Joomla Tip of The Week
Joomla Tip of The Week (7)
A reliable web host is as elusive as the Loch Ness monster. In the six years Montano Designs has been creating web site and had a web site of our own, we've been through 10 COUNT 'EM 10! web hosts. We started out with Go Daddy back when you got one of the owner's sons on the phone if you called tech support. Like so many business that grow too fast, their support suffered and we moved on.
We've tried most of the major web hosts and some little guys. Here's the problem: The big guys offer loads of data storage and bandwidth for a low, low price in a shared environment. They fill up their servers with some legitimate customers and a few rogues. These rogues do nasty things on their sites like spamming, flooding, and all sorts of things that bog down the server. All of the sudden your site gets slow and you don't know why.
I recently found 18 websites who's owners had blatantly plagiarized my site. Most were word-for-word, a few loose derivatives, 3 even copied my “About Us” information for theirs. That boggles the mind. How can you not know enough about yourself that you have to copy someone else's information?
Last night I got one of those feelings to do something I don't normally do. There's a little voice in the back of your head that says “you should check this out.” My little voice was saying that I should check to see if anyone has been infringing on my copyrighted text and sure enough I found scads!!!
This article will explain what you can do if this happens to you.
That is the question! Not necessarily an original title, but it sums up the point I'm about to make. As some of you may have noticed, Montano Designs got a little web botox a couple of weeks ago. You know the saying about the cobbler's children having no shoes? Well it's the same with web designers. If you're any good, you don't have much time to work on your own site.
I've recently been creating a lot of Joomla 1.5 sites and have begun to fall in love with it's features and new website smell. I was afraid that upgrading my site would be a royal pain so I delayed the inevitable. I found a great component that I've blogged about here that made the migration really easy.
To forum or not to forum, that is the question. Many, many of my clients tell me they want a forum on their website. Not a problem! There are some great components out there for Joomla that make it very easy to start a forum on your site. I personally like Fireboard, but there's a new up-and-coming forum called Simplest Forum. I like simple stuff.
Here's the dilemma: Do you have the time and manpower to maintain the forum? Do you have a large enough audience to make your forum interesting? Are your topics of interest? Because you build it doesn't mean they'll come.
Keyword density is the number of times a keyword or phrase appears on your web page compared to the total number of words measured in percentage. Keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a web page is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase in the world of search engine optimization.
There's the long way and the short way to move your Joomla site. This Joomla! tip of the week will focus on the short way. If your web host offers cpanel with file manager you're good to go.
