Community Magazine

If you spend some time around the web, social media and Joomla, you will most likely at some point hunt around a couple of Facebook Groups in/around the topic of Joomla! and if you do, inevitably (or at least for your sake I hope so) you will come across a group called: Website Design Company Owners - using Joomla! or possibly a mention of the Small Business JUG (more on that later)... that is how I came across the kind, humble and always seen smiling Joomler that is Robin Clapp.

There have been many people involved in Joomla over the past 20 years; some build websites for clients, some help for a time by promoting Joomla, some others contribute their time to a Joomla! Team, some build an extension, and others write code to fix, or improve a functionality in Joomla!... and then, some are all-rounders: they do most if not all of the above...

Having been around the JoomlaSphere in some capacity or another for years, what keeps me around and coming back are the wonderful and super helpful people that I have encountered over the years... some stay, some go, some comeback and some don't but they are collectively the pillars of the Joomla! project no matter in what way they participate, or contribute...

We arrive at our last 3 chapters! In this edition, we will cover Accessibility, Eco-Friendliness, and some extra Optimization Tidbits. Let's dive right in!

As we continue exploring the different aspects of optimization, the quantity of information is vast.
In this edition, we will cover Content, SEO, and User Experience... This is of course just a highlight and many more things could be said about each topic... 

Let's face it, building a website in 2024 on one hand is easier and easier than it has ever been ... especially with solutions like Joomla 5... but on the other, once you have built your beautiful website, it is harder than ever to get noticed, to get quality traffic and to convert visitors into customers... 

The Future is bright for Joomla 5 (and beyond)…

EPISODE V: T3, Extendible TM, GK, YT & Plazart Frameworks

As you might know, Joomla 5 is a great open-source CMS all by itself and it does so much in the core that you can truly build a great website with just what is built-in… too often, sadly, website developers will use either:

The Future is bright for Joomla 5 (and beyond)…

EPISODE IV: UIKit, Gavern, and Gantry Frameworks

As we have seen in the last 3 episodes in this series, you have options in building a Joomla 5.x website:

In this third episode of the series about templates and frameworks for Joomla, Emmanuel Lemor shows us three popular frameworks: Sparky, Astroid and T4.