You have your SEF URLs turned on for your Joomla website and they look great and are chalk-full of keywords, but now you want to create some internal links between pages on your site. It is as simple as copying the link from the toolbar and using your WYSIWYG to add the link, right? Wrong! In this quick followup to a recent article on Joomla SEF URLs we will cover how to properly set up internal links with SEF URLs turned on and review a quick tool from Joomlapraise called PraiseURL.

Few web developers will deny that URLs based on keywords rather than numbers and meaningless strings make your urls prettier, more descriptive, and more attractive to search engines and humans alike. However, with the tons of options in how to implement SEF urls in your Joomla website it can be confusing on where to start. This post covers how to implement near-perfect SEF URLs with core joomla sef and the core content component.

In a recent post on Joomla 1.6 administration improvements, I discussed at length one of the coolest new features Joomla 1.6 will bring: a new and vastly improved workflow on editing modules. Upon further research, I discovered that our friends over at NoNumber! have created a component/admin plugin that brings those exact features to Joomla 1.5. I'm not sure if the chicken or the egg came first, but all I really care about is that I can bring that functionality to all of my own sites and those of my clients. I'll give you a brief overview of its benefits below, but I suggest you check it out immediately yourself.