Welcome Techjoomla, our 1st Morph Development Partner!

We’re immensely proud to announce our very first Morph Development Partner: Techjoomla! The talented Techjoomla team are currently helping us with the standard upgrade of the Morph template framework to Joomla 2.5, and we couldn’t be more happy and excited!

It all started in Malaysia last year, where I presented Morph on Joomla!Day. In the audience was Parth Lawate from Techjoomla, who after the presentation shared his excitement about Morph and our choice of licensing (GPL).

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Tags: development, Morph, open source, partners

20+ blogs about Joomla you should subscribe to

Before you start reading, this is a list of helpful blogs about Joomla, which means these blogs have more Joomla tips, tricks, tutorials etc than self-promotion of own products (IMHO). Fine line maybe, but an important one in this case.

Being fairly new to Joomla I’m constantly searching for online places to learn more and stay up-to-date. I get most of “what’s hot or not” via Twitter, but my favorite source of information and inspiration is Google reader.

I subscribed to quite a few good Joomla related rss feeds over the past year, but something was bothering me…surely this couldn’t be all active blogs about Joomla? Many of the blogs in my reader hadn’t been updated for donkey years, like nothing was happening in the Joomla sphere…or nobody blogged about it. (more…)

Tags: blogging, Joomla, Online Presence, open source

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