With Joomla 1.5 fast approaching, they are in the middle of a template contest. All entries have been submitted, and now it’s up to the core team to whittle it down to 5 templates for the masses to vote on. If I were in charge, here are the 5 I’d choose:
AdSense can be a great way to add some additional revenue, and fortunately adding AdSense to your Mambo or Joomla site is very easy. Some people prefer to use one of the ready-made modules, but I prefer to do it more manually. There is no real reason, but I like as much control as possible.
BlogRush is a new service that allows you to gain more exposure and traffic to your blog. Like many of these traffic exchange type systems, there is a chance for abuse, but it is being developed by internet marketing giant John Reese, and is getting positive reviews from Shoemoney, Andy Beal and John Chow. BlogRush works by showing headlines from 5 other blogs in the same general field as yours on your site, and giving you credit for showing them. It then shows your headlines on other blogs.
Well, WordPress 2.3 has now been released. This blog is still running on 2.2.3, but I did give 2.3 a little trial. The feel is exactly the same as we’re all used to, which is very nice, but they added in a few great features.
It used to be, if you wanted a high quality CMS system for your site you would need to pay outrageous licensing fees, sometimes as high as thousands of dollars for each person who would be working on the site. That isn’t the case any more. Mambo offers an award winning system, completely free of charge. You can now get a high quality site online in under an hour for very little money.
