A while ago, I announced my 'Joomla Greatest Challenge' Contest.

The contest involved writing about what you think is the greatest challenge in using Joomla.

The winner has been now been chosen.

Many readers of JoomlaBlogger are already following my Twitter account (around 1,200 followers at this time). At the same time, I believe many of you would probably also like to connect with other readers of this blog.

To facilitate this, please use the comments function in this post to share your Twitter username. Make sure to leave a link to make it easier for us to quickly follow as many of you as possible.

Amy Stephen has done a remarkable job evaluating the upcoming ACL system for Joomla 1.6.

She has shared her thoughts and suggestions for improvement of the ACL system in a video.

I was surfing Twitter and the Joomla Forums today and noticed people complaining about a lot of issues. Many of them were 'victims' of one or more of the following reasons people fail at using Joomla:

1. Not taking the time to learn the basics
2. Using a bad template
3. Not having a backup plan
4. Installing a new version without doing a backup
5. Not bothering to read and understand the security checklist
6. Not learning even a tiny bit of CSS
7. Installing new extensions on a production site without testing them
8. Ranting and shouting in the forums, thereby losing out on the help you would get if your were thinking before shouting
9. Oops, I guess I couldn't think of anything more - how about you?
10. ?

Brian Teeman wrote a blog post not long ago, where he suggested several ways that Joomla could do more than it currently does, but that they all required extra funding.

Now, he suggest a solution to the funding challenges of the Joomla project.

Many Joomla user wonder about what is going to happen to Joomla in the future. Where are we headed, and how long do we have to wait for the features we long for?

In this post, I'll give you an overview of how Joomla is going to progress in the years to come.

This is kinda old news for many of you, but if you haven't already seen it, head on over to www.linux.com.

The recently relaunched site use Joomla - and it's a clean and nicely done site.

Joomla! CMS is a great choice for a website or a blog.

These are the top 10 reasons why I love to use Joomla.

As all Joomla users know, this CMS is open source, which in our case means it's made by volunteers across the globe. These people have a burning interest in making Joomla the best CMS out there.

How about you? Are you ready to contribute? It might seem hard to contribute to an open source project, but there are many tasks available other than programming the core of the system. In this article, I suggest some ways you may contribute to the Joomla! CMS project.

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Being a Joomla user, you might be interested in the ebook "Blogging with Joomla!". In this book, I share the insights gained after years of blogging with Joomla.

 

Even if you are not blogging, this book will give you a lot of information you can use while building any site with Joomla.

 

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Have a great week!

Best regards,

Kristoffer Sandven
Founder and author