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I was just setting up a poll on this site and discovered that there was a problem with Open SEF and polls. The redirect URL would not work properly.

Fortunately, the fix was relatively easy...

I came across a great project recently, the environmental blog action day. Its a simple concept, to get thousands of bloggers around the world to be talking about the environment on October 15th. 

Ok, so I finally broke down and made the switch to gmail. I have been using a POP client (thunderbird), but the number of emails I get a day was overwhelming (150+).

I'll add to this post over the next few days with some reflections on the move. Might be of use to people considering the same.

Its been while since I have done much blogging about Joomla SEO, almost a year in fact. I thought I would do some research and see how the collective wisdom of the industry has changed with what matter to get a page search engine optimized (SEO). Use this top ten list if you already have a site ranked and want to see what you can implement to get your ranking higher.

Over the last few weeks I have been putting the finishing touches to 3 final chapters of my Joomla 1.5 book about creating school, blog and restaurant websites with Joomla.

As I have been building the demos, I had a chance to play with the new SEO and SEF features in Joomla 1.5 

Last week I mentioned that the Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate had arrived, officially taking Joomla 1.5 out of beta status.

At Joomlashack we have been working hard poring over the new 1.5 templating engine and are looking for community input for what templates you would like to see run on 1.5 natively. 

If you are looking for an easy way to get classy looking images on your Joomla 1.5 site, you don't have to wait any longer. Joomlashack has now upgraded their hugely popular Flash Rotator module for Joomla 1.5.