"Video and Your Joomla Site" was the topic of December's presentation to the Joomla User Group of Dallas/Fort Worth by Greg Wyman of Eternal Interactive. Greg is accomplished in media production and web design, and has taught courses in video production.
Greg Wyman spoke about the importance of video to your site, video production, and the implementation of video on your Joomla website.
If you're new to Web publishing systems, you'll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Moreover, it is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site that's simple to deploy and use. We do content right.
So what's the catch? How much does this system cost?
Well, there's good news ... and more good news! Joomla! 1.5 is free, it is released under an Open Source license - the GNU/General Public License v 2.0. Had you invested in a mainstream, commercial alternative, there'd be nothing but moths left in your wallet and to add new functionality would probably mean taking out a second mortgage each time you wanted something adding!
Joomla! changes all that ...
Joomla! is different from the normal models for content management software. For a start, it's not complicated. Joomla! has been developed for everybody, and anybody can develop it further. It is designed to work (primarily) with other Open Source, free, software such as PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
It is easy to install and administer, and is reliable.
Joomla! doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML to operate it once it's up and running.
To get the perfect Web site with all the functionality that you require for your particular application may take additional time and effort, but with the Joomla! Community support that is available and the many Third Party Developers actively creating and releasing new Extensions for the 1.5 platform on an almost daily basis, there is likely to be something out there to meet your needs. Or you could develop your own Extensions and make these available to the rest of the community.
One day, you're happily writing articles on your Joomla site when you suddenly experience an urgent need to link. When linking to an external website, that's no problem. All the WYSIWYG editors for Joomla include an icon for a simple URL link. And, as an old hand at html, you could probably code an href tag in your sleep. Linking becomes more complicated, however, when linking to articles on your own Joomla site.
If an article is linked to a menu or on a page linked to a menu, you might be able to find the URL with only a small amount of inconvenience. But what if the page isn't linked to any menu? What if you don't want to link the page to a menu?
To make my life easier when dealing with this particular issue, I usually install one of two tools on each Joomla site: (1) the Joomla Content Editor (JCE) or (2) for sites where a different editor is used, Linkr.
Want to learn more? Here's a quick video to explain how to do this.
This is an overview of some basic SEO practices for Joomla websites. Some of the topics covered include SEO definition, SEF URLS, tags, sitemaps, bounce rate, seo tools, general seo tips, etc.
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This presentation features real life examples of Joomla! sites, most of which are featured on community.joomla.org in the site showcase area.These site examples illustrate the versatility of Joomla and some of the many ways in which it can be used. Let these sites help fuel your imagination.