Category: Business

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are a part of many large Joomla websites. Considering that many of the questions that are asked via a contact form are already answered before, one can choose to display these answers on their website. An easily accessible resource for these answers is called a FAQ page. Pros Less questions to … Read more

Internal search engines are being used more every day. A likely cause for this is that many software packages used to build websites (such as Joomla) have such a functionality built in. The search engines are used mainly "because it's easy" and not because it's a thoughtful decision of whether or not the functionality will add … Read more

Link exchange is (as the name suggests) the exchanging of links. What this means is that somebody (website A) puts a link on his website pointing to somebody else (website B). In exchange, website B will also put a link on his website pointing to website A. Website A and website B have now exchanged … Read more

Many (if not all) of the world’s major brands are blogging these days. While the benefits of having a popular blog are plenty, keeping it up-to-date with articles relevant for your target audience can be time consuming and difficult. Image credits: Maria Reyes-McDavis Introduction Aside from the time investment required … Read more

"Pure altruism is giving up a value (a reward or benefit) with no expectation of any compensation or benefits, either direct, or indirect (for instance from recognition of the giving)." Wikipedia - Altruism Image credits: Mr. Kris Yesterday at an Open Coffee meeting a wandering conversation arrived at the discussion of … Read more

Earlier today I've read on the blog of Guide Jansen about a lot of psychological phenonema influencing people on the web. Being a psychologist myself, I became enthousiasted by this and decided to expand the information on one of the topics Guido has covered: Choice Paralysis. Abundance of Choice Choice paralysis can be … Read more

On my way home a couple nights ago, I spotted a gas station with the worst name for a gas station I'd ever seen: Firezone. Seriously, who names their product after the worst possible disaster it could produce? I'd swear their logo actual has a reference to an explosion in it as well. This led me to think: What are the elements … Read more

We all make mistakes. However, both clients and developers will benefit from having the bugs resulting from these mistakes fixed as soon as possible. Using the checklist below the process of fixing a bug report by a client can be accelerated considerably. A situation that will sound familiar to every Joomla template … Read more

We've all been there: having to maintain a website that just isn't maintainable. Changing the links in your footer requires you to change each and every page, uploading a file can only be done using FTP, adding a link means you must use complicated HTML tags, etc. Once you discover there are alternatives such as Joomla, matters … Read more

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.” - Richard Bach (American writer) I am fairly certain the author I quoted had another gift in mind than improved business. The quote however, is dead on when it comes to just that. This gift can come in many – perhaps unexpected – ways, which I will elaborate on … Read more

At some point in time, your current website just won't do it anymore. It could be that your Joomla template was released somewhere in the early twenties, or you might still be running some kind of early Joomla 1.0 beta release. In both of these situations, you should be considering something new. But how does one do that? A … Read more