I received a review copy of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia from Packt Publishers and was expecting to read a lot that I already know about Images and the image manager in Joomla!.
But instead it was an eye-opener about the possibilities that Joomla! and some special extensions gives you to create a complete multimedia experience for your visitors.
This book is a great addition to your search engine optimisation efforts as we all now that video, mp3, podcast en mobile web interfaces are becoming more important everyday.
Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia will have some information for you that you can skip through if you are building Joomla! websites for a longer period of time, but the main part of the book will help you to further improve your and your customers websites.
Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia by Allan Walker
I am not going the repeat the complete list of chapters of this book, you can follow the link above to get a better content listing than I can do… what I will tell you which chapters captured my special interest:
- Chapter 3: Text, Characters and Fonts: This shows you some good information on how to improve accessibility and still play with fonts in your design.
- Chapter 5: Using Audio: How to setup podcasts and the handling of mp3s which is very good in combination with normal blogging.
- Chapter 6: Using video: Of course information about Video including a few extensions that will aid you in your efforts to use video in Joomla!
- Chapter 7: Collaboration with external resources: You don’t need to produce all the videos yourself, you can also pull from other resources and this chapter shows some very neat information about how to do that the right way.
Chapter 8 about templates is also good, but for me personally not that interesting, Chapter 9 gives you a complete step-by-step overview of the building of a Multi Media Joomla! based website and can be a great help if you start out to implement the other ideas that come from this well written book.
Don’t take my word on it, check out this sample Chapter 4 from the book: Adding and Managing Image Content.
For my, this book will stay on my desk for a longer period of time as I am going to use a lot of information from it :-), thank you Allen Walker and Packt Publishing for this great new book.
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by Herbert-Jan van Dinther on Sunday 24 January 2010
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In the last few months I have been moving some websites from subdomains to new domains and sometimes changing there apperance.
Here is what happened on one of them…
The site was number One on Google for a long tail keywords phrase and it site was getting some nice traffic from this term.
After the move from its sub-domain life and going into its own domain I changed the template to a more suitable one and optimized the site to get more traffic.
One thing I did was the craft the Home page title so it would get even more traffic and it worked out nicely. The new theme was search engine optimized and I did not feel like I needed to do anything about it…
As I said, the site had a No. 1 position on Google, but after I wrote a new post on this site this happened to the traffic.
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Once I noticed the drop in traffic I checked Google and saw the site was still No. 1 but not with the title of the homepage anymore.
The title shown by Google was the title of the last post and no longer this traffic attracting title of the Homepage!
This title was not really on topic of the search term so nobody clicked on it to check out the site!
I checked the theme and changed the header option to make sure I got the Homepage title back into place.
Bringing it Back on Track
So everything is technically set back to how it should be, and now it was time to get Google’s spider to re-index the site so the homepage title was back where it belonged.
Writing a new post that to update the site did the trick and the site was back in a few days.
All looked good, but a day later there was again this drop in traffic. Now I can explain the first drop, then the recovery but not the second drop.
The only thing I can think of was the short time upgrade followed by something Google might do like switching back for some time serving search engine cached indexes if they upgrade the primary index.
If you have another explanation, I would love to here it!
After this initial drop and kick back the site is now doing well, thank you for asking.
It is still growing in traffic.
Conclusion: Keep track of your site after you do a mayor upgrade like changing themes or even system upgrades.
The thing you need to watch closely is that the so carefully crafted title of you homepage is still the same so it will keep getting you the traffic. Especially it you have the No. 1 position on Google that you wanted to get.
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