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New Off-Site Backup Service Less Than $1 per Week!

s.gorney@s-go.net (Steve Gorney) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:31:29 +0000

Many of our clients are asking us for off-site backup services for their websites. They simply want the peace of mind that outside backups are performed and that "they" have access to them!

s-go is now offering a new, secondary, off-site backup service for all of our Joomla website clients. Our new service is simply called BackupToo and will automatically backup your websites and databases to a second location, out of the existing data center using Amazon S3 Cloud storage services. You will have secure access to the files at any time with a simple login.

If you are an s-go client and you host your site with us, you already benefit from daily backups with a rolling 30 day snapshot of backups available on the hosting control panel. This comes with your hosting plan with us. The control panel is available to you the client, and to us, your web developer. These backups are on a SAN in the data center where your site is hosted. They have saved our bacon many, many times. They are 99% effective.

New Email Spam Services - SpamExperts

s.gorney@s-go.net (Steve Gorney) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:46:11 +0000

For several years s-go has been offering a spam service using a hardware appliance for incoming mail, called Mail Foundry. Many of our clients have benefited from this inexpensive, time saving option. This service filters and blocks up to 99% of all spam and sends you a digest of the results.

In January, we will be migrating all existing Mail Foundry clients to our new SpamExperts service. There will be no change in price, no mail downtime and many new features! As an existing client, you have to do nothing. When the actual migration occurs, there may be a 24 hour period where you get more spam than normal, until DNS fully propagates.

Why Work with s-go Consulting Presentation

s.gorney@s-go.net (Steve Gorney) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:59:38 +0000

We have recently put together a quick, simple ten slide presentation called "Why Work with s-go Consulting?" With eight ba-jillion website development companies out there, we explain how we differ and how we are better than most!

Why Work with s-go Consulting?

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Developing Joomla 1.6 Templates - Joomla!Day DC Presentation

s.gorney@s-go.net (Steve Gorney) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:05:16 +0000

In October 2010 I had the great privilege of presenting to some folks at Joomla!Day DC, 2010. My presentation addressed developing Joomla 1.6 Templates. Below the slideshow that I presented at the conference. Feel free to download and use this great resource!

Joomla SEO Bootcamp - Presentation

s.gorney@s-go.net (Steve Gorney) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:02:41 +0000

Here is the Joomla SEO Bootcamp Powerpoint presentation used at Joomla Day DC 2010, by Steve Gorney of s-go Consulting. This should be called just "SEO Bootcamp" as best practices in SEO are discussed.

Joomla 1.6 Templates: What Designers Should Know

chad@s-go.net (Chad Windnagle) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:25:58 +0000

Joomla 1.6 Beta was released on May 17th, 2010. Those of us who were watching the twitter feeds saw flurries of activity for the release that day, and several days after concerning the release. I, along with half of the other Joomla! developer community downloaded and installed on a development platform the new release and began to play around with all the goodies.

So now that the major bombshell has come and gone and the community is gearing up the community gets started on squashing all those little annoying bugs and working on the help screens (Note: Documentation is extremely important! I was on the doc team for the 1.5 release and it's very rewarding - Get involved!) I thought it was a good opportune moment to take a look past the advanced ACL features, and take a look at something that has always fascinated me - Joomla Templates!

Barrie North of JoomlaShack wrote an intro blog post back in July of 2009 about the fact that there would be changes in Joomla 1.6 templating. Now that Joomla 1.6 Beta has arrived, it's time to take a look under the hood of the new Template Manager and examine the new features it has to offer.

I figured the best way to look at the differences between Joomla 1.6 Beta and Joomla 1.5 would be to compare those differences for you. So, let's get started!

Joomla Day - What Is It?

dave@s-go.net (Dave Graves) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:24:53 +0000

With Joomla Day New England (see twitter #JDNE) now in the rear view mirror, I thought I would reflect a bit on the event and the value of networking and education for attendees. This is a commentary about Joomla Days in general, with some specific references about Joomla Day New England which was held Saturday June 5th, 2010 at Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.

What Are Joomla! Days™?

According to the Joomla! Website, A Joomla Day is an event created exclusively for Joomla users and projects and usually draws a regional audience. Also, they may include sessions or tracks about various topics providing Joomla education, pre and post networking, bug squashing, Q&A, and food!

How Can Social Media Impact My Business?

dave@s-go.net (Dave Graves) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:19:05 +0000

Social media can impact your business in postive and negative ways. Below is a slideshow presentation which briefly defines social media and how one would use Twitter, Facebook and Blogging in business. The slideshow is very basic and was designed as talking points for seminars.

Joomla SEO - Six Great Steps

dave@s-go.net (Dave Graves) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:17:10 +0000

Joomla SEO is really not much different than other standard SEO practices. There are Joomla specific SEO addons and plugins, and the way that Joomla handles meta data and does not build "H" tags from scratch. But overall, it is just good old fashioned hard work. Please do not fall for any "hidden Google Secrets" claims.

The Search Engines

For the 4 weeks ending October 3rd, 2009 Google owned 71.08% of US searches. Yahoo was 16.38%, Bing 8.96% and Ask was 2.56% according to Experian Hitwise. So it is quite clear where you put most of your focus and energy in terms of search engine optimization. Not that you should totally ignore Yahoo or Bing, but start with Google

Joomla Template Maker

dave@s-go.net (Dave Graves) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:15:16 +0000

What are your choices when looking for a Joomla Template Maker? Are you a subscriber to Joomla template clubs, but are looking for a way to produce Joomla templates yourself? Are you getting requests to build templates from a designer's Photoshop file? Well there is good news. You have options.

Point & Click Templates with Artisteer 2

Artisteer has created very cool tool to build Joomla templates. (as well as Wordpress, Drupal, DotNetNuke, and Blogger). Plus you do not need to use Photoshop or Dreamweaver (but it helps). This tool can be used by anyone. You don't need a lick of programming or template development knowledge. The templates are yours, you own the design. The only caveat is that you can not sell the templates if you include Artisteer photo objects within your header (Header -> Foreground Photo), as those photos are licensed from a third party for your own use or in your consulting work. You must use your own images if you decide to sell templates produced with Artisteer.

Artisteer offers "suggested" designs so you can easily just slide through different layouts, backgrounds, headers, color schemes, widths, fonts, etc. Any novice could easily produce a template using the built in design assets (images, layouts, etc) and export it as a Joomla 1.5 template zip file. It installs exactly like a commercial template with the Joomla installer.