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11 months ago Avatar
I Love Joomla -- My Sites Are Great

  by PatchesPal

During the .com boom of the 90's a CMS with less capabilities than Joomla cost nearly $1 million. Now it's free.

The program is great -- it works. There are hundreds and hundreds of extensions available and they are a piece of cake to install.

There are also hundreds and hundreds of free and commercial templates (Skins) for Joomla.

The community is huge and the forum has answered all of my questions.

One ... [More] fellow complained about slow development. Look at the Joomla site and you will see global cooperative effort to advance the project. The real problem is the development is so fast that the extension providers have a hard time keeping up.

Frank Dwyer [Less]

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8 months ago Avatar
Amazing CMS, Community and Extensions

  by ~Stephan

Someone wrote "While looking really good, Joomla is very limited. It has close to none good extensions. Limited to CMS usability almost without possible extending.

Slow development, project not flexible at all."

Wrong on ALL parts, for one Joomla is extremely flexible, I am using it on two different e commerce sites and was able to meet all the customer's requirements and +!

"None to none good extensions"!!!??? There ... [More] are 1000s of extensions, I have not yet been in a situtation where I did not find something I needed. To top it off, I have to say that most extensions are simply AMAZING and the rating and review system works well.

Simply an Amazing Framework, Amazing Capabilities, Amazing Community and developers!

I am a system integrator/sys admin and I can't think of one product that comes even closes to have all the capabilities, even for a lot of $$$.

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    Joomla! Joins Another List of Winners

    EContent today published their EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. You can see us right here under Open Source Matters along with other notable open source friends like Drupal and Wordpress. The ... [More] EContent 100 winners will be honored at the Buying & Selling eContent Conference next April 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ.

    There are a variety of categories: classification & taxonomy; collaboration; content commerce; content creation, production, & digital publishing; content delivery; content management; content security; fee-based info services; intranets & portals; mobile content; search engines & technologies; and social media.

    EContent said, "We are proud of this list and of the companies on it. Members of the EContent 100 List are the companies empowering the content that fuels business today. We hope that our readers find the list as valuable as we did the process of creating it." The Joomla Project is honored to be recognized as a high-calibre business solution.

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    Joomla 1.5.8 Released

    The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.8 [Wohnaiki]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and two moderate-level security fixes. It has been around two months since Joomla 1.5.7 was released on ... [More] September 9, 2008. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. 

    Download Click here to download Joomla 1.5.8 (Full package) » Click here to find an update package. »
    Instructions New installation and technical requirements Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo. Documentation is available for beginners.

    Release Notes Check the Joomla 1.5.8 Post-Release Notes to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

    View past release notes for Joomla 1.5.7 or release notes for Joomla 1.5.6.

    Security Two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:
    Default filtering for content Filtering for Web Link descriptions For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center. Components Articles: Remove brackets around Last Updated date and time, Start Publishing date corrections for other than UTC 00:00, hit counts correct for Articles, adding a space after a cloaked email address E-mail addresses: Correctly cloaked when presented in Section and Category descriptions Categories: Edit icon correctly shows for Articles without Title links, Print icon correct now on first page for Blog Layout Sections: Plural and singular form correction, Category link properly ended, Router changes reverted to version 1.5.6 so Article ID does not append to the Article slug Frontpage: Article assignment correction, corrected number of Links Contacts: Image display correction when Image Directory is configured RSS Feed: Corrected spelling of Category in Category feed User: Added isInternal checking on referer values Weblinks: Language strings Modules Feed: Target attribute validation, language string correction Login: ItemID is preserved on redirect Menu: Changing Menu Link Type now functions properly, Section Language string, Article Reset button working Related Items: Keyword matching functions correctly and filters characters appropriately Stats: Corrected Time Sections: No authorization parameter works correctly Search: Form validates correctly for Transitional xHTML Legacy Return statement added for Legacy Menu Check Templates Beez: Lengthened E-mail Content Popup, Search button now works when pressed, password reset works correctly, corrections to Beez HTML folders, User details page corrected JA_Purity: Added missing language strings Administrator Console: Added "Welcome to Joomla!" information and Joomla Security RSS feeds to Administrator Console Installation: Proper deletion of component directories, default entries for Templates and Languages are now correct for uninstall Media Manager: Changed default for new sites to disable Flash multi-file uploader due to incompatibility with Flash 10 Installation: Remove confusing error message about language files for extension installations, Administrator Modules now correctly uninstall INI files Sample data: Updated news feeds to point to free software community sites, extensive corrections and updates to sample content System API: JFolder::files and JFolder::folders corrections for Search, missing Method added to JRecordSet, Database Class correctly quotes names not using dot notation, JTableUser matches using the correct number of fields Cache: Correct undefined variable in Cache Class Language file: Corrected wording, correct installation of PDF fonts independent of language choices, several language string corrections in en-GB.ini Menu: Performance improvements for sites with many menu items Users: Temporary Users are now able to logout, secure protocol can now be used when editing account details Added PHP 4 compatibility for isInternal checking Statistics Statistics for the 1.5.8 release period:

