Joomla Beat Podcast | Web Design, Development, Online Marketing, Social Media & Website Management

JoomlaDay Sydney is over and it feels like I missed the entire event! I can't remember what happened now but fortunately for me I did audio recordings with various people at the event so I can edit them, play them back and share with the rest of the Joomla community.This episode I have a look at what happened at JoomlaDay Sydney 2013 as well as an interview with Norm Douglas who was one of the presenters at the event. Norm joins me to talk about his highlight of the event as well as some other aspects such as his migrator extension that allows for quick and easy migration of a Joomla 1.5 website to another version of Joomla.

Tenko Nikolov, the CEO of SiteGround joins me on the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk all about Joomla site performance. Tenko has a passion for optimising Joomla websites and SiteGround's server environments really shine when it comes to outstanding server environments to get the most out of your Joomla website.He shares with us a few great tips in regards to optimising your website to help improve the user experience, search engine optimisation and also server performance.Tenko also shares a few secrets on the SiteGround servers that make optimising your Joomla websites really easy.

This special episode I speak to a few members of the Joomla World Conference about what is planned for the event, a few special things that have in store, as well as their experiences in the Joomla community, conferences and in organising the event.Diane Henning, Ronni Christiansen, Mike Carson, Jon Neubauer and Jerri Christiansen all join me on the podcast for the biggest group podcast I've ever recorded.

Shayne was fortunate to be around helping out a team of open source developers working on Mambo when a large portion of them decided to all get up and leave to start something new, Joomla. Shayne since then has built a profitable business around it called Cloudum, a Perth/Western Australian, based Joomla solutions provider. He gives us all a little history lesson on Joomla as well as a awesome security tip in regards to keeping your website secure.

Special Bonus EpisodeI finally get to chat to one of the original co-founder's of Joomla, Andrew Eddie.He chats to me about how he got into Joomla and what he does now as a part of the project. Andrew also gives a little bit of a run down and insight into what he does at eBay with Joomla.Andrew also gives us a preview of all of his presentations and workshops that he will be providing at JoomlaDay Sydney 2013This is a special bonus episode of the podcast as a lead up to JoomlaDay Sydney 2013.

I have a chat to Max Lynam from Molehill Web Works about taking on clients for the long term and also a little into 'responsive marketing', a new concept that he will be talking more about at JoomlaDay Sydney 2013.This is the second time that Max has joined me on the podcast. His previous interview was about MijoShop that he uses for a lot of his e-commerce clients. You can listen to that episode 7 if you want more details in regards to that.This is a special bonus episode added for the big event here in Sydney

This week's episode we're looking at some of the new features that we should be seeing in the latest version of Joomla, Joomla 3.2. The planned date for the roll out of this version was sometime in Fall or Spring in the southern hemisphere so we should see the release of the latest version very soon.From what I've seen in the group chats and forums there is a lot of testing and debugging happening to get it ready and fully tested for release to the general public. New features in the latest version will include:New usability features and accessibility featuresJoomla extension installerContent versioning for Joomla articles and contentNew security measures and increase user authenticationmultilingual from the installation processRAD or FoF for application developmentTemplate overridesAccess control for modulesDetailed debuggingand much more...

This week I have a chat with Scott Greenwald from Joomla Direct, a Joomla base blog that talks all things good about Joomla.Scott talks about is journey into using Joomla and also about his venture into creating Joomla templates for the community.

This week I have an in depth analysis of content construction kits for Joomla that allow you to extend the basic content publishing system and allows you to publish all sorts of different content types using the Joomla CMS.In the podcast I talk about K2, SobiPro, FlexiContent, Seblod and Zoo content construction kits and try and break them down to make them easier to understand and choose for your next Joomla project.If you haven't used a content construction kit before or don't know what one is, then this podcast will take you through some of the more popular CCKs out there and help you understand the concepts behind them.

This week we look at website planning. All of the steps you need to take before you start pushing pixels around the screen.Also some critical security updates in regards to Joomla. Please make sure you update to the latest versions of Joomla including Joomla 1.5, Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.

