As you know, all 5-year olds love gifts (and cake) - I know mine did :) So, I made a birthday gift to the Joomla Community. It's an infographic showing the history of Joomla since it's inception in 2005 until today.

The graphic also shows key figures for the project as of today.

I hope you enjoy the infographic and share with everyone you know :)

Thanks to Steve Burge, Brian Teeman and Peter van Westen for help with this project.

There are a lot of posts on this blog now, and many of them are hidden in the depths of the archives.

In this post, I'll highlight seven posts from this blog (and some others) that you might have missed.

The Joomla! project launched the official 'Joomla Community Magazine' today.

I must say, the magazine looks amazing. The content is really well written, and the design is very slick. As far as I know, the community magazine is based on K2 by JoomlaWorks. And it's designed by Komrade.

The magazine is planned as a monthly publication. It's organized almost like an offline magazine, with editions, editorials etc. Of course, all the content will be available in the future, so this will be a great resource for Joomla information.

There has been many efforts going lately to encourage people to contribute to the Joomla! project in various ways.

From the Joomla! Forward initiative and the alltogetherasawhole.org website, to lots of blog posts both on the joomla.org site and elsewhere.

Jeremy Wilken of Gnomeoftherun.com is one person with a strong opinion in this matter. I met up with him during the J and Beyond conference to hear what he had to say about contributing to the Joomla! project.

In this video interview Jeremy shares his thoughts on how you can contribute to Joomla! for our common benefit.

There is a lot of talk about how you can contribute to the Joomla! CMS project. Joomla! is an Open Source Project, and it needs every one of us to grow and expand.

On this page, I have collected and will continue to add ways for you to contribute to the Joomla! project. If you have anything to share, please email me at mailbox@joomlablogger.net or comment below.

First, read my article on this subject: Joomla! user? Contribute to the project! I wrote the post in June 2009. Most of this still holds true, so start there.

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.

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.

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 Joomla.