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- By Jacques Rentzke, New Web Consulting
JoomlaDay South Africa will this year be helo in Johannesburg, from the 18th to the 19th of October 2013.
The venue for the event is Jozihub, located within the 44 Stanley Avenue Centre.
Speakers include: Matthew Philogene, Javier Gómez, Ruth Cheesley, Lovemore Nalube, Brett St Clair, Paul van Jaarsveld, Rick Parry, Peter Martin, Dwight Barnard, Nick Cadenhead, Sarah Watz, Daniel Acton, Jacques Rentzke.
I will doing a keynote, along with Matthew: Introducing Joomla! 3.2 - Something new for everyone!, as well as a presentation for beginners: Joomla! 101 - Getting started & Finding help.
Other sessions inlclude: Using Google products to monetize your online content, Yellowfin Business Intelligence, The internet of things, Developing a Joomla 3.x module, Developments is semantic HTML - adding information to search listings, Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5 or 3.x and more.
More information available at: joomladay.org.za
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- By Jacques Rentzke, New Web Consulting
Happy Birthday to Joomla!
image by @Helvecio
It's been 8 years since the release of Joomla! 1.0.0, and today the international Joomla! community celebrates:
- 44,9 million downloads of all versions of the Joomla! CMS to date;
- 2,8 million posts in 675 thousand topics by 619,914 registered Forum members;
- two different versions (series) of the CMS available at any one time, as well as the Joomla! Framework;
- 67 accredited translations of the CMS;
- 6995 extensions for Joomla! 2.5 and 3.x on the Joomla! Extensions Directory;
- the 13th most forked PHP repo on GitHub, with 858 active forks;
- nearly 1000 bugs fixed in the last year;
- more than 160 registered Joomla! User Groups;
- 29 international, community-organized JoomlaDay events over the past 12 months;
- the 4th international Jandbeyond event, and our first Joomla! World Conference,
- and the Joomla! Community Magazine now in English as well as Spanish editions.
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- By Jacques Rentzke, New Web Consulting
The Kyalami Schools (NPC) web site was launched today.
The four previous web sites were combined into one web site, built on the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS).
There's the main site for Kyalami Schools, and sub-sections for Beaulieu Preparatory School, Kyalami Preparatory School, and Beaulieu College.
The main site has a news section that feeds from the individual sites news sections, and each school has their own news sections, as well as a different template for all 4 web sites.
Joomla ACL is used to control admin access to the various school sections.
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- By Jacques Rentzke, New Web Consulting
The Joomla! Project today announced the availability of Joomla! CMS 3.1.0 Stable. Joomla 3.1 the second minor release in the Joomla! 3 series.
A major new feature that comes with Joomla! 3.1 is Tags. Dynamic tagging is now available across all content types.
When designing a web site, or planning the content structure of a site, one is often faced with the issue of choosing between one or another category for an article.
Many times, content fits into more then one category, or you would like to provide visitors to your web site with more then one way to find the content they are looking for.
This is where the new Tags feature of the Joomla! 3.1 CMS will be very valuable.
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- By Jacques Rentzke, New Web Consulting
Today the Joomla! project released the first in a new series: Joomla!® 3.0
Joomla! 3.0 comes with a brand new look & feel for the Administration area, that's the result of great work by the Joomla! UX (JUX) team. Joomla! 3.0 is Mobile Ready with a fully responsive site template, adming UI, and responsive core output.