS file for Joomla
In an earlier section, we discussed a slightly different design process. Instead of creating the design and then doing the CSS layout, we will be doing it the other way round, the Joomla CSS first. We are doing this because we want to make an blank CSS template file that…
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3: Free Web Design Tools
So we are about to begin design the site for real, but first we need a few tools. Now, everyone probably has their own favorites, but here is a list I have been working on of all the tools you will need to design a site. The good part? They…
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2: Installing Joomla, doctype and the blank joomla template
In this article we will look quickly at installing joomla and then spend most of our time discussing the joomla doctype and how it relates to a valid joomla site. We’ll also briefly look at how to construct a basic or blank joomla template with the index.php file.
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1. Creating a W3C valid Joomla template
In this series of articles, we’ll be building a valid joomla template. Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that is freely (literally) available and supported by a large on-line community. The site will actually be live on-line from the very beginning, you’ll be able to see the…
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A Network of Town Web Sites
Compass is to design a series of websites for Strafford, VT. They will include interconnected sites for the local school and libraries and other community organizations in the town. Each will have a design based on a central town theme, and be closely interconnected through links. The goal of the…
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