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Presenting at Dutch Joomla Day
The second Dutch www.joomladag.nl) will be held on December 8th & 9th 2006, in Den Bosch, The Netherlands. Day one will focus on Joomla! in business. The second day will be the Joomla! Community day. Several key Joomla! community members will attend the conference — among them six core team…
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An Easy Way to Resize Images
When I have to resize an image for use on a web page, I open up Fireworks. I realize that most people don’t want to buy that kind of software when they only need to to do a tiny job. Up till now I would recommend GIMP, a free open…
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Joomla Is Gaining Ground on Other Blog Platforms
A while ago I blogged about comparing the popularity of Drupal to Joomla, both in terms of traffic and searches. I have also been talking recently about how Joomla is becoming better suited as a blogging platform. Just today, I was messing around with Vince Wools trying to make a…
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Joomla 1.5 Features
I stumbled across a Joomla dev post from last month from Wilco, one of the core devs, about a summary of the new features in the new 1.5 version of Joomla. It gives the changes in user, designer and developer features. It was a great summary and I thought I…
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Don’t Use Metatag Tools in Joomla for SEO
I was doing my weekly grazing through the Christopher Garvis’s J!Tags. An interesting thought occured to me.
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Compass Site Featured on Liquid Design
A common criticism of Joomla is that its sites (i.e. templates) are not as good as a non-CMS site. Its always nice to get recognition from the design community that is based in the non-CMS world. A couple of weeks ago Compass Design was featured on Liquid Design, a gallery…
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Menus and Submenus in Joomla 1.5
There are a number of great improvements to menus in Joomla 1.5. These are focussed on providing more flexibility to template designers and making Joomla sites more accessible and W3C valid. Specifically, significant improvments have been made to bulleted lists to now allow better submenus (for things like dropdown menus)…
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Joomla 1.5 is Here
Is is a bird? Is it a plane? No… its an open source revolution, the birth of Joomla 1.5 beta finally arrives.
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Russian Hackers Foiled by Joomla
Rob Schley just posted some interesting news at the main Joomla dev blog: “During what is called the “Deface Realtime Compo” Competition up to 150 Security Specialists, hackers, and crackers bomarded the CMS with attacks for 2 days straight without success. Both Joomla! and PHP-Nuke were evaluated during the competition…
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PicNet
There are many reasons to like Joomla, but probably none more persuasive than the power and friendliness of the community itself. Tonight, after many many hours of Pradeep and I trying to crack a problem weÂ’re having with mass uploading users for a client of ours, I decided to reach…
Compass Designs 