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Drupal Extensions are Better than Joomla's

11.02.10

Drupal extensions, on the whole, tend to have higher quality coding than Joomla ones... Did I just say that? Me? Mr "every website is a nail" Joomla?* Yup

The driving mission of Joomlashack is to provide high quality professional Joomla templates at affordable prices.

Today we are changing the landscape of how template clubs are offered. We are combining the lifetime updates of our regular templates with the unlimited domains of our developer club.

Our Professional Joomla Developer Club now is lifetime access!!

Incase you didn't catch the heads-up on joomla.org yesterday - a new security patch for and full version of Joomla 1.5x has been released.

Apparently a bug in 1.5.5 was allowing unscrupulous fellows to change people's login passwords... which is quite a big deal in my book.  Typically the error is reported to leave the main site admin account open to editing!  You can read more on this issue in the Joomla Developer Blog .

Security bugs are always a little scary but one thing to note with Joomla in general is that the loopholes always get closed very quickly - in fact, when you cruise through the Joomla forums its hard to find many posts reporting sites being hacked due to security flaws in Joomla core. 

I recommend upgrading your Joomla 1.5.x site immediately to 1.5.6 - there are simple patches available on joomlacode.org (scroll down to the 1.5.6 upgrades section) which you can download and just upload on top of your current install; a process which takes just a couple of minutes. 

I just came across a simple example of how Joomla's extensibility can offer brochure websites powerful integration with 3rd party services; USA Bookseller Barnes & Noble has used Joomla to create a website for developers to learn about their eBook reader, called a Nook.

The site's content is mainy public and offered through Joomla's de facto Article setup though it looks like they've used Community Builder to allow developers on the site to annotate their user accounts with marketing-useful information upon registration.  As well, the site shares a login with Zen Desk, a popular 3rd-party customer support/ticketing provider - so once logged in, Nook Developers can jump right into reading and posting any support queries hosted on the B&N Zen Desk account.

To integrate user login with Zen Desk, B&N may have used the Zen Desk Dropbox bridge plugin - I'm not sure...

In preparation for the Joint Summit (CLT, PLT, OSM) sheduled for July 29 - 31, 2011, at eBay in San Jose, California, the Joint Summit Committee has compiled a list of proposed goals for discussion at the three day meeting. The list below is shared with the community for feedback before finalizing the meeting agenda.

The goals include planning and discussing the following topics (not presented in any particular order):

• Who are we building Joomla for? Who is our target audience and thus who should we build new features for?
   
• Better collaboration
   
• The future of the Project
   
• The Joomla Project common goals
   
• The Joomla Project strategy
   
• Evaluate our project structure
  • The future role, if any, of the Community Oversight Committee
  • Better understand how our teams function
     
• Talk about processes (conflict resolution, budget process, ….)
   
• How to attract more developers?
   
• Review Sponsored Development program
   
• Review our Mission, Vision and Values
   
• Collaboration strategy with international communities
   
• Joomla! World Conference 2012 - Setup a committee, define goals
   

To comment on this list of goals please visit: http://people.joomla.org/groups/viewdiscussion/1220-Joint+Leadership+Summit+Goals.html?groupid=714

There are lots of places to buy a Joomla template - but Joomlashack is the only one to offer lifetime template updates and a 30 day money back guarantee! One of the defining characteristics of Joomla compared to other open source CMS's is the rich variety of professional templates that are available. There are, of course, the poorly coded sweatshop template sites, but lets take a look at a comparison of the others. Joomla held a big meeting concerning its direction and road map in New York City on October 21. The sessions were streamed and recorded. You can access the video and catch up on anything you missed.

Let's say you create a link to a single article in Joomla 1.5 (called an article layout). Beyond the standard items you could configure with Joomla 1.5, like the title, alias, parent, and so forth, there were some limited parameters you could set for the article:

As part of the normal budgeting process, the Production Leadership Team has come up with four goals for 2012. Those goals concern releases of the Joomla Platform and the Joomla CMS, continuing maintenance updates, and outreach and promotion to a technical audience.

SEOMoz just posted a great list of 14 best practices for modern SEO that they are using with their consulting clients. Some real interesting tips, like the lack of importance of H1 tags and  meta keywords.

Keep reading for review of the 14, with some notes about possible Joomla implications.

You can read more about these at SEOMoz: SEO Best Practices

Title Tag Format

Primary Keyword - Secondary Keywords | Brand
Or
Brand Name | Primary Keyword [...]

