Tips For Your Joomla! Website

Ever notice those world-wide websites with local business listings and reviews submitted by readers? You might even notice that your business was listed there and you didn't even know it. Wouldn't it be nice if you could manage your business listings on these websites? Well, you can... and you should. Read on for details on where to go and how to claim your business listings.

Thanks to the Coastal Quilters Guild of Santa Barbara/Goleta for inviting me to participate as a panel speaker October 9, 2010 when they hosted the Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds’ meeting. The program was entitled “Marketing your Guild as a Business” and focused on using the internet to increase guild attendance, participation and membership.

• The other panelists were Wendy Breakstone Ladd, a marketing specialist who owns a new quilt shop in Santa Barbara/Goleta. A summary of her talk is available on her blog “Quilt Guild 2.0 – Reviving Your Guild Using Web-Based Techniques”.
• Sherilyn Guernsey, webmaster of South Bay Quilters Guild, discussed her successful use of Social Networking services such as Facebook and Twitter to increase participation in guild activities. Her presentation can be downloaded as a PowerPoint or PDF at the bottom of this page: http://www.southbayquiltersguild.org/links.html.
• Bonnie Barber, Coastal Quilters webmaster, talked about how content can draw people to a website. She emphasized the use of photos and video to make a website more interesting. View Bonnie’s presentation with demo links “Winning Guild Website Content”.

I spoke on the benefit of using content management systems such as Joomla! to create modern, functional, and easy-to-manage websites. Read on for the full story...