A few weeks ago, I got a question from one of my readers regarding the ecommerce solution Ecwid and Joomla.
The reader wanted to know if this web shop solution was a good one to use with a Joomla site.
To be honest, I hadn't heard about Ecwid before, so I decided to take a look.
For years, people have been asking for real remote blogging support for Joomla.
Remote blogging, or remote publishing, is when you use a desktop software package (Windows Live Writer) or plug-in (like ScribeFire for Firefox) to create and edit your posts.
When you're done, you add the post to the Joomla web site directly, without even logging in to the Joomla administrator.
When creating a Joomla site, it's incredibly easy to go overboard with extensions. The incredible selection of extensions and templates makes it tempting to implement too many and to spread your knowledge too wide.
As a Joomla integrator, I find it's crucial to find a method of implementing sites which makes it easy to set up, maintain and document a large number of sites. Moderation is a virtue, a least when building Joomla sites.
For instance, the use of too many CCKs, text editors or template frameworks will lead to constant headaches. Particularly in the documentation of a site, it's important to reuse information. If you're using too many extensions and different processes for each site, the task of documenting and training will be so much harder.
Yesterday, David Risley published a guest post featuring an infographic. The theme of the infographic was the Most popular blogging platforms compared. The infographic features the most popular systems people use for blogging.
The sad thing for me, was that Joomla isn't even on the list of blogging platforms mentioned in the infographic. As you know, I'm blogging about Joomla with Joomla. And I think it works great.
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