Got an email this morning announcing the new Digital Image Editor that runs inside of Joomla.   Very cool!!!  I have only tried the demo on the site, but it looks great.

It's a very basic editor that does simple things like crop, rotate, resize,

In conjunction with Church & Main, we've launched the new Concord Group Insurance site.

CGI is a longtime client of Church & Main.  Their previous site was static HTML. While it looked great, it wasn't possible for CGI to make their own edits.

Church

Finally, after months of work, we are thrilled to announce we've launched Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine.

This is a companion site to WineMaker Magazine, which was released earlier, in September.

BYO has been around for years, and

Got an email from Azrul today stating that they're going to stop developing for Joomla 1.0, now that Joomla 1.0's support end date is announced.  They will support products for Joomla 1.0 already out there and anyone under a support contract until

Support for Joomla 1.0 is slated to end on July 22, 2009, 18 months after the release of Joomla 1.5.

 This leads to many Frequently Asked Questions.

 1. Should I be building my new Joomla sites in Joomla 1.0 or Joomla 1.5?

We at 4Web strongly believe

My last entry here was inspired by the possible use of sh404sef in the site we just launched (YAY!). We ultimately decided against using it for this site. Despite many great features that would make it a valuable addition to any site there were just

Oh gosh! Been awhile since I wrote here.  We've been completely swamped by the impending launch of one of the most complex sites I've worked on. We're using a bunch of extensions with a variety of compliance to Joomla 1.5 coding standards. None of

Azrul (who writes JomComment and MyBlog, in use on this site) is working on a new extension called JomSocial. Looks like an alternative to Community Builder from the limited amount on his site.  Given Azrul's great track record for building simple,

One of our favorite extensions is Wysiwyg Pro, which works great with Joomla 1.5.

TinyMCE, the default editor that comes with Joomla, is fine for editing if you're a geek and you know exactly what you're doing. But if you don't -- and that's most

I exaggerate perhaps only a little.

I'm typically the one at 4Web who gets stuck getting all of the content for the website into Joomla, if it's a new site that we're developing, or if we're porting content from a previously static site. (If it's an