Get your fork out, Mambo did it again with MiaCMS.

Those of you who have been around a while should remember Mambo, the CMS that our beloved Joomla is based off of. A few years back there was a bunch of bickering and discussion about how Mambo was to evolve and thus Joomla was spawned. Well, another fork of Mambo has popped out again, this time taking a bunch more developers and coders. This group has now created MiaCMS.

From the official MiaCMS website (more…)

Tags: news, technology

Flock. Get ready to meet your new favorite browser!

Want a browser that is stable, functional, and incredibly useful? I think we all do. I have been using Camino for some time due to how fast it is but I have been using Firefox more and more due to me needing to do a lot more debugging and diagnosing of Web sites. The most recent versions have let me down a bit due to the betas being much crashier then I am accustomed to by Firefox.

Of course this isn’t a post bashing Firefox, this is a post proclaiming how incredibly cool Flock is. (more…)

Tags: technology, tools of the trade, useful tips

Releasing a Joomla template is harder than you might imagine

I have been on the front end of Joomla for years. Creating Web sites for clients, myself, friends, anybody who would pay, and even a few who wouldn’t. I have always had a general idea of what it took for a template company to produce a template, but no real proof to validate my assumptions. JoomlaJunkie recently hired me on staff and gave me all the proof I needed to discover it is way more complicated then I ever dreamed.

Joomla templates are pretty straight forward. (more…)

Tags: css, development, Joomla, templates

How to M.Y.Blog…

You’ve all heard about MyBlog – the great blogging software used in conjunction with the JoomlaJunkie site and their templates, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about…

How to Manage Your Blog – M.Y.Blog

So you’ve set up the software and you’re itching to write your first post. You write it, spell check it and then PUBLISH IT! Yay, you’re up and running. But what next? Well maybe the next few posts aren’t too hard, after all it’s still a novelty. But what will you do when the novelty wears off?

Nothing is quite so stale as an abandoned or lapsed blog (more…)

Tags: blogging, Copywriting, Recommended Services, useful tips

Web 2.0 – what is it? And what does it mean for you and your business?

You may have heard the terms Web 2.0 and Social Networking bandied about more and more frequently. Do you know what they mean? More importantly, do you know what they mean for your business?

More interactive technology

Web 2.0 is the accepted term for the next generation of web technologies. These technologies provide a more interactive web experience and offer an immediacy that was lacking in static websites. Web 2.0 technologies allow visitors to your site to comment on your products and services; to give testimonials; to ask questions and to spread the word to other possible customers by bookmarking with sites like ma.gnolia and digg. They foster the formation of online communities around common interests – hence the term social networking. Web 2.0 has also seen the rise of blogs – the good, the bad and the downright awful! (more…)

Tags: blogging, Copywriting, Social Media, technology