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Contributed by Hanh Brown of Investers Lounge Online

Scientific knowledge informs us that writing down one's personal thoughts, opinions, and experiences is beneficial to human beings. This is nothing new, everyone from little girls to professors to Presidents have kept diaries and journals to record their thoughts and have their say. These personal writings soothe the savage beast within as well as create historical record for future generations. The World Wide Web has opened up a new avenue for personal expression, Weblogs, commonly known as Blogs.

Blogging has become so second nature in our culture that they are expected as part of a web site. I guess what makes them so fun is their user friendliness. They are easy to build and maintain. Blogs can pretty much create themselves with cutting edge, user provided material, and if they are done well the potential to draw traffic to the site and Web engines can be huge.

You can still book Joomla training in Boston, MA and get $50 off with early bird pricing. There are 12 spots still left, and early bird ends tomorrow. The Manchester, NH class filled up fast, so this might be your only chance to get eastern new England Joomla training!

If you have a new site, you want to get traffic. The 800 lb gorilla for this is of course Google.

So how can you get indexed as quickly as possible in Google and start to get that great free organic SEO traffic.

I came across a few great tips from IdeaPro.com as I was trying to answer this question myself!

Its recently surfaced that there is a small hole in the password reset process for Joomla 1.5. Recently for me as this site was hacked late this afternoon and I spent an amusing hour or so tussling with the would be hacker and me in the backend of the site. He was busy deleting articles, I was busy deleting his user.

The j.org team have released a fix already. Its a critical security patch and part of 1.5.6. You should update your site ASAP if you are running Joomla 1.5.

You can still book Joomla training in Manchester, NH and get $50 with early bird pricing. There are 10 spots still left, and early bird ends tomorrow.

The JoomlaExpo in Chicago last May was so fun, our friends at the Content Management System Association (CMSA) decided to do it again this December in lovely mile high Denver!

Announcing CMS Winter Expo!

The "Earthblog" Joomla! template is a great template for technical sites, blogs, communities, churches, portals, and so many more.

This template has a variety of time saving extras such as matching JCalPro themes and a super-lightweight mootools slider module to attract readers to your featured content!