    Joomla 1.5.8 contains: 71 issues fixed in SVN 26 commits Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 4 active issues: 65 new reports 130 closed 66 fixed in SVN At the time the 1.5.8 release was packaged, the tracker had 114 active issues: 44 open 44 confirmed 24 pending Joomla! Bug Squad Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug with Joomla, find out more information here on how to report the bug.

    Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-leads; Airton Torres, Arno Zijlstra, Akarawuth Tamrareang, Alan Langford, Anthony Ferrara, Amy Stephen, Andrew Eddie, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Charl van Niekerk, Gergo Erdosi, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Marriott, Jens-Christian Skibakk, Jonah Braun, Joseph LeBlanc, Kevin Devine, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Mickael Maison, Robin Muilwijk, Samuel Moffatt, Shantanu Bala, Toby Patterson, and Wilco Jansen.

    A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Dan Walker, Eduardo Diaz, and Tibor Toth. [Less]

    Joomla 1.5.8 Released

    The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.8 [Wohnaiki]. This release contains a number of bug fixes and two moderate-level security fixes. It has been around two months since Joomla 1.5.7 was released on ... [More] September 9, 2008. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. 

    Download Click here to download Joomla 1.5.8 (Full package) » Click here to find an update package. »
    Instructions New installation and technical requirements Upgrade from an existing Joomla 1.5 version Migration from Joomla! 1.0.x Want to test drive Joomla? Try the online demo. Documentation is available for beginners.

    Release Notes Check the Joomla 1.5.8 Post-Release Notes to see if there are important items and helpful hints discovered after the release.

    View past release notes for Joomla 1.5.7 or release notes for Joomla 1.5.6.

    Security Two moderate-level security issues were fixed in this release:
    Default filtering for content Filtering for Web Link descriptions For additional information, visit the Joomla Security Center. Components Articles: Remove brackets around Last Updated date and time, Start Publishing date corrections for other than UTC 00:00, hit counts correct for Articles, adding a space after a cloaked email address E-mail addresses: Correctly cloaked when presented in Section and Category descriptions Categories: Edit icon correctly shows for Articles without Title links, Print icon correct now on first page for Blog Layout Sections: Plural and singular form correction, Category link properly ended, Router changes reverted to version 1.5.6 so Article ID does not append to the Article slug Frontpage: Article assignment correction, corrected number of Links Contacts: Image display correction when Image Directory is configured RSS Feed: Corrected spelling of Category in Category feed User: Added isInternal checking on referer values Weblinks: Language strings Modules Feed: Target attribute validation, language string correction Login: ItemID is preserved on redirect Menu: Changing Menu Link Type now functions properly, Section Language string, Article Reset button working Related Items: Keyword matching functions correctly and filters characters appropriately Stats: Corrected Time Sections: No authorization parameter works correctly Search: Form validates correctly for Transitional xHTML Legacy Return statement added for Legacy Menu Check Templates Beez: Lengthened E-mail Content Popup, Search button now works when pressed, password reset works correctly, corrections to Beez HTML folders, User details page corrected JA_Purity: Added missing language strings Administrator Console: Added "Welcome to Joomla!" information and Joomla Security RSS feeds to Administrator Console Installation: Proper deletion of component directories, default entries for Templates and Languages are now correct for uninstall Media Manager: Changed default for new sites to disable Flash multi-file uploader due to incompatibility with Flash 10 Installation: Remove confusing error message about language files for extension installations, Administrator Modules now correctly uninstall INI files Sample data: Updated news feeds to point to free software community sites, extensive corrections and updates to sample content System API: JFolder::files and JFolder::folders corrections for Search, missing Method added to JRecordSet, Database Class correctly quotes names not using dot notation, JTableUser matches using the correct number of fields Cache: Correct undefined variable in Cache Class Language file: Corrected wording, correct installation of PDF fonts independent of language choices, several language string corrections in en-GB.ini Menu: Performance improvements for sites with many menu items Users: Temporary Users are now able to logout, secure protocol can now be used when editing account details Added PHP 4 compatibility for isInternal checking Statistics Statistics for the 1.5.8 release period:

