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Sponsor Gratitude: Complusoft |
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We are excited to introduce one of Joomla!’s Development Sponsors, Complusoft. Showing a big heart and team spirit, Complusoft, who is contributing at the Platinum level, specifically asked to take on some of the “less exciting” work that they felt other developers wouldn’t want to do. Complusoft was founded in 2001, and is based in Madrid, Spain.
Complusoft offers various IT solutions but specializes in certain areas such as consulting and bodyshopping. The company also offers customized development based on open source solutions, including Joomla!. In addition, the company has developed targeted vertical market software such as management applications for townships and industrial bakeries. |
Sponsor Gratitude: Fullestop |
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We’re delighted to introduce a Joomla! Development Sponsor at the Platinum level: India and UK-based web developers Fullestop. A nine-year old company with several blue-chip clients, Fullestop provides full-service web solutions that include custom Joomla! development. One of the company’s primary reasons for deepening its involvement with Joomla! is to become even more hands-on with the project, providing programming expertise and learning more about the project in the process.
Fullestop specializes in everything web-design – from development, design, e-commerce, cms, hosting, and programming to branding and consulting. Fullestop is an outspoken fan of the open source movement, and future plans include developing both commercial and non-commercial contributions to the Joomla! project. |
Interview with Paul Hosking About ITWire.com.au |
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About this Blog
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts about major Joomla websites and the developers who built them.
This week we're talking with Paul Hosking about his role with iTWire.com, a major Australian technology website.
1) Hi Paul. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
I'm 44 years old and I'm the Site Director and a co-founder of iTWire.com, I work remote in a very picturesque part of the Victorian country side, Mount Macedon with my family, wife, three kids and a dog. I graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1994 with a degree in music, media and one semester of computer studies (introduction to Microsoft office on a Mac). I first came in contact with the internet in 1995 whilst working in a Media department at the University of Melbourne, my mind was blown ... ever since then I've been hooked. By 1998 I was teaching first years how to code html, pretty basic stuff but it wasn't long before one of my drop outs came back to tell me that he'd got a job in web design based on several weeks of my course and that he was earning 4 times what I was. I resigned that week, got a client and started making web sites freelance. It was challenging work and hard to make a living when starting out. I eventually learnt how to build pretty good flat html sites. That worked for a while though the business model was straining; I build site, you pay me, you want change, you pay me and so on. Not great, there had to be a better way.
At that time I started to see sites appearing that had "amazing" technology like a search box. How do they do that? I thought. View source, umm what's this Mambo thing? Life, work and web sites were never going to be the same. From then on I built every site within a content management system (CSM), to varying levels of success and built a new business model around user updates and open source CMS. This is how I came to build the first iteration of iTWire, The Beerfiles (IT news blog) which first introduced me to online news. Since then I've moved further and further away from development becoming purely a high level user. I have found my skills are devoted to geting the best people possible to help me with development and hosting. Even though I still do CSS layout most days, I now avoid cutting php code as much as possible. |
Google Ends Community Editing In Maps |
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Google announced yesterday it has ended the “community edit” free-for-all in Google Maps.
In the announcement Google said, “all community edits will be reviewed before they are shown.” For local business owners, this means that competitors and spammers will no longer be able to edit your business listing however they see fit, which as been a huge ... Read more |
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Dutch Joomla Start-Up Wins Best IT Startup Award |
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Congratulations to Ticken.nl, the Joomla-based winner of the “best IT startup” title at the annual Thuiswinkel Awards ceremony in the Netherlands.
Martin Beijer, the site's founder, created the site to teach students how to type. Students get a personalised reporting and statistics system, ratings, training flash games, parent control, certification and many other features. In addition to the trophy, Martin won almost €90,000 in prize money.
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Strategic Link Building That Drives Huge Results |
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A strategic link building campaign is more than just picking one or two methods of building links and running with it. To build a well-rounded link portfolio and have the greatest chances of success, you need a combination of credible links and number of links. Today, I want to talk about the credible links and what ... Read more |
Pandora Gaming Handheld Uses Joomla |
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The Pandora console is a gaming and PC handheld device unlike any other.
Its features are based on the suggestions and requests of hundreds of people on their support forums. It also runs on an Open Source Operation Sytem. They use a version of Linux with a few of their own changes and they're released those back to their community.
The natural choice for such an Open Source pioneer? Joomla. At their main site http://www.open-pandora.org they're also using Joomfish to allow easy translation of the site into German and Turkish. |
Customer Stealing: Use Location Based Marketing To Your Advantage |
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If you are a business owner with a brick-and-mortar location, location-based marketing is a quick and easy way to pick up customers.
From your competition.
Call it customer stealing, if you will.
And it isn’t difficult to pull off.
Let’s pretend for a moment that I worked for a local car dealer and I was in charge of getting more ... Read more |
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8 Tools to Better Understand Your Target Audience |
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We read a lot in the SEO world about things like keyword research, analyzing your competitors, and other things to get traffic to your site. But I don’t see information very often about deciding who your target audience is and how to make sure your keyword choices will actually reach them.
This is one way to take ... Read more |
Google AdWords Adds Ad Extensions Tab |
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On Friday afternoon, the Google AdWords blog annouced an ad extensions tab as an option for PPC campaign managers to view on those campaigns running ad extensions.
For those who don’t know, ad extensions are features that can be added to your AdWords ads. Some of these include Ad Sitelinks, Product Extensions, Video Extensions, Location Extensions, and ... Read more |
Major Communication Software and Hardware Company Uses Joomla |
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Objective Interface Systems, a multinational communications software and hardware company is using Joomla for its corporate site: OIS.com.
OIS supplies high-end software and hardware for use by organizations such as NASA and in projects such as the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
OIS products also reach the enterprise, telecom, military, medical, robotics, process control and transportation industries.
Seen Other Large Joomla Websites?
If you have seen other large Joomla sites, or have seen Joomla mentioned in the media, please feel free to report the sighting in our forum and we may feature it here in a blog post. |
Do Small Businesses Need To Pay Attention To Foursquare? |
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So the headline-grabbing, first-mover, element of surprise is gone.
Starbucks has went ahead and made a PR splash with their recent announcement offering Mayors a discount at locations nationwide.
Is it time for small businesses across America to pay attention to location-based marketing applications?
Maybe. Probably. What do you have to lose?
But it is still very early in the ... Read more |
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