The time is drawing near where we'll be locking down the hatches, taking the suggestions we've been receiving and brewing over, and hacking away at the JoomlaSEF package to rebuild it into a real SEO workhorse. We've setup a new forum that will be much easier for us to manage as we move forward with the project. Several things we can use your suggestions on:

1) What kinds of SEO Tools do you need with your projects? We've had several ideas, and we already started the Plugin system with the release of JoomlaSEF.

2) Extensions Galore! We want to make sure this release has as many extensions already included as possible. Hunting for them has always been frustrating.

Checkout our initial list of SEO Upgrade Ideas and share your your ideas with us on our new forum. http://forum.webuddha.com/

This new version is going to rock ;-)

The JoomlaSEF Development Team

May 13th, 2008 - Today we launch the JoomlaSEF.org website to carry on a new phase of the OpenSEF development project.  This inaugural JoomlaSEF release v2.1.0, built off the OpenSEF platform release v2.0.0_RC5_SP2, has been reviewed and enhanced to address many of the issues we had been witnessing in the forums and with our projects.  Joomla SEF v2.1.0 will be the first of many upgrades to the wonderful OpenSEF component. Our goal is to organize support within the Joomla community and finally bring this application to the level it deserves.

Joomla SEF is a powerful component, built off the OpenSEF platform v2.0.0_RC5_SP2, that provides Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL management for the Joomla CMS system.  The Joomla SEF component also boasts Multiple Site management, and a suite of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tools for evaluating and managing your website search rankings.

The JoomlaSEF project has been started by the Holodyn Corporations Atlanta Web Site Development team Webuddha.com, who has opened a SourceForge repository found here where all discussion, tracking, and collaboration will be hosted.  We hope that the Joomla user community will take part in our efforts by providing bug reports, code enhancement suggestions, and development support through the SourceForge platform.

If you want to learn more about the JoomlaSEF component and available plug-ins, please review the JoomlaSEF documentation category.  The JoomlaSEF Component and Webuddha SEO Mambot can be downloaded here.

These are areas of attention that have been identified during the development of v2.1.0. The JoomlaSEF development team will be adding all known issues and upgrade intentions to the SourceForge Tracking system to be reviewed by the community. Major areas for attention are provided below. If you are reading this and have suggestions, please consider taking the time to add them here -or- add specific items to the Tracker system.