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When Do You Think We Should Celebrate Joomla's 5th Birthday? |
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 We are getting close to the 5th birthday of Joomla! and many people have already started to discuss ways to celebrate.
But when exactly is the birthday?
To some extent Joomla! is like the Queen of England. She has two birthdays, one the actual date of Her birth and the other the date of Her coronation.
For me there are three possible dates that we could choose for Joomla:
- August 17th - the date that we split from Mambo link
- September 1st - the date the Joomla! name was announced and www.joomla.org was launched link
- September 16th - the date of the first release of Joomla! link
What do you think? When should we officially celebrate Joomla's fifth birthday?
Oh, and don't forget to visit people.joomla.org to help plan the parties. |
jCamp - JSOP 2010 is gearing up |
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What is the JSOP?
This is probably the fist question which comes to everybody's mind. Well, JSOP is an acronym for "Joomla! student outreach program". This program offers students a unique opportunity to participate in developing projects of value to the Joomla! community. Basically, students are assigned to mentors all around the world and work on a project for three months (during summer) under mentor's guidance. More information about this program can be found here.
Why am I mentioning it?
Because I'm a member of one team of those students. Our team is currently working on a project management tool extension for Joomla! 1.6. In short, the goal of our extensions is to provide user-friendly tool for everybody to manage his projects across all parts of their production cycles. In order to accomplish this goal we follow several philosophies. The most important one is called KISS (not that famous band :) - "Keep it simple, Stupid!"). Thus everything is kept as simple as possible and no unnecessary features are included. The second important philosophy is DRY - Don't repeat yourself!. DRY philosophy makes our code both clear and easy to modify in furute. Both of these philosophies together enable us to speed up our work on the project and fully benefit from resources Joomla! 1.6 provides.
What is current status of this project?
We started about three weeks ago and we're working very hard on portfolio gallery right now. Currently we're able to create a portfolio of our projects (even more portfolios), assign projects to it (and also create them, edit them, (un)publish them and delete them), go through them and look at their overviews. In addition, we can assign Joomla!'s users to a specific project. However, we cannot set his role in the project yet. Tasks for the next milestone (btw, the next milestone is date on next Monday) are pretty straight forward - to work on "task manager" part and "enable assigning documents to a project". In this stage, we also want to make our views to look awesome so part of our team has started to work on CSS and HTML code of our views.
How many people work on this extension?
At this time, our team consists of four people but we expect 2 people to join us very soon.
Well folks, so this is it for now. I hope you enjoyed my brief introduction to our team and project and will stay tuned for next updates and further details about our goals, progress and everything.
See ya soon!
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What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders |
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This is the first of a series of blog posts about improvements in Joomla 1.6. If you'd like to contribute, please click here to find out more.
Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders
Joomla 1.6 offers much to site integrators and builders that will make them very, very happy. I have spent so long working with Joomla 1.5 and its quirks that I’ve forgotten about many of my pain points. Now that 1.6 is out, I can’t wait for the final release, and it’s all due to a few little things that make my life much easier. I hope you enjoy these new features as well!
Hooray For Save & New!
In Joomla 1.5, we had the options of Save, Apply, and Close for most functions in the Joomla administrator area.
We now have some new options for creating and editing content, and they're located fairly uniformly across the Joomla admin interface. Here's how they look and change in regards to an article.
After clicking the "New" button in the Article Manager to create a new article, the buttons look like this:
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2nd Annual Office Olympics |
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Last Friday, the trash talk commenced, team anthems were chosen, and iPhone stopwatches were synced as we gathered for the Annual SEO.com Office Olympics.
In 2009, we pulled muscles, scraped knees, and put a hole in our wall. This year we repeated all the above and added a little swelling.
Was it ... Read more |
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University of Alabama at Birmingham Uses Joomla |
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It doesn't take much research into the University of Alabama at Birmingham to realise it's a very impressive research university:
- UAB is ranked among the top 100 universities in United States and among the top 200 universities in the world, according to the 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
- UAB has an estimated $3 Billion annual impact in the state of Alabama. It's the state's largest employer with more than 18,000 faculty and staff and over 53,000 jobs at the university and in the health system.
- UAB covers 83 blocks in the heart of Alabama's largest city Birmingham.
- UAB runs Joomla for their main website http://UAB.edu (thought I'd leave the best for last!)
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UVEF’s Top 25 Under Five is Back Again |
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The local business scene will get together again, have lunch and gloat about some of the most successful young companies in Utah.
On July 8, the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum will host its 21st annual Top 25 Under 5 Awards luncheon. The awards recognize the fastest growing companies in Utah less than 5 years old. The companies ... Read more |
The European Union Uses Joomla in the USA |
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 www.eurunion.org is the online home for the European Union delegation to the USA.
The site aims to be a one stop shop for American citizens, politicians and media in providing key facts about the European Union, it's history, policies and aims.
Visitors to the site will find regular news about the European Union together with detailed information on all the main areas of European Union policy and how they affect the USA. |
Visualize More Links and Traffic — Ranking the Best SEO Infographics |
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Creating and publishing infographics has become the new fad for attracting linkbait and traffic. In the last year, we’ve watched the craze for infographics skyrocket as can be seen by this screenshot from Google trends below for the keywords ‘infographic’ and ‘infographics.’
Not only have social media marketers taken up the infographic craze, but SEOs as well. ... Read more |
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Number One is Money — How to Prove It |
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One question I frequently get from people is, “how much traffic can we expect if we are in the #1 one position vs positions 2, 3, and so on?”
Is the amount of traffic you will get in the #1 position really worth the effort and cost?
The answer to this question is yes, it is generally worth ... Read more |
Media24 Uses Joomla |
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Media24 calls itself "Africa’s leading media publishing company" and with good reason. As part of the South African media company Naspers it controls magazines, newspapers and internet properties across Africa in addition to printing plants and distribution companies.
This week they completed the move from .ASP to a new Joomla website. The site makes heavy use of Flexicontent for content articles and Flexiaccess for advanced user permissions. Joomfish is used to present the site in both English and Afrikaans.
Congratulations to Matthew Philogene, Dwight Barnard and Jarred de Beer of raramuridesign who helped build the site.
Seen Other Large Joomla Websites?
If you have seen other large Joomla sites, or have seen Joomla mentioned in the media, please feel free to report the sighting in our forum and we may feature it here in a blog post. |
Burger King Stole My Man Card With Lame Twilight Cup |
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Conversion lessons learned from wimpy cups
I wanted a burger today at lunch. So I went to the king of burgers, a la Burger King.
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Do it Yourself or Hire an SEO Company? |
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Now, before I start this post I admit that may be a bit biased. However, I live and breathe SEO and I have seen both sides of this topic. With that said, let’s get into it.
I saw a post on twitter the other day that essentially said, “Anyone can do SEO, but most do not”
Though ... Read more |
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