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The Social Media Revolution: How social media changed the world and why you should use it...

Here's a great video showing how Social media is changing everything and why you should be doing it. Incredible numbers that show how marketing changed in the past years and why it is so important to be part of this change.

Posted by: Destiny Group Created on: Wed 26 August 2009 05:00

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Google Docs - More about collaboration

Here you have a great video on how Google Docs can help you collaborate within your company or any type of group that needs to share and work on documents. This is online collaboration and it is FREE. Thanks Google.

Posted by: Destiny Group Created on: Tue 21 July 2009 05:00

This article was posted in Blog and tagged with content online, content management, online collaboration, community websites, business online strategy, google docs

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Using Joomla to Build a Content Management System Web Site

A CMS allows Web site owners with little or no HTML skills to be able to add, edit and delete content on their Web site. This may include changes to copy, or adding photos, uploading PDFs, adding streaming audio or video and more. You can even set publish and remove dates for press releases, calendar events or special promotions.

Many CMSs (including Joomla) allow different levels of access to the site, both on the front and back ends. Contributors may be able to add or edit pages (with or without administrative oversight), while administrators can make changes to the navigation, choose new page templates, add or remove contributors and more. In addition, creating member-only sections and providing unique username/passwords to site visitors is built into the product.

We chose Joomla in part because of the fact it's open-source and has a big user group; that ensures that if Joomla proper doesn't have a functionality a client is looking for it's probable that a 3rd party has created a module that can be plugged in to enhance the product. Examples are events calendars, e-commerce options, contact forms and more. If you can imagine it, someone's build it.

One very cool Joomla feature is that the site's content is held in a database and served up into multiple, attractive page templates. Ourt designers customize templates for our customers so no two websites are the same, this is what separates us from a lot of other joomla website designers. Templates make it easy to create printer-friendly pages. In fact, Joomla allows you to print or save every page as a PDF if you choose (even though we do not recommend it because of internet marketing reasons - SEO).

It also makes future Web site redesigns less costly as you can just apply a new template and appear to have a fresh new look to your site.

We specialize in Joomla Websites and more and more customers ask for the features and flexibility Joomla can offer. We believe this is because people are looking to take more ownership and responsibility over their Web sites. The idea of being able to update your site as you see fit is a compelling one. If you do find that you're constantly sending updates to your Web developer, a CMS may pay for itself. For a small site or one that doesn't change often we also recommend Joomla just because it will give you scalability to grow in the future without a huge investment and you can have a blog to improve your web presence and communication with your customers.

If you have a question on whether a CMS would be right for you contact us here.

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Original Post: flyteblog.com

Posted by: Destiny Group Created on: Mon 20 July 2009 05:00

This article was posted in Blog and tagged with cms, web design, content online, web cms, open source cms, joomla, joomla cms, joomla websites, content management, content management system, open source systems, community websites

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Is WordPress Really a CMS?

Blogging is still soaring in the Web 2.0 era and WordPress is easily the most popular engine on the market. This multipurpose blogging software is used for everything from personal diaries to business applications, helping many achieve online notoriety and even more bring in consistent revenue. Although WordPress is generally referred to as a weblog publishing tool, some are calling it a CMS. Do you agree? We don’t. And this article will explain why.

In order to determine whether WordPress is a CMS or not, you should first become acquainted with the three main types of content management systems, as outlined below.

Open-source Systems - Software packages like Drupal and Joomla that are becoming more popular for small to medium sized ventures.

Enterprise Systems - Proprietary solutions like Microsoft Content Server. This type of CMS is geared towards corporate users that require powerful business applications and frequent database interaction.

Home Grown Systems - These systems are developed in-house by webmasters who have specific requirements for content management.

When comparing the WordPress platform to the software in these classifications, it falls short as merely an over-hyped content delivery system. Though it has a tremendous following and a number of benefits, WordPress doesn’t have what it takes to be called a real CMS. In fact, it lacks several of the necessary protocols the average CMS provides as standard. This includes update features, security tools, user permissions and more complex content management functionality. When considering the all the capabilities it is missing, calling WordPress a CMS may be like unfairly moving it up in weight class.

Should WordPress be a CMS?

Perhaps the real issue should be whether or not WordPress needs to be more like a genuine CMS. While this software gives you a lot, there are limitations and thus disadvantages. Ask a fan of Mambo, Joomla or PHP-Nuke and they will probably tell you that WordPress is highly inferior.

Despite the shortcomings, it still is a very efficient tool and rightly embraced by millions of users around the world. It can also be a nice alternative to some of the more complex and intimidating content management systems. For the most part, the user community is happy with the functionality and would probably prefer to keep things as they are. After all, turning the platform into a true CMS would tamper with a relatively clean code and possibly cause the software to lose some of its natural appeal. Besides, simplicity and ease of use are two of WordPress’ biggest advantages.

Conclusion

There is no denying the capabilities of WordPress. The overwhelming enthusiasm the community shares for this platform is certainly warranted. It is very cost effective and makes and ideal tool for small to medium sized. Be that as it may, tagging WordPress as a content management system is not inherantly accurate. In order to earn that title, the software would require a major overhaul which would in turn, cause it to lose so much of the qualities that has made it so popular.

