This is a question that I've pondered for a long time and this is about the fourth time I have sat down to write.

Joomla is rightly very proud of the number of languages that it is available in, there cannot be many Open source projects that offer the same range, almost 60 at the last count.

Yet joomla.org is exclusively in English.

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Exactly four years ago, on the 16th September 2005, Joomla 1.0 was released.

Happy Birthday!!

Have a slice of cake!!

With the rise of twitter we are seeing a rapid increase in the usage of short urls (sURLS).

I use a sURL whenever I tweet a new blog post and also if I need to place a url in a powerpoint presentation.

In theory these are a great method of providing short, quick and permanent links to important content.

Sadly they are also often used to disguise the domain until after you have clicked on it.

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I came across this site last week whilst doing a little bit of holiday planning for my parents.

www.eggedo.co.il is the web site for coach tours of Israel (and beyond) for the Israeli national bus company.

It's very different to the usual type of clean, crisp web site that I admire.

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Every day I read and hear a lot about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and SEF (Search Engine Friendly) urls.

For me the number one question is "are the urls HEF (Human Ear Friendly)?"

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Of course he does. If he still has time to use the net then it's a fairly safe bet that at some point he will visit a joomla powered web site.

With Joomla being used by the UN, National Governments, leading NPO's and US Senators and Governors he surely must.

But that isn't what this blog post is really all about or why there is a photo of lion accompanying this blog post.

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A few weeks ago I wrote that Joomla and Virtuemart were not the ideal solution for creating an ecommerce website. (Read it here).

Feedback on that was fairly divided and it was suggested that "my" problem was that I didn't really know Virtuemart well enough.

So, never one to turn down the opportunity to learn from the source I decided to go to Virtuemart Day and JoomlaDay in Germany later this month.

Today only the cost of Virtuemart Day is reduced to only €99.

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Wow has it really been four years since Peter Russell and I sat down and wrote the press release that announced the birth of Joomla!.

So much has changed since then and yet so much is still the same.

Happy Birthday and congratulations to everyone who was there on that day, September 1st 2005.

In 2006 Johan and myself celebrated the first bithday with a cake and a candle at the first Joomla!Day in the UK.

Will you be celebrating today or perhaps having a JUG (Joomla User Group) party?

(I really should consign that photo to the trash - it was certainly a bad hair day. )

This holiday weekend I had an enlightening conversation with a large company, that had been a training client of mine.

They got stuck on a little joomla issue with extension XXXX and just couldn't work out the problem or find the solution.

This client is pretty tech savvy and had followed most of the advice I gave in the training class.

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