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Keeping in line with "Open Source" as a focus. I have been doing a lot of Joomla sites over the past few months and the more I do these set ups and the more I work with Joomla, the more I am seeing some bugs that I'm not sure that I would promote to my clients. I have always and will always try and do what is best for my clients. I always believe that 'Open Source" is the answer to great products while getting the most for your money. So I will continue to promote Joomla, but the truth is this...... Joomla does not get the best optimization in Internet Explorer. There are issues with the PDF link and the Mail links. These work perfect in Firefox, but the majority of the internet world still uses Internet Explorer. So I did some research this week and I decided to try "Drupal". All of the things that make a great web site come standard with Drupal, content manangement, polls, new modules, the ability to customize your site with ease and functionality (nobody wants a web site that looks just like their competitors). Cassie Designs and Web Development will always support Open Source over Custom Programming because you, me and 90% of all "Home Town, Main Street" business needs the most function that they can get, but at a price that every small business, crafter, or entrepenuer can afford. Now for the good part. I am giving away 1 FREE DRUPAL SET UP. The first person to order a Drupal Set Up this week will get their set up for FREE. ** Please note that there is a $9.99/ monthly fee and $11.50 per year per domain name fee. You get a complete, custom Drupal Web site set up with 1 top banner and 4 extra images to make your site look customized and unique to you and your business. Once your Drupal web site is set up, you will be responsible for inserting your content. Order your Drupal Web site today. Coupon Code "FreeDrupal" Order Now ** For those of you who don't get the FREE Drupal site, This weeks special is $50.00 off of any Drupal web site set up. Get your web site for $400.00 and get started today. The same hosting and domain fees apply.

Best Practices against hacking This week Google posted an article about the best way to protect your self from hacking. I realize that this has noting to do with your Google standings, or how to help yourself grow to the top of Google. But I wanted to give you the links to this information this week because at the same time, I got an email from a very frustrated crafter. She posts all of her crafts, designs, and downloads on a blog. She does not currently have her own web site and wanted to know if why her downloads on her Blog were always full of Virus's and Trojans. Well this is an article for another day, but for today I wanted to just give everybody some insite from the experts at Google. The following links are just a small sample of the Google article. Please for your safety and the safety of your web site this one is a must read. Official Google Site Web Application Consortium Some great ways to detect Hacking on your site as quoted by Google.... "by using Google Search you can spot typical keywords added by hackers to your website and identify the pages that have been compromised. Just open google.com and run a site: search query on your website, looking for commercial keywords that hackers commonly use for spamming purposes." I did just this for Cassie Designs and Web Development by running site:cassie-designs.com viagra and got a no results return. I believe that this will take us back to a previous discussion of Open Source and Zen Cart. Cassie Designs uses Zen Cart for its site, and I with so many professionals with so much expertise in all the areas that their program covers, you are more likely to get not just the best shopping cart solution, but you get the benefits of anti hacking expertise. Once again. I love google, they provide so much to the the Internet world. I will continue to support them and use all of their benefits for years to come. Join Cassie Designs and get your shopping cart set up using Zen Cart and Google promotion and protection at www.cassie-designs.com

For those of you who subscribe to my weekly newsletter, here is this weeks Google Watch. This weeks google watch is all about using your Blog for SEO. So you wanted to start a Blog to help increase your Web Sites standings. You can easily get a FREE blog from www.blogger.com. also known as "Blogspot". It is most famous for blogging because it is easy to use and FREE. With a free account comes a few weaknesses. Even though it is an incredible Google products, it still does not seem to be Search Enging Friendly. But if we use a few simple tools, your Blogger SEO can be just a little more SEO friendly. ** Note that these ideas are stricktly targeted towards Google. Also note these ideas are strictly basic ideas. These will not make you blog number one, but it is a start in the write direction. 1. Make sure your content is original. 2. Make sure you update your blog on a regular basis. 3. Make sure you register your blog with your Google Webmaster Tools 4. Make sure you are using Google Blogger Classic view Many other suggestions are available, please feel free to email us at info@cassie-designs.com for more information on increase your web site traffic with your own Blog

Last week we talked about the power of Open Source Content. Open Source give you the power of so many options, the expertise of various programming tools. If you are lucky enough to find a company that can master one of these programs, and customized them to give you that power, and a unique look that no other company has. Because open source content is available to everybody, what you need is somebody who can bring your personality into this power.

So this week, we will talk about JOOMLA. For Complete information on the Joomla project visit their website at www.joomla.org What you will find here is just a brief description of the power of Joomla. What is JOOMLA Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Features Overview

Joomla is so much more than just a powerful content management system. Here is a list of features "out of the box," but the true power of Joomla is in its extensibility.

User Management

Media Manager

Language Manager

Banner Management

Contact Management

Polls

Search

Web Link Management

Content Management

Joomla's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. You can organize your content any way you want and not necessarily how it will be on your Web site. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors.

Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor, giving even novice users the ability to combine text, images in an attractive way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show the most popular articles, latest new items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.

Syndication and Newsfeed Management

Menu Manager

System Features

Speedy page loads are possible with page caching, granular-level module caching, and GZIP page compression.

If your system administrator needs to troubleshoot an issue, debugging mode and error reporting are invaluable.

The FTP Layer allows file operations (like installing Extensions) without having to make all the folders and files writable, making your site administrator's life easier and increasing the security of your site.

Administators quickly and efficiently communicate with users one-on-one through private messaging or all site users via the mass mailing system.

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