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Nicky joins me this episode to give us a recap of the Joomla World Conference in Rome, Italy.

Full show notes at http://pbwebdev.com/ep107This week I take a look at some Joomla industry news.- Joomla World Conference around the corner- Joomla Extension Directory potential new redesign- Donate to Joomla via PayPalAlso looking at my top 8 new Joomla Extensions for November 2017.- Articles Field- Easy Facebook Save Button- Have I been pwned - password checker- Login with TREZOR- Bitcoin Payment for Virtuemart- Quick Index- Testimonial Showcase- DD Disable jQuery

Long time no hear!We're back with news from the Joomla industry, including updates with the Joomla CMS, CMS Critic award and Joomla World Conference 2017.Also looking at what has been happening with us and PB Web Development and what will be happening with the Joomla Beat Podcast.Show notes at https://pbwebdev.com/podcast/ep106

This is just a quick update episode about whats happening with the Joomla Beat Podcast and PB Web Development. Where have we been?I also have a few extensions that I had to share as I think they're quite different and very interesting and could become must have essential extensions for Joomla.

Martina and I talk about personas this episode.They are the foundation of almost every web project that we build, whether it's a simple brochure style website to a complex application, personas are the defining building block to all user experience design and development that you may do for a project.

Matt Hayden from Conversion Kings joins be on the podcast to talk about on page optimisation with conversion rate optimisation.Matt runs an agency based in Brisbane, Australia that specialises in just that.Matt shares how he has grown his agency over the years concentrating purely on CRO. Matt shares a few secrets in regards to what CRO is and a few techniques that can help your website grow.Matt uses a tool called Optimizely, something that his agency is a 3 star partner of and the only one in Australia to hold that title.Read the full show notes at http://joomlabe.at/ep103

Eden Brownlee is an online marketing expert with clients ranging from small businesses to large corporates. He helps them create lead lists and the sales funnels behind these lists to create optimal profiles.Eden also has create a Joomla extension called Marketing Rocket that will help you create your very own sales funnels and drive traffic for conversions for your website or for your clients.

Ryan Ozimek joins me on the podcast to talk about inbound marketing in his company for the nonprofit sector. Ryan helps break down some of the concepts of inbound marketing and explains how he does it for his clients.

This is a super long 3 hour episode celebrating the Joomla Beat Podcast's 100th episodes.If this is your first time listening, I'd recommend taking a break every 30 minutes and coming back another time. The Podcasts usually are only 30mins-60mins long.In this podcast I interview:Brian TeemanHenry NguyenIsidro Baquero Jessica DunbarJon NeubauerKenneth CrowderParth LawateRyan OzimekShaila ManTessa MeroTj BakerAs well as a whole bunch of messages from the community saying congratulations.Thank you all, we made it to 100.

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 transition of the the leadership from its current structure to the new structure that had been voted in by the current leadership team. The blog post outlines the process which was discussed and voted upon amongst the current leadership.BLOG POSTS FROM AROUND THE WEB5 Big Mobile Design Trends in 2015http://www.sitepoint.com/5-big-mobile-design-trends-of-2015/Responsive Design is Failing Mobile UXhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/06/responsive-design-is-failing-mobile-ux/We chat about responsive design vs mobile adaptive designSEBLOD LEARNING COURSEIf you're interested in improving your Joomla! website building skills, stay tuned all month for this week by week course on learning how to build apps with Seblod. James Morrell from Seblod will be taking us through how to create a Seblod app and site. This is best for beginners to advanced users that want to learn how to really extend their Joomla! website. Find out more at http://joomlabe.at/seblodThank you for our sponsor this week, Tamlyn Software, creators of BFSurvey, BFAuction and BFQuiz. Find out more at http://tamlynsoftware.com

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.

Jisse Reitsma joins me on the podcast episode this week to talk about his experiences as a Joomla and Magento developer as well as his self published book, Programming Joomla! Plugins!Jisse has been in the Joomla space since the very beginning days of Joomla 1.0 and has never left. He's been within the Joomla development community for almost 10 years!He explains how he discovered his niche in building a bridge between Magento and Joomla and then furthering his product and service range by authoring and publishing his very own printed book.

This week I have a chat with Peter Martin from the Community Leadership Team. Peter has been one of the longest running CLT members and has contributed a great deal of work to the Joomla project.This week I also cover a few interesting news topics with Martina and share with you all 5 awesome tips in regards to passwords, password management and ways to keep your websites secure with better passwords.

This week I have an interview with Chad Windnagle from Cohesive base in Florida, USA.He joins me on the podcast to talk a little bit about his history and how he got into the Joomla space via the High School version of the Google Summer of Code. He progressed and slowly learnt more and more about Joomla to become a a well versed Joomla developer that is passionate about bringing more students via the Google Summer of Code Project.

Roland Dalmulder from the Netherlands joins me on the podcast to talk about how he has grown his Joomla based business over the years to where it is now today. He is the owner of an extension called CSV Improved that allows shop owners to import mass amounts of data via CSV to their web shops.He has also improved the component to work with importing user data and much more.

