Joomla Sport Template

This year Joomla extensions team wants the community to get more involved in the JED Editor's Picks nominations. They are asking the users to nominate favorite extensions.

We think that's a great approach; i.e to ask members for their preferences first and get a better idea of what the crowd deems useful before selecting the final Editor's Picks. So we encourage all members to actively give your votes to help Joomla's team to give credit to the best developers for their contributions to the community.

Of course it is difficult to pick out only a few where there are so many outstanding extensions, but if we have to choose only five, our favorites would be:

Many people ask “Is Joomla! good for SEO or not?” and my final answer is: “Yes it is!”. Joomla! is the ideal software with which you can build any website: business, corporate, education, government, portals etc. At the same time it is one of the easiest content management systems to set up, for many reasons, and good for the purpose of better rankings in search engines too.

It is little secret that Joomla! has a thriving 3rd party developer community.  Any function you can think of is probably already available in one of the many 3rd party extensions. It is sometimes difficult to wade through all of the choices that are out there to determine what you need, so I have put together a short list of components that I feel are must-have components. So, without further adieu, here is my list:

Map is a great way to visually show your visitors the location of something--be it a business address, the location of a great restaurant, where you went on your ski trip, etc. Having a visual clue of where something is reinforces the location you're trying to provide in a way that a simple address doesn't. When it comes to businesses, the more likely someone is to remember where your business is located, the more likely they are to visit.

If you have a Joomla!^TM site with a shop or some kind of payment mechanism, using SSL is a must. But if you want to use your site for social media as well, which requires a lot of times non-SSL, you'll want your website to automatically redirect to HTTP or HTTPS depending on the page you're on. With our SSL Redirect plugin this is very easy.