The Smashing Book
Finally, after months of delays the Smashing Book has finally arrived on my door step. Just before Christmas too. Feels like an early Christmas present to myself. Love it. Thanks Smashing Magazine.
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Archive for the ‘Joomla’ Category
Fine Tuning a Joomla Server for High Levels of Traffic
November
11th
We’ve recently been managing a website with a very high volume of traffic. Not only are there a huge amount of visitors but also a rather long stay time and usage or resources on the server. We investigated ways of optimizing the server and site to handle these high levels of traffic.
This particular Joomla based site averages roughly, 6000 unique visitors a day with user registering on the site every few minutes to interact with the site’s functions.
So here are a few tips and tricks that can be done to optimise the server environment to help handle the high server loads after you have optimised your instance of Joomla. I must also add that these tweaks are for an Apache based web server. (more…)
Basic Website Usability Tips
November
8th
Here is a short video that give a great introduction to web usability. Take a few minutes out and watch this short presentation from CanadaHelps.org.
It’s a great starting guide in identifying factors on how to make your web site more easy to use and create a better user experience for your web visitors. It also starts you off on creating a basic usability test for your web site. (more…)
