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SEO Starter Plan

If you have absolutely new site with zero traffic, Joomla SEO Starter Plan is the pack that you need to start up with. It includes the following essential things like:

1. Site review and analysis:
   
   • Your web site analysis
   • Competitive analysis
   • Keywords analysis
   • SEO strategy
   • Initial ranking report
2. On page optimization:
   
   • Site structure optimization
   • Content optimization
   • Image optimization
   • HTML code optimization
   • Meta tags creation and optimization
   • HTML sitemap creation
   • Google XML Sitemap setup &  monitoring
3. Off page optimization:
   
   • Manual search engine submission
   • Manual directory submission
   • Link exchange (one way and reciprocal)
4. Reports
   
   • Search engine ranking report

Create A Mixed Joomla Video&Photo Gallery

Creating a video gallery on your Joomla site you may face two main problems: choosing the right component for this purpose and making this component meet your needs and specifications completely.

At the moment there is a wide range of galleries for Joomla sites and each of them offers you some particular features. FW Video Gallery combines video and images' upload features in one and so provides you with all the necessary features for creating a multifunctional and modern gallery on your site.

FW Video Gallery is easy to use, it also provides you with configurable settings and opportunity to create separate video and photo galleries or even mix them in one. With this Joomla component you get full control over the sizes of the galleries/images and frames, their layout and displayed details. How can you install FW Video Gallery on your website? - You just need to purchase FW Video Gallery component, install it on your website, first FW Gallery, then FW Video Gallery Plugin and enable. We provide a detailed documentation that will help you during the installation and adjustment of the Joomla video component.

With FW Video Gallery component you can download favourite video files from leading video providers, upload video from your computer and dilute galleries with your photos or pictures. Video gallery supports flash video format, Youtube, Vimeo and blip.tv videos. Allowed image formats are: PNG, JPG, JPEG. FW Video Gallery also provides you with JoomFish integration and 7 languages support: Ukrainian, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek and German.

Joomla 1.7 Multilingual!

With the release of Joomla 1.6.x. many of our customers faced the multilingual translation issue. As you know still there is no JoomFish version compatible with Joomla 1.6.x and thus you can't create a multilingual site with the help of Real Estate 1.6.5.

But! We've decided to improve our Joomla real estate component and integrate new option that will allow to translate component and site content into all Joomla languages just with the help of FW Real Estate and Joomla CMS.

From now it became possible to refuse from JoomFish and create Joomla real estate sites with multilingual content with FW Real Estate 1.7.0!

Below we list all the steps you need to translate your real estate site into several languages:

Step 1.

Please check if Language Filter module and System-language filter plugin are enabled on your Joomla site.

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The options displayed below must be set to "Yes" option.

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Please make sure that all the languages you need to have enabled on your site are published and have images suffixes and language code for URL. You can check it in Extensions > Language Manager > Content.

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Now you need to create Home page by assigning a language to a menu item and defining it as Default Home page for each published content language. In result you should have created as many main menus with the same menu items as the number of the languages you need on your site. Do not forget to assign each menu item to the appropriate language.

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The content of FW Real Estate like property descriptions, dictionaries and other textual fields can be translated inside the component by selecting an appropriate language from a drop-down list:

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Thus you will have a multilingual site based on Joomla 1.6.x.

We hope that this tutorial will help you to create a multilingual real estate site based on Joomla 1.6.x. If any questions arise, please do not hesitate to contact us or post your questions on forum.

Monetising Joomla

Joomla CMS is an open source content management system that has already almost 3% of the Web! It is absolutely free and is so popular nowadays. Moreover once you have installed it, you get a wide range of the ways how you can get money from working with it. Your choice depends on what your calling is.

Monetising Joomla was one of the most discussed topics highlighted at Joomla Day UK 2011 on the 24th of September. The information you will read further is a short review of the methods that you can apply if you want to get commercial benefit from using Joomla CMS. Let's start!

Joomla development - choice No. 1.

It is the right choice for professional PHP developers. If you are a real pro, read below.

Here you can choose one of the directions:

• develop your own products and sell them
• develop addons for 3d-party products and sell them
• offer custom developing to your customers

Currently there is more than 8,000 Joomla! components, plugins and modules. They can be free and commercial.

Its number is growing every single day! It means that more and more Joomla users need ready-to-use solutions and are ready to pay money for these products or order custom development service. Why not to become a provider of Joomla extensions and offer custom development as well? Below is a diagram that shows how much money can be earned with selling: component, modules and plugins. We've taken the average prices from JED.

So selling at least 1 component, 1 plugin and 1 module per day, you can earn about $140 per day, $980 per week and $4200 per month!
Besides, now there is no need to create your own Joomla software if you don't want to spend time and efforts for its promotion as there are a lot of already well-known Joomla extensions providers who offer to list 3d-party add-ons for their products. For example, JomSocial or VirtueMart. Their sites have already good traffic and all you need to get clients is to develop and list your add-on for these components.
You will be dealing with much greater sum of money in case if you find loyal customers for custom extensions development. The price for this service is two or three times higher than the price for a ready-to-use solution.

Joomla services - choice No.2

There is a great number of services that are in demand now. Joomla consultimg, training, localization, support and so on. Custom developing that was mentioned above can be also considered as service, as well as extensions customization, site migration to the latest CMS version, etc.
According to Joomla resources directory, the total number of Joomla providers officially registered at joomla.org amounts to 326 companies/individuals. 77% of this number refers to Joomla services!

Here we can see that the biggest share of all Joomla services is created by Consulting, Freelancing (this category inlcudes custom development, web design, marketing, etc.) and Support. Such service as Translation has only one company registered but it doesn't mean that there is no demand for it. It just needs extra costs for translators, and not every company can afford it. Probably this picture is not 100% correct as there are a lot of providers who can be not included in the list but do the same. However this picture gives you some understanding what Joomla services can bring you money.

Joomla design - choice No.3

Design was always one of the most popular services in the Web. Design for Joomla is not an exception. From the one hand it can be refered to Joomla services as we will mainly speak about custom design. However this branch has become so large-scale that we have decided to single it out. The picture below illustrates how manifold Joomla design can be.

Template design is the most popular service especially if we are talking about template clubs. It can be explained by the fact that Joomla users prefer ready-to-use templates to custom template design.

The total sum of templates is difficult to calculate as still there is no template directory like JED, but if we take into account the main template providers we will get the following picture:

The average price for templates varies from $10 to $100 and more... Together with your templates you can offer as well related services like installation and configuration, PSD to HTML conversion service and the price will be increased. Some providers offer their templates with buyout price, i.e. that this template won't be sold to anyone else or call their customers on to get monthly, annual subscriptions.

Beside templates web designers can offer other services like: extensions/CMS interface design, custom web design like banners, icons, boxes, logos, etc.