Today some email from one of our servers was blocked at a user's site. The logfile said that our IP address was on their blacklist. Odd, I thought, since we don't send out much email and certainly don't send out spam. I consulted a list of blacklists and found we were given the 'all clear' by over 100 such lists, but were blacklisted by two: a no-name I've never heard of, and Barracuda networks. You've heard their ads on the radio for their spam-blocking appliances. Odder still, that they blacklist our machine and 100+ other lists don't.

There are a lot of great Joomla templates on the web. But there are even more plain old HTML website templates. In this tutorial, I show you step by step how to convert a template from oswd.org into a Joomla 1.5 template.

Here's the PDF version of a tutorial of Attend Events 3by400 presented at Joomla Southeast March 20th, 2008.  

Most business owners know that a print ad is only as valuable as the circulation of the publication, and a radio ad is only as valuable as the station’s listenership. But somehow these same people think that just having a website is sufficient. A website is only as valuable as the number of interested parties viewing it. Today we’ll take a look at some ways to get more people to view your website, making it more valuable to your business.

First, ask “what group of people do I want to serve with my website?” Is it prospects, existing customers, wholesale customers, retail customers? Are they male, female, married, single, 18 years old, 35 years old? Where do they live? If you’re a traditional retailer, just think about the faces of your best customers.

There are a lot of great Joomla templates on the web. But there are even more plain old HTML website templates. In this tutorial, I show you step by step how to convert a template from oswd.org into a Joomla template.