With the release of Joomla 1.6.0, two new SEO options are available in the Global Configuration of the Joomla Administrator. This blog will present a short overview of all the available Joomla 1.6 SEO settings, with recommended values for each of the settings. – Search Engine Friendly URLs Description: Select whether or not the URLs are optimized for Search Engines. Default value: No | Recommended value: Yes Most people on the web seem to agree on this [...]

I believe it really comes down to really knowing what each platform is capable of, what plugins are available, and how to leverage them toward your clients specific goals. Both platforms can do most of the same things, but for certain tasks or applications one or the other might be the better choice. I’ve used Joomla and WordPress for web design and since version 3 of WordPress, for most of my needs, I much more [...]

A great feature of Joomla is the Module Manager, which allows you to insert various functions into your website. Perhaps you want to include a search bar, or a latest news updates box, or a menu contained within your websites side bar. The module manager is where all this action begins. Joomla already has a whole lot of great default modules you can begin using straight away, and there are also literally thousands of other [...]

Joomla has long been a popular option as a content management system, and has been used to run many large sites and business portals. Traditionally, Joomla has competed well not only against fellow open source CMS products such as Drupal and WordPress, but also against commercial content management products. But, despite this success, Joomla has had a few major weaknesses, especially when it came to user management and access permissions. However, the recent release of [...]

Joomla is a content management system (CMS) for web sites. Current estimates (as of January 14, 2011) are that Joomla powers 2.6% of all web sites. Joomla version 1.x was replaced with Joomla 1.5x several years ago, and the changes were significant. Late on January 10, 2011, version 1.6 was released. This version has some wonderful changes, and many parts of Joomla were re-written from scratch to accomplish these feats. Here are some of the [...]

The User Manager options configuration screen will allow you to control and configure how you want your users administration to work in Joomla 1.6. (1) Mass Mail This will allow you to mass mail all of your users in the system. This is great for alerting users to issues on the website or remind users to change and update their passwords on the system. (2) Permissions The permissions tab sets out what user group has [...]

Joomla is not search engine friendly by default. You need to put some work into improving this. The main thing that you notice when you start your SEO work on Joomla website is the URL or each page. The page URLs produced by Joomla are not search engine friendly. They have always query parameters, which doesn’t give much information for search engines to properly index and rank those pages. When you do on-page search engine [...]

Managing users in Joomla 1.6 is all controlled in the User Manager area in the backend of Joomla. In the User Manager area you can add new users, delete, deny access, user groups and permissions of those user groups to the content management system. This tutorial will just look at the basic user management areas of Joomla 1.6. To access the User Management screen, either click on the User Manager icon from the control panel [...]

Installation hasn’t changed and is the same number of steps so we won’t cover this during our review. One thing that would be nice to see in future versions and that we would have liked to see in this release would be the automatic removal of the /installation directory at the end of the install. Right now, the installer expects the user to delete this when removing it automatically would make things slightly more convenient.  [...]

The media manager is the perfect place to store your images, videos, and PDF documents. It can be used effectively as a filing system. Media can be uploaded at any time, and retrieved and inserted into articles at any stage. Access to the Media Manager is via the Media Manager icon from the Joomla control panel: or can be accessed by selecting MEDIA MANAGER from the CONTENT menu in the top menu bar: Images, Videos [...]