Probably the best known publishing system on the Internet and the easiest for a newbie to use, is Wordpress. Now that this excellent content management system (CMS) is in version 3, it provides much more flexibility and more options, but it if anything it is now even easier to configure.

To install and configure Wordpress on a hosting account is easy. Usually it can be accomplished in a couple of clicks and within moments you have a Wordpress website that you can start customising right away. It is pretty intuitive to install different plug-ins to extend the capability of your website and there are thousands to choose from.

If you want a simple blog to inform the world that you have something to say and publish it with a couple of clicks then this is the system for you. You can write new articles, edit old ones, give all your content good meta tags and, reorganise all your pages and posts if you want into categories and give them tags, and all of this inside an easily understood control panel.

If you want something a little more complex for a business website of any sort then Wordpress is perfect to showcase your product. It can now, with version 3, allow multi-sites. This means that if you have Wordpress installed in your root folder then you can have many other installations in other folders or sub-domains and access them all from within one control panel.

There is the possibility of creating an on-line shop with ordering and payment facilities or perhaps you want to draw attention to your artistic tendencies or talents. Either way, Wordpress has an answer and with a little work it will do whatever you want.
With the uncountable number of plug-ins to power up your website you can do almost anything. Security is excellent for protection from malicious attacks and the free-ware add-ons are amazing. Of course you can buy commercial products that have better options or nicer GUI, but the free stuff just needs finding, installing, activating, configuring and enjoying. You could for instance install a plug-in to automatically send an XML site-map to Google, or improve on the native search engine optimisation by installing a more complete plug-in.

The search engine optimisation using Wordpress is pretty simple but you still need to know what you are doing in order to make it work for you properly. This is the critical part of the whole operation because without good on-page optimisation and a good deal of off-page optimisation the whole website could easily disappear without a trace.

Wordpress installation can be done for you too. It won’t take a long time and it won’t cost you a fortune…but send your proposal and we can discuss a website design and seo package to suit your idea.

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Internet publishing systems are very popular with people who want their articles published quickly and easily. The end user needs something that is not difficut to understand and the web designer needs something to allow his imagination to run riot. In many cases the choice of software is Joomla. This extremely flexible and adaptable content management system (CMS) allows many more options to change the look and feel of a web page but is still relatively easy to configure. A lot of people choose Wordpress for this type of website and it is certainly catching up in many ways but Joomla is more advanced.

To install and configure Joomla is an easy job and with most good hosting companies can be done in a few clicks.
You can have the simple blog website if you wish with Joomla but it is capable of so much more than that. There are a great many developers out there who contribute great add-ons in the way of components, modules and plugins and they are mainly free but if you want a commercial product for more options and better interface then they are found easily on the Joomla.org websites.

If you want an on-line shop or brochure to display your products or whatever you are selling then Joomla has got all the right things to make that possible. That is not to say that Wordpress cannot do these things but Joomla definitely has the edge on ‘user’ control and permission granting.

The under-the-hood interface of Joomla is more complex than that of Wordpress but is still fairly simple to use if you want to add content like text or media. There are loads more configuration options inside the control panel but once the site is configured, your administrator can set your permissions so that you will not even see the more complicated options.

The search engine optimisation using Joomla is pretty simple because there are boxes for all the important meta tags right beside the editing box where you enter your content. You can see all your articles in whatever state they are currently in (ieublished,draft,unpublished) and filter them so that you only see the ones you need to see.

There are vast quantities of free and commercial templates available for Joomla! and most of them are very good. The ready made templates are very good because you can be sure in advance that they are cross-browser compatible which saves a lot of time and saves you a lot of money. A good web designer will take the original template and change it to give a unique look and feel because you do not want to see another website that looks the same as your after all.

You can get a great website design and seo package to suit your needs.. Sure, you might be able to work it out for yourself and be happy with the result but to use these services, it would take a lot less time and it would not cost you a fortune either…but put together your proposal to discuss a Joomla installation package to suit your idea.

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Here is a short tutorial on

how to assign multiple templates

to articles and pages in your joomla website.

1. Go to your template manager: Extensions >Template manager.
2. Click the theme you want to apply to a page

In the menu assignment box: Click the: “Select from list” radio button

Now you can select the menu link to the page you want the theme to be shown on.

• Hold the ctrl key while selecting if you wish to select more than one page.

If your article doesn’t have a menu link then you cant apply the theme.

You can make a main menu link to your article to get the theme to work.

To make a menu link see: http://creativedigiworks.com/blog/2009/10/new-article-with-menu-link-joomla/

Its that easy!

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There are many useful reasons why you would want to embed a module within article content on your website.

• include a menu in an article
• include a custom html module in an article
• include search function in article

Any of your modules published within your module manager can be embedded.

Getting Started

If you already have a module in mind, its as easy as adding:

{loadposition user21}

Just add above syntax in your article where you would like the module to appear & edit “user21″ to reflect the position of the module you would like to embed & your done.

Here is a short tutorial showing how to make your own custom module and embed it in an article on your front page

From the control panel dashboard, click on your module manager

In the top right hand side of your module manager click “New”

Click “custom HTML” or click radial checkbox to the left of the text and click “next”

Enter your “Title” in this case were using “my custom module”

Create a new “user position” by typing one directly into the box, the value can be any number you want.

*TIP* Its best to start with a higher number to avoide using a position already used by your joomla template.

*TIP* Menu assignment, the all setting will allow the module to be embedded on any page in your site

Now if you scroll down past the settings to the bottom, you will see your editor.

This is where you create your custom module

When you are done editing your “Custom Module”, scroll back up to the top of the page and click save

(Top Right)

Once you have saved your “Custom Module”,

Click your article manager so you can embed your newly created “Custom Module”

(In this case we are embedding it on the home page of our site)

Type: {loadposition user21} into the article where you wish to display your new “custom HTML” module

*TIP* You can also center the syntax or place it in a table

if you wish to further control where the “Custom HTML” module displays

Now save your article and check it out!

ITS THAT EASY!

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SEO can be an intimidating process!

Learning new tricks and keeping up with ever changing trends can consume much of your time and or much of your budget.

One thing I have learned is that when it comes to SEO , the playing field is actually quite level. The small time designer can compete with the giant corporations! or…can they?!

The No Follow link was introduced around 2005 to help fight spam from “hijacking” search engine bots (so they say). Google, MSN & Yahoo united in support of the nofollow link attributes.

A major consequence of this, that most people need to understand is the fact that while millions of blogs and sites use social networking links to promote their content, through the use of nofollow, the favor is often not returned.

So basically we give some of these big sites their rank and status for almost nothing in return!

Consequence? One example,

Bookmark your new site “mynewsite.com” at “stumbleupon.com”. If you google  ”mynewsite.com”, The “stumbleupon.com” page with no content but the link and title will be on top, while your site with the actual content that you searched for will be below. Imagine the effect this PageRank capitalization has when you search for things other than your own site?!

We need to realize that this page rank concentration process is taking the hard work of millions of bloggers and handing the benefits to these “user contribution built social giants”!

So how can we once again level the playing field you ask?

I believe in the golden rule! Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

If you use wordpress, as millions of bloggers do. Download nofollow reciprocity plugins and give these social giants a reason to reconsider their nofollow strategy.

If you use social networking icon links on your website, be sure to download the no follow version.

I will be compiling a list of the most popular bookmarking sites that do, & do not use nofollow by default.

If you would like to help out and you know of sites I should list please comment or send me an email.

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