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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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JCDA Conference in 2008
On February 19-21, 2008 this conference is an opportunity for developers of extensions for the Mambo family of products, Mambo, Joomla, Elxis, to meet each other and share ideas. It is an ideal opportunity for you to explain your API, deliver your roadmap and to discuss extension development, design, and…
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Joomlashack Charity Contest 07 Finalists
Last month we asked our Joomlashack community to nominate their favorite charity for a $1,000 USD cash prize. More than 90 excellent nominations poured in from around the globe, including NGOs solving problems on all seven continents and across an incredible range of issues. Each Joomlashacker carefully read every entry…
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Joomla 1.5 RC4 is released
RC 4 is here! A major milestone in Joomla 1.5 development the latest release candidate has been released, RC4.
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Get the Joomla 1.5 Book from Amazon
Last year (actually in 2005), I was at Linux World in San Francisco with the Joomla crew helping on the booth. An editor was introduced to me from Prentice Hall and asked if I was interested in writing a book about Joomla. "Sure" I thought… how hard can it be?
