Blog entries tagged joomla 1.6

Integrating Dreamweaver CS5 and Joomla 1.5 OR Joomla 1.6

Jen Kramer — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:32:42 +0100

Recently, Adobe released Dreamweaver CS5. One of its major new features is the ability to integrate with the CMS of your choice. They seem to push Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress in particular, but in theory, it works with any CMS.

I have been very skeptical of this integration from the beginning, because Joomla manages its files very differently than Drupal or Wordpress.

We all know that God kills a kitten when you edit Joomla’s core code. (Right? Right???) You are suppos...

Happy 5th Birthday, Joomla!

Jen Kramer — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:04:05 +0100

Dear Joomla,

We’re all so proud of you and how far you’ve come these five years. Your 20 parents conceived of you because they wanted to have fun. Ever since, people have come to you looking for a good time, to make friends all over the world, to contribute to the greater good.

In dog years, or technology years, you’re actually 35. This is actually a better age to describe you. You’re old enough to have been around the block, and old enough to know better...

J!ummies guide to ACL in Joomla 1.6

Jen Kramer — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:21:25 +0100

Part 2 of my series of 3 articles on ACL in Joomla 1.6 is posted.

This one covers creating, editing, deleting, and editing state (i.e. publish/unpublish/trash) of your Joomla content; logging into the front or back end; managing; and being the admin for your Joomla site.

The article also covers what to do if you manage to lock yourself out of your Joomla admin entirely.

Part 3 will cover different people editing different modules/components on the back end of the site. Ri...

15 Minute Guide to Access Levels in ACL

Jen Kramer — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:17:25 +0100

I wrote an article for community.joomla.org on the new access levels available in ACL in Joomla 1.6.

Thanks to AyudaJoomla for translating it to Spanish!

Later this week I'll be finishing an article on the editing, deleting, publishing, and management aspects of ACL.

Thanks once again to Brian Teeman for his help in proofreading and testing my examples!

Social Networking at Joomla.org

Jen Kramer — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:49:07 +0100

Last night, the Joomla leadership announced that they were looking for request for comment on a social networking community to reside at Joomla.org.

We know it will either be called social.joomla.org or people.joomla.org. We know that it's been decided that JomSocial will run the community.

We are asked for input about whether this is something we'd use, what we want included, and how we think we'd use it.

Does anyone see a problem with that? We have the URL all pic...

Best Business Decision Made: Attending CMS Expo

Jen Kramer — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:28:36 +0100

I have been designing and developing websites for 10 years now, but my company, 4Web Inc., has only been around for 2 years. (Prior to that, I ran a freelance company, Focused Consulting LLC.)

Back in 4Web's infancy, my colleagues attended the very first CMS Expo in May 2008. (I was at Adobe headquarters for an Adobe User Group Manager summit and could not attend.) Back then it was a Joomla conference mostly. The networking was great, though, and my colleagues got to meet a lot o...

VOXUS's first PR problem for Joomla

Jen Kramer — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:54:37 +0100

I believe that Joomla is the best open source content management system out there today. It's powerful but adaptable. You don't need to know PHP to use it and accomplish amazing things with it. If you do know PHP, you can do just about anything with it. It's been downloaded over 15 million times.

But as Bill Tomczak says, there used to be two TV recording formats: Beta and VHS. Everyone knew Beta was "better". But VHS eventually won the day.

"Holy Wars" have always been with us ...

Alternative Joomla Administrator Templates and Dancing Bears

Jen Kramer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:17:27 +0100

Dancing Bear Syndrome is a term coined by Jared Spool and Alan Cooper (among others in the usability community). Someone says, "Look! A dancing bear!" And you are amazed! The bear is dancing! How cool is that?

Of course, bears don't dance well. It's just amazing that they dance at all. The novelty of it all is what catches our attention, not the quality of the dancing.

Alternative Joomla administrator templates are dancing bears.

First off, what is a Joomla admin template...

Joomla makes the top 10 hottest freelance skills

Jen Kramer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:04:51 +0100

Great news for Joomla developers! Elance, a site putting clients in touch with freelancers, says that the 8th most popular freelance skill out there is Joomla. PHP came in at #1, MySQL at #4, and WordPress and #10.

I can certainly confirm this based on how many calls for help we've gotten lately here at 4Web. We're taking projects with a September start right now -- in this economy!

Certificate in Open Source Web Development, featuring Joomla

Jen Kramer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0100

The Marlboro College Graduate Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, just released its Open Source Web Development certificate in a wholly online format.

If you've been working with Joomla, but you want to know a lot more about it, this is the certificate program for you. The certificate introduces students to Joomla, as well as planning a website, understanding the code that runs it, and developing and executing an online marketing plan.

The certificate consists of 12 credits:

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Joomla 1.6 alpha is here!

Jen Kramer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

Joomla 1.6 alpha is ready to download. Please remember it's NOT for production sites!!! And yes, there are a TON of bugs and problems and issues. That's why it's called an alpha.

Like it? Hate it? Have comments on it? Be sure you get involved with the Joomla Project, either on the Bug Squad or helping out in the forums. There's plenty of work to go around for everyone.

Also, remember there is a tech requirement of PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5.0.4+ in order to run Joomla 1.6. T...

Joomla 1.6 news

Jen Kramer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:00 +0100

My Lynda.com blog post is up, all about Joomla 1.6 alpha and what's coming next in the Joomla world.