Blog Entries for Paul

YouTube Videos and Joomla

Paul

If you've ever tried to post a YouTube video into Joomla, you may have been surprised after refreshing your site, the video won't show up.

You have to turn off the TinyMice editor, or it will strip the coding out of the script. Just turn it off before posting. And don't forget, if you open the item again later with the editor on, you will strip the coding [...]

SEO tip - Free PR6 backlink

Paul

We tell all our new clients to get a free PR6 back link by signing up for this great service at Best of the Web.

Basically, you sign up and get free top spots in your category for 2 months advertising. Most of these pages are ranked PR6. You can cancel any time before the 2 months is up. The point is that you get your website indexed really quickly, and thatis what search engine optimization is really all about, esspecially if you have a new domain [...]

2007 CMS Award Finalists

Paul

2007 Open Source CMS Award Overall Winner Finalists

Joomla won the award in 2006, and has made it as a finalist in 2007! We are happy to see this, because it validates all the time we spend working with it. Thanks to the developers who work so hard to keep it simple, safe and powerful.

The following five Open Source Content Management Sy [...]

Joomla.org Hacked!

Paul

This is terrible! I admit I went and checked all my back ups after reading about this. A catastrophe like this reminds us all how important it is to have a good back up of your website.

If you don't currently have a back up plan for your Joomla website, you better get on the ball. We reccomend JoomlaCloner - backup and restore. It will back up the database and all other files and put it into one nice little zip file. As long as you have thi [...]

New Car Insurance Website

Paul

We just launched a new website for Iles Agency. They sell AIG insurance (auto, household and personal liability) to US military and civilians in Germany.

They wanted a website with a simple insurance quote request, blogging component, RSS feeds and simple polling. We design the logo and all the graphics.

We will also be handling the design of new graphics for print advertisin [...]

Allison DuBois says yes!

Paul

{mosimage}We are excited about our new project re-designing allison DuBois' website. Joe, her husband and webmaster, has decided to go with Joomla. He couldn't have made a better choice. With Joomla, thier blog, newsletter, and all other aspects of the site are managed in one simple control panel.

We will begin serious work on the project once we get all the exact requirements from Joe DuBois. Here's the mock up site if you want a sneak p [...]

Jill Dahne accepts mock-up

Paul

We recently sent Jill Dahne (one of the worlds top psychics) a mock up for a new web design. We just heard back and she loves what we have done so far. We are designing a beautiful flash header for her site now.

She just signed a contract, and will have her own TV show soon. They are currently filming for the first season. Jill also just finished [...]

Currentpage gets silver award

Paul

We just received notification from World Wide Web Awards that currentpage.com has recieved the Silver award for 2007!

As one of Worlds peak internet bodies, the Awards of The World Wide Web Awards™ are amongst the most prestigious available and hence, amongst some of the more difficult to win on the web.

Congratulations! Your site at: CurrentPage Joomla Design has been selected to receive the World Wide Web Awards™ "Silver" Award.

A Listing and l [...]

Open for Government Business

Paul

We just completed registration and our company profile in the CCR. Although we are capable of more than just design, we have decided to focus our bids on State and Federal contracts related to web design and content management. Our most promising niche market will be the conversion of large websites to Joomla with follow on maintanance.

We've been watching the opportunies for bid, and have seen requests for proposal for many large University and College websites. Most se [...]

Registration Pro Released

Paul

With Registration Pro you can post and accept registrations to your events and optionally charge for your event via PayPal.This is the most robust event registration tool for Joomla website administrators.

Gain a competitive advantage with great features:

Increase Attendee Satisfaction
Reduce Administrative Costs
Fully-customizable online forms to collect data from you registrants.
Seamless Pay Pal integration for accepting payments to your event [...]