    Joomla 1.5.8 contains: 71 issues fixed in SVN 26 commits Tracker activity resulted in a net decrease of 4 active issues: 65 new reports 130 closed 66 fixed in SVN At the time the 1.5.8 release was packaged, the tracker had 114 active issues: 44 open 44 confirmed 24 pending Joomla! Bug Squad Thanks to the Joomla Bug Squad for their dedicated efforts investigating reports, fixing problems, and applying patches to Joomla. If you find a bug with Joomla, find out more information here on how to report the bug.

    Active members of the Joomla Bug Squad during this last release cycle include: Ian MacLennan and Mark Dexter co-leads; Airton Torres, Arno Zijlstra, Akarawuth Tamrareang, Alan Langford, Anthony Ferrara, Amy Stephen, Andrew Eddie, Elin Waring, Ercan Ozkaya, Charl van Niekerk, Gergo Erdosi, Hannes Papenberg, Jennifer Marriott, Jens-Christian Skibakk, Jonah Braun, Joseph LeBlanc, Kevin Devine, Marijke Stuivenberg, Mati Kochen, Mickael Maison, Robin Muilwijk, Samuel Moffatt, Shantanu Bala, Toby Patterson, and Wilco Jansen.

    A warm welcome to the newest members of the Joomla Bug Squad: Dan Walker, Eduardo Diaz, and Tibor Toth. [Less]

    Packt Award Roundup: Joomla! Takes Runner-up

    Each year Packt Publishing opens the voting booths for users everywhere to cast votes for the best content management system. There are a number of very qualified contenders in each of the categories including CMS Made Simple, Plone, and Drupal. ... [More] This year, Joomla took the runner-up prize in the categories of Best Overall Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS (tied with CMS Made Simple). This results in a total prize winnings of $3500 to the Joomla Project.

    Even though Joomla has taken home several Packt Awards in the past, Joomla Core Team member Andrew Eddie asserted, "This has made me more determined to do better next year."

    Also, Joomla developer Johan Janssens was awarded the Open Source MVP 2008 prize, a new category in this year's awards, for his outstanding contributions to Joomla.

    We at the Joomla Project would like to thank all of our wonderful users to voting for us and a big congratulations goes to Drupal for taking first place in the Best Overall Open Source CMS Award category. We also want to congratulate all the other winners.

    Joomla Core Team member Brad Baker summed it up, "The future is bright for open source content management systems like Drupal and Joomla, whichever you use." [Less]

    Packt Award Roundup: Joomla! Takes Runner-up

    Each year Packt Publishing opens the voting booths for users everywhere to cast votes for the best content management system. There are a number of very qualified contenders in each of the categories including CMS Made Simple, Plone, and Drupal. ... [More] This year, Joomla took the runner-up prize in the categories of Best Overall Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS (tied with CMS Made Simple). This results in a total prize winnings of $3500 to the Joomla Project.

    Even though Joomla has taken home several Packt Awards in the past, Joomla Core Team member Andrew Eddie asserted, "This has made me more determined to do better next year."

    Also, Joomla developer Johan Janssens was awarded the Open Source MVP 2008 prize, a new category in this year's awards, for his outstanding contributions to Joomla.

    We at the Joomla Project would like to thank all of our wonderful users to voting for us and a big congratulations goes to Drupal for taking first place in the Best Overall Open Source CMS Award category. We also want to congratulate all the other winners.

    Joomla Core Team member Brad Baker summed it up, "The future is bright for open source content management systems like Drupal and Joomla, whichever you use." [Less]

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