After the last release of Joomla 1.5.15 on November 4, 2009, The Joomla Project has released a major security release Joomla 1.5.16.
It is highly recommended to upgrade immediately to JOOMLA! 1.5.16.
Please see the official announcements:
http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5259-joomla-1516-released.html
Magento is comparatively a new entrant in the ecommerce arena. But in such a short time (released in year 2008) it has become the most popular open source ecommerce platform. Developed using PHP5 Zend framework, its highly scalable. In just one year, this open source platform has topped the Google search volume trends. Supported by an open source eCommerce software development and consulting company named Varien, Magento is a consistently growing community, comprising approx. 68,000 users and developers.
Recently, Magento was awarded as the “Best new open source project” and “Best of open source enterprise applications” by the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards and InfoWorld.com BOSSIE awards respectively. Comprised with flexible modular architecture, Magento is available with numerous online shop maintenance competencies. With the advent of each new day, Magento is gaining recognition amongst e business owners and web experts. Certain advanced features and characteristics of this CMS are:
1. Analytics and reporting
2. Marketing, promotional and SEO tools
3. Mobile commerce
4. Catalog management tools
5. Multi-shops
We have adopted Magento as the open source offering for our ecommerce clients in addition to SSecom Ecommerce suite. We have launched couple of projects using Magento and many are in progress. For more details on our Magento expertise, click here.
In dyanmic websites developed using php, asp , jsp, perl etc, including an external file like a html snippet in a file is quite easy. But at times, you may want to include a html snippet in a html file.
This can be done using Server Side Includes (SSI). SSI is a simple server side scripting language used primarily to paste contents of one or more files into another file.
For example, if you have a block of latest news on all the pages of your website. Now everytime, you need to update the news block, you would need to edit all the html pages. The easy way would be using SSI. The news block can be a html or text file like news.txt. You can include this file into multiple SSI-enabled pages throghout the website by placing the code:
<!–#include virtual-”../news.txt”–>
Now you just need to change this one file and the effect will take place throughout the website.
For more details, logon to Wikipedia.
Google Webmaster Tools Center and the Google Webmaster Blog are two best resources for managing the SEO for your website. For starters, Google published a SEO Starters Guide on its blog which is very good guide for setting the basic concepts right for your website. The pdf guide provides overview and best practices under the following headings:
Create unique, accurate page titles
Make use of the “description” meta tag
Improve the structure of your URLs
Make your site easier to navigate
Offer quality content and services
Write better anchor text
Use heading tags appropriately
Optimize your use of images
Make effective use of robots.txt
Promote your website in the right ways
Though its a very basic document but with good enough tips and best practices for starters. I would recommend to subscribe to the Google Webmasters Tools blog RSS feeds. There is nothing like learning from Google itself for SEO.
Joomla 1.5.x has a known issue related to the display of pdf file in IE7. When you click on the pdf icon for any content item in IE7, it opens a popup with blank window. To fix the issue, follow this article on docs.joomla.org.