Compass Design now offers Joomla Training and education across New England. If you want: * Expert instructors with teacher certification AND deep Joomla expertise * One-on-one hands-on time to implement what you learn * Optional ongoing education and support to create a successful Joomla website * Small class sizes so you can ask questions one-on-one * An included copy of the best selling "Joomla - A User's Guide" .... then you need to attend our trai... Read More...

QuickFAQ is an easy to use but powerful FAQ management system. Feature List: * Unlimited Subcategories * Assign FAQ Items to multiple Categories * Create Tags/Labels to flag FAQ Items * Up/down voting of FAQ Items * Favoure FAQ Items to maintain a personal bookmark list * Document uploader/manager * PDF creation of FAQ Items * RSS/ATOM Feeds * Detailed statistics * JComments integration Currently you can grant/restrict permissions for the following actions (Frontend): * Add a Fa... Read More...

The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.5 [Mamni]. This is a quick turnaround release to address the Duplicate Title error from 1.5.4 . This release also contains important SEF URL improvements and fixes for com_content in addition to a number of bug fixes and improvements. It has been nearly three weeks since Joomla! 1.5.4 was released on July 8, 2008. The Development Working Group 's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to... Read More...

Ignite Gallery is a simple component/plugin to create Photo albums. The images are loaded into a flash based gallery. The Flash file is only 6KB. Each image can have a description, each album can have a description. The descriptions can have links in them and different colored/styled text. The background/border colors of the gallery can be chosen. Search Engine Friendly Urls are supported. In the frontend, if a link to the component is made, a menu of all published galleries will be shown. If... Read More...

July 14, 2008 marks the beginning of year three of Packt's friendly competition between world class free software communities for who earns bragging rights to the much coveted 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS. Not only is this recognition a great way to encourage, support, and reward the incredible efforts of free software communities, but, there is also a nice cash award shared with those projects fortunate enough to win. The time for the Joomla! community to act is now! Head over to ... Read More...

Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks. It also uses PHP Easy Reflections v3 by Richard Davey.... Read More...

Joomla HBS (Joomla Hotel Booking System) was designed to simplify the task of online booking in Joomla Content Management Website. It provides users a unique, intuitive and easy to use interface that improves the way people use the web today. Joomla Hotel Booking System (Joomla HBS) enhances the entire Hotel Booking web experience in Joomla!. Its Flexible, Simple, Elegant, Customizable and Powerful. Joomla HBS Easy to install, simple to manage and reliable. Joomla Hotel Booking / Reservation ... Read More...

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at a class about Open Source Content Management Systems at Marlboro College Graduate Center. Taught by Jen Kramer McKibben, the course is focused on using Joomla to build online communities. Most of my recent speaking at events has revolved around using Joomla to build sites, Joomla templating or SEO. I thought I would take the chance on something new for me and reflect on the nature of online communities and how Joomla can be a pi... Read More...

The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.4 [Naiki]. This is a normal maintenance release which includes a few low to moderate security issues, many bug fixes, and several very nice improvements. It has been a little over ten weeks since Joomla! 1.5.3 was released on April 24, 2008. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! community containing the latest bug fixes and minor enhancemen... Read More...

The Joomla! Project is evolving. What started with a more closed, small organization is developing into the much larger and more open organization that produces, protects and supports the Joomla! Project today. This month is filled with events reflecting that evolution. This last December we had a Pizza, Bugs and Fun event that was key to getting Joomla! 1.5 ready for its phenomenal release in January. It also provided an opportunity for us as a community to get to know each other a little be... Read More...

The Joomla! Sites and Infrastructure Working Group has scheduled their first general meeting for Friday, June 13, 2008, to be held in conjunction with Joomla! Day Vancouver. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss issues, such as moderating practices and member involvement in the Joomla! forums, and to consider ways to continue to improve support for the Joomla! community. Brad Baker, Joomla! Core Team member and Sites and Infrastructure Coordinator, will officiate the meeting. Members of th... Read More...

Right now I am sitting on an airport heading the the Chicago Joomla EXPO, and I just *know* someone is going to ask me this question! Pondering over my foo foo Latte from Starbucks, I think I might have actually found the answer. I did a little digging in the official Joomla forums and found some interesting stuff.... Read More...