On this week's episode I have a beginners tip from Richard Pearce. He joins me on the show again to share a quick tip about installing Joomla onto your web server and mentions if sample data is useful or not.I also have a few news updates and few really cool things I just found on the Joomla.org website and had no idea about including how to sponsor Joomla!Lastly, I have David Hurley from Webspark who joins me for an interview to talking about one of his products called CRMery, a CRM extensions made for Joomla.Show NotesBeginners Tip with Richard Pearce - Installing Joomla the Quick and Easy WayRichard Pearce has been kind enough to have created a few videos as well to help beginners with the process of installing Joomla the ways he's described in this episode.Check them out on his YouTube Channel.Installing Joomla 3 using Softaculous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfZjeS7YvLcFast Joomla Upload:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vce9i3u90oARichard also mentioned to me after the chat that he's created a dedicated

This is always a hot topic with clients always asking why should they migrate from Joomla 1.5 to a later version and how to do it. This episode I talk about the top 5 reasons why you should migrate from Joomla 1.5 to a later version of Joomla.I also look into three extensions that allow you to go through the process and start the migration process away from the now unsupported Joomla 1.5. This podcast episode goes through, jUpgrade, SP Update and J2XML as the options in regards to migrating from Joomla 1.5.

In this week's episode I have the second part of my interview with Jessica Dunbar from Anything Digital. This part Jessica talks about social media and how important it is to use it to drive traffic and visitors to your website. Jessica talks about Google+ and Pinterest to help market your website and business online.I also go through a few Joomla news items this week including the Pizza, Bugs and Fun global event as well as looking at the UX and UI changes from last week's meetup around UX and UI improvements for Joomla.

On this weeks podcast I have an interview with the lovely Jessica Dunbar from Anything Digital. She is the marketing director for the company and joins me on the show to share some search engine optimisation gems!She tells us a little about her history of getting into the online marketing space, starting with optimising listings for eBay, and then her growth into particular areas including pay per click advertising to drive traffic to websites. 

I interview Chiara Aliotta on the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk about where she gets inspiration in regards to her designer work and gives us a list of great inspiration designer blogs.Chiara talks about her background and how she got into the design industry. She also talks about influences in her career that have positioned her in the Joomla design industry today. She now has her own design agency called Until Sunday and does work also for Joomla Shack.I also have a few social media updates in regards to Facebook and a new feature in Instragram.

Oduor Jagero joins me on the show this week with an update from JoomlaDay Kenya, he talks a little about what they're up to this year at JoomlaDay Kenya and the audience that they're trying to reach from students from various universities around the Kenya to the people and businesses that are using Joomla to publish to the world.I also have an exciting interview with Lilyana Yakimova, the marketing director from SiteGround talking about the new updates, changes and redesign of the SiteGround website. She talks about why they did it and what they were trying to achieve in regards to communicating their brand and business.Lilyana points out a few of the pitfalls and short comings of SiteGround and important parts of the business that were not communicated to their customers clearly. She defines the reason why a business like SiteGround would want to change the branding of the business to better communicate what they do to their audience.She leaves us also with some awesome take away tips in regards to rebrandin

Richard Pearce is a fellow Sydney Joomla User Group member based in Sydney. He's worked for many years in the web industry and now runs a website called BuildAJoomlaWebsite.com, a video training and tutorials website all about Joomla.He joins me on the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk a little about Joomla, his journey into the web space and what he has planned for Build a Joomla Website.It is a fantastic resource if you're just getting into Joomla although he does have to update a lot of the videos to be inline with Joomla 3.Richard now spends most of his time working on and promoting the video training as well as in person training and coaching around Joomla.

There are so many events around Joomla that happen all around the world and there are a few key ones coming up in the next few months.This episode I give a run down on a few events that are happening over the next two months. I also highlight the global Pizza, Bugs and Fun night for combine efforts in squashing bugs next month for the Joomla project.I also have an interview with Pete Nurse, the convenor of JoomlaDay Melbourne 2013 and we talk about a few aspects in organising events and learn from his experience in putting together JoomlaDay Melbourne.

I talk about three major news items about Joomla's extension directory including the introduction of an app store, the new terms of service for using the Joomla extension directory and also the announcement of the rebuild of the directory.This episode I also have a look at the J and Beyond conference and the winners of the J.O.S.C.A.R awards this year across the different categories. I also do a quick review of content version control for Joomla and have a good look at how it works.Lastly I have part 2 of my search engine optimisation tips for Joomla and this SEO tip I look at metadata for your Joomla content and making sure it is done right and effectively on your website.

This episode I go over a few tips to debug why a search engine might not be crawling your website and what to do go get it crawled again.I also have an interview with David Hurley, the community development manager for Joomla. He talks about how he got involved with Joomla and his new role as a part of the core Joomla team.