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

Tenko Nikolov, the CEO of SiteGround joins me on the Joomla Beat Podcast to talk all about Joomla site performance. Tenko has a passion for optimising Joomla websites and SiteGround's server environments really shine when it comes to outstanding server environments to get the most out of your Joomla website.
He shares with us a few great tips in regards to optimising your website to help improve the user experience, search engine optimisation and also server performance.
Tenko also shares a few secrets on the SiteGround servers that make optimising your Joomla websites really easy.

This special episode I speak to a few members of the Joomla World Conference about what is planned for the event, a few special things that have in store, as well as their experiences in the Joomla community, conferences and in organising the event.
Diane Henning, Ronni Christiansen, Mike Carson, Jon Neubauer and Jerri Christiansen all join me on the podcast for the biggest group podcast I've ever recorded.

Shayne was fortunate to be around helping out a team of open source developers working on Mambo when a large portion of them decided to all get up and leave to start something new, Joomla. 
Shayne since then has built a profitable business around it called Cloudum, a Perth/Western Australian, based Joomla solutions provider. He gives us all a little history lesson on Joomla as well as a awesome security tip in regards to keeping your website secure.

Special Bonus Episode
I finally get to chat to one of the original co-founder's of Joomla, Andrew Eddie.
He chats to me about how he got into Joomla and what he does now as a part of the project. Andrew also gives a little bit of a run down and insight into what he does at eBay with Joomla.
Andrew also gives us a preview of all of his presentations and workshops that he will be providing at JoomlaDay Sydney 2013
This is a special bonus episode of the podcast as a lead up to JoomlaDay Sydney 2013.

I have a chat to Max Lynam from Molehill Web Works about taking on clients for the long term and also a little into 'responsive marketing', a new concept that he will be talking more about at JoomlaDay Sydney 2013.
This is the second time that Max has joined me on the podcast. His previous interview was about MijoShop that he uses for a lot of his e-commerce clients. You can listen to that episode 7 if you want more details in regards to that.
This is a special bonus episode added for the big event here in Sydney

This week's episode we're looking at some of the new features that we should be seeing in the latest version of Joomla, Joomla 3.2. The planned date for the roll out of this version was sometime in Fall or Spring in the southern hemisphere so we should see the release of the latest version very soon.
From what I've seen in the group chats and forums there is a lot of testing and debugging happening to get it ready and fully tested for release to the general public.
 
New features in the latest version will include:

New usability features and accessibility features
Joomla extension installer
Content versioning for Joomla articles and content
New security measures and increase user authentication
multilingual from the installation process
RAD or FoF for application development
Template overrides
Access control for modules
Detailed debugging
and much more...

This week I have a chat with Scott Greenwald from Joomla Direct, a Joomla base blog that talks all things good about Joomla.
Scott talks about is journey into using Joomla and also about his venture into creating Joomla templates for the community.

This week I have an in depth analysis of content construction kits for Joomla that allow you to extend the basic content publishing system and allows you to publish all sorts of different content types using the Joomla CMS.
In the podcast I talk about K2, SobiPro, FlexiContent, Seblod and Zoo content construction kits and try and break them down to make them easier to understand and choose for your next Joomla project.
If you haven't used a content construction kit before or don't know what one is, then this podcast will take you through some of the more popular CCKs out there and help you understand the concepts behind them.

This week we look at website planning. All of the steps you need to take before you start pushing pixels around the screen.
Also some critical security updates in regards to Joomla. Please make sure you update to the latest versions of Joomla including Joomla 1.5, Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.

On this week's episode I have a beginners tip from Richard Pearce. He joins me on the show again to share a quick tip about installing Joomla onto your web server and mentions if sample data is useful or not.
I also have a few news updates and few really cool things I just found on the Joomla.org website and had no idea about including how to sponsor Joomla!
Lastly, I have David Hurley from Webspark who joins me for an interview to talking about one of his products called CRMery, a CRM extensions made for Joomla.
Show Notes
Beginners Tip with Richard Pearce - Installing Joomla the Quick and Easy Way
Richard Pearce has been kind enough to have created a few videos as well to help beginners with the process of installing Joomla the ways he's described in this episode.
Check them out on his YouTube Channel.
Installing Joomla 3 using Softaculous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfZjeS7YvLc
Fast Joomla Upload:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vce9i3u90oA
Richard also mentioned to me after the chat that he's created a dedicated playlist of all the videos and beginners tips that he will be talking about on the podcast so make sure you check them out and subscribe to his channel as well. Joomla Beat playlist at Build a Joomla Website.
You can check out all of Richard's video tutorials and more at BuildAJoomlaWebsite.com