As web designers, we quickly recognized that our green business and community not-for-profit clients had no way to affordably participate on the mobile web. So we took a walk. We spent two days hiking on the Bruce Trail (near Tobermory, Ontario) talking about the future of the web. We wanted to make the mobile web more affordable, accessible, and democratic.

Now Weever Apps is here! The basic version is only $30 per year now free and we want your help to get the word out.  Plese share our story on Twitter and beyond!

Details on Weever below - Thanks! - Andrew and Rob

CartaNova Web Design & Marketing is a full-service digital marketing studio that exclusively serves a green business, renewable energy and community not-for-profit clientele. We also provide wind-power web hosting.  We’re happy to have some great clients and a good reputation in our industry. We’re now looking for someone to help us serve even more good initiatives.

Learn more about us in this Hamilton Spectator newspaper article.

We're presenting a talk on Democracy, the Mobile Web and Joomla! this Thursday Feb.17th  to the Joomla! User Group Meeting for South Western Ontario (JUGSWO).  Join us!  Details below...

We've been working on a new AJAX-style (no-page-refresh) contact form for Joomla!, you can view the Alpha at the end of this article.

I'm not sure if we should make this totally free to download, collect a small token payment (it was the result of hard work, after all), or possibly just use the plugin to advertise our forthcoming Weever ("Your Joomla! Site.  Mobile. In Minutes") service. What do you think?

Editor's Note:  This post was *bumped* up again in our blog on March 25th due to high interest!

This is big! I'm very excited to introduce Weever, our new service that creates a mobile version of any Joomla! or Wordpress web site in minutes.

Joomla! Tip: Check out our extensive free library of Joomla! Tutorial Videos at HoldenCreative.com (my former freelance business, I licensed these vids a few years ago). We'll be introducing new videos for Joomla! 1.6 to CartaNova soon, but for now you can find Beginner, Advanced and Designer tutorials for Joomla! 1.5 and the older  Joomla! 1.0 platform.  Feel free to use these tutorials as you wish!

Note: Joomla.org also has some great under-used tutorials in the Documentation area.

Not a trick, but an important tip for Joomla! Web Developers: Don't forget to utilize the Joomla! Site Showcase.  The showcase is a free, volunteer-managed place to display the power and extensibility of Joomla!.  Being a highly moderated area for 'good' web sites, the showcase also appears to have a great Search Engine Optimization (SEO) value with Google.  This makes sense, as Google increasingly emphasizes 'brands' and 'trust' in search engine metrics.

We recently submitted our site for Alcast Technologies to the showcase and were surprised by a corresponding surge in visitor traffic and customer inquriries as a result.  So Joomla! Web Designers, what are you waiting for?  Submit your site!

We're proud to announce our new Code Labs, a place to share our tips & tricks with the Joomla!, Magento, JQuery and general open-source programming communities. We'll be launching two lab projects in 2011 - an AJAX Joomla! Contact Form and a *big* Mobile Project!

Sometimes in life it rains. Other times, though, it rains awesomeness and video game surprises.

Joomla!'s· "Page Suffix" makes it possible to change the look of fonts, headings and other in-content styles for a given web site page.

It works nicely, but can't modify larger considerations by default - for example, you won't be able to modify your template design (background image, layout, etc) with a normal page class suffix.

However, it is possible to do just that! Here's how we modified the page suffix function to change the background of our new 'Code Labs' page.