Matt Thomas joins me on the podcast to talk about his experiences and how he is involved with the Production Leadership Team within Joomla.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep75-matt-thomas-plt_mixdown.mp3]}

Steve Cooper from PayPal joins Martina and I on this podcast episode to talk about all things about Internet of Things or #IoT.It's all about connecting websites, data and things together by the Internet to make life better.We have an interesting conversation about that as well as a few Joomla news topics, updates and what BrainTree has to offer developers and the Joomla community.http://joomlabe.at/ep74

This week we have a look at the top 10 new extensions found on the Joomla! Extension Directory for October 2014 selected by the Joomla Beat team.Both Martina and I have picked five each of our favourite extensions that we have found in the directory and reviewed them for you.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep73-top-10-extensions-october-2014_mixdown.mp3]}

This week we have the global Pizza, Bugs and Fun event being held virtually around the world on the 17th of October 2014.I also introduce my lovely new co-host for the podcast, Martina Kocian. Completely new to the Joomla community and I hope will bring some balance to the podcast from the perspective of a site user and newer user of the CMS.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep72-pbf_mixdown.mp3]}  

The Joomla World Conference is coming up just around the corner and this interview with Dianne Henning and Jon Neubauer will get you up to speed with all the details in regards to the conference and what to expect!{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep71-joomla-world-conference-2014_mixdown.mp3]}  

Lots of news updates in the Joomla industry this week.Duke Speer also joins me on the podcast to talk about the Joomla Developer's Conference and the upcoming Joomla Ignite sessions at the Joomla World Conference in Cancun, Mexico.I cover a few upcoming events, security issues that have been alerted around the web at the moment, structure change to Joomla itself, BETA testers wanted for the new Joomla Extension Directory, Pizza Bugs and Fun event. {pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep70-duke-speer-jdeccon-ignite-newsmp3.mp3]}  

Helvecio da Silva joins me on this podcast to talk about the Joomla Community in Brazil. He highlights the importance of having documentation and information available in many languages not only English. There are over 150 million people in Brazil and most of them speak and read Portuguese. Having information and documentation in Portuguese will help more and more users get exposure to Joomla and pick it up as their preferred CMS. I also highlight some stats in regards to languages spoken around the world and where English really is in regards to the spectrum of languages in the world.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep69-helvecio-de-silva_mixdown.mp3]} 

Chris Drake, long time security expert who has been coding back before I was born joins, me on the podcast to talk about the secure authentication option he has created called CryptoPhoto for Joomla.Chris talks all about his experience and stories that he has been exposed to over the years as a white hat hacker and business owner. The disaster stories and his own success stories. {pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep68-chris-drake_mixdown.mp3]}

Have you ever tried to make a multisite with Joomla? The idea of having one Joomla install but with multiple instances and domains sounds really interesting and a crazy idea to make happen. This week I interview Edwin from JMS2Win who has done just that since Joomla 1.5. He's made it possible to have multiple Joomla websites on one instance of code.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep67-edwin-jms2win_mixdown.mp3]}  

This week I chat with the Phil Locke from Joostrap. Phil owns a template shop called Joostrap which is a lovely integration of Boostrap and Joomla.Phil has also provided a nice little discount for the listeners of the podcast as well so please make sure you listen into the podcast to get the discount code.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep66-joostrap-phil-locke_mixdown.mp3]}  

This week I chat to the team at Savvy Panda all about Inbound Marketing. Luke and Gabe have been working with Joomla from the very early days and have grown their business from strength to strength and now do a huge amount of online marketing in the form on inbound marketing.The guys explain exactly what it is and how to go about it.{pb_mediael media=[audio] audio_mp3=[http://traffic.libsyn.com/joomlabeat/ep65-inbound-marketing-savvy-panda_mixdown.mp3]}  

This week I have the pleasure of chatting with the creators of the directory component - turn content construction kit called SobiPro.Radek & Sigrid Suski, a husband and wife power team, created SobiPro out of their own needs and the user's needs of the extension. It grew over the years as a simple directory component into something quite a bit more complex and Radek and Sigrid share that journey and story with the Joomla Beat listeners.

This week I chat with Enes and Mine, the husband and wife couple from Turkey who started building Joomla sites for friends and customers and now run a template club in the Joomla! industry.

This week I have an interview with the great viking man himself, Ronni Christiansen from RedWeb.dk in Denmark.He joins me on the podcast to talk about his experience in Joomla and his company which is now one of, if not, the biggest Joomla base agency in the world building Joomla based solutions for clients in Scandinavia and around the world.

James Morrell joins me on the podcast to talk about an amazing content construction kit for Joomla called Seblod. Seblod allows you to create complex content structured data types on your website collecting and displaying all sorts of data and different applications.I can be as simple as extra information for an online publication, to specific registration information based on a user type such as a person posting a job on a jobs website compared to someone registering looking for a job.What ever the application Seblod is flexible enough to handle the situation and James tells us all about it. 

Another round up of the top 10 (actually 11 this month as someone miss counted when doing the research) new extensions for Joomla in April 2014.With so many extensions out there, I'll be looking at a few highlighted and useful plugins, modules and extensions that you may have missed.This month's 10 extensions include:Awesome Social Links SidebarNonstop SliderAdvanced Twitter Display WidgetAdvanced Twitter Followers WidgetBitcoin DonateMaps2Sucuri CloudProxy WAFLinkedin Group FeedContent to K2Charts for ZOOjBackend (an added bonus one!)

Sarah Watz, the new president of Open Source Matters joins me on the podcast this week to talk about herself and her new role as president of Open Source Matters.She resides in Sweden and is CEO of a company called Pixpro who specialises in Joomla and Infusionsoft CRM.Sarah talks about what her role will be as President and also shares some hints and tips for others that might want to volunteer in the Joomla Community.

This week we have a look into getting Joomla working on a Windows web server. The majority of Joomla websites usually are found on Unix/Linux based web servers running Apache, MySQL and PHP.In the past it was quite hard to get a Joomla website running properly on a Windows server, but these days it is actually getting easier and easier to setup and get running with all the configuration that you need for a Joomla website.Robert Jacobi from Arc Technologies joined me on the podcast. He now manages the installation package for Joomla on a Windows servers. This was originally worked upon by Sam Moffatt, who now works at LinkedIn.I also go through various tips to have a look at when setting up a Joomla site on Windows Server.