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

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/ep89PLT NEWSThe 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=webWATCHFUL NEWSThe 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 TeamThe 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 WEB5 Big Mobile Design Trends in 2015http://www.sitepoint.com/5-big-mobile-design-trends-of-2015/Responsive Design is Failing Mobile UXhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/06/responsive-design-is-failing-mobile-ux/We chat about responsive design vs mobile adaptive designSEBLOD LEARNING COURSEIf 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/seblodThank you for our sponsor this week, Tamlyn Software, creators of BFSurvey, BFAuction and BFQuiz. Find out more at http://tamlynsoftware.com

This month, June 2015, Martina and I look at some new extensions from the Joomla! extension directory to help extend your website and take it further.I, Peter, look at some technical extensions for the site builders and implementers, while Martina looks at more of the creative and visual extensions for your website.Let us know what you think in the comments and the show notes for the episode.http://joomlabe.at/ep88

It's been awhile but we're back on track and publishing episodes again.We've moved out, been working on massive projects and barely have time for ourselves, but I think we're settled now and have come out of it alive and ready to podcast again.This episode is a massive news update of all the things that have been happening in the Joomla! Community and Industry as well as news about Joomla Beat!

This week Robbie Adair joins me on the podcast to talk about her business, how she discovered Joomla! and how she got involved in the Joomla! community.I also look at a few news items and important things that have happened in the Joomla! community over the past few weeks.

This week we have a few tips in regards to creating cashflow in your business, getting deposits for your work and creating milestones throughout your projects. I'm also joined on the podcast episode with Ana Barcellos from Brazil who shares with us some news updates from the Brazilian Joomla community. 

This week we have a look at some of the tools we have used over the years in regards to starting, operating and growing our own web agency and also look at what some other people are using in the industry to run and operate their own businesses.As the majority of the people that are listening to the podcast have their own businesses, it is interesting to share and help each other with the aspect of growing that business.Martina and I explore all of these tools and invite you to share your own as well.In this episode we also have a look at some Joomla related news items as well as launching the JBeat Survey, we want to know more about our listeners so we can better tailor the content to you.

I'm joined on the podcast this week by the team from FlexiContent, the CCK and publishing platform for Joomla. It extends Joomla and takes it to another level in regards to publishing information online.Emanuel, George and Akarawuth share their extensions and give us an idea in regards to how it works and how it operates.

This week we have a top 10 new extensions from the new Joomla Extension directory.Martina and I have gone through the directory and hand picked some of our favourite extensions that we thought you should also check out this month.

This episode we have no hints, no tips, and no interview.Instead we're sharing our experience and journey this year so far in running our Joomla based businesses and decisions we have made so far and even some help we may need from the community.

This week I have a Google Hangout interview with the team behind the Joomla Extension Directory.

Jisse Reitsma joins me on the podcast episode this week to talk about his experiences as a Joomla and Magento developer as well as his self published book, Programming Joomla! Plugins! Jisse has been in the Joomla space since the very beginning days of Joomla 1.0 and has never left. He's been within the Joomla development community for almost 10 years! He explains how he discovered his niche in building a bridge between Magento and Joomla and then furthering his product and service range by authoring and publishing his very own printed book.