Joomla Community Magazine | March 2012
The March issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!
Our stories this month:
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
If You Want To Build A Lighthouse…, by Paul Orwig
FEATURE STORIES
Interview with Steve Burge of OSTraining, by Alice Grevet
Meet Paul Orwig: An Interview with the New OSM President, by Gabe Wahhab
Best Ukrainian sites made on Joomla CMS, by Denys Nosov
PROJECT NEWS
Leadership Highlights from February 2012, by Alice Grevet
SITEBUILDERS
Joomla and Smartphones, by Hagen Graf
DESIGNERS
No Programming? No Worries!, by Graeme King
ADMINISTRATORS
Joomla ACL: Improving usability by customizing the login screen for different access levels, by Jen Kramer
DEVELOPERS
Managing Your Modules Has Never Been So Easy, by Ofer Cohen
HELP WANTED
The Joomla! Project Wants You – March 2012, by Paul Orwig
Help Wanted: International Joomla! Shop Team Members, by Dianne Henning
BUSINESS MATTERS
Make More Money By Properly Setting Your Hourly Rate, by Gabe Wahhab
Releasing A Commercial Extension? Top 5 Things Every Developer Must Know, by Gabe Wahhab
Why Your Clients Need a Mobile Joomla Site and How to Sell it To Them, by Luke Summerfield
EVENTS
2012 J!OSCAR Awards Announced – Nominations close April 27, by Victor Drover
JoomlaDay events in March 2012, by Jacques Rentzke
Joomla Groups Enhance Your Exposure to the Community Worldwide, by Tuan Bui
THE JOOMLA! HAIKUS
Post your haikus for March, by Paul Orwig
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
Craft a Dramatic Vector Landscape Environment
This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a dramatic landscape environment. You should have a basic understanding of Adobe Illustrator tools before you begin this tutorial, as the tutorial moves at a rapid pace.
Video: How Google Handles Paid Directories
Before you pay to have your website listed in as many directories as you can find in order to get more traffic, stop for a moment and consider how these paid listings could adversely effect your SEO results.
Luckily, Matt Cutts is back again with his latest video answering the question “are paid directories held to the same standards as paid links?”
And the answer…
A paid directory is much like buying a permanent link on a site – it’s expected to be on a certain relevant page for much longer than a guest post for example.
However, Google look’s a little deeper at link directories to ensure they haven’t just sprung up overnight by an owner who bought a recently expired but decent PageRank domain and is attempting to make quick money off of people who are willing to buy links just to appease Google. When Google comes across these types of directories it will usually lower the page rank of the directory, so that it isn’t seen as a trusted source for website’s looking for link love.
If the directory looks to be primarily a link scheme, then Google will hold the paid directory to the same standard as paid links.
That’s not to say that all paid directories are bad. Yahoo! and DMOZ are both good examples of directories that are long established, use quite stringent editorial discretion (to eliminate spammy sites) and will put your link on to a static page with minimal outbound links, which is what Google prefers.
So basically not all paid directories are equal in the eyes of search engine giant, Google.
Before you decide to pay to be in an online directory or choose to create one I suggest you watch the video.
Best of Tuts+ in February 2012
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!
Interview with Vector Artist Alexey Oglushevich
Today our guest is a great Russian vector artist, Alexey Oglushevich who won a Grand Prize of CorelDraw International Design Contest in 2009. You would probably be surprised to know that Alexey is a metalworker by education, but he reached success and got recognition in the vector art world. Alexey is a bright example of the phrase “nothing is impossible”. Learn more about Alexey, his thoughts and illustrations after the jump.
Quick Tip: How to Create a Vector Grass Text Effect
Follow this quick tip and learn how to create a simple grass text effect. We will use the Note Paper effect then with the help of the Live Trace options to obtain the vector shapes that we need. The Pucker & Bloat effect can be used successfully in this case to create a pretty realistic grass look. Let’s begin!
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