When a client is ready to discuss a new website project with us, they are excited and prepared to share their vision and ideas with us. They have have high expectations of the end result of the website. But they usually do not have well defined or clear goals for traffic, ROI or conversion. We will ask them early in discussions, before we get into any details about the website project about how important "being found in search" is to them. Most of the time the client will say "very important". Most websites are built to increase the client's presence on the web, build brand and help/grow the business. So it is vital to follow SEO best practices for a building the new website, not coming back later as an afterthought and "bolting on" good SEO.
Many website developers will not open the discussion with SEO in fear of scaring the client that hard work must be done in research and preparing to build the website, the selection of plugins and extensions, configuration, meetings, writing etc. This costs money. And many website developers are not good at SEO and they push that task off to another service provider. But not doing even basic, baseline, best practice SEO is a disservice to the client and will undoubtedly be a failure down the road. And most clients are excited to get to see the end results of their beautiful, functional, shiny new website! But we feel compelled to educate first and make SEO part of the website DNA.
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S-GO Consulting has been approached by several of our very wonderful clients seeking to find ways to take the websites we created for them into the mobile space. We know we're not the only web company using Joomla that have begun to seek out solutions to do this type of implementation.
When we were approached in particular by Morgan Mill Metals, a company that focuses on offering precious metals refining services to create a mobile version of not only their website, but also a very complex gold calculator constructed using the Joomla extension Fabrik, and a lot of custom Javascript based on the MooTools framework.
In short we accomlished this by following these steps:
s-go is now offering a new, secondary, off-site backup service for all of our Joomla website clients. Our new service is simply called BackupToo and will automatically backup your websites and databases to a second location, out of the existing data center using Amazon S3 Cloud storage services. You will have secure access to the files at any time with a simple login.
If you are an s-go client and you host your site with us, you already benefit from daily backups with a rolling 30 day snapshot of backups available on the hosting control panel. This comes with your hosting plan with us. The control panel is available to you the client, and to us, your web developer. These backups are on a SAN in the data center where your site is hosted. They have saved our bacon many, many times. They are 99% effective.
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For several years s-go has been offering a spam service using a hardware appliance for incoming mail, called Mail Foundry. Many of our clients have benefited from this inexpensive, time saving option. This service filters and blocks up to 99% of all spam and sends you a digest of the results.
In January, we will be migrating all existing Mail Foundry clients to our new SpamExperts service. There will be no change in price, no mail downtime and many new features! As an existing client, you have to do nothing. When the actual migration occurs, there may be a 24 hour period where you get more spam than normal, until DNS fully propagates.
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We have recently put together a quick, simple ten slide presentation called "Why Work with s-go Consulting?" With eight ba-jillion website development companies out there, we explain how we differ and how we are better than most!
In October 2010 I had the great privilege of presenting to some folks at Joomla!Day DC, 2010. My presentation addressed developing Joomla 1.6 Templates. Below the slideshow that I presented at the conference. Feel free to download and use this great resource!
Read more: Developing Joomla 1.6 Templates - Joomla!Day DC Presentation
Here is the Joomla SEO Bootcamp Powerpoint presentation used at Joomla Day DC 2010, by Steve Gorney of s-go Consulting. This should be called just "SEO Bootcamp" as best practices in SEO are discussed.
Written by Chad Windnagle Thursday, 02 September 2010 08:25
Joomla 1.6 Beta was released on May 17th, 2010. Those of us who were watching the twitter feeds saw flurries of activity for the release that day, and several days after concerning the release. I, along with half of the other Joomla! developer community downloaded and installed on a development platform the new release and began to play around with all the goodies.
So now that the major bombshell has come and gone and the community is gearing up the community gets started on squashing all those little annoying bugs and working on the help screens (Note: Documentation is extremely important! I was on the doc team for the 1.5 release and it's very rewarding - Get involved!) I thought it was a good opportune moment to take a look past the advanced ACL features, and take a look at something that has always fascinated me - Joomla Templates!
Barrie North of JoomlaShack wrote an intro blog post back in July of 2009 about the fact that there would be changes in Joomla 1.6 templating. Now that Joomla 1.6 Beta has arrived, it's time to take a look under the hood of the new Template Manager and examine the new features it has to offer.
I figured the best way to look at the differences between Joomla 1.6 Beta and Joomla 1.5 would be to compare those differences for you. So, let's get started!
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With Joomla Day New England (see twitter #JDNE) now in the rear view mirror, I thought I would reflect a bit on the event and the value of networking and education for attendees. This is a commentary about Joomla Days in general, with some specific references about Joomla Day New England which was held Saturday June 5th, 2010 at Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.Page 1 of 3
