Blog entries tagged Joomla

Joomla 1.6 Hathor Template brings accessibility to the back end

Joshua Archer — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Andrew Eddie interviews Andrea Tarr about a new Administrator template in Joomla 1.6

Having worked in public education for over six years, I'm extremely sensitive to issues of accessibility, and it's awesome that Andrea Tarr has spent the time and energy to create a back-end that is screen-reader compliant and allows for institutions that take Governmental funding to use Joomla and be 508 compliant and required by state and federal law.

Joomlashack releases new Joomla component that integrates Scribe, an SEO content analyzer and ...

Joshua Archer — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:00:00 +0100

I've always been impressed with the work that Joomlashack does, and so I am pleased to give them kudos for integrating Scribe into Joomla in a comprehensive and easy-to-use component. Frankly, I had never even heard of Scribe until I heard about this little release, but because I like to investigate new components, I gave it a whirl, and I have to tell you, it's pretty nifty. Scribe, in a nutshell, is an online service that will analyze your content for SEO correctness, keyword density, and g...

Waiting to update Joomla from 1.5.15

Joshua Archer — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:00:00 +0100

I've been sitting on my hands, waiting for our hosting setup to be configured with the latest and greatest update of Joomla - 1.5.16 came out several weeks ago, followed quickly with a 1.5.17 update, and while I can easily do manual upgrades, it's much better to do it through the cPanel, managed through Fanastico de Lux. Sometimes, however, it pays to wait:

http://blog.joomlatools.eu/2010/05/advising-to-not-upgrade-to-joomla.html

It appears there are some issues with the most re...

Microsoft in bed with Joomla! - Messy relationship issues, or beautiful children?

Joshua Archer — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:00:00 +0100

The latest news on the Joomla front is that Microsoft has signed the contributor license for Joomla, allowing its employees to contribute to the code base of this Open Source, widely-used and PHP-based content management system.

Now, I try not to be a blind devotee of the open source movement, and I'm not anti-corporate, but there's something about this that gives me the heeby-geebies. On one hand, Microsoft programmers are some of the best in the world (seriously, no jokes about...

The Qualities that Make a Top Notch Web Design Team

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0100

One of my duties as the Project Manager is also to answer the phone. I've had a lot of jobs that revolved around providing phone-based customer service, but I find working with web design clients very rewarding.

One aspect I enjoy is listening to the problems of potential clients who are unhappy with their current web design team. It's not so much that I enjoy hearing that they're unhappy as much as I enjoy knowing that we can fix their problems. It's in these conversations that I've d...

Cobbler, Shoe Thy Children!

Joshua Archer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Hello, Joshua here.

I wanted to take a moment and report on an experience I had this week with a client that seriously kicked me in the behind and made me think long and ha...