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Joomla 2.5 Release: New Features in Joomla! 2.5

Joomla 2.5 is out!

With the release of Joomla! 2.5, the user community has placed a large emphasis on making the CMS installation and updates management process as simple and straightforward as possible.

This will allow users to more easily and frequently migrate to the latest version of Joomla!, and take advantage of all the security benefits associated with running the newest code. We think Joomla! users around the world will really embrace this new process.

Joomla! 2.5 Released with Extra Features and Easy Updates Continue reading

CMS Security Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Plone

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMS

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMS

Learn to secure Web sites built on open source CMSs

Web sites built on Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, or Plone face some unique security threats. If you’re responsible for one of them, this comprehensive security guide, the first of its kind, offers detailed guidance to help you prevent attacks, develop secure CMS-site operations, and restore your site if an attack does occur. You’ll learn a strong, foundational approach to CMS operations and security from an expert in the field.

More and more Web sites are being built on open source CMSs, making them a popular target, thus making you vulnerable to new forms of attack Continue reading

Joomla! For Dummies, 2 edition

Joomla-For-Dummies

Joomla-For-Dummies

Build template-based web sites without the hassle of writing code! Joomla! is a free, open source PHP & MySQL-based content management system that allows you to create interactive, community-based Web sites without having to write or program code in PHP or ASP.NET. This fun and friendly introduction to Joomla! shows you how to create a rich, interactive Web site that does not require any code.

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No matter your skill level, this easy-to-understand resource demonstrates how to drop preconfigured modules that already contain PHP and MySQL code directly into your Joomla! site. Thanks to the Dummies fun and friendly approach, you’ll quickly see how easy to create a rich, interactive Web site with Joomla!

Demonstrates how to create a business site—complete with shopping cart—quickly and easily
Walks you through developing Web sites with discussions, RSS feeds, picture submissions, and more
Includes coverage of the newest version of Joomla!, explains its completely new administrative features, and reviews its ability to provide different levels of access to different users via much-requested access control lists Continue reading

Joomla!1.6.0 is now available for immediate download

Joomla 1.6

This new version of Joomla includes more power, more control, and more options than ever before.

Rebuilt from the ground up in much of the application, this latest Joomla release will delight the casual site builder while helping small, medium, and enterprise businesses succeed in delivering web sites, intranets and applications to their respective markets.

Delivering power through simplicity, Joomla 1.6 ensures its place as the popular CMS of its kind. Joomla 1.6 delivers new features to end-users and site administrators including:

  • Finer access controls for viewing and editing content with configurable user groups and viewing levels
  • A user-defined category structure, from simple one-level to complex multi-level categories
  • Installation improvements allowing for multiple extension installations in one package, updatable with a single click[ad code=1 align=center] Continue reading

Sitecats Web to Provide Joomla! CMS Basics Course for Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley Metro Area Businesses

Sitecats Web to Provide Joomla! CMS Basics Course for Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley Metro Area Businesses











Souderton, PA (PRWEB) August 31, 2009

Starting September 16th, 2009, Joomla! Basics classes will take place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Harleysville, PA at the Peter Becker Community Conference Center. Lunch and snacks are provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop. Attendees will be provided tutorials and links to the latest utilities including an SEO/SEF checklist to maximize your site’s visibility and effectiveness. Joomla! makes content, categories, and menus easy to manage without costly web editing software. Topics also covered include blog layouts, polls, contact directories, facebook and twitter implementation, link creation, image slideshows and user forms.

Joomla! Basics is for web design enthusiasts as well as business and non-profit administrative staff who need a no-nonsense business oriented approach to Joomla! CMS training. Sponsored by Sitecats Web Development, Southeastern PA’s authority on content managed websites for over 110 area businesses and non-profit organizations. Father and son team John and Jeremy Ralston have a combined 26 years of web development and business applications experience and serve as your instructors.

Upon completion of this 6 hour course, attendees will have a hands-on working knowledge of publishing new content, creating sections and categories and related menus. Sitecats stresses business usage and leaves out the tedious technical details, resulting in an informative and fun way to retain this valuable and important information. See Sitecats website or visit gotjoomla.com for more information and details.

