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Finding Your Best Domain Name
09.05.09
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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The Board of Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM) has elected Paul Orwig as Treasurer of the organization. He replaces Steve Burge, who had been appointed as Acting Treasurer on the 10th of August 2010.
Paul has been an outstanding member of the Joomla Community and was recently appointed to the OSM board. Paul has previously been on Joomla! Community Leadership Team, the Lead editor for the Joomla! Community Magazine, and a Webmaster for the Joomla! community portal. 
The OSM board wishes to express thanks to Paul for serving in this important role and Steve for having assisted during the transition.
Please leave your comments over at http://people.joomla.org/
The steady march to Joomla 1.6 picked up further steam recently with the release of the project's second alpha release.
Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 became available last week, and shows the development team is making great strides toward a next generation Joomla.
Front and center in this new release is the long-awaited Access Control Level feature, or ACL. A first release of the "nested categories" and a new backend template made it in the second alpha as well.
With Joomla 1.6 getting closer to a beta release (anticipated sometime in the next few months), the Joomla leadership team is hosting the first-ever Joomla Developer Conference in early December.
One of the great things about working at Simplweb is helping people quickly and easily launch their Joomla websites. Two recent launches we had have been a news website about Haiti and a small business Veterinary Hospital in Waterbury, VT. Two very different sites. Infohaiti.net provides up to date news from Haiti in a high article volume blog type format, and all in the french language. Waterburyvethospital.com is a small business brochure site for a brand new vet clinic that aims to establish their web presence.
Last week the Joomla Project team released Joomla 1.5.12, codename "Wojmamni Ama Woi." No explanation for the Swahili meaning was given, but this version's various security and bug fixes are easily explained by checking out the project's 1.5.12 release.
The notes on Joomla.org[...] I received a review copy of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia from Packt Publishers and was expecting to read a lot that I already know about Images and the image manager in Joomla!. But instead it was an eye-opener about the possibilities that Joomla! and some special extensions gives you to create a complete multimedia experience for your visitors. This [...]
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Joomla! Multimedia – A Book Review about Images, Video and More… | Joomla Mulitimedia
I have previously blogged about online reputational management, but a more recent event came my way today, and I thought it was interesting to see the effects over a longer term, and the dismal response from the company involved.
Last year United Airlines hit the press about breaking somebody's guitar.
Not such huge news probably, United has lots of passengers, and probably damages lots of bags, but this guitar belonged to a singer who made a song and video about his trials.
The result was a MASSIVE fallout for United, with the video on YouTube getting millions of hits, and the story even making CNN.
What truly amazes me is when I search for "United Breaks Guitars" on Google, there are hundreds of results about this story, but nothing I can see from United.
Heck, there is even a Facebook and Wiki page about it now!
In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the Read More option of Joomla was not editable anymore. Before that I wrote about how-to-solve-the-joomla-read-more-problem in version 1.0.x But I found an item in RC3 in the Advanced Parameters of the article section that makes in possible to do an “Click here to read” text per article.. It is [...]
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The Read More option in 1.5 RC3 | Joomla Read More
Over the last couple of years, we have been conducting a survey about the scope and features of the Joomla community. Over 7,000 people have completed the our survey over the last few years, and this year we want to make it the biggest ever.
Complete our survey and you'll be entered to win prizes!
- Grand prize winner: Our new lifetime Developer club - $399 value
- First Prize: Three $100 gift certificates to Amazon.com
- Second Prize: Three Joomlashack University spots
- Third Prize: Five template giveaways
- Bonus prize: 3,000 person to take the survey, also a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate
Head to our survey now and tell us about how you use Joomla!
Right now the hottest online businesses are online membership websites. Whether learning how to create email newsletters or networking for partners, subscription based membership sites are *the* way to generate revenue from your own expertise.
The two pieces to the puzzle to be successful with your membership website are expert help and guidance, and a powerful platform.
Keep reading and I'll tell you how you can get both, a world renowned expert who will teach you, and a comp[...] Looking at the latest Release Candidate of Joomla, version 1.5 RC3 you will find some Differences as it comes to the SEO functions. First off, the difference in Options in RC2 The SEO Settings in Joomla RC3 So what are the results of this settings: With the Suffix Active As you might notice, the last new option attach’s a .html [...]
