Unfortunately, I was unable to resolve the issues with using OpenX for my banner management at this time.  My page load times had spiraled up to 22 seconds or better, with a Cache system, on 6mbps connection.  Not good. BannersManager is the most robust banner management system for Joomla that I have found yet.  The [...]

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So, recently I have been working the final bugs out of MyLoganCounty.com and spreading the word around town to get business owners to start taking advantage. During this process I’ve had to call on friends all over the place to Beta test for me so I knew where the bugs were.  Nobody can find the [...]

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I just started making a round of updates to some of the sites that I manage.  I’m trying to increase usage by simplifying the info submission process.   Some of the more notable places for this would be the Russellville Arts Council, Logan County Republicans, and Russellville United Methodist Temple. By creating a front-end registration process, [...]

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I have been doing quite a bit of experimenting as of late for some very specific keywords, and I’ve been having some success.  Because of that, and because I haven’t blogged in forever, I thought I would share some Joomla specific routes to better organic ranking. Use JoomlaSEF from Artio: Before we go any farther, [...]

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Take it from me, and don’t learn the hard way like I did. There are too many assumptions about how people use Joomla by the developers (I’m referring to 1.0.x here since I have done nothing more than install 1.5 – no testing).  One of the biggest problems I have with it is the RSS [...]

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