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The much anticipated launch of our online Joomla training course for Beginner Joomla-ites, Joomlashack University, did not disappoint last week. In less than 24 hours we sold out all 100 seats in the inaugural Shack U class of October 2009- and then some!
Joomlashack University is our attempt to make learning Joomla online a fun, interactive, affordable, and "at your own pace" experience....
A question that comes up often of new users is "How do I change the layout of the content on my frontpage?". To be more specific, the question is often about how to change the content layout from Joomla!'s default 1 column leading / 2 column intro / links layout. Fortunately, Joomla! makes this really easy to do.
We’re excited to announce the availability of our J!Salesforce 1.0 release, connecting Joomla with Salesforce.com! Even better, for a limited-time, new Soapbox clients (non-profits and socially responsible businesses) can receive J!Salesforce for FREE! With J!Salesforce, organizations and businesses using the powerful Salesforce.com CRM can now seamlessly share data with the Joomla...
This has to be one of the best ways I have seen yet to explain web standards and usability to clients.
Next time you find your self in that situation, show this handy video.
It was exactly forty years ago on this Friday that the first link on Arpanet was created. On 29 october 1969 at half past ten in the evening a connection was made between the university of Los Angeles and Stanford. The first connection in the Netherlands was there at October 30. ARPANET, a project of the U.S. defense research organization Arpa, was the mainstay of the Internet as we know it...
You read a lot of posts from me about the conferences I attend – and this time, I want to encourage you to attend one with me! Dev Summit 09 will be from November 18-20in Oakland, California. It’s the 20th Aspiration run-event I’ve personally been to, and I keep going back because of Allan Gunn, [...]
It’s about time that I gave another update on some of my travels to spread the word about PICnet, Joomla! and technology. Over the next few weeks you’ll see installments from my trips to South Africa, Brazil, Mongolia, New York, and more. The key theme? Engaging with Joomla! communities around the world to share our [...]
We are very excited to have launched our new Joomