I recently had a ‘bug’ in Joomla where I’d get “E-mail could not be sent” when sending an article to a friend. The funny thing was, it had worked and I had mail in my inbox to prove it. I tried all the different mail settings and still had nothing. This was when I stumbled on the fact that to prevent spamming of the form, the page needs to wait for 20 seconds before being sent.
Sometimes you just want a quick way to set your web files and your directories to the ’standard’ permissions required. Whilst each website requires different levels of access for different users, this is the bare minimum you should be doing.
Sometimes it’s good to keep the fact that you’re running a Joomla site secret. In particular, some hackers might search for the meta tag in your document header saying:
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />
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I thought I’d put together a list of Joomla components and modules that I use on a regular basis or that I’ve had good experiences with. I’m not sponsored by any of these sites, nor have they asked me to post a review, this is just my own personal findings. I hope they help.
After a client queried the benefit of where the server is located in terms of SEO, I’ve done some research that I thought I’d share with you all.
The background to this is that the client wants to get into foreign markets (France, Germany, Italy). To do this they wish to create translations of their existing website. They have been advised that each website should have it’s own TLD (top level domain such as .fr, .uk, .de) and that the site should be hosted on a server in the relevant country.
This poses some immediate problems. Firstly, you need to have 4 separate hosting accounts, with 4 separate websites. This means you have 4 times the amount of work to maintain, which is not a good use of anyone’s time.
In general I’m talking about Google here, but I’m assuming that most SE’s work the same way. Google does indeed look at both the TLD and the IP of the website. The TLD will (should) take precedence over the IP. This makes sense if you think about it as many companies use cheap american hosting to host their UK websites. However, in the instance where you have a non-country specific TLD such as .net or .com, Google would look at the IP.
Thankfully in Google Webmaster tools you can associate a .com/.net with a specific country. So you could have the following setup:
(also used on sites like Nike.com)
http://www.client.com/fr associated with French content
http://www.client.com/de associated with German content
to go one step further you could setup sub-domains
http://fr.client.com
http://de.client.com
To do this, you would need to add several entries to your Google Webmaster account, which is easier than setting up lots of sites/hosting etc.
Ultimately, you don’t specifically need 4 sites to run 4 different language versions, just a way of assigning the relevant content to the relevant search. It should also be noted that this only effects ’show me search results only from the uk’ searches. I’d reiterate that the most important thing for any of these sites is getting country specific inbound links. Without that you’ll get the same old problems.
I’ll tell you in my next article.
One of the things I’ve been hunting for is a list of ‘big name’ sites that are built in Joomla. However, before I give you my list I need to caveat this. The reason I’ve put this list together is that a client has recently questioned “Why are you using Joomla?”, and this list is not the answer to his question.
Have you ever wondered how to open an image or a Joomla page in a modal popup (one of those where the page background dims and a new page loads in front)? Read more »
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