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Content Layouts

  • October 12th, 2006
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Joomla! provides plenty of flexibility when displaying your Web content. Whether you are using Joomla! for a blog site, news or a Web site for a company, you’ll find one or more content styles to showcase your information. You can also change the style of content dynamically depending on your preferences. Joomla! calls how a [ READ MORE ]

The Joomla! Community

  • October 12th, 2006
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Got a question? With more than 140,000 members, the online forums at forum.joomla.org are a great resource for both new and experienced users. Go ahead, ask your toughest questions, the community is waiting to see what you’re going to do with your Joomla! site. Do you want to show off your new Joomla! Web site? [ READ MORE ]

What’s New In 1.5?

  • October 11th, 2006
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As with previous releases, Joomla! provides a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for Web sites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging Web technologies, Joomla! required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface. [ READ MORE ]

Extensions

  • October 11th, 2006
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Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your Web site sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for developers all around the world to create powerful add-ons that are called Extensions. An Extension is [ READ MORE ]

Platforms and Open Standards

  • October 11th, 2006
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Joomla! runs on any platform including Windows, most flavours of Linux, several Unix versions, and the Apple OS/X platform. Joomla! depends on PHP and the MySQL database to deliver dynamic content. The minimum requirements are: Apache 1.x, 2.x and higher PHP 4.3 and higher MySQL 3.23 and higher It will also run on alternative server [ READ MORE ]

Joomla! Facts

  • October 9th, 2006
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Here are some interesting facts about Joomla! Over 140,000 active registered Users on the Official Joomla! community forum and more on the many international community sites. over 1,000,000 posts in over 200,000 topics over 1,200 posts per day growing at 150 new participants each day! 1168 Projects on the JoomlaCode (joomlacode.org ). All for open [ READ MORE ]

Support and Documentation

  • October 9th, 2006
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Support Support for the Joomla! CMS can be found on several places. The best place to start would be the official Help Site. Here you can help yourself to the information that is regularly published and updated as Joomla! develops. There is much more to come too! Of course you should not forget the Help [ READ MORE ]

Joomla! Overview

  • October 9th, 2006
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If you’re new to Web publishing systems, you’ll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs. Moreover, it is often the system of choice for small business or home users who want a professional looking site [ READ MORE ]

Joomla! Features

  • October 8th, 2006
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Joomla! features: Completely database driven site engines News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors Fully customisable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results [ READ MORE ]

Flying Home

  • November 2nd, 2005
  • Posted in blog

Going home I’m blogging this entry from about 35,000 feet above the ground. I have a glass of Henroit 95 cuvee in one hand and a nice snack in the other (ok they are on a tray in front of me so I can type). All of this is possible thanks to the internet connection [ READ MORE ]

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