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Hi, How To Joomla fans! My name is James and I'm the newest member of the Cory Webb Media team. I've been a long-time fan of How To Joomla and it's an honor for me to be able to contribute to the excellent resources that are here for Joomla! beginners and experts alike. For my inaugural article, I will show you how to embed a Google Map into a Joomla page.

The South Central Community of the Sisters of Mercy joins the West Midwest Community as the next site to go live. As noted last week, the overall project will see a total of five Sister Community sites launch this summer.  These sites empower local Communities to craft their own message for their individual audiences while leveraging [...]

As web developer you face the challenge to support a wide variety of platforms and browsers. There are some generic tools that help you testing, but sometimes you need those platforms to be available.One way to manage that is to make a multi-boot installation or use several different systems. That is one way to solve this "problem", another way is to use virtualisation. This technique is used...

Sisters of Mercy are an international community of Roman Catholic women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education with a special concern for women and children.  They are also a dear, long-standing client of PICnet’s. When they came to us looking to expand their web presence by creating sites [...]

SEOMoz just posted a great list of 14 best practices for modern SEO that they are using with their consulting clients. Some real interesting tips, like the lack of importance of H1 tags and  meta keywords.

Keep reading for review of the 14, with some notes about possible Joomla implications.

You can read more about these at SEOMoz: SEO Best Practices

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Last week I've done a little presentation at the Joomla! Days NL 2009 about quickly setting up prototype sites with Joomla! and I promised the audience some tools to make life easy.

It took some time because a few guys of the JFoobar team are working on a great new venture at abillo.com but here we go.
There are three new labs additions:

• Prototyper Component
• Prototyper Template
• Template...

Joomlashack's Inspirion Joomla Template is one of the most innovative templates currently on the market. Its built using the 960 grid, a CSS system that gives you a tableless layout and a fast loading site, great for SEO!

Its one of the first commercial professional templates to validate XHTML Strict. This is a high benchmark t[...]

Coming on October 12th is the 3rd Joomla Day to be located in the US in 2009 in New York City.

This is the first time there have been so many Joomla events in the US, along with three Joomla Days, they'll be two CMS Expo's and countless Joomla training classes across the country. Its great sign that Joomla is making the move from Europe and Australia and establishing a firm foothold in the...

Joomlatraining.com will be having a beginner Joomla class in San Francisco next Friday, June 26th.  This beginner class is a great opportunity for those who wish to get their feet wet and start learning Joomla, as well as those who are using Joomla but still are somewhat new at it.

Read More about the class, and plan to join us in downtown San Francisco for some great Joomla training!

And be...

In less than one week from now, the 7th annual eZ Conference and Awards event is held in Paris France. Being the largest Open Source Content Management event in Europe, this time it's going to be a special edition, since it's also the 10th anniversary of eZ Systems as a company.

The goal of eZ Conference 2009 is to gather the whole ecosystem :

• Developers and customers using or...