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.

Have you heard of Joomla?

Samara Iodice, my fabulous lynda.com training producer, and I had a little time after my most recent lynda.com production trip. We moved around the lynda.com office, asking who had heard of Joomla, what is was, and what they thought of it.

Coincidentally, Ken Crowder was also there, which made for some extra fun.

Samara Iodice, my producer at lynda.com, and I had just finished up recording the Joomla 1.6 Beta Preview videos, and we had a little extra time. What would we do with ourselves?

We grabbed Lucas Deming and his video camera, and we headed out around the lynda.com building to ask people the question: What is Joomla?

Read the whole blog post and be sure to watch the video!

My video is now available at Lynda.com. Check out this free clip at YouTube!

Know your target audience! And do a little testing before you launch.

I'm tickled to announce that my new videos, "Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates" was released at Lynda.com today. Check them out!  Starting tomorrow, there will be a live action shot of me doing the introduction. There are a few free videos, so please go click all over them and check them out. Better yet, subscribe! Lynda.com is a great resource for learning all kinds of great skills.

My second set of videos, "Joomla! Advanced CSS" will be out later, maybe in a month or two.

One of my students asked me the following question:

I was thinking that since video is an emerging trend for communicating ideas on the web, that it would be nice to know how to seemlessly incorporate video into a Joomla site. There seems to be several options for video and wondered how do you determine which is best; stream from your site, use extensions like Seyret which pulls from video hosting sites like YouTube or Google, etc. I also had trouble with the default editor.

 The answer is, of course, it depends.  :-)

 So some considerations when thinking about video: