Spring is here, at least in my part of the world. When living in a country with 5-6 months of winter and snow, you really appreciate the spring arriving! This winter has been a long one, and we've had snow since October! Fortunately, the snow is now mostly gone (where I live) and we're starting to see nature waking up again.

As always, when the snow disappears, it reveals the sins of the months past. It's time for a spring cleaning. Leaves, dust, things left in the snow during the winter and more will be swept away. Trees will be trimmed and houses cleaned. The city will again look its best. There's no doubt we need a spring cleaning in our houses and cities.

But how about your Joomla site? The spring is an excellent time to look at your site and determine if there's a need for a thorough cleaning there as well. My guess is it's long overdue ;)

In this post, I suggest some things you can do to clean up your Joomla site.

Last weekend, the first JoomlaDay Denmark was held in Kolding.

The event gathered 150 Joomla enthusiasts of varying ability to explore different subjects and socialize.

Brian Teeman and Nicholas Dionysopoulos were there to give presentations, and were asked by the organizers to prepare a short presentation on what's coming in Joomla 1.6. They gave a 15 minute presentation called "Joomla 1.6 - a date with the future", and the result can be enjoyed in this post.

This infographic, which is created by Kristoffer Sandven, author of JoomlaBlogger.net, shows the top 10 features which sets Joomla 1.6 apart from the current 1.5 version.

Click the image below to show the large version (800x3000px).

Enjoy!

The JCK architecture marks the next generation of internet based editors. With more apps, beautifully crafted interface, superfast performance, state-of-the-art internal linking, out-of-the-box file browsing, web editing has never felt snappier and more responsive.

We’ve been under the hood and Joomla-ised its logic into a seamless and extendable integration. Users can now choose what, plug-ins, layouts, skins, and configure the editor for real-time editing with ease! 
Apps can be used to quickly and simply expand the functionality of the editor and with the largest extension base of all Joomla editors you'll be able - to do much more…

Joomla Social Submit is all you need to publish your Joomla contents (K2, FLEXIcontent, DocMan, VirtueMart, Eventlist, ... it's extendable) to social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Ping.fm, ... it's extendable too).

Social Media Marketing is now easier with this automated Joomla extension. Just set it up one time, and forget about it.