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Climbing the Ladder of Success ? Drupal has Arrived, Ahead of WordPress and Joomla

Climbing the Ladder of Success – Drupal has Arrived, Ahead of WordPress and Joomla












Drupal theme ST Nagara – inspired by the famous BBC


New York, NY (PRWEB) June 23, 2010

WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have thus far been seen to be the three most popular open source Content Management Systems in use on the Internet today. However, things have now changed – at least, the order of popularity is very definitely changing and rapidly! Drupal, which arrived on the scene circa 2006, is a rising high class threat to the others, especially with the latest release a premium Drupal theme ST Nagara, designed by SymphonyThemes.com .

If we place ST Nagara under the ‘Systems microscope’ we find a quality clone of the well-established BBC system. So what’s so good about that? Simply, but not solely, it takes the best of BBC and completes the rest with a consistent look. This enables the user to enjoy a smart grid base layout, enriched typography and the various colour options of ST Nagara (see the demo of Nagara). The British Broadcasting Corporation, well known for many facets of communication for more than eighty years, has a magazines publishing division that now uses Drupal on its several websites.

WHAT CAN YOU CREATE WITH DRUPAL?

That’s easy…from a simple personal homepage to a full company website Drupal provides you with the tool to create anything from a basic home page to a sophisticated commercial entity, Weblog, Dating Website or whatever your favourite type of website might be. There’s almost no limit or restriction on your creative ability with Drupal. With heaps of themes and modules Drupal and ST Nagara the sky’s the limit and the only boundary is your own imagination.

THE RISE

Drupal’s rise to the top is due in large part to the fact that more web designers are now choosing Drupal to use in the development of their more detailed and comprehensive designs. Once they discovered the ease with which Drupal can be applied to choose the ‘use-right-away-templates’ and then to develop websites via these premade tools it became ‘no contest’. Drupal can be the first choice for beginners and experts alike.

So, if you are just starting out as a web developer or you’ve been in the Internet business for years you couldn’t do better than move in with Drupal and the Drupal theme ST Nagara. Together they will show you the way to appealing and successful websites. At the same time they make it very easy to work up a great site that will be more likely to do for you just what you want it to – all you have to do is to get alongside what has been described as the easiest Content Management System that’s alive and kicking on the world wide web.

The fact that Drupal is a free modular CMS makes the system even more incredible. In this day of the almighty dollar being just that – almighty, to be able to enjoy a FREE option in website tools and, at the same time, to have these tools of the highest quality is amazing!

The added bonus that the entire Drupal framework is open source and therefore freely available to everyone is yet another feather in the Drupal cap. When we consider the raison d’etre for the Internet’s existence, that of communication, we have to place Drupal at the top of the pile.

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The Complete Joomla Tutorial Package (Joomla 1.5 Videos Just Added

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Joomla Goes All Web 2.0

Joomla Goes All Web 2.0











GLASGOW, UK (PRWEB) February 13, 2006

If people have a feeling about Web 2.0 it’s usually an extreme one, there just doesn’t seem to be any middle ground, but there’s no disputing that some of the themes coming from Web 2.0 are having a dramatic impact on the way we use the web. Today, The Venture Kit (www.theventurekit.com) has done its small part to bring a piece of Web 2.0 to Joomla, the award winning content management system, by introducing a tag cloud module.

A tag cloud takes a list of your most popular articles and displays them as a cloud, the more popular an item is the bigger the link text. This gives users an instant, visual indication of hot content. Made popular by the likes of Technorati and Flickr webmasters have been searching for simple ways to implement them on their own site. The tag cloud module from The Venture Kit allows all Joomla users to do just that.

“People want what they want and it’s our task as web masters to ensure we do just that. People want a quick way of finding what’s hot and what isn’t when they visit your site,” commented Gary Reid, founder of The Venture Kit.

The module is a simple plug and play install, locate it on your PC from the Joomla administrator interface and click install, publish the module in the position you want and hey presto, a tag cloud of your most visited content.

