Yannick Gaultier's extension sh404sef is a great way to make Joomla 1.5 more search engine friendly. 

There are numerous on-page factors which search engines take into account when indexing websites, we discussed these factors in our SEO on-site framework. If you are running Joomla 1.5 without any extensions you lack complete control over some of these factors.

In today's post we're going to discuss why we think sh404sef is the most important extension to install on Joomla 1.5. The first part of this article looks at the killer search engine optimisation features in sh404sef and the second half is an interview with Yannick looking at his motivation behind developing sh404sef and the advantages of sh404sef's new feature of enabling table-less output in Joomla.

A few months on from our launch, GoodWebPractices.com has come quite a long way. Last week we had over 2,300 visitors, we already have a page rank of 5 and most importantly we have been generating a steady stream of business leads.

As we all know, it's good to regularly evaluate how well a website is performing and what can be done to improve it...

We have decided it's time to change the layout of our frontpage and we would love to have your input as to what we should do.

Yesterday we shared with you the top 4 Joomla 1.5 extensions that we recommend you install.

Today we'd like to share with you a larger list of extensions for Joomla 1.5 that we recommend using. This list includes 16 extensions which will help you customise Joomla 1.5 to create the sort of website you desire.

Let us know if you think we have missed any extensions out that you consider to be really useful. 

In February, we shared some essential Joomla 1.5 extensions. Since then, there have been some great new extensions released... Tomorrow we will be publishing a list of our favourite extensions for Joomla 1.5. From this list, there are 4 extensions which stand out above the rest.

These 4 extensions are the most useful extensions currently available for Joomla 1.5. Here are the extensions in order of importance:

In this tutorial we will discuss how to create a 'Lightbox' effect for your Joomla 1.0 or 1.5 website, using the plugin YOOeffects from the YOOtheme team. Using a Lightbox is a great way to show off your images on your website, as a slideshow or for individual pictures. Videos can also be shown using the Lightbox javascript - both from your own website or streamed from another site (such as YouTube).

When building a website with Joomla 1.5, you might need to hide content from registreted users and guests. When we were recently building a website with Joomla 1.5, we came across the 3 options:

• JoomiHide
• Ninja Access - JACL
• RokAccess

In this post we will be discussing the pros and cons of each of these plugins and explaining how to make RokAccess work in Joomla 1.5.

Having attractive RSS feeds is really important. If your feed is dull and unattractive, you are unlikely to get many subscribers and the click-through rate from your subscribers runs the risk of being low.

The best way to have good looking RSS feeds in Joomla 1.0.1 is to use the DS-Syndicate component.

In this post we will talk briefly about why DS-Syndicate is great choice for creating RSS feeds in Joomla. We will then share with you how to solve two very irritating bugs in DS-Syndicate: (1) The component adding open and closed brackets (parentheses) to the feed title and (2) the component outputting the author's email address in the news feed.

Google maps is a fantastic free tool that can have a number of uses for your Joomla website, perhaps most importantly to show your site visitors where you business is located or where local sites of interest might be.

This tutorial goes through the installation of the "Plugin Googlemaps" extension for Joomla 1.5.

For a while now, a number of us have been working on how the next versions of Joomla could be made more search engine friendly.

Today we have annouced the opening of a public wiki where everyone can contribute their ideas.

Here is the official annoucement:

Today we're going to answer a very straight forward question that we have been asked: "How can I add Google Analytics to Joomla?"

Google Analytics is a free website tracking tool which helps you understand your website's visitor. We highly recommend it, and in this post will run you through how to add Google Analytics to either Joomla 1.5 or Joomla 1.0.1x.