Joomla Beat Podcast | Web Design, Development, Online Marketing, Social Media & Website Management

Steve Burge, the create and owner of OSTraining shares his secrets in creating the largest provider of open source content management system training in the world.Steve shares how he started the business, how he controls and manages his website, his secret in what runs his membership site and lastly, some insights into how he optimises memberships to build a valuable membership and keeps his members on.

John Pitchers from JoomStore joins me on the podcast to talk about how he grew is Joomla website services business.Starting as a solo business person, John over time grow his customer base, increase productivity and grew his business like never before. Listen in to find out how he did it.

Magda Cortez from News Corp presents at the Product Mavens Meetup for product managers at the News Corp building in Sydney, Australia about mapping the customer journey through some of their publications.Magda Cortez is strategic design thinker who has spent the last 10 years in media crafting cross-platform digital experiences. Passionate about entertainment, social media, popular culture and the fusion of old and new media, her experience spans product management, innovation, marketing, content creation and design. In this session she shares the some insights into how she and her team map our user journeys throughout the one of their websites.

Learn how you can optimise the speed and load times of your website in order to reduce bandwidth, increase your search engine rankings and improve website usability just by installing a few extensions on your website.Peter covers a few fantastic extensions that will allow you to optimise your website for speed and turn it from a 1980's Toyota Corolla into a high performing Lotus Elise, or Porche 911 or Tesla (for the more eco minded).Peter also covers some news and happenings in the Joomla industry from the change over of the Joomla Transition Team, Joomla Events around the world including the upcoming Joomla Day Australia being held in Brisbane and the formation of the new Joomla UX team looking at Joomla 4 and beyond.Show notes at: http://joomlabe.at/ep96

It's Joomla's 10th Birthday and to celebrate we're having a look at the top 10 things we love about Joomla!

This episode Martina and I curate the new list in the Joomla! extension directory and give you our choice of favourite top 10 extensions for this month.Full list and notes at http://joomlabe.at/ep94

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 t

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.