Compass Designs .net

Last week a great new directory was launched at joomla.org, the Joomla Joomla Resource Directory. Its a place where those that offer Joomla services can advertise their Joomla services.

There are already many different categories, and it looks like that the listings will be free, but with an option for paid listings.

Recently I wrote an article that proved to be immensely popular. I then thought it would be good to reach out to a favorite Joomla Joomla! blog of mine: Compass Designs. Here is a companion piece to my original post on promoting your Joomla Joomla content, Five (more) tips to promoting your content.

Just got back from a great two days at the 2009 Chicago Joomla CMS Expo. It was great to see dev's from Drupal and Plone rubbing shoulders with the Joomla Joomla regulars.

I had an opportunity to have a quick interview with SDRnews, and gave away some pre-release copies of the Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide (2nd Edition) and Fundamentals of Joomla! (Video Training).

Need Joomla Joomla Joomla training in 2009? You're in business!

Announcing the most complete tour of Joomla trainings ever- 6 sessions in 5 cities across New England.

Most of the sessions are for beginners but we are excited to add 2 intermediate classes in Boston and Manchester (NH).

Get going this spring and summer! More dates will be added, to keep coming back. It's a great time to invest in yourself and your Joomla skills

Brian Clark and Jon Morrow over at Copyblogger just released an interesting free 31 page report about outsourcing for web entrepreneurs. I think there has definitely been a growth in the perception that outsourcing is the secret to being successful these days:

• All the "get rich quick" gurus seem to have outsourcing as a key part of their business model
• Overseas "rent-a-coder" type sites that offer cheap labor are becoming more and more prevalent
• Quite a few Joomla Joomla-based shops even have outsourcing as a key aspect of running their company business
• Even design is getting outsourced, as evident by all the PSD to HTML sites that have sprung up

Brian and Jon make the argument that outsourcing is not all that its cracked up to be, especially for those who 'they" say its best for... new people with a new idea they are trying to launch.

Over at Joomla Simplweb, our greatest love is to help people build great websites. As former educators and as parents, our team members greatly enjoy watching sites grow and get better over time. We understand that our customer's success is our success, and we can measure the health of our business by the quality of our customer's websites.

Recently, one of our free trial users emailed us and asked us what kinds of websites were being built at Simplweb. What types of businesses, organizations, individuals, etc are using the Simplweb service?

It's a good question, and one we don't track daily, given the hundreds of trial sites created every week. But the question reminded us that it was time to do a quick roundup and categorization. Here's a small sample of Simplweb sites in categories.