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Its been a great year! Thank you to all of our clients and friends.
Some highlights:
- We've produced over 230 online training videos for OSTraining.com
- We've been in the UK, Washington DC, Chicago, Austin, Indianapolis, Boston and more... teaching Joomla and Drupal to people from Pfizer to MIT
- We've launched a number of sites in 2011
- Rod is blogging again! (http://www.rodmartin.net)
May you have a blessed 2012!
We've Released Three New Joomla 1.6 Videos - Including ACL
It's January 10, 2011. Joomla 1.6 Stable should be released sometime before 11:59pm Hawaiian time today!
In preparation for that, we've put together 3 videos that will provide a great overview of what you'll need to know about administering a Joomla 1.6 site.
- Part 1 - The Site, Users and Menu Management Menus (9:52)
- Part 2 - The Articles, Components, Extensions and Help Menus (15:29)
- Joomla 1.6 Access Control Lists (26:31)
How the web is built - Static html vs the CMS
The folks over at W3Techs.com have released an interesting study on the distribution of web development styles.
A whopping 76% of websites are still not using a popular CMS. This doesn't necessarily mean that they are static sites... many could be dynamic - using PHP or another tool... but only 24% are using a recognizable content management system like Joomla or WordPress.
OSTraining Offers FREE Classes to Schools
This is a pretty cool!
Here's part of their announcement:
That landmark coincided with the holiday season so we celebrated by giving back: we held a free class for 16 non-profit organizations in Atlanta.
Fast forward almost a year and last week we hit another milestone: 200 live classes! Those Joomla and Drupal classes were held all across North America and England, from Los Angeles to London and from Vancouver to Miami.
This year's landmark also coincided with the holiday season and so we've decided to give back again, only bigger and better:
We're Featured!
One of the things we're passionate about is training. Yes, we're an internet marketing/web design company... but Rod loves to teach. He's just finished his 115th online training video for OSTraining.com. The topic of this video was JCalPro - a calendar component for Joomla (view the tutorials).
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How Mobile Are You?
The better question is... "How mobile is your website?" Mobile devices now fare out-number desktop computers. With the advent of the iPad and devices like it, along with better mobile phones, more and more people will be trying to look at your site on something other than that Dell or Apple computer...
Consider this...
(slides designed by: Teun Spierings - see http://noteandpoint.com/2010/07/mobile-everywhere/ for the entire presentation)
Branded content on mobile devices is a marriage made in heaven...
So... how mobile is your site? If you think that gorgeous 1024 wide design is going to look good on an iPhone... or all of those amazing flash movies looks great on the iPad... guess again... it doesn't.
Let us help you with that! We can build a mobile version of your site that gets your message to the world... even the mobile world.
