How many joomla sites are there in the world? Or perhaps of more interest what percentage of successful web sites are created with joomla? And what are the Top 10 joomla sites.
The number of downloads of joomla is interesting but it doesn't really give a true figure of installations, especialy as you could use one download 100 times or just install it directly from your host.
The only way to tell is to actually sit down and count them all.
As we all know twitter has been up and down more times than a strippers panties in the last 24 hours, so what should you be doing instead.
When I was younger, a long long time ago, the BBC would always show a children's television programme in the school holidays called "Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?" and it got me thinking of things I could be doing instead of waiting for tweets to arrive.
(I'm suprised to find out that the show ran for 42 series between 20 August 1973 and 21 April 1995 and that Russel T Davies of Doctor Who fame was a one time producer/director)
I live in Yorkshire or "God's own country", as we call it in the North of England and we do things differently here "oop north".
Good bye joomla 1.0 you've been a good friend over the years but sadly now it's time to say farewell
After over 1 million downloads of the very final release of the Joomla 1.0 it has now reached it's end of life.
There will be no further updates or security releases fro this Tuesday but what does that mean for sites that are still running Joomla 1.0?
In reality I suspect very little.
I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for the job. If I have an egg to crack I know I will get better results with a fork or the edge of the bowl than I will with a hammer. Of course a hammer can crack an egg but it will be messy and leave you with more egg on the floor than in the bowl.
So why use joomla to build a shop?
Where do I begin…
There are so many reasons to have quality content on your website and your reputation is #1. Without a clear and effective message, you will lose visitors.
Take a step back and really look at your website’s home page. Just the home page. What do you see? If you landed here inadvertently- would you know what the business or service is that the owner is providing. Are you the intended audience for such services? If you are a potential client, do you know what to do next?
Today I got one of those client emails we all dread. The client had visited his brand new site and it wouldn't load it just gave a blank screen.
Experienced web developers know that a blank screen is really an error message so I dug a little further and checked his site with my ftp client. Not surprisingly I saw that some malicious code had been inserted into the index.php files. Fortunately there was a bug in this code and that gave the blank screen.
Now that might seem like a strange thing to say but if you don't fail at some things then it means that "you are not trying hard enough".
If we always take the "safe" option that has guaranteed success then we will never truly move on and progress.
When I started this blog, and it took a lot of convincing to do it, I took a decision that this blog would not be the usual Joomla blog.
My intention is to write articles that are of interest to a wide audience and to not only provide "tips and tricks" and republished "product news" but also to write articles that are "challenging and make you really think".
I had intended on writing a long blog post with screenshots and everything explaining some of the new features, and changes, in the upcoming Joomla 1.6.
But I'm lazy and I don't see any point in re-inventing the wheel so just take a few moments to read this excellent presentation from Andrew Eddie.
I'm still not convinced that the core of Joomla needs the bloat of tags and comments but only time will tell on that one. (I originaly came to mambo because I was looking for an open source application to build dynamic web sites that did NOT have comments)
