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.

This blog post is a response to Alledia's open question: What SEO improvements would you like to see in Joomla 1.6?

We love Joomla here at Good Web Practices and are happy to be able to spend some time and energy contributing to the discussions surrounding Joomla 1.6. We would like this post to be considered in the white papers that are being submitted in the Joomla 1.6 development process.

As we are not hardcore coders, we have approached this question from a users point of view. We hope coders and developers will be able to shed more light on the issues we bring up. 

With Joomla 1.5 coming out of beta at the end of January, the new version of Joomla has already got some great extensions. We thought it would be helpful to share what we consider to be some of the essential extensions for Joomla 1.5.

We have chosen the extensions we particularly like and are using on some of the websites we have up and running on Joomla 1.5. In this post will be mentioning extensions to help SEO, customise blogs, display images and manage communities.

In this post, we will be discussing the advantages of Joomla, a free open source content management system over more conventional static web design techniques using web editors such as Frontpage and Dreamweaver.

We're going to consider this in the context of developing a Bed and Breakfast (B&B) website or an independent Hotel's website.

The majority of websites for B&B's and small Hotels are made up of static html pages, often developed in editors like Dreamweaver and Frontpage, but is this the right choice?

As there is 15 to 20cm of snow forecast tonight in the Alps I decided to look at the ski resorts closest to home to decide where to go snowboarding tomorrow. While looking at the ski resorts websites I realised that Les 7 Laux, a resort I was at last week, is running on Joomla.

Is using Joomla a good platform for a ski resort like Les 7 Laux to use? Are they using Joomla well?

Now that the new version of Joomla is released, you might be asking the question: How am I going to install it?

The easiest option would be to install Joomla 1.5 using the Fantastico script library which makes installing Joomla a breeze. Fantastico is supported by a number of web hosts including Hostmonster (our recommended Joomla host).

Our first Joomla tutorial couldn't really be any simpler: we're going to show you how to install the content management system Joomla (v1.0.13) on your webhost using Fantastico. Fantastisco is an auto-installer script that is available with certain hosting packages. In this example we're using Hostmonster, but there are plenty of other hosts that offer Fantastico as well.