“Joomla already makes life uncomplicated for thousands of web masters and our tag cloud module is just helping to extend the already amazing functionality of the Joomla system” added Gary.

This form of tagging content is changing the very nature of content. No longer are our visitors content to make do with what we, as web masters, think is important, they want to know what others are looking at. Tag clouds, in their small way, are an outward sign to the web community that you understand what they want and you have the courage to let them choose.

It’s not as complicated or time consuming as you think to take advantage of something good that’s come out of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The advantages of being online can be enormous, however, the added bonuses from becoming part of the social web are even bigger. Take a look at The Venture Kit’s tag cloud module and plug your business into the 1 billion people online.

Media contact: Gary Reid +44 (0)141 530 8654

About TheVentureKit.com

The Venture Kit is helping cut through the barriers to having an online presence or venture by uncomplicating the web. The Venture Kit offers a fully installed content management system hosted on enterprise class servers in the UK. With over 60 templates to choose from and a simple to use administrator interface it really hasn’t been simpler.

Founded by 3-time Internet entrepreneur Gary Reid, with over 6 years experience of running successful online ventures The Venture Kit is fast becoming a community of fast growing web ventures. For more information, please visit http://theventurekit.com

About Joomla

Joomla! is an award winning open source Content Management System (CMS) created by the same award-winning team that brought the Mambo CMS to its current state of stardom.

Joomla! is more than just software, it is people. The community behind Joomla! includes developers, designers, systems administrators, translators, content writers, and most importantly the end users. We welcome you to our community, and look forward to the future with great excitement! For more information, please visit http://joomla.com

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Two LinuxWorld Awards for Joomla!

(PRWEB) October 16, 2005

Joomla! has been awarded two prestigious awards at the Linux & Open Source Awards in London this month.

The Joomla! project won “Best Linux / Open Source Project” for 2005. The project’s lead Andrew Eddie said the award demonstrates high levels of trust and faith from the Open Source Community.

“The past two months have been astounding,” Mr. Eddie said. “To win this award on the back of our first releases means a lot to the team which has worked so hard for the community.”

The second award in which Joomla! figures was won by core member Brian Teeman. Brian won “UK Individual Contribution to Open / Source” for 2005.

Mr. Teeman said he was honoured to win the award and said it recognised “you don’t have to be a coder to contribute to the world of Open Source”.

Joomla! Public Information Manager Peter Russell said the awards reflect a positive shift for the open source generally. “The reader votes say a couple of things about how Joomla! is being received,” he said.

“The trust factor is certainly the major reason why people are adopting our content management software in droves. In less than two months people from all sectors have inundated our site with offers of support and commitment. From enterprise level partnerships to moms and dads, they’re all with Joomla!”

The Joomla development team, which had previously taken Mambo to its former stardom, is now concentrating on crafting “the best open source project possible.”

The awards in London certainly fuelled the imagination of the development team. More structure has been put in place to provide additional focus to important areas of development.

A further example is the Google Summer of Code competitors who have contributed code in areas including: a Virtual File System, Automatic Update System, Version Control, Pre-Processor Control and, Media Manager.

The LinuxWorld Expo and Conference in London also cemented relationships by leaders in the Open Source community, Mr. Russell said.

“We were fortunate enough to meet many of the brightest industry minds and were delighted to discover they too had been following the amazing rise of the Joomla! phenomenon,” Mr. Russell said.

For more information contact us at:

http://www.joomla.org/

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Gold Lasso Integrates with Joomla for Subscriber Data Synchronization

Gold Lasso Integrates with Joomla for Subscriber Data Synchronization

Gaithersburg, MD (PRWEB) September 18, 2009

Gold Lasso, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand email marketing software, has recently completed the development of a Joomla component that allows users to synchronize subscriber data between the Joomla user table and eLoop, Gold Lasso’s flagship email marketing solution. Joomla is an open source content management system (CMS) that allows people to easily manage their websites. The component can be downloaded for free from Gold Lasso’s website or client community.

Joomla is an award-winning CMS that enables users to build powerful websites. Joomla is considered by many to be the most popular Web site software for its ease-of-use and extensibility. Continue reading

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