You know I am a fan of Joomla, having developed sites for clients and my own use with Joomla 1.5 from the day it was released.
Now i’m developing sites with Drupal and find that 3 weeks into Drupal Development I miss Joomla.
For me the administrative and aesthetic focus of Joomla is more intuitive than Drupal.
Everything [...]

Concentrating on rich Internet applications, Zend Technologies is backing Adobe’s Action Message Format (AMF) in Zend Framework 1.7.
Version 1.7 is the latest release of the company’s framework for building PHP Web applications; it is being announced at the Adobe Max 2008 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. With AMF support, PHP developers can exchange data [...]

IBM and Zend last week announced the availability of a new PHP package, called Zend Core for IBM, which brings iSeries shops an inexpensive and easy-to-use tool for building dynamic, database-driven Web applications. While it’s not the first version of the open-source, server-side scripting language for the iSeries, the new PHP implementation brings advantages, such [...]

When you Google/ yahoo the words “best web host” it will give you millions of results. I know what you are thinking. Looking for a superior web hosting service will not be an exciting task. But it should not be the case. There are actually good services at an affordable price. Below are simple yet helpful [...]

Eicra Soft Ltd has has a great list of rules to follow when coming up with domain names, check it out:

Brainstorm 5 Top Keywords
Make the Domain Unique
Only Choose Dot-Com Available Domains
Make it Easy to Type
Make it Easy to Remember
Keep the Name as Short as Possible
Create and Fulfill Expectations
Avoid Copyright Infringement
Set Yourself Apart with a Brand
Reject [...]

1. Use .htaccess to redirect the non-www version of your website to the www version.
2. Extend the registration of your domain for at least five years.
3. Make sure that when a visitor clicks your website’s logo, they are taken back to the homepage.
4. If you think your font is too small, make it bigger!
5. Remove [...]

Keyword research is one of the most important factors in the success of your SEO or PPC campaign. When done properly, it will improve both the quantity and the quality of your website traffic. But if you make mistakes when conducting your keyword research, you could be shooting yourself in the foot.
Which mistakes should you [...]

Search Engine Submission
Search engine submission is very basic and everybody should do this on their sites. Search engine submission is very easy to do and it’s free. Just go to major search engines and click on, usually, their help links to find out how to submit your site to their database.
You do not need to [...]

There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10” mistakes. Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mistakes…”. Then I decided to write down all the web design [...]

White hat and black hat have recently crept into Search Engine Optimization (SEO) dictionary. Those practicing ethical SEO are known as white hats, unlike the spammers who would rather break into IT systems. The practioners of ethical SEO, the white hats focus on securing IT systems, rather than breaking into them. Somewhere in the gray [...]