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Building Online Communities with Joomla
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at a class about Open Source Content Management Systems at Marlboro College Graduate Center. Taught by Jen Kramer McKibben, the course is focused on using Joomla to build online communities.
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Free Software Does Not Come Cheap
What are the best, free open-source solutions for e-commerce? My needs include robust international transactional functionality, a shopping-cart mechanism, and something that can be easily customized to handle products and Web content on a global scale, from Japan to Brazil. Read the CNN Small Business Post about open source ecommerce…
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Joomlashack Releases its latest native Joomla 1.5 Template
Introducing the latest native Joomla 1.5 template from Joomlashack – JS Relevant! Joomla templates are fast becoming overloaded with widgets and code bloat. Relevant is a refreshingly clean template that let’s your all important content speak for your site, and not get buried under a distracting template. Built to be…
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Community Builder Goes Joomla 1.5 Native
A couple of weeks ago the Community Builder Team released the next version of Community Builder, one that runs natively on Joomla 1.5. Community Builder is one of the most popular extensions for Joomla. Its been a hot item on the Joomla Extensions site since I can remember, and is…
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JContact Released Powerful Email Newsletters for Joomla 1.5
In a previous post, Increase Your traffic with Professional Email Marketing, I briefly discussed how to leverage email marketing to increase the repeat traffic at your website. To make this easier, Joomlashack has released a powerful Email Newsletter component for Joomla 1.5; we call it J!Contact.
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Joomla Powered Pancakes
mmmmmmmmmm… I was browsing an interesting tool I found recently, inspired by Steve Burge’s recent blog about bigger sites running Joomla. I discovered that you can get Joomla Powered Pancakes!
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Increase Your traffic with Professional Email Marketing
One of the most important things for a successful website is traffic. That might sound like an obvious point, but alot of people get lost in the technology and don’t see the forest for the trees. Just traffic isn’t good enough, it has to be defensible traffic. Something that doesn’t…
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When is getting Slashdotted not Getting Slashdotted
Answer: When the traffic goes elsewhere! A review of my Joomla book was on Slashdot.com earlier today. Fortunately, there was no links to my site, that would have crushed the poor VPS I run on.
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Are you a Joomla Expert
Are you a good writer? This is your chance to get noticed on the #1 blog about Joomla! We are looking for skillful writers who can share their expertise about Joomla. What we want We are looking for either full length tutorials on some aspect of websites and Joomla 1.5,…
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Editing HTML in a Joomla Module or Article
There are lots of times you might want to work in raw HTML in a Joomla article or module. For example, embedding Google maps, or maybe using a widget in a module like Feedburner. Unfortunately, sometimes the editor screen you are using will strip out the HTML code, or cause…
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