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I just stumbled on this  interesting article on SEO and felt i should share it with you.

The issue of search engine and page ranking seems to remain a big secret in the internet world. Achieving a high page rank and high traffic through search engines is a huge task for web masters, getting up there is not easy but it takes a lot more to maintain the status quo once a site hits it big with the search engines. Please see an excerpt from a blog below;

“The original PageRank algorithm was described by Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin in several publications. It is given by

PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))”

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Thanks for your continued presence on our blog, please note that we are continously calling for articles from members to hep us build a solid online presence that will serve all.

Now getting straight to business as usual, we would like to introduce you to some good virtuemart modules that would help enhance your shop. Please note that there are so many open source ecommerce platforms out there but if you are somebody that uses joomla virtuemart, please take a look at these two modules.

1. VIRTUEMART PRODUCT SLIDESHOW: This module helps give your product display that bright and animated touch that would attract a visitors attention. It can be customised and postioned anywhere. Putting it at the top is always the best. This is non-commercial.

2. MAGIC ZOOM VIRTUEMART COMPONENT: This component helps visitors and customers to zoom out a product image as a clear bigger image  by placing the mouse on the image itself . This would help to enhance the look of your products. This is commercial.

It is advisable tp present product images in white backgrounds. Please contact MDS if you would like to set up a store online.

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Recently i had an arguement with a friend concerning the best open source  ecommerce softwares  to use , at the end of the day we agreed that they all serve different purposes but he actually made a case for wordpress ecommerce solution which i have never really been convinced about. After reading his wonderful article, i decided to publish it here as he has made a strong case for wordpress.

“Building Successful Store is very difficult Process But with wordpress its become easy. Recently the wordpress market folded with Free and premium E-commerce plugins and templates with quality function and easy management.  Today I will write about some of quality Plugins and wordpress that’s can help you to start up your online store not only this but also some premium service provided by E-commerce experts Like Shopfiy and Others.”

You can read from his personal  blog here .

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Recently a visitor was trying to comment on this blog and also posting some codes for us to help out, he was having problems with his joomla template and when we asked him to post his code here for us to see, he became frustrated after posting it so many times with the codes being converted into characters  like  &lt; and &gt;. The thing here is that wordpress would normally interprete anything inside < and > as if it's html. For a quick guide on how to solve this please visit this article here.

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Recently another client of mine was having so many issues with his joomla site and this was really really driving him mad. The major problem was his host that keeps turning off his site due to the fact that it is causing overloading to the system on a shared hosting. Please note that this same topic was previously written about in this post here but this is just an update on a related issue.

Problem: Please see a list of problems that you may be experiencing with joomla server overload:

1. My site loads too slowly

2.It gives you an error page when it loads

3. I’m regularly switched off by my host and i have been asked to turn on my cache before my site would be put back online

4. My site loads into a white dis organized page (first check that you are not importing articles from a microsoft word)

5. I have been warned by my host that my site is using too much resources.

Solutions:

1. I would recommend that you get rid of some un-necessary modules you dont need and delete them entirely from the site and server as these may be calling up some database queries even if they are disabled ( A case of bad programming).

2. Another thing is to go to your hosting provider and check if you need to move to a bigger server space either a VPS or Dedicated server, i know most hosting companies would like to push you to do this but make sure you are seeking the best advice. Check your Bandwidth limit used up monthly and your remaining disk space and then determine if you will really heed their advice and try to get a second and third opinion from an expert in the related field, you can do this by simply visiting hosting forums online and asking questions. Most forum members are usually very helpful and would offer you the best and truthful advice they can give.

3. If your case is the case where you are using up too much resources, please take note, if you are on a shared hosting or VPS, please tell your hosting provider to  help you delete your trash bin, usually you would not have access to this trash bin , you may think you have deleted all your trash from cpanel admin but really that is not the case. A helpful hosting admin was able to dig around the problem and found that my client had 18 GB worth of trash not deleted. Once this was done, the site’s speed was up again and there was little issue with resource. so it is really advisable to let your host make sure all the trash has been deleted.

Thanks and watch out for more update.

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Hello all,

Recently after i installed Dolphin 7 on a shared hosting, a lot of bugs came up and i tried my best to solve the ones i can , the major bugs were video and sound not loading, email not being sent out even after configuring a cron job very well etc .

Anyway after talking to my hosting company hostgator (highly recommended) , i was told that Dolphin 7 cannot run on a shared hosting but would need a dedicated server. Please read the extract here from the hostgator site.

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Again let’s call to your attention a little problem with Module title not showing after you have designed your own custom templates. Normally the basic joomla template tutorial which many would tend to follow would show you how to go about your template design but  after designing you may find out that your modules do not show titles even for the fact that you have commanded it to do so in  the joomla admin .

Normally you will get a code like this to display module ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” />’,  to get it to display module titles just replace it with this one ‘<jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”left” style=”xhtml” /> ‘

Notice that the only thing added there is only ‘style=”xhtml” ‘

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This is just a quick one , i know most of the people using outlook already know this but this is meant for those curious ones. Outlook express has what they call a distribution list, if you want to import email list from a word document to your distribution list. The most important thing and which might be the hardest thing here is to make sure all your email addresses ends in a semi colon, you may have to do this manually. It is even more demanding when outlook tells you to go back and edit an email address by adding semi colon to it.

At the same time it’s all very easy , just follow the link here for a guide and then after you have succeeded with it, follow this link here for a guide on how to send an email to a distribution list.

Hope this helps out!

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