The Joomla Project – signs of maturity and leadership

A couple of days ago, Joomla announced “an important shift in the organisation and governance of the Joomla Project”. This post is an easy-to-read summary of what the original post talks about.

The change is focused on…

“…making it easier to fulfill our mission, achieve our vision and remain true to our values”

The change will help ensure…

“…that we remain focused on our mission to provide a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration”

Lets see what this really means:

Not only does it look like the transparency has improved, but three project keywords are explained in the announcement: simplifying, changing and shifting – each one clarified and summarized below. (more…)

Tags: Joomla, news, open source

Themelets – the visual layer

To understand the role themelets play in the Morph toolset, take a brief look at the image below. Notice it is always the same “engine” so to speak, with multiple themelets.

Each themelet is a “child” of the master/parent framework, hence they are also known as child themes (becoming popular in wordpress) (more…)

Tags: framework, Joomla, Morph, themelets

Website hosting – what you need to know

At some point in our lives we all hope our websites get popular enough to generate some traffic and get us some exposure. No matter if you have built a small family website, or a large corporate site you will hope to have a lot of people view your site.

If you are new to website building you might be a bit confused about what type of hosting is best for you. You now have to worry about your sites security, running backups and keeping things running smooth.

For example if your site gets hacked or goes offline and you don’t know about it, or know how to fix it, all your hard work is wasted. Here are some tips anybody who works on websites for a living needs to know. (more…)

Tags: hosting, Hosting and Security, Joomla, technology, useful tips

Performance and seo optimized framework

Many frameworks and templates available for creating websites are extremely useful and built with amazing features and options. However, there is one problem…

Following the discussions around frameworks there are a few major things we feel stand out in the discussions. Besides flexibility, one topic in the heart of it all is performance and seo optimization.

In far to many cases web development frameworks load all of the code (html, javascript, php or css) -> for all the available features & enhancements -> on all of the pages. Even if the feature is not being used. A bit of madness right there! (more…)

Tags: development, framework, Joomla, Morph, seo

Joomla! 1.5.12 Release Candidate now available

The Joomla Project needs your help in testing the next release – Joomla! 1.5.12 RC.

This release has 22 bug fixes and two updates are significant enough to warrant community testing: upgrade to TinyMCE and changes to the framework PHPMailer class (Joomla is now able to use services such as Gmail to handle e-mail from the application).

Please note – This is a Release Candidate and should not be used in a live production environment.

Read more about the fixes and updates here. When you have finished testing, please give The Joomla Project your feedback in the comments on this post.

Tags: development, Joomla