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With an October 25th announcement on the public Joomla! leadership email list, work has begun on the Joomla! project's 2012 goal setting and budget planning proposed process. 2011 was the first year that the Production Leadership Team (PLT), Community Leadership Team, (CLT) and Open Source Matters board of directors (OSM) put in the extra effort to first define their goals for the year before they began work on their parts of the project's overall budget.

Benefits of the goal setting and budget planning process

These are the benefits of having PLT, CLT, and OSM put in the extra effort to first define their goals and priorities for 2012 and also asking them to provide input on the areas of the 2012 budget that their teams are responsible for:

• Allows our budget to be a more effective tool for supporting the project's planned priorities for the upcoming year.
• Allows each leadership team to better understand what the other leadership teams are planning to work on, which will improve inter-team collaboration and support.
• Allows the community to be aware of goals and priorities for the upcoming year, which will improve transparency and openness and enable increased support and volunteer contributions.
• Will make it easier to bring in more sponsorship contributions, due to prospective sponsors having a better understanding about what initiatives their contributions will be supporting.

Changes made for the 2012 proposed process

Some significant changes have been incorporated into the 2012 proposed process based on lessons learned from the 2011 process. Some of these changes are a result of lessons learned during the 2011 process, including feedback from the community. Other changes are based on work that came out of a session at the July 2011 Joint Leadership Summit about creating a public unified roadmap for the project. These are the main changes that have been made for the 2012 proposed process:

• Each leadership team has been asked to define a mission statement for their team that supports the project's current overall mission statement. Each team's mission statement will be a helpful starting point to confirm that their top goals and priorities are aligned with their mission statement.
• Time has been included in the proposed process for community feedback both before the leadership teams finalize their goals, as well as before the draft budget is submitted to OSM for formal approval.
• A more detailed framework has been provided for documenting milestones, action items, and resources that are associated with each team's top goals and priorities. Each leadership team can use this documentation to help with their budget planning and their implementation work for each of their top goals and priorities. If this documentation is completed it can be published alongside the both draft and approved budgets which will help community members see where those goals tie to specific budget line items.
• Recommendation that each leadership team publish a blog following each calendar quarter in 2012 to provide an update to the community about their progress toward their 2012 top goals and priorities.
• Creation of a sample timeline that aims to have a budget ready for OSM's formal approval in January 2012.

Potential impact of proposed leadership structure changes

Proposed leadership structure changes that were intially discussed at the July 2011 Joint Leadership Summit may result in changes to the project's current leadership structure sometime during 2012. It will likely take quite a bit of time to work out the details of any approved leadership structure changes, so if we want to have a set of full year 2012 goals and a budget that is based on those goals, then our best path to accomplishing that will be to rely on our current leadership teams to carry out this work now.

Sample timeline for the 2012 proposed process

The sample timeline for the 2012 proposed process is shown below. As was the case with the 2011 process, participation by leadership teams in the 2012 proposed process is voluntary. Each leadership team may choose to take a different path regarding both their goal setting and their budget planning work for 2012.

• October 25: Announce 2012 goal setting/budget planning process to leadership teams.
• November 2: OSM Treasurer publishes blog about 2012 goal setting/budget planning process.
• November 2: Each leadership team creates their mission statement, and begins working on their proposed top 2012 goals/priorities.
• November 5: OSM Treasurer provides budget spreadsheet templates to all leadership teams.
• November 9: Each leadership team defines their proposed top goals/priorities and they each independently publish a blog/JPeople discussion or other method of collecting community feedback about them.
• November 16: Public feedback on each leadership team’s proposed top goals/priorities closes.
• November 30: Each leadership team finalizes their top goals/priorities and their milestones/action items/resources.
• December 7: Each leadership team submits their proposed 2012 budget to OSM Treasurer along with their mission statement, goals/priorities, milestone/action items/resources document.
• December 21: Budget committee reconciles consolidated 2012 budget.
• December 22: Blog and JPeople discussion for community review along with draft budget, and leadership team mission statements, goals/priorities, milestones/action items/resources are published.
• December 29: Public discussion closes.
• January 2012: OSM votes to accept budget.

Finding the right domain name for your Joomla website can be very difficult, so here are some ideas and tips on how to find the right one for you.

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Simplweb already provides a much higher level of security than traditional Joomla hosts with our internal active monitoring systems. We have now partnered with SecureLive.net, the most effective global security system ever engineered. Over 60 Million hacks blocked, thousands of hackers shut down and many active prosecutions. SecureLive is a live and real time service that runs in the background. It detects, blocks and then reports hacking attempts to your site.

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