How many Digital Point members are familiar with Joomla?

Not a problem,
but the way to thank in DP forums is by giving a green rep by rating the posts .

 

Done.

 

FYI, the proper URL for Open SEF is www.open-sef.org, not the hyphen. The one without the hyphen works, but it just redirects.
Mike

 

Thanks for correcting me, Mike

 

I just started Joomla about 2 weeks ago and it seems very good so far. Still checking out mods and getting it all set up. I plan to change all sites to Joomla soon, only did a test site and now in process of converting one site over. Version 1.1 of Joomla is due out around July and should be very good.
Remository has a free sef component that works real well.

 

I'm also using Joomla!, the site is allready up, but no content yet, the looks actually marvellous, so the configuration, for me, although i'm newbie, it's easy to configure, once you know the structure of the system and templating, now the site just up with some template i got from the net, not my own yet, i'm still on my way designing my own template, the best part, once you understand the structure of how templating would be, this is the resources :-

mambo ( applied to joomla! also ) template tutorials

Get yourself the extension for dreamweaver, and the JSAS from that page, install JSAS, and the update your joomla! to latest version, since with the JSAS, it;s not the latest version of joomla!, and when inserting banner modules, update the script in your code view ( search for "banner" ,change to "banners") - note this if u're using joomla 1.0.8 and higher, the extension applied to the lower version for the banner thing. The toughest thing, is the CSS, arghh to much to coinfigure!!

 

play with the tables, drive your creativity around creating the tables and you will explore such a marvellous design on your own .

 

Yeah, right , and nice ads placement too

 

Did I read that right?
You want him to do

<table>
<tr><td>My Site is designed with tables</td>
<td>And I should be shot</>
<tr>
</table>

Code (markup):

Is that what you mean? Because if so...

Meikeric slaps rewlie with a fish!

 

Joom!Fish or MambelFish ?? :tongue:

 

that would be one of the main element not to forget to include.. hehe

 

haha .. bump!

 

I would use Joomla if it was more SE friendly

 

tones of script out there can make it sef, they have the built-in sef also. just surf around and find one the most suites you, too many link, i dont remember.. hehe, but for the kickstart, their main site, joomla.org, look at the extension section.

 

Joomla and Mambo is still pretty much similar so if you want to upgrade, better do it now so you have less incremental updates to make. I seldom visit Joomla's forum but I think they are preparing a major change.

On the SEF issue, I'm using SEF advance and happy with it. The built-in SEF works just fine but I'd rather see the titles on the URL than some meaningless numbers. WordPress has much better built-in SEF but perhaps that's because it's less complicated than Joomla/Mambo.

 

Check this site for the SEF urls, even the download section. URLs are a little too long tho'

http://www.joomlaspan.com

 

I thought it was search engine friendly

 

This is easily possible using Marco's Free Coresef hack.

 

Also easily done with Open SEF. There are plenty of quality SEF products available.

And the correct URL for SEF Advance is www.sakic.net. Thought for a second Emir changed his site

 

SEO Guru, the fish doesn't support UTF-8, strictly iso-8859-1. So no internationalization on the slap... Sorry!

As everyone else has pointed out, there are TONS of SEF components for Joomla. 404 SEF I think is one, Open SEF, SEF Advance, as well as ATLEAST 2 others. You can get the URL's in pretty much any format you want, depending on the particular rewrite component you are using.

Mike