Businesses operating online need to communicate that they are trustworthy in order to have a relationship with customers. Building trust is especially important when companies are selling products online.

Today, we're looking at how websites selling fake Rolex watches attempt to establish themselves as trustworthy through their websites. This niche of replica watches is particularly interesting because some websites selling fake Rolex's actually manage to overcome the initial barrier of selling a questionable product and appear to be trustworthy!

How do these websites do it? Read on...

As we have mentioned in the past, Jom Comment is our favourite comment plugin for Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5.

Today we are going to discuss what we consider to be the strengths and weaknesses of the Jom Comment plugin and we will explain why we use it here at Good Web Practices.

If you monitor your bed and breakfast's website, then traffic figures are a useful indication of your SEO success. Yet having a large quantity of visitors will not automatically guarantee high booking and occupancy rates for your accommodation. The conversion rate - that is the percentage of people who actually contact your B&B to make an enquiry - should be used hand in hand with traffic statistics.

In this article, we discuss some ideas how to increase the number of site visitors that make bookings...

Simple Image Gallery PRO is a really useful extension for Joomla which makes adding image galleries on to your Joomla website really simple. The extension is easy to setup and very customisable.

In today's post will be looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the Simple Image Gallery Pro plugin...

Have you thought about how the dynamics of the Joomla community might change now that Joomla 1.5 supports 45 languages?

In today's post by Pete Coutts from Joomla.ch, Pete discusses why he thinks that bloggers who write about Joomla in English should allow people to translate posts if they provide a back link to the original post.

If you would like to write a guest post on GoodWebPractices.com please contact us.

Yannick Gaultier's extension sh404sef is a great way to make Joomla 1.5 more search engine friendly. 

There are numerous on-page factors which search engines take into account when indexing websites, we discussed these factors in our SEO on-site framework. If you are running Joomla 1.5 without any extensions you lack complete control over some of these factors.

In today's post we're going to discuss why we think sh404sef is the most important extension to install on Joomla 1.5. The first part of this article looks at the killer search engine optimisation features in sh404sef and the second half is an interview with Yannick looking at his motivation behind developing sh404sef and the advantages of sh404sef's new feature of enabling table-less output in Joomla.

We have developed a simple framework which can be used to analyse websites' on-site optimisation. We have called this framework the "On-site SEO analysis framework".

The goal behind this framework is to give a structure for analysing a website's on-page optimisation for search engines. As a result, you can use this framework to analyse how good your own businesses website is optimised or search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.