With Joomla 3.0 on the verge of being released, a colleague of mine stumbled across a video by Kyle Ledbetter, “Joomla 3.0 Frontend Editing.” Basically, the video is the potential of the new Joomla 3.0 with its frontend editing capabilities. Although it is a short clip, it does a great job showing the ease of editing a sophisticated website in the new layout. It allows for one to not know the intricacies for a website in order to edit or update it. Joomla 3.0’s frontend editing is not new to the... Read More...

Have you ever wanted to speed your site up and give it the speed your users are demanding? Look no further – ‘corePHP’ has been helping thousands of sites increase the speed on their Joomla site. If you are on Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 or 2.5 we have jomCDN for you. What is jomCDN? Watch a quick video that goes over in great detail how to use jomCDN. ‘corePHP’ would like to thank OSTraining for a great video. For more information visit: ‘corePHP’ jomCDN Product Page OSTraining W... Read More...

Few days ago I decided to help Yves with a datetime bug in Matukio (dating back to its "Seminar" roots). Everything seemed to be straight forward. I've worked with JDate in the past and had some experience with timezones. So I took the challenge thinking that I'll spend 2h and everything would be fine. Well, as it often happens a 2h job turned to be a one and a half day job... (this could make a very good blog post about estimates, but I'll do that another time...) Le... Read More...

New to Joomla 1.6 and need a quick start guide on how to Install templates,create categories, articles, Menus, Menu modules etc. Look no further. Check out our YouTube Channel for a list of great simple Tutorials to get you familiar with Joomla 1.6 administration. More Tutorials coming soon.... Read More...

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook, a new book that contains over 60 quick and direct recipes to help readers to overcome common Joomla! queries. Written by Tom Canavan, this book includes the brand new portions of Joomla! 1.6 along with recipes covering a range of site management and core Joomla! activities.  Joomla! is one of the world’s most high-profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information.... Read More...

To date, Joomla! has been well known as a great content management system (CMS). There are many sites using it throughout the world, some of them having great features that impress their visitors. Most of the time, these appealing and powerful features work thanks to JavaScript. In this article by Jose Argudo Blanco, author of the book Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery, we will: 1) Learn the basics of Joomla! module creation. 2) Create a "Send us a ques... Read More...

YouJoomla is very pleased to announce that YJSimpleGrid Joomla Template framework is in stable state and our first free GPL Joomla! template natively running on YJSG is just around the corner. We are also happy to say that all our future commercial and free Joomla! templates will be developed using YJSG Joomla Template framework which will make everything much easier and bring many new options to our and yours joomla templates. YJSG will be released under GNU/GPL2 copyleft license ... Read More...

It is definitely time for template developers to start the process of converting their existing Joomla templates over to 1.6. This article will not go into the basic details, since that has been covered by the Joomlapraise article earlier, but rather a few extra things which you may find useful.... Read More...

With the 4th beta of Joomla 1.6 just released, many folks are probably wanting to know what it will take to get their Joomla 1.5 template working in Joomla 1.6. As a test, we've migrated our Genesis (free) template to 1.6 and made a few notes. These are by no means official or finalized, but these steps should help most people with simple Joomla templates. Fancy schmancy templates from some clubs will need more help.... Read More...

The mobile web has been a big topic of conversation for people over the last year. Everyone wants their Joomla site optimized for the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices and operating systems. New smartphones are being released every few hours, it seems, and people are quickly finding the need to build mobile friendly websites. Unfortunately, building a mobile website using Joomla has been difficult, at best. So we've decided to make it simpler.... Read More...

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. In this tutorial you will learn about two types of pages that Joomla! uses to draw visitors towards the actual content of your site: home pages and overview pages. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to... Read More...

For years there has been a common situation that is not easily addressed by Joomla: what to do when you want to turn a module off on a single page when you want to leave it as "show on every page". Up until now, the only options we were able to offer our clients is one of the following: 1. Change the modules to only show on specified pages 2. Create a unique template for that page 3. Avoid having pages that are different from the rest of the website Each of these ... Read More...