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Joomla 1.5.15 has been released

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So far, November has been a slow month for news but looks like Joomla has seen a new security release with 1.5.15.
Full release notes can be found here: Joomla 1.5.15 release notes but to summarize, some of the changes are:
Two security issues were fixed in this release:

Moderate Priority – Core – Front-End Editing. More information »
Low [...]

What are your expectations for Joomla! 1.6?

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With the second alpha in the works, Joomla! 1.6 appears to be getting that much closer to release. What are your expectations for 1.6?
Over the years, there have been a number of claims, whether substantiated or not, that Joomla! has suffered from security issues and/or is overly complicated for beginners. How do you feel about [...]

Second alpha release of Joomla 1.6 available

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The second alpha release of what will become Joomla! 1.6 is now available.
From the announcement:
The Joomla project is pleased to announce the immediate release of Joomla 1.6 alpha 2. This release contains many new features requested by the community; most notably, ACL. Other features are listed below as well as what you can expect in [...]

UShorten – The Automatic Shortlink Generator for Joomla!

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CMS Market today released the first version of UShorten, the automatic shortlink generator for Joomla! This release brings features similar to other major CMS’s like WordPress and Drupal allowing any Joomla site to create and publish unique shortlink URLs for each page on their site.
Generation of shortlink’s is fully configurable with different parameters for the [...]

Our Top Six Favourite Joomla Template Providers

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This is our list of Preferred Joomla Template Resources.
These are companies we’ve dealt with or have had positive experiences with and are willing to recommend.
Sometimes it can be tough weeding through the spam sites and the sites with repeat content so we thought we’d give our thumbs up to a few.
Joomlashack
Joomlashack is one of the [...]

Our Top 10 Favourite Joomla Extensions

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There are way too many extensions in the Joomla directory to truly make a Top 10 list since so many of them are excellent.
We do, however, have some favourite we thought we’d share in order to help them get some more exposure.
Here they are in no particular order or ranking:
#1 – JomSocial
JomSocial is an excellent [...]

A Conversation with Louis Landry of the Joomla! CMS Project

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Today, we had the pleasure of having a conversation / interview with Louis Landry of the Joomla! project. During our discussion Louis takes us on a journey through his time with the Joomla! project and his thoughts on the project and it’s future. It is one of our favourite and most fascinating interviews to date.
Thank [...]

#CMSShowdown: Ultimate Showdown of Content Management Systems

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Today marked the day of the very first “Ultimate Showdown of Content Management Systems” which occurred at South by Southwest Interactive.
This event was an attempt to pit open source content management systems against each other in an effort to determine which one was the greatest. With a presentation style reminiscent of Iron Chef, the popular [...]

What Everybody Ought to Know About Joomla!

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Joomla! is a popular Content Management System (CMS) with numerous followers. Just like any good system it has it’s share of good and bad points.
The Bad
Issue #1: Poor out of the box SEO.
This is likely going to get people riled up but for a system that has as much notoriety and popularity on the market [...]

Joomla! Content Management System 1.5 series Review

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Joomla! is perhaps one of the best known names in the world of Content Management Systems. Originally a fork of Mambo, Joomla has surpassed it’s predecessor in popularity and size by a massive margin.
First released in January of 2008, version 1.5 has since seen a number of point releases to cover security holes and issues.
With [...]

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