Our friends over at Joomla Shack recently gave us a copy of this books second edition printing. I was a bit surprised at how easily it read. The book covers the major points a techie would need to know to quickly introduce himself to Joomla including installation, understanding Joomla’s document and menu hierarchy, user hierarchy, its approach to css templates and setting up a test area for yourself with Wamp. (A simple bundle for Windows that sets up Apache, Mysql, and PHP. The software ingredients necessary to run a Joomla website on your own computer for testing and development purposes)
What surprised me was that this book was a very elegant and easy read that I found to be straight forward enough for the average user. But at the same time it covers all the right points to serve as a quick introduction to Joomla for a techie. I will be recommending this book to clients of ours who are Joomla users and would recommend this to anyone out there who is setting up a new Joomla site or anyone who wants a better understanding of the Joomla site they’re already running. I’d also recommend this book to any techies who aren’t familiar with Joomla or who have gotten confused after installing Joomla and asked “how do I make this thing look like my clients website?”.
This book won’t slow you down with long winded explanations about quantum physics and how the web came into being. It focuses strictly on the topic at hand and its highlighted sections with the caption “The least you need to know” tell it like it is in as few words as is reasonably possible. Again I’m still quite surprised to find a book that’s a good quick overview for techies and manages at the same time to be a potential holy grail for average users who need to manage a Joomla site.
Kudos to Barrie North at Joomla Shack for this fine piece of work.
SEO news blog post by Dave Davies, CEO @ 1:41 pm
We just finished airing a great episode of Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm. Today we covered a bit of news including the free-to-attend Affiliate Convention – organized in part by my co-host Mr. Jim Hedger.
Our first guest today was none other than Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz who discussed a great paper they recent published on link building titled, “The Professional’s Guide To Link Building” (which – I’ll point out – the fact that I’m linking to it in this blog post proves one of their link building points). Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in building links.
We discussed link profiles, what to look for when analyzing your competitors and how to determine the right strategy for your link building efforts.
Rand also discussed with us some comments made by Seth Godin regarding how to make money from SEO and whether or not SEO’s need to know code (apparently 21% of SEO’s polled don’t think they do).
After Rand, Jim and I had the pleasure of chatting with Barrie North from Joomla Shack who discussed with us the benefits of Joomla as well as other SEO-friendly CMS systems. We covered issues such as easy-of-use and what to take into account when first setting up your site.
If you missed this great episode you can listen to or download the podcast from the Webmaster Radio site here.
SEO news blog post by Dave Davies, CEO @ 2:02 pm
We just finished airing a great episode of Webcology on WebmasterRadio.fm. Today we covered a bit of news including the free-to-attend Affiliate Convention – organized in part by my co-host Mr. Jim Hedger.
Our first guest today was none other than Rand Fishkin over at SEOmoz who discussed a great paper they recent published on link building titled, “The Professional’s Guide To Link Building” (which – I’ll point out – the fact that I’m linking to it in this blog post proves one of their link building points). Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in building links.
We discussed link profiles, what to look for when analyzing your competitors and how to determine the right strategy for your link building efforts.
Rand also discussed with us some comments made by Seth Godin regarding how to make money from SEO and whether or not SEO’s need to know code (apparently 21% of SEO’s polled don’t think they do).
After Rand, Jim and I had the pleasure of chatting with Barrie North from Joomla Shack who discussed with us the benefits of Joomla as well as other SEO-friendly CMS systems. We covered issues such as easy-of-use and what to take into account when first setting up your site.
If you missed this great episode you can listen to or download the podcast from the Webmaster Radio site here.
SEO news blog post by Dave Davies, CEO @ 2:02 pm
