New release: Urban Writer blog and portfolio style themelet

The purpose of this themelet is to help you get up and running quickly with a clean, blog style Joomla website, but that’s not all…

On the roadmap for Urban Writer you’ll see integrations coming up with two of the top blog/portfolio Joomla extensions Wordpress for Joomla and K2. (more…)

Tags: blogging, Joomla, Morph, Portfolio, themelets, Urban Writer

10+ Joomla, Web Development and Business blog posts of the week

Last week we asked you to recommend your favorite online reading resources for web developers and others in the Joomla industry. Combined with what’s in my RSS reader, here’s the first result. Enjoy!

Click on the headings to read the blog posts (opens in a new window/tab). If there’s a blog post you like, we’ve made it easy for you to spread the word by tweeting the text under each description. (more…)

Tags: blogging, Copywriting, development, Joomla, technology

Joomla blogosphere – Recommended reading Jan 25-31

We read so many good blog posts and articles from all the Joomla (and web development) bloggers out there, but figured ‘what’s the benefit for others if we don’t share it‘?

So, here we are, starting a new weekly series of blog posts with the creme de la creme of the written words about Joomla, web development, design and whatever else you recommend. (more…)

Tags: blogging, inspire change

20+ blogs about Joomla you should subscribe to

Before you start reading, this is a list of helpful blogs about Joomla, which means these blogs have more Joomla tips, tricks, tutorials etc than self-promotion of own products (IMHO). Fine line maybe, but an important one in this case.

Being fairly new to Joomla I’m constantly searching for online places to learn more and stay up-to-date. I get most of “what’s hot or not” via Twitter, but my favorite source of information and inspiration is Google reader.

I subscribed to quite a few good Joomla related rss feeds over the past year, but something was bothering me…surely this couldn’t be all active blogs about Joomla? Many of the blogs in my reader hadn’t been updated for donkey years, like nothing was happening in the Joomla sphere…or nobody blogged about it. (more…)

Tags: blogging, Joomla, Online Presence, open source

5 free online marketing resources

Search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and many other things related to emarketing is not something mysterious that only a few wizards can do. There is a lot of things you can (and should) do…before you turn to the wizards for that final golden touch.

Learning how to use online marketing for your business takes time. There’s no quick fix available, but the resources below will give you a great start for both learning and doing. Make this knowledge work for you and your business!

0. Before you do anything else

• First – make sure you have Google Analytics installed on your site, so you can track visits and much more.
• Then – register at Google Webmaster Central and update the settings so it suits your site.
• Now – you’re good to go, so keep on reading.

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Tags: blogging, eMarketing, Online Presence, Recommended Services, seo, Social Media