Tutorials and analyzes about web design, CMS and internet marketing in Switzerland and elsewhere. For the moment, the majority of our articles are available in French. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
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Content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla or Wordpress are among the most popular open source solutions when you want to design a site by controlling the technical part of your platform in order to benefit from maximum flexibility and autonomy.
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Cookies are small files stored on your computer and created by websites during the user's journey on the web. For example, a website must determine if you are logged in to your user account. Delete the cookie on your computer and you will be instantly logged out. Other cookies, called third-party cookies, are dropped by web services for advertising targeting purposes and are more problematic because they allow them to track the user's journey on the internet.
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Yootheme Pro is a template creation system and a web page builder (pagebuilder) produced by a German company which is installed on Joomla or Wordpress CMS (Content Management System). Before installing a pagebuilder, you must understand that the point of a CMS is to separate the content from the structure of the website, which is different from the process of creating a static HTML page.
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Many professional websites still work with the Joomla 3 CMS (source), which has not been updated since August 2023 and there's even older versions. This situation presents security risks and lost opportunities regarding web performances.
Should we update to Joomla 5, or even migrate to Wordpress as recommended by aficionados of this platform?
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The new version 4 of Joomla is a great success and has helped renew interest in the platform in the very competitive CMS market. This is why it is time to update your site without further delay to this more modern and efficient version. This process called mini-migration by Joomla is relatively simple if you don't use too many third-party extensions. In the latter case, it will be necessary to examine each extension and check its compatibility with the update component present in Joomla 3.10 and with the Joomla extensions directory. Obsolete extensions can also be replaced by using Joomla custom fields, native methods or simpler extensions.
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Although there are many extensions to improve the SEO of a site, they are generally limited to adding additional fields for SEO tags to CMS, but do not take into account the final rendering of the pages which may be different once the HTML code is rendered and sent to the browser. Screaming Frog allows you to index (crawl) a site like a search engine spider by collecting important technical information on the pages visited such as the status of links, images, SEO titles, meta descriptions, page loading speed, http headers, even spelling or any custom character strings.
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After using different solutions in the past to monitor information on the web and read RSS feeds, I finally opted for DEVONthink 3 Pro (DTPro).
DEVONthink is an exceptional Mac software that I have used for many years as a knowledge base. Its main function is to collect heterogeneous information and offer a range of scripts and filters to automate their classification or find them. It also has the advantage of not being an online service, which allows you to maintain total control over your data and to be able to export your database at any time in different formats.
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An indisputable strong point of Joomla and Wordpress CMS (Content Management System) is the ability to easily update their source code and that of their extensions by simply clicking a button in the backend. Wordpress allows minor and major updates to be carried out automatically, unlike Joomla, which informs the webmaster by email, but ultimately leaves it up to him to choose the right time to do so. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. However, Wordpress users can deactivate this function and Joomla users can use external services to automatically or globally update their extensions.
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You wish to redesign your website with the help of a professional web designer ? Here are some tips to help you ask for a quote in a businesslike manner. Indeed, the more detailed your request for a quote, the more it will allow you to get really comparable offers between different suppliers, which will simplify your choice.
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Starting a business is not an easy task. Communication can be wrongly regarded as a simple (or pleasant) task to perform in relation to the difficulty of the financial requirements or the technical development of a product. Unfortunately, a technically superior product can remain in the starting blocks for lack of sufficient attention to how it will be perceived by the market.
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Before the invention of the internet – in the Middle Ages, isn't it ? – there were not thirty-six solutions to find addresses of business companies: one consulted the "yellow pages" of the telephone directory. For the record, the first commercial phone book was created in 1886 by Reuben H. Donnelley in the United States under the term "Yellow Pages." According to the legend, the worker in charge of printing the directory would have run out of white paper and replaced it with yellow ones (source).
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Creating a website with an open source CMS (Content Management System) like Wordpress or Joomla allows you to avoid being trapped in a subscription-based web service, which represents the lowest common denominator of all users needs without the possibility of evolution.
It is also an opportunity to be able to optimize the design, security and performances of his site, which is an advantage in a competitive market where small details can make a difference. Here are some basic rules to get started.
