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Just a short post, I thought It would be nice to see how this works out…
A nice Initiative to Bring more Blogs into the Picture.
Just head over and Vote for Sites like This one, Copyblogger and Others..like http://www.alledia.com/ and http://www.opensourcecommunity.org/
Steve of Alledia.com gave me some homework to do by tagging me to do a “Why Do I Blog” post.
It will be short and simple.
I started out a long time ago Blogging on Blogger.com as it first went into Beta, because I like to try out new stuff on the Internet. (Currently Twitter and its better counter part Jaiku.com)
Then I read a post about the fact that WordPress was such a great Blogging software for SEO Purpose.
So I downloaded, Installed the Software as a sub domain…., did some SEO Stuff to make it even better (couldn't resist :-)) en started Blogging to get my Joomla site up.
And it worked!! But than it hit me….the reason why I am still Blogging…
The real Reasons why I still Blog
It is a great way to share knowledge in a fast way.
It brings you in contact with some great people by letting them comment on you posts.
It is a much faster medium to post to than a standard structured website
People start asking questions that challenges me to find them the right answers, which in turn teaches me how to do things better…
So the main reason for my now is because I like to interact with other people and keep learning and sharing that knowledge again and again in the process, its just like a wheel that keeps spinning and moving forward.
For the rest.. I think Steve has made some clear points why to Blog, that I can related to a well.
Now comes the hard part, because Steve tagged the people I would like to see why they Blog already…
Like Barrie North and Amy Stephen.
So here is my short list:
HarryB of OpensourceCommunity.org because of his Drupal Posts (like to read more)
Casey Lee of Joomlashack because I like to see more posts like this one
And two dutch Bloggers, might be nice…
So the First one is Catharina Bethlehem of www.Kletskous.com
The second one is Karel Geenen from http://www.karelgeenen.nl/
Both are of intrest for the dutch readers that also read my Blog on http://seo-blog.itmentor.nl.
Thanks for the Tag Steve… good to see you as a moderator on the Joomlashack SEO Forum.
Update: To get a Full meme, I am tagging Erno Hannink from http://www.enthousiasmeren.nl/ because of his great work for the Dutch Blogging community.
Today I received an RSS Feed from Barrie North, one of the best educators on Joomla that I know off.
He brought you earlier the Joomla Template Tutorial and he is a moderator for the Joomla SEO Forum
And now he is Selling his Joomla Admin Manual to you with a discount!
He even tells you why you should buy his book or just use the Joomla Manual for 1.0.11
But let me tell you already, this book is more then just Joomla, it gives you more information on how to work with the system, optimizing it for Search Engines and shows you how to create a better website.
I may not agree or like some off the things he writes about, but he sure knows his Joomla Stuff and how to design Great SEO Templates.
And if you are serious about Building the best website you can for yourself or your customers, then this Joomla Admin Manual is really worth the little money he is asking for it.
If your use Joomla as a Blog, or if you just want one section of your site to setup as a Blog, you might have run into some trouble.
You want a feed to go with your Blog… but the standard Syndication Component of Joomla is to limited….
The Standard RSS Feed problem of Joomla
No, I don't mean the integration of Feed content into Joomla pages, there are several components that can do that very well.
That's a topic to write about some other time.
We are now facing a bigger problem, and that is getting your content out of your Joomla Blog section into a Feed reader.
And possible with all the layout of your page, including pictures, hyperlinks and paragraph layout.
If you use the standard Syndicate Component, you can set some parameters, but you can only syndicate the front page.
And all off your nicely placed page layout is stripped of all HTML coding one the Feed is created :-(
Leaving you with one big blop of text in the feed that you provide to your readers….
Joomla RSS Feed with Layout and other then the Frontpage
Is it possible? Keeping your post – page layout and using another part of the site for the Feed?
Yes, it can be done, with a special component.
There are two components that let you create a feed other then the Frontpage.
The first on is from Run-Digital and is called RSS Feed manager, and is an easy to use component if you limit the feed content to just a number of introduction words and then the link to the whole page.
The other one is much lesser known… probably because most people just syndicate the Intro.
But what if you want to Feed the whole post content? and with all the layout and stuff…
I that case you need DS-Syndicate from www.joomlafun.com !!
This Component lest you choose if you want a categorie content, or several ones to go into the feed, or just the Frontpage, or both.
But the best part is… the complete layout is still there !! No HTML stripping, just as you wrote it it gets it's way into the Feed.
Now you can create and use your Joomla based Blog with an RSS Feed the way you alway wanted.
And if you still are not ready to use this feature of Joomla, then I suggest you read my post on seo4joomla.wordpress.com
