Today we want to share a free Joomla! 2.5 Template with you.  I've made it during my time here at artd webdesign in Bern.

The best of it: It is slick, smart and it's completely free!

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Hello to all friends of webdesign out there! We're currently working on a project which is about getting Data from another server and therefore I'm going to show you how to get started with JSONP, why you maybe should use it and what you can do with it.

For those of you who haven't heard of JSON before have a look here. The P at JSONP stands for JSON with Padding and is a cross-domain method to get a JSON Object from another server. This usually won't work with JSON because of the Same Origin Policy. To overcome this JSONP comes in action.

In my little example we'll use the getJSON() method from jQuery and Apples Search API to load an image and display it.

After understanding the core concept of getting data from another server with JSONP and any JSONP supported API you'll be able to create your own apps like maybe a dynamic fotogallery with the Flickr API, an own Facebook app with the Facebook API or an own map with Google Map API.

At the end of this tutorial I'll also show you some alternatives to get the JSONP with jQuery functions $.get() and $.ajax(), so keep on reading ;).

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Demo: type in a name of a software and click on the search button.

I visited 6 lectures at the Swiss Online Marketing 2012 in Zurich. It was extremely sunny again so I (and I think most visitors) didn't mind getting out of the office (especially not because there was a lunch break of an hour in which we all enjoyed the sun). The first thing I noticed when I walked in were the stands.. Although the lectures where all about new media, 99% of the stands were old fashioned. 3 walls, a table and 2 chairs in the middle, some magazines to take away and that's it. I had hoped for more in a conference about online marketing (I see big screens with websites, movies, more experience etc: there was 1 stand who had that..). But the lectures definitely made up for the old fashioned stands. Two of them where about Search Engine Optimization and can be summarized very shortly: make websites for the users, not the searchmachines, don't duplicate content or buy links. (be good and Google will be good to you). 

The ones about social media went a bit further into details. Why to use social media, some great examples and all about the 'social media youth' and what moves them.

Finally there was a very interesting presentation that touches the core of our business: website redesigns and relaunches. The interesting thing was that it was advices against relaunches. Better to safe that effort and invest in testing was said. See the full summary of all lectures below.

Hello to all friends of artd Webdesign out there, guess what happened! I guess you're right, artd Webdesign has his first intern now and that's me - Duc!

I came to Bern - Swiss (my roots are in Berlin - Germany) and to artd Webdesign to do a 5 month internship and until now I'm very pleased that I choosed to do that journey.

How does it start?

After a successful speculative application I got the chance to join the artd Webdesign team. Although I knew that artd Webdesign is a SME (small and medium enterprise) I was surprised in how many different projects they are involved and how many orders they got.

Every December / January it is time for typical blog entries: What has happened last year in webdesign and what do we predict for next year? For the webworld this means listing webdesign trends. We collected a few trends for 2012 that re-occurred in several lists and blog post from webdesign Studios around the world.

We are proud to release a next version of our Joomla! Piwik component. Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It is a great alternative to Google Analytics. It provides you with detailed real time reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages. Check http://piwik.org for further details. With com_piwik you can easy install this great tool direkt into joomla! 1.5 with the well-known installer. A plugin will be installed together with the component to put the trackingcode directly in your current template on the right place.

com_piwik has the same requirements as piwik 0.4.3:
PHP version > 5.1.3
Required extensions: PDO, pdo_mysql, zlib, SPL

Get this great tool and download it for your joomla!

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