Looking for information about Joomla 1.7 ACL? How about Joomla 2.5 ACL? My new title, Joomla 1.7 Access Control Lists (ACL) In Depth, will likely work with Joomla 2.5 as well. Here are a few free videos to check out. You can subscribe to see the full title at lynda.com.

This morning, from my internet-enabled mobile phone, I tweeted, "2012 is the 20th anniversary of my online life. Probably deserves a blog post, eh?"

Then I started thinking about that 20 year journey it took me to get there, between my own life and the technology it took to share that with 1,886 of my closest friends in mere seconds.

This is a repost: Read chapter 15 of my book on site maintenance and training.

Just to let everyone know, my article What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders, originally posted at community.joomla.org, is now available in Spanish, thanks to Joomla User Group Quito Ecuador!

Lo que usted necesita saber sobre Joomla 1.6

Thank you so much, Juan Calderón, for your translation!

Article translations available:

• German translation by Marco, 1Man.at.
• Russian translation by Serge Postrash, jexy.ru
• Brazilian Portuguese translation by Manoel Silva, iikozen.com.br
• Dutch translation by GeHa.net
• Spanish translation by Alex Lopez

People are asking questions about how the upgrades from Joomla 1.5 to 1.6 are going for client sites. They're also debating whether to build sites in Joomla 1.5 or 1.6 as of this writing (February 2011).

Let's say you're working with Joomla 1.5. You have one template set for the home page, and you have another template set for the inside pages on the website. Alternatively, you have the home page configured with one set of modules, that are very different than the inside page configurations. (For example, say you have a big slideshow on the home page, but not on the inside pages.)

You add the standard Joomla search box module. You do a quick search.

Where do the search results load? In the home page template, with the home page modules, no matter what you do or how you try.

Congratulations to everyone in the Joomla community for the release of Joomla 1.6! So many people are interested in the new software, and they need to come up to speed on it quickly.

Need to learn Joomla 1.6 in a hurry? I'm here to teach it to you! Here's a list of places I'll be presenting, teaching, blogging, and making videos in the next few months.

Immediate and ongoing: I have been blogging quite a bit at Compass Designs, Barrie North's excellent resource for all things Joomla. Come see my latest posts, including a group of great resources for learning Joomla 1.6.

I got an email from a fellow Joomla designer today. She says:

I am web designer who loves Joomla, and I am looking for ways to grow my client base. I use Freelancer.com, but the bids are so low (custom joomla template/site for $250), I can't really compete. Do you know of another source where I could gain a foot hold and find good Joomla clients?

I presume if you ask this question, you don't have a budget for buying things like Yellow Pages advertising, Google AdWords, TV and radio ads, sponsorship of major events, and so forth.

It's thrilling to have so many people in the web design community picking up on one of my favorite teaching phrases:

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

It covers everything in web design, possibly as well as another favorite, "It Depends."

You've just moved to a new city or town, and your car needs an oil change. Since you just moved, you also need to find a new mechanic for your car.

You look online or in the yellow pages, and you identify a mechanic. You drive over, and ask the mechanic how much an oil change for your car would be. You also ask if the mechanic has done oil changes before, and if you can talk to anyone who's had their car serviced by this mechanic.

The mechanic says they've changed the oil on hundreds of cars just like yours. There's a waiting room full of people having their oil changed, and you are welcome to talk to any of them, or you can talk to a few people here on this list. The mechanic has various certifications hanging on the wall for all kinds of oil change training he's received.