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I woke up this morning to a blog post from Yannick Gaultier, developer of the immensely popular Joomla SEF extension sh404SEF.
For reasons know only to himself, he can no longer spend time on developing and supporting sh404SEF. When I first heard it, my heart sunk a bit, but it turned out it might not be as bad as it looks.
In case you missed it: JoomlaPraise released their new AdminPraise Lite template last week. And it's all free, all GPL!
The Fastest Joomla! Admin Template ever
AdminPraise Lite is a super lightweight Joomla! administrator panel template. Intelligent shortcuts, logical placement, and customization combine to bring you a totally optimized Joomla! experience.
Some people doesn't even know that there are back-end templates for Joomla available out there. Actually, they are as easy to install as the front-end templates.
When browsing Amazon.com today, I noticed a new book coming in November, available right now for pre-order:
Written by bestselling Beginning Joomla! author Dan Rahmel, Advanced Joomla! provides you with the technical know-how and bonanza of information that allows you to take your Joomla! sites to the next level.
About the Book 'Advanced Joomla!'
Advanced Joomla! allows you to study beginning and advanced Joomla! topics back-to-back without requiring any additional outside knowledge. Moreover, it offers you advanced techniques for customizing a Joomla! CMS, including creating templates, administration, and building extensions. Integrate advanced Web 2.0 features into you Joomla! site, including social networking, blogging, and Google and Yahoo web services. Construct advanced Joomla! templates that use multiple stylesheets; third-party frameworks including MooTools and Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library for interactive display; specialty definitions for mobile users; and more!
The 4th Annual Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by Packt Publishing is open for nominations Joomla is eligible for Best PHP Open Source CMS and you can also nominate project contributors such as Open Source MVPs. The nominations are open until September 11. Voting among the top five nominees will begin on September 18.
Joomla, along with Drupal, is already a nominee in the new Hall of Fame category. This category will have sub-category awards for Best Extensions and Themes. These will be nominated by the CMS's representatives. Watch the community blogs for more information.
A recent blog post (and yes, that's a nofollow link...) has made quite an impression on a lot of Joomla users. The blog post is written to give an overview of different Content Management Systems (CMS) and their pros and cons.
However, the author falls into the trap of attacking certain platforms - and Joomla in particular. The way it was done is quite nasty. In my opinion there's no place this kind of subjective, biased ranting in a post comparing different systems. Although I don't think it's hurting the community or adaptation of Joomla, it is important to set the record straight. Many of the commenters in the original post express strong feelings about the author's opinions.
I believe the 'Joomla is Evil' way of saying it was written to provoke and get traffic to the post. However, the author mentions a few negative things about Joomla and I thought I'd dissect them ;)
Simple Shop Remix, a recently released template from JoomlaPraise, is the easiest shopping cart in Joomla! Simple Shop Remix combines the best features of Joomla! and the simple shopping cart Foxycart!
This is JoomlaPraise's answer to JoomlaBamboo's recent remix of their template, and a creative way to introduce collaboration between Joomla clubs, since Joomla is really about the community we all build.
The latest offering from RocketTheme is the template called Nexus. The template comes with an SEO Friendly code base and contains a lot of color styles and customization options.
The latest offering from RocketTheme is the template called Nexus. The template comes with an SEO Friendly code base and contains a lot of color styles and customization options.
Check out more about the Nexus template from RocketTheme here
Flux is the newest YOOtheme creation, released as their template for August 2009. Flux is based on the new Warp5 Joomla template framework and is designed with a chromish style. The style is nice if you have a gaming site or similar.
I read a few good articles this week. Here are some of them.
Internet Explorer 6 continues to be a real pain for web developers, regardless of CMS or development platform. The antiquated browser creates problems because of it's lacking support for advanced CSS and XHTML and many bugs.
This is nothing new, as the browser has been a nuisance since it was launched in 2001. But now I believe the time has come to abolish IE6 in Joomla Admin.
The latest info on the release of Joomla 1.6 beta 1 says it will be available in the beginning of August this year.
In the meantime, let's have a look at the current state of affairs.
Had a look at my blog stats today, and found that people are reading my blog from 126 countries! The spread is quite good.
Check out the picture to see where readers come from. I think this is great - and shows that Joomla is globally used and enjoyed.