Comment: We personally prefer Joomla since there is a lot more support online in the JOOMLA COMMUNITY, an incredible selection of components and modules available and new and more complex software developed everyday, go to www.joomla.org to learn more.

Another very good article about the differences between DRUPAL, JOOMLA and WORDPRESS: http://www.goodwebpractices.com/other/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html

Original Blog Entry: http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/04/22/is-wordpress-really-a-cms/

Posted by: Destiny Group Created on: Wed 17 June 2009 00:00

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Which CMS is the best?

There are a large number of open source content management systems available to enable you to create and manage your website effortlessly. All of them offer different functionalities and tools for easy use. The two popular CMS I have chosen to cover here are Joomla and Drupal. They are free to download and use. Each CMS has their own pros and cons and it really depends on what type of website you are creating and how experienced you are.

Let’s start with Joomla first.

Joomla is designed to work well in shared hosting packages. The look of Joomla’s installer looks much the same like the installers used for common desktop software, as well as the administrative interface that content editors use. There are a small number of entry barriers when using Joomla and it should take little time for website developers to get familiar with the system. If you need extensions to cater for your website and that are not available at extensions.joomla.org, it would not be too expensive for you to get a programmer to design one for you as Joomla is written in PHP, which is a widely recognized script language specifically designed for website development.

Joomla can be a fantastic choice to build a professional website with lots of pages, content types such as events and news items and strong navigation. Unfortunately, it has limited functionality when it comes to dynamic content structures. One example is the website navigation is only allowed no more than two levels of hierarchy, and you can only link one page to another based on free-form page tags, rather than more accurate metadata and rules.
I have taken ideas from a few websites to help list the pros and cons of Joomla.

Pros of Joomla

Easy deployment
Large community of developers (more than Drupal) for helping with setup and development
Multi-lingual. Translation and language support in modules. Works most of the time.
More intuitive administration user interface
Editing content is simple
Lots of polished modules for things like calendars, polls, etc.
Easy addition of modules. Good modules that works as advertised and have many options, supported by the authors, commercial or not. Lots and lots of modules, professional ones too. Modules for most everything.
Versioning is available
Most of the most popular modules and Joomla itself, is bug-free. Ok, there might be a few work-arounds needed, but you can mostly work around them, or maybe you just misunderstood something.
There is SEF and SEO, alas not as good as Drupals, it works and you don’t need too many modules for something decent

Cons of Joomla

1 installation of the software gives you 1 website
Modules cost you money
Limited roles and permission allowances
Categories can only go two levels deep
Out-of-the-box blogging functionality isn't great (BUT THERE ARE GREAT MODULES AVAILABLE ONLINE)

Ok let’s move on to Drupal. Now Drupal, like Joomla will work well in a shared hosting package. It is easy to get started like Joomla but it will not be as easy a set-up compared to Joomla but if you are technically savvy, you should not have too much trouble there.
Drupal has many great and extensive tools for content editors or developers to design websites without the hassles of going into the code and offers accessible standards-compliant pages. Its workflow makes it simple for developers that need multi-level approval processes. In addition to that, Drupal offers deeply integrated plug-ins for incorporating other specialist tools.

Pros of Drupal

Easy deployment
Editing tabs integrated into actual pages
By far Drupal’s strongest feature is its category structure known as taxonomy. This is whereby Multiple levels of categories are allowed along with an easily integrated tagging system
Modules are plentiful, free, and suitable for non-profits
Human readable URLs which are search engine friendly
1 installation allows you to create and manage multiple websites (very handy when creating campaign sites)
Highly configurable user permissions handling
Editing content is simple as well
Very flexible in its configuration
Many high profile sites use Drupal (e.g.: MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Nasa, Greenpeace UK, Kleercut )

Cons of Drupal

Administration area is clunky, but it’s getting better with each version
Support for the free modules can be frustrating
Adding a visual theme to Drupal can be time consuming
Terminology in the administration can be cryptic

So finally the decision comes down to which one will you choose? It really depends on your website. If you are looking for an easy to use content management system to manage your content, I would suggest Joomla. If it is a community building website where you require integrated and extensive tools, then go with Drupal.

Another very good article about the differences between DRUPAL, JOOMLA and WORDPRESS: http://www.goodwebpractices.com/other/wordpress-vs-joomla-vs-drupal.html

Comment: We personally prefer Joomla since there is a lot more support online, an incredible sellection of components and modules available and the administration tool is very easy to use.

Destiny.-

Original Blog Post: http://www.gauson.com/blog/2009/01/29/which-cms-is-the-best/

Posted by: Destiny Group Created on: Thu 11 June 2009 00:00

This article was posted in Blog and tagged with blog, cms, web design, content online, web cms, open source cms, joomla, joomla cms, drupal, joomla websites, content management

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Google Search Privacy

Here you have a couple of good videos about search privacy. They talk about how privacy works in the google search and on the other hand what to expect when searching which can help us in a way to understand how we need to do a search engine optimization campaign (SEO). On the other hand it has cool features that not everybody knows about the google account and how to manage some advance features of the google search engine. Enjoy.