Joomla Beat Podcast | Web design, development, online marketing, social media & website management

John Pitchers from JoomStore joins me on the podcast to talk about how he grew is Joomla website services business.

Starting as a solo business person, John over time grow his customer base, increase productivity and grew his business like never before. Listen in to find out how he did it.

Magda Cortez from News Corp presents at the Product Mavens Meetup for product managers at the News Corp building in Sydney, Australia about mapping the customer journey through some of their publications.

Magda Cortez is strategic design thinker who has spent the last 10 years in media crafting cross-platform digital experiences. Passionate about entertainment, social media, popular culture and the fusion of old and new media, her experience spans product management, innovation, marketing, content creation and design.

In this session she shares the some insights into how she and her team map our user journeys throughout the one of their websites.

Learn how you can optimise the speed and load times of your website in order to reduce bandwidth, increase your search engine rankings and improve website usability just by installing a few extensions on your website.

Peter covers a few fantastic extensions that will allow you to optimise your website for speed and turn it from a 1980's Toyota Corolla into a high performing Lotus Elise, or Porche 911 or Tesla (for the more eco minded).

Peter also covers some news and happenings in the Joomla industry from the change over of the Joomla Transition Team, Joomla Events around the world including the upcoming Joomla Day Australia being held in Brisbane and the formation of the new Joomla UX team looking at Joomla 4 and beyond.

Show notes at: http://joomlabe.at/ep96

It's Joomla's 10th Birthday and to celebrate we're having a look at the top 10 things we love about Joomla!

This episode Martina and I curate the new list in the Joomla! extension directory and give you our choice of favourite top 10 extensions for this month.

Full list and notes at http://joomlabe.at/ep94

Søren Beck Jensen joins me on the podcast to chat about his journey into the Joomla! space and a few tools that he has created and built for the community, Component Creator and Neno Translate. Make sure you listen in for the coupon code and special offer that Søren offers to all podcast listeners.

http://joomlabe.at/ep93

Simon Kloostra from JoomlaSEO joins me for an interview to talk about his passion, search engine optimisation and web site performance with Joomla!

He shares with us five awesome tips that are applicable to any website as well as breaks down the Joomla! Beat Podcast website and gives me an analysis of what can be improved on the website

This week Martina and I talk about how to promote your web design and development business to gain more clients, and also how to close the deal and get more clients signing up.

Full show notes at http://joomlabe.at/ep91

This week I have an interview with the lovely Lorna Jane Mitchell who is a PHP developer and advocate as well as a consultant and trainer. She joins me from JAB 2014 where she did a presentation about Open Source Personas. Full show notes at http://joomlabe.at/ep90

Also on this episode is a listener question about hosting and templates as well as the start of the Seblod training course. James gives an overview of what to expect and what is in the first course. Sign up to get access to the four part series as they are released at http://joomlabe.at/seblod

This week we have a news round up from around the Joomla! space.
Complete shownotes at http://joomlabe.at/ep89

PLT NEWS
The Production Leadership Team who look after the code of the Joomla! project have released a blog post about there summit meeting at the latest JandBeyond Conference in Prague.

The team have outlined the updates and changes to the next releases of Joomla 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7.

They also looked at various aspects of what Joomla 4 may look like and how that code and development aspects was going to tie in with the current release of Joomla!

Drupal 8 code base size:
http://infogr.am/Drupal-Code-Base?src=web

WATCHFUL NEWS
The team from Watchful have integrated a new feature into their system called Single Sign On (SSO) which will allow you to log into any of your Watchful managed websites with one set of usernames and passwords potentially saving you much time and energy when logging and managing so many website.

Joomla! Transition Team
The Joomla Project is forming a Joomla! Transition Team to help with the transition of the the leadership from its current structure to the new structure that had been voted in by the current leadership team. The blog post outlines the process which was discussed and voted upon amongst the current leadership.

BLOG POSTS FROM AROUND THE WEB
5 Big Mobile Design Trends in 2015
http://www.sitepoint.com/5-big-mobile-design-trends-of-2015/

Responsive Design is Failing Mobile UX
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/06/responsive-design-is-failing-mobile-ux/

We chat about responsive design vs mobile adaptive design

SEBLOD LEARNING COURSE
If you're interested in improving your Joomla! website building skills, stay tuned all month for this week by week course on learning how to build apps with Seblod. James Morrell from Seblod will be taking us through how to create a Seblod app and site. This is best for beginners to advanced users that want to learn how to really extend their Joomla! website. Find out more at http://joomlabe.at/seblod

Thank you for our sponsor this week, Tamlyn Software, creators of BFSurvey, BFAuction and BFQuiz. Find out more at http://tamlynsoftware.com