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A 30 minute video introduction to Joomla 1.5
If you are curious about the new version of Joomla (1.5), then you should nip over to itidiots.com and check out the training video they have just published. It walks you through some basic steps in getting a site up and running.
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Joomla Confirmation emails to hotmail and aol
I have noticed that alot of confirmation emails to aol and hotmail accounts are getting blocking in spam filters. I suspect there has been a change in the spam filtering with these global providers. To try and offset the direct email I have been getting to activate people’s accounts, I…
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Template Names, Paths and Base URL for 1.5 Joomla Templates
I was playing around with 1.5 templates after the release of the 2nd release candidate for Joomla 1.5. I thought I might share some basic PHP/Joomla references for common template outputs like template names, paths and base URL.
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Joomla polls and Open SEF
I was just setting up a poll on this site and discovered that there was a problem with Open SEF and polls. The redirect URL would not work properly. Fortunately, the fix was relatively easy…
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Environmental Blog Action Day
I came across a great project recently, the environmental blog action day. Its a simple concept, to get thousands of bloggers around the world to be talking about the environment on October 15th.
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The Worm hasTurned-Switching to Gmail
Ok, so I finally broke down and made the switch to gmail. I have been using a POP client (thunderbird), but the number of emails I get a day was overwhelming (150+). I’ll add to this post over the next few days with some reflections on the move. Might be…
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Top 10 Joomla SEO tips for Google
Its been while since I have done much blogging about Joomla SEO, almost a year in fact. I thought I would do some research and see how the collective wisdom of the industry has changed with what matter to get a page search engine optimized (SEO). Use this top ten…
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Joomlashack working on Joomla 1.5 Templates
Last week I mentioned that the Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate had arrived, officially taking Joomla 1.5 out of beta status. At Joomlashack we have been working hard poring over the new 1.5 templating engine and are looking for community input for what templates you would like to see run on…
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A Free 1.5 Joomla Extension-Flash Rotator 2.5
If you are looking for an easy way to get classy looking images on your Joomla 1.5 site, you don’t have to wait any longer. Joomlashack has now upgraded their hugely popular Flash Rotator module for Joomla 1.5.
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Joomla 1.5 SEO Improvements
Over the last few weeks I have been putting the finishing touches to 3 final chapters of my Joomla 1.5 book about creating school, blog and restaurant websites with Joomla. As I have been building the demos, I had a chance to play with the new SEO and SEF features…
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