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Download Joomla 1.5 Stable
After posting the news about the stable version of Joomla 1.5, I have had some emails that people can’t get it as the main joomla.org site is pretty busy right now! If you haven’t been able to get the files, you can download them right here.
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How to get People to Read More of your Joomla site
If you are familiar with Joomla, you will know that the CMS uses the phrase "read more" when it links to a full article from the intro text. This read more link is found on millions of Joomla powered websites, but is it the best choice of words?
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Joomlashack Releases First 1.5 Native Template: Weblogic
With the third release candidate available for Joomla, Joomlashack has unveiled our first template that runs on Joomla 1.5 natively: Weblogic. You get both 1.0.X AND 1.5 Joomla versions bundled TOGETHER for only $39.95!
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Joomla 1.5 book to be released soon
If you have been following the blog, and things like the release of a sample chapter about Creating a Pure CSS Joomla 1.5 Template you will know that my new book about Joomla 1.5 is complete.
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Joomlashack’s 2nd Annual Charity Contest
Last year we asked ourselves, "what can we do to support important organizations that do good work to make the world a better place?" The answer was our first Joomlashack Charity Contest. An opportunity for 5 charities to be showcased on Joomlashack (and get donations!). Announcing our 2nd Annual Joomlashack…
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Presidential Candidates with Joomla
There are some big name sites out there using Joomla. Often its difficult to spot that Joomla is "under the hood". Most big sites have professional design and customization which makes the site very different from what is acheivable with smaller budgets. One recent site a came across recently using…
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Breaking your Layout in a Joomla Template
So I have been working on a new site and wanted to take advantage of RSS feeds to pull content from other sites. This is a great technique, allowing you to show relevant content without having to write it! The trouble is, you have no control over this content. If…
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Better SEO Titles for Joomla 1.5
Back in October there was a brief discussion about the all important page title tag in Joomla 1.5 and its importance for SEO. Essentially, in 1.0 your page titles would always get appended (unless you had a SEF component) leading to potentially long titles. In 1.5, the behavior was changed…
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The Joomlashack Developer Club
Whether you’e a new or advanced user, if you’re a web developer who is serious about Joomla! you might want to take a moment to consider the Joomlashack Web Developer Club. We’d like to invite you to join us "behind the scenes" to be a part of something great. We…
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Important Update about RC3 and SEF
If you have several Joomla sites you maintain, its worth adding the official Joomla developer blog to your RSS feed collection. In a more recent post, Wilco Jansen described an important change to how SEF is implemented in Joomla 1.5. The main point is that you will now have to…
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