Today I'm speaking with Anthony Olsen, a fellow Australian and Joomla enthusiast. Anthony has been working with Joomla since 2006 and is the lead designer at Joomlabamboo, who develop some of the finest templates around. Let's discover more about the typical life of a template developer and learn how Joomla has changed over the years. And if you're new to Joomla or if your site could use a facelift, be sure to check out the special offer Anthony has prepared for you.
How to change the text that appears with many common Joomla functions.
This week's newsletter will explain how you can get a custom K2 template working for your Joomla website. It's a bit more involved in terms of file manipulation, but we'll look at it from a very general point of view, give you some tips and explain why we think this is a really nice feature. You will need either good knowledge of and access to cPanel or a good command of FTP. You will also need to know a bit about CSS, and remember that you can always get professional help when you need it.
This week we’ll take a look at a new slider building extension from Offlajn. It's a pretty nice toy to play with, and while we haven't had it for long enough to become complete experts yet, the benefits are pretty clear if you're wanting to include dynamic content on your website.
This week we're back to K2 and discussing item tags and their benefits. If you're used to search engine optimization, then most of the concepts will be familiar, it's just nice to know you have this capability on a local level, within your website, as well.
This is the first of several posts for our affiliates.
This tutorial is helpful if you want to promote our courses and you have a Joomla powered website, a commercial plugin called JW Player and the associated LongTail Video player.
This post demonstrates how to add our free "The Basics" course to your website and earn a commission.
This week is a bit of a combination topic. We are talking a bit about K2 still as we address the topic of titles for your articles, but we're also including some SEO ideas, as well as some basic standards for good writing. We are, after all, trying to drive traffic to our websites with almost everything we do. If you produce your own content for your website, you'll want to go through these points carefully.
Is it a forum? Is it a support ticket system? Is it the Joomla equivalent of Yahoo Answers?
Today we take a look at EasyDiscuss, a flexible extension that can be used for all sorts of applications.
We've received some inquiries asking about the best ways to embed videos into Joomla content. This isn't always a straightforward, easy thing to do, especially considering all of the different types of media that people end up working with these days. Most folks settle on using some component or another to embed media. There are a number of good extensions available, and the one we're looking at handles video, audio and images.
