Joomla Design
Our SEO Community template better with Kunena
How do you make a SEO monster template built to work with the best Joomla community extension (JomSocial) even better? How do you set up SEO optimized Websites? Do you want to learn SEO? Would be interested in SEO lessons? SEO Courses? SEO video tutorials? SEO Training? Conversion optimization lessons? Conversion optimization courses. Conversion optimization video tutorials. Conversion optimization training.
Make it work with the outstanding forum extension, Kunena!
JS Community is a powerful, flexible, lean mean SEO machine. And now you can integrate two outstanding tools into your site- JomSocial and Kunena.
Unfamiliar with Kunena? It's an open source forum extension used on over 100,000 Joomla sites the world over. Check out our JS Community Kunena Demo to see it in action.
Use ClickTale and know your Joomla audience
Ever wondered what people do when they visit your Joomla website? Curious where they go, what they do, and why they don't do what you expect them to do?
Try ClickTale- the powerful yet affordable usability and analytical tool for Joomla sites. And now, get a special Joomlashack friends account for just $19 a month!
Joomlashack tried ClickTale and the results were eye-opening and humbling. Check out ClickTale and get some atomic knowledge for your Joomla site.
Joomla Community Showcase on Joomla.org
Want to show off your awesome Joomla-powered website to the largest Joomla audience on the web? Hurry over to the Joomla Project and register your site with the new Community Showcase on www.joomla.org
From the official announcement:
Joomlashack working on Joomla 1.5 Templates
Last week I mentioned that the Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate had arrived, officially taking Joomla 1.5 out of beta status. At Joomlashack we have been working hard pouring over the new 1.5
templating engine and are looking for community input for what
templates you would like to see run on 1.5 natively.
New QuickLaunch Template Installer
Recently, we've begun (somewhat silently) adding QuickLaunch Template Installers to our products for public download. As of now, we have completed the installers for Vintage and Lightfast. This is a pretty cool idea which began with the Shack Packs, but these allow you to install the latest version of Joomla! and set up your demo content in just a few clicks. This will hopefully alleviate the common "Why doesn't my template look like the demo" confusion. If you own a Joomlashack template and want to make use of the QuickLaunch Installer, it won't be long before we have them all updated and ready. Hope you enjoy.
Help my new template doesn't work with Joomla! 1.5beta2!!
If you've tried to install a Joomla! 1.0.x template on your Joomla! 1.5beta2 enabled website you'll know that legacy mode must be enabled before the template can be uploaded
"But how do I enable Legacy Mode in Joomla! 1.5beta2?" I hear you ask
Joomla graphics and button elements
If you use Joomla! and want to spice up your content pages a bit, I've uploaded some Joomla! graphics and button elements for free download. The PSD and PNG layered source files are included. Feel free to use them as you like. Enjoy!
Web Standards Checklist
I just read a great article by Russ Weakley at Max Design titled "Web Standards Checklist". It is a checklist to help you evaluate your site for compliance with web standards. This is a great tool for any designer to help in the design of standards-compliant Joomla! templates. If you are not a designer, this is a great tool to help you evaluate potential templates for your website. The checklist is available in several languages.
Some Great Designer Resources
Being the design junkie that I am, always looking for good links to CSS and design resources so I've compiled a list of some I've recently come across.
The Purpose of HTML Tags
I came across a great example/article by a designer named Andy Rutledge about the purpose of HTML tags, and why HTML tags contain "no presentational value". His argument is to let the CSS handle all the presentation, while HTML tags only serve to provide "meaning and context to the content". Brilliant work, Andy!
