Archive for January, 2007

ElearningForce Extensions for Joomla!

ElearningForce, a Denmark based company is an online market place where you can buy high-quality Joomla components and modules. Great survey, quiz, and multi-site adminstrative components make this worth a look.

Switch from PC to Mac?

Yes, I know this sounds like an article dug out of the archives from 1991 but it IS current … and highly relevant. 
I’m a longtime user of PCs … going back to the IBM XT back in the pliocine era of desktop computing … so the fact that I’m considering changing over to an Apple platform […]

Drupal 5.0 Released

After 8 months of development Drupal 5.0 has been released.
Fittingly, the release date coincided with Drupal’s sixth birthday.
New features added

Status page and requirement checking: added a status report page with detailed PHP/MySQL/Drupal information and requirement checking.
Web-based installer: added web-based installer that checks run-time requirements and that supports pre-made install profiles or distributions with better support for […]

Joomla Cloner - backup and restore

OK … no “bring on the clones” references (oooops … to late)
New Joomla Component to simplify the process of moving a Joomla installation to a new host. I haven’t tried it but features and reviews look pretty darn good. Anything that simplifies adminstration is fine by me.
 Backend Features:
- Create full or partial backups based on your […]

Google SEO for Webmasters and Site owners

SEO basics from Google that can/should be consulted to help you be smart about your SEO work.
Google IS the 800 lb gorilla of search engines so you might as well learn how it likes it’s bananas served.

Webmaster Help Center
Sections include: My site and Google, Using Google webmaster tools to monitor my site, and Managing my Google […]

Google Avatar Matt Cutts

If your interested in, struggling with, clueless about, or just looking for good Google tidbits to drop at cocktail parties, check out Matt Cutts’ blog — specifically the Google SEO category is as close as you can get to a Google insider. You can also subcribe to the Google SEO RSS Feed.
His short bio:
I joined Google as a software […]