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The Production Leadership Team (PLT) is the group of people that is responsible for keeping the machinery that produces the Joomla software maintained and in good working order.  The PLT aims to meet in person once or twice a year.  The last development related summit was held in Australia in January of 2009 and this meeting was pivotal for bringing in necessary changes to the organisational and communication structure of the Joomla production system, lowering the barriers to entry for contribution significantly.
The next PLT Summit will be held around the Joomla Day West in San Jose in October this year.  Prime focus will be given to establishing the policy and process we need to revise in order to make Joomla 1.7, and all future versions, happen in a more timely and efficient manner, and allow for innovation to be incorporated at a pace that keeps up with the dynamic flow of the part of the internet in which we reside. To help us plan for this summit, we'd like your suggestions for what you think might be important for us to talk about.  We only have two or three days together so we can't cover everything, but we'd like to know what's on your mind all the same whether you are a user, a developer, a designer or a site administrator.  If you have a suggestion, please post them using this form.
Finally, we must thanks the sponsors for this event which have offset the major costs that would otherwise have been bourn by PLT members personally.  Thanks go to eBay, Microsoft and Kontent Design for allowing us to make this event possible.
I received a review copy of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia from Packt Publishers and was expecting to read a lot that I already know about Images and the image manager in Joomla!. But instead it was an eye-opener about the possibilities that Joomla! and some special extensions gives you to create a complete multimedia experience for your visitors. This [...]
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I'm very pleased to announce that this call for volunteers worked out great. We can now introduce to you Airton Torres and Paul Orwig as the new webmasters. Both have already jumped in with enthusiasm, performing their new tasks as webmasters. Two partial quotes from there biography:
Paul has wanted to become more involved with supporting Joomla! as a direct result of how much both the software and the community have helped him and in turn the users of websites he has developed. He also has wanted to follow the great example which has been set by so many others who have freely given of their time to make Joomla! such a successful open source CMS.
Airton started developing small personal websites in 2005 while learning HTML and CSS. When his older brother asked him, in 2007, to create a web site for a Soar Flight Club he was a member of, Airton started looking for a CMS and found Joomla. After setting the web site up, he started to use the community forums to get help and was soon giving back to the community, sharing the little knowledge he had gathered so far.
If you as a community member have any ideas, question, or for example want to blog on the community site just post a request on the S&I forum and it will be picked up from there.
Joomla Project coordinator Wilco Jansen recently updated the Joomlaverse about the status of Joomla 1.6, the next version of Joomla. Joomla 1.6 is expected later in 2009, but is currently in pre-alpha stage.
Writing on the Joomla Project's Coordinator Blog, Jansen takes the reader through the thought process and development roadmap for Joomla 1.6. He outlines the updated list of features
that are certain to be in this next version of Joomla, including more
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Joomla 1.6 Meta-Tag Changes and Improvements
25.11.10
Some of Joomla 1.6's search engine optimization (SEO) improvements have been lost in the buzz of excitement about ACL (permissions) and nested categories. After all, these are very tiny, incremental improvements -- but for those working with SEO in Joomla, they will make a tremendous difference.
SourceJoomlashack Thanksgiving Sale
23.11.10
25% OFF Sale at Joomlashack - now through November 30th Take 25% OFF everything on our site--including lessons at our Joomlashack University, Joomla Extensions, Wordpress & Drupal themes, and our brand new template, ONYX. Just enter the coupon code, thanku, from now until next Tuesday night, Nov 30th at 11:59 pm, and your 25% OFF discount will be instantly applied.
SourceUpdate to Joomla 1.5.11 in under 30 seconds
08.06.09
Joomla 1.5.11 has been released, and it includes security patches, so its important to update. But getting your Joomla site upgraded to the new version can be tricky, especially if you are using FTP.
Fortunately, there is an easier way, check out Joomlashack's tutorial How to Update Joomla 1.5 Versions.
You'll need SSH access, and remember to back up first!
Of course, if you want to never have to bother with updating Joomla or your extensions ever again, you can try [...]
SourceThe Joomlashack Difference
25.11.09
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.
Source2011 goals and budget for the Joomla! project
27.05.11
As a new element of the planning and budget process, each Joomla! leadership team (Production Leadership Team, Community Leadership Team, and Open Source Matters) has set major goals for 2011. This goal setting effort has the following benefits:
- Allows our project’s 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.
The major 2011 goals for each Joomla! leadership team are listed below. The goals are all numbered for reference purposes (but not as an indication of priority). A bullet list of some tasks that are planned to be worked on in support of these goals during the course of the year are listed below each goal.
