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I am writing articles in French and English since october 2008, so I review my experience about multi-language blogging; what are the pros and what are the cons.

The major reason which you may decide to write articles in two languages is pretty simple and obvious :to reach more visitors. Especially in my case, as a French-speaker person, writing articles only in French is « limiting » me to much fewer visitors from 24 French-speaking countries. 

Comment links of this blog are now DOFOLLOW!

But what is dofollow?!

!JoomlaComments is a well known Joomla! component that allows you to have comments on your Joomla! site articles. The links are by default set to nofollow and it's not possible to set this in component's configuration.

Here is a little plugin for Jooma 1.5.x which allows to replace automatically secable spaces by insecable spaces in an article.

There is no build-in function in Joomla yet for custom user groups according to your needs. You're obligated to use Joomla's default groups, or to use JaCL (commercial), which is not always possible, depending on the project.

If you use Community Builder, and that you wish to use different user groups, each owning their own custom tabs (and fields), there is a solution. It is possible to set a custom tab only for a user group; you only have to split correctly fields to tabs, to show or not to show a tab, depending on the user group that owns it.

When a user signs in in Joomla, he is automatically redirected at homepage.

This article explains you how to add a hack in Joomla 1.5, to redirect the user to the page of your choice after he signed in. It may be useful, especially if you want the user to do a specific action (e.g. : to post an article, a picture, subscribe to your services, etc.). From back-end, you may specify a Joomla! page for redirection, but no custom URL.

A Google Sitemap is a very important element for ranking of your website : it is used to tell Google which pages it must include in his engine. It also helps your new pages to be ranked quicker, and to be sure that all your relevant content is indexed.

A Sitemap, it's basically a map of your website (I hope you already guessed it); a tree of pages in which the level of importance of certain pages over some other pages is cleary visible.