Blog Entries for bohemia http://www.bohemiawebsites.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:35:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Custom-Forms-with-Joomla.html <br/>Joomla has a decent contact that form that comes with the CMS. But, you may want to upgrade one day as you may find the odd piece of junk email gets sent for which the user effortlessly fills it out with a couple of letters in each text box and sends it. The built in form can be upgraded with a plugin and component like tinCaptcha. The captcha ensures that the person is real. However, unless you have some competency in editing source files, you will find it difficult and time consuming to add [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:04:27 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Should-I-Hire-a-Web-Designer-or-Web-Developer.html <br/>When someone goes looking for a website to be made, often one of 3 words comes to mind; web designer, web developer and webmaster. The term that probably has the most usage is 'web designer'. So, what is the difference between the 3? Typically, the web designer is the person who makes the design uses as HTML editor like Dreamweaver or carves out a Photoshop PSD file for conversion. The web designer is the style behind the project. The web developer on the other hand, is the person who takes th [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/new-myblog-entry.html <br/>Although there is a lot of hype and a lot of media about mobile devices used for web surfing, the stats don't seem to promising for mobile devices for general web surfing. In a nutshell, the phone, IPhone or Blackberry are good tools for some web apps; like Google maps, but when it comes to getting the general web experience, it just does not cut it. According to Google analytics, many websites receive significantly less than 1% traffic from a mobile device. <br /><br/><br /><br/>Is that enough traf [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:59:04 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Sound-Capturing-With-Audacity.html <br/><p>Sound capturing is taking the sounds that are being played on your computer, and turing them into wav or mp3 files.&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>A simple and free method to capture sound and audio is to use the software Audacity. The downloads are free from Audacity's website. The downloads are straightforward. But, setting it up could be short and sweet or it could take a few hours. It will need to be custom configured so that sound will sound perfect when it is captured. To make an example of these pa [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Viewing-Websites-in-Different-Monitors.html <br/><p>In recent years, the monitor size has grown and grown. Now, when you go to your local electronics shop you find monitors that look larger than big screen tvs.&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>Years ago, this would have been a nightmare to web designer / web developer. However, nowadays,&#160; browsers like Firefox 3.x and Internet Explorer 8 do a fantastic job at holding decent resolution when someone zooms in on the webpage. In Explorer, the commands are Page &gt;Zoom &gt;Pick a Setting and in Firefox View [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/SEO-More-is-Better-More-is-Not-Always-Better.html <br/><p>Generally speaking, writing more words allows for more phrases to be picked up by the search engines. Often enough, these phrases can exist in the content without being listed in the title. However, keywords and phrases in the title will get better rankings than those that are nested in the content.&#160;</p><br/><br/><p>In a nutshell, more is not always better in the article itself, but more articles is always better. The simplest way to achieve this is to have a blog or a content management sys [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Why-Should-I-Have-A-Blog.html <br/><br/><p>A blog is an invaluable resource for any website that is concerned with SEO. A blog is like writing freelance articles that will become titled, keyworded and indexed with search engines; especially the most popular one 'Google'. Unlike other menus and content management, a blog allows unrelated and related articles to be displayed in an order; such as the time they are made. For example, a blog for an autobody shop may have articles about car care, car maintenance, car painting, how to no [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Custom-Content-Coding-in-Joomla-192.html <br/>Joomla has a number of various editors which can be used to create content for pages and modules. However, in most cases, they can arrange text, images and Flash to look precise. However, the editors are not the best choice for precise custom coding. For custom coding, an the extension Jumi can be used to create custom content in modules and articles. <br /><br/><br /><br/>With Jumi, custom content can be done with the various common coding scripts and languages; XHTML, CSS, PHP, CGIs and Javascrip [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Generating-Revenue-On-Your-Website.html <br/><p>There are various methods to generate revenue on your website.</p><br/><p>1) Sell a product or service</p><br/><br/><p>2) Affiliate Advertising</p><br/><br/><p>Google Adsense</p><br/><p>A simple form of affiliate advertising is to use Google Adsense. With Google Adsense, you sign up with Google and allow spots on your web pages for Google ASdsense. Then, when someone clicks an adword, Google records the click and pays you a percentage. Affiliate ads are more profitable when the keywords are pricey. Pricey ke [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.bohemiawebsites.com/Business-Card-Website.html <br/><br/><p>A Business card website is the fastest way to make your presence on the web. A typical business card website could consist of one splash page with a logo, text, images and contact information. In other words, it would look a basic homepage like many websites.</p><br/><p>Normally,business card websites are very fast to build because they have such limited content and do not link to other pages. These sites can be made very easily in any html editor or built in Photoshop and converted from a P [...] kent@templatesjoomla.ca Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100