After people learn about Joomla and decide it's right for them, the next step is finding a template. Templates give your website a starting point and minimize the work involved in the design process. Whether you're looking to upgrade your business website, start a blog or build a community organization website, templates will expedite the process.

We are big Apple fans. Our work stations are Mac Pros. Here is our dilemma. We started reviewing bluetooh headphones / headsets and were not able to use the headphone play/pause buttons with any music app except iTunes.

I have not been able to find the answer to this, so this post outlines the issues and desired fix. Hopefully someone will know the solution.

We love sh404SEF, we use it on every site we develop. Anything Digital (the developers) do a great job improving the extension and supporting the user base. While at their site we noticed one small area for improvement, the Changelog.

On October 1st, Georgia is going to start collecting sales tax from Amazon. This is due to the fact their are Amazon Affiliates in Georgia.  If history is to repeat itself and it usually does then Amazon will cut ties with all Georgia Affiliates.

So what to do if you are a Georgia Amazon Affiliate?  There are serveral options....

Having a quick insightful dashboard is a thing of wonder.  In one screen you can see if everything is gooding good or bad.  Have visits increased?  What about Search Traffic? Time on site?  Page Load times?  How many mobile visitors?

We created a Google Analytics dashboard that covers all of these topics.  This post reviews each of the 12 widgets, how you can create them, and a link so you can try out the complete dashboard on your site in one click.

There is one feature I have been wanting for a long time, Dashboard Sharing.  I manage quite a few websites and really disliked the idea of having to create the same 4 dashboards for 30 different sites.  

4 Dashboard X 30 Sites X 12 Widgets / Site = 1440 Widgets to create.

Not a fun way to spend a day.

Well now this is no longer a concern.  Google has implemented Dashboard Sharing.

A while ago we published a great post on how we are able to create Joomla sites fast.  The next logical post should outline what standard or base extensions we start with.

With these two posts you will be able to get your base joomla site setup quickly so that the real work can begin which is adding the content can developing the site.

There is not a lot of detailed and helpful information availble about rich snippets and their best practices, at least not that I could find. 

I created this post to summarize all that I have learned so that it could help others and I could remember what I did

JReviews gives you a lot of control when it comes to RSS feeds.  You can get feeds for:

• All Product Listings
• All Product Listing from a single directory
• All Product Reviews
• All Reviews for one Product
• Any Result Page or Click2Search Page

This article was created using Joomla 2.5 and JReviews 2.3.19.213

One of our review sites had serveral products that were no longer being produced but the reviews still brought in a lot of organic search traffic.  We wanted to keep the products on the site but did not want them cluttering the list pages and confusing visitors.

Like with most things in JReviews they already had the solution worked out we just needed to set it up correctly.

Here is a our list of the best performance plugins for Joomla. Using these plugins will make Joomla faster and speed up the entire site. Featuring JotCache, CDN for Joomla, JavaScript Control, and ScriptMerge.

A great way to improve your site reputation and SEO is to highlight your authors.  Especially now that Google is displaying authors in the search result pages.

We have reviewed the photographer/videographer bags from Crumpler called the C List Celebrity. They were exactly what we were looking for and we wanted to share our experience with them to you.

The review covers how the equipment fills up the space in the small, medium and large. Overall they are great bags.

Crumpler C List Celebrity on Amazon:

• Small - http://amzn.to/wTE9o0
• Medium - http://amzn.to/zbk52c
• Large  - http://amzn.to/yOCnOm

With the purchase of a new Mac Book Air, I knew I had to find a good way to protect my investment.  I checked out several different case and sleeve options and decided on the Crumpler FUG.

It is designed specifically for the 13" Macbook Air (They make the 11" size also) with a great fit and nice padding for protection against bumps and scratches.

Available at Amazon: http://amzn.to/zrGICm

Read the full 13" Macbook Air Fug Review

We have learned a lot about best Video practices including DSLR Video, Audio and Video editing.  We thought we would share the tools we use to create our videos.