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How to add nice UI effects to Joomla! articles without any technical knowledge
If you use Joomla! content management system to run your site you don’t need special technical knowledge how to publish articles because of intuitive interface. But almost any publisher wants to add nice user interface effects to his site and don’t bother learning Joomla! internals, Javascript frameworks and PHP.
For example you want to fetch some data from database and display it in table view allowing user to sort and resize it. Or you want to show content using accordion effect, tabular view, nice popup or add customizable tooltips or online presentations? How this can be done without knowledge of SQL, PHP, Javascript?
There is an easy way. We’ve created the extension that combines various effects you may apply to content of your articles. The component is called ARI Smart Content and contains the following effects:
ARI JAccordion - an expandable/collapsible content pane
ARI JCSV2Table plugin - convert .csv file to html table: displaying content of CVS (comma separated values) file as a table
ARI JDataTable - data table - presents information in tabular view
ARI JFancyBox - Fancybox popup
ARI JFlexGrid - data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers
ARI JScroller - scrolling area with specified content
ARI JTableSorter - sortable table
ARI JTabView - tabbed content – displays tabbed content: HTML or URL
ARI JTooltip - tooltips
ARI SQLtable - render table by data from SQL query
ARI Typeface - displays text in appropriate font using canvas tag
ARI ZohoSheet - online sheets
ARI ZohoShow - online presentations
ARI JDialog - dialog with specified content
ARI MooNewsTicker - Scrolls news using number of settings
Go ahead and have a look at extension in action on demo site. If you like it rate this extension in JED.
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Joomla! and Search Engine Optimization
When you run site on Joomla! you should know some tips about how to get to search engines index and make sure your pages are properly processed. This is really important to help the customers find your site. If your site is on the first page of search results list you will get more visitors and probably more customers. Discarding standard SEO tools and techniques we are going to looks at three important areas that are specific to Joomla! site.
1. SEF extensions, friendly URLS. There are number of SEO components for Joomla! that may be really helpful:- sh404SEF – one of the best free SEF components for Joomla! Number of really great features.
- Metadata components: http://extensions.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=listcats&cat_id=1922&Itemid=35
- Sitemap components like Sef Service Map
2. Supplemental results
Supplemental result is URL that is contained in Google’s secondary database of pages of less importance. A supplemental page will still rank in search results, but only if there are not enough pages in the main index that are returned within the search. There are several reasons why your pages may get to supplemental index:
3. 301 redirect
- Duplicate content. Title elements and meta-tags that are identical can lead to duplicate content. When you run Joomla! system there can be PDF and print links on every article. When search spider looks at your website it scans the title, meta description, meta keywords and page content. Having PDF and print icons can lead to duplicate content as it is understood by search bot and as the result to supplemental index. To fix this just use Joomla! setting not to show these icons. To disable PDF and print icons in Joomla 1.0.x go to Global Configuration->Content and select “Hide” radio buttons. To do this in Joomla 1.5 you should go to Content->Article Manager->Parameters.
- Low pagerank. If a page has pagerank that is too low Google can drop it from its main index and move to supplemental index. To fix this you could try to get more quality backlinks to your pages.
- High page count, page freshness, manipulative links (paid links, excessive reciprocal linking, links injection)
Suppose you have site your-site.com. Sometimes search engines may think that http://your-site.com and www.your-site.com are different sites. In this case your pages will receive lower pagerank. The better way to avoid this is 301 redirect. To create correct 301 redirect from http://your-site.com to www.your-site.com you should enable .htaccess usage and add the following lines to this file:
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RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^your-site.com
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.your-site.com/$1 [R=301,L]