Compass Designs

Joomlashack is proud to release Jamba is our latest free template for Joomla!

You can use it for Joomla! 1.0 or Joomla! 1.5. Feel free to give it a whirl.

You may have visited one of the other popular blogs about Joomla at alledia.com. It's written by a fellow Brit living in the US, Steve Burge (he is going to be a fellow instructor at the upcoming Joomla University in Chicago). He recently wrote a post phpBB3 Integration Can Be The Joomla 1.5 Killer App. As we often seem to do, he scooped me on a post I had started to write about the exact same topic, thinking about what Joomla 1.5's Killer "must have" application might be.

I think I might offer some different answers than his thoughts about forums though.

I feel I am pretty knowledgeable here at Compass about SEO, heck, I even wrote a book or two about it. I also know a good deal when we see one.

Last year Steve Burge of www.alledia.com came up with a new club concept, the Joomla SEO club. He had already written a great ebook about SEO, and then he bundled it together with online access and a forum to create Joomla's first non-template club!

You may have noticed a new menu option on the menu above called "Training".

Its been a long time coming, but I am very excited to be able to announce our first Joomla training event in the US. Its going to be the day after the Joomla EXPO 2008 in Chicago.

The EXPO is on Friday 16th of May, and the training is on Saturday the 17th. The classrooms are right next to the hotel where the EXPO is being held!

I came across a curious article in last week's Economist called "Government Offline". It was about how government uses technology and the web to improve services (its conclusion was badly!)

Will you be in the midwest around May 16th? If so, The JoomlaChicago Group is pleased to announce its plans to host the first-ever JoomlaEXPO on May 16, 2008 at the elegant Renaissance Chicago O'Hare Suites Hotel.  You're invited to "come together, explore Joomla!" This unique all-day conference will sell out, so please register soon, to ensure you've got a spot.

OK, so in my last post, Live Day 1 SEF URL problems I explained my master plan to do some htaccess redirection for all my old links.

Now, despite my current issue getting data on 404's, I can still make some headway because I *do* know some of the URL's that need redirecting.