The Joomla! project is also pleased to publish its final 2011 budget.
2011 Production Leadership Team goals
PLT Goal #1: Develop four iterations of the Joomla Platform project.
- Develop Joomla Platform 11.1. Target release date is 10 April 2011.
- Develop Joomla Platform 11.2. Target release date is 10 July 2011.
- Develop Joomla Platform 11.3. Target release date is 10 October 2011.
- Develop Joomla Platform 11.4. Target release date is 10 January 2012.
PLT Goal #2: Develop two iterations of the Joomla CMS project
- Develop "Bowerbird". Target release date is 10 July 2011.
- Complete development of com_localise component.
- Complete development of Joomla-MediaWiki importer to support localised documentation.
- Develop the next CMS release. Target release date is 10 January 2012.
PLT Goal #3: Release updates to the current LTS release (Joomla 1.5) as required
- Releases to be made until 3 months after GA of the next LTS. Number, timing and nature of these releases will depend on circumstances.
PLT Goal #4: Outreach and promotion of Joomla to a technical audience.
- Promotion of Joomla at technical conferences and events, particularly in respect of the Joomla Platform.
- Outreach to new developers under a Joomla Student Outreach Program (JSOP).
2011 Community Leadership Team goals
CLT Goal #1: Communication/Interaction with the Community
- More consistency in meetings and publishing of meeting notes/minutes
- Increase CLT membership to ease individual workload as well as broaden representation within leadership and public facing (the community) Task: Assign a member to join the communications team with OSM and PLT
- Volunteer forms for each area of the CWG (JRD, JED, People, JCM, Forum)
- Volunteer recognition program: rewards, public mentions, badges
- More updates to the CWG channels (google group, people site, blogs) about things happening within the working group
CLT Goal #2: Joomla.org site maintenance, usability, effectiveness and improvements
- New joomla.org family site design: volunteer committee run design
- Phased upgrade to 1.6 (and beyond)
- Enhanced Directory Listings
- Single sign on/auto sign on
- Evaluate possible forum software alternatives such as Kunena
- Integrate User Notes for directory and people sites
- Website upkeep - eg. security, third party upgrades, recovery in the event of compromise
CLT Goal #3: Active participation in live events
- Have more CWG attendance at Joomla events (team members)
- More representation of CWG leadership at events
- Joint Leadership Summit
- Video and live steaming of events
2011 Open Source Matters Goals
OSM Goal #1: Increase revenue from sponsorships, shop, and website monetization opportunities
- a) Switch the shop over to spreadshirt.com b) create new souvenirs (key ring , Mug, etc...)
- Brainstorm & update sponsor opportunities/pages
- Increase publicity of new sponsors and sponsor opportunities
- Increase Google Ads revenue using prime locations
- Brainstorm & implement Joomla hosting page
- Try to add international team members to improve international sponsors.
OSM Goal #2: Solidify/stabilize the Trademark team
- Confirm (Acting) Trademark Team leader
- Document Trademark-application processes
- Document and simplify Trademark rules
- Recruit new Trademark Team members & involve more board members
- Implement new Ticketing software to better manage submissions and communications
- Use ProjectFork software to manage above internal tasks
- Clarify Trademark priorities
- Try to add international team members to translate process documents and follow up with international issues.
OSM Goal #3: Establish Joomla supporters club
- Brainstorm details
- Create requirements
- Fix firm dates for going live
- Confirm who is going to develop & costs
- Ongoing publicity & monthly promotions
- Ask for help to translate information to different languages.
OSM Goal #4: Simplification and documentation of our processes
- Document Treasurer responsibilities and processes (for normal duties as well as project-wide processes such as budget/planning, funding requests, and contractor engagements), and add to the Wiki
- Document processes for Events and add to the Wiki
- Document trademark processes and add to Wiki
- Organizing of OSM organizational documents
- Document travel process for leadership team members (Orbitz, etc.)
- Identify repository for international documentation.
OSM Goal #5: Improve support for Joomla events
- Build an events team
- Finding a long run strategy for events
- Defining the target groups for different event types
- Establish Joomla world conference
- Documentation sprints and developer conferences
- Create translations for documentation.
OSM Goal #6: Improve PR/Promotion efforts to raise positive global awareness about value of Joomla
- Raise awareness of Sponsorships
- Publicise Supporters Club
- Translate documents.
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