Joomla 1.5 Beta 2 Released

Finally Joomla’s developer community have got rid of the Mambo hangover. The latest release Joomla 1.5 Beta 2 has been completely rewritten from scratch. Tagged ‘Red Barchetta’ to be synonymous with freedom, power and flexibility, the widely popular content management system hopes to enable web developers to take the fast track to building powerful websites.
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WebSite Planning – Stakeholder Education

You work in a web development firm. You are the webmaster and team lead. You have the all resources – a crack design team, hardcore programmers, the software support, hardware backup. Yet when it comes to decision making on critical aspects of a website or a project, more times than one, poor decisions can be taken.

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Web Site Usability rules the roost

Recent studies targeted at web users stress the holy mantra – a usable and accessible website improves eyeball stickiness. A cool dandy of a design doesn’t help much even if you can reach the top of SERP’s if you have not thought much about usability metrics.

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Thunderbird 2.0 to take wings

With the advent of open source applications, Microsoft’s monopoly in the computing world is gradually getting eroded day by day. The latest in the growing list is the release of Thunder Bird 2.0, the much vaunted email client alternative to Outlook Express. Get your free download at GetThunderBird in over 35 languages of your choice.
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Google frowns on paid links

Matt Cutts recent comment on paid links regarding the use of the no-follow tag has raised the heckles of the SEO community in myriad ways. His statement to the tune that link sellers have to implement the no-follow tag and those who do not do so will see a negative influence on their rankings simply is too illogical for general consumption. What it really does is that makes the link structure of the web totally irrelevant.
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Firefox to blaze the social networking trail

A growing pool of web users, especially the discerning ones who have adopted Firefox as their browser of choice have a lot to cheer about in the days to come. For, the browser that is a big headache in the making to IE has upped the browser war ante by trying to integrate Social Networking applications into the firefox browser.

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Shadows of Time

On trees that prance, shadows did sulk,
And laze did gaze, trance in haze,
All bare, tremors of taut depth,
Tis’ all true, the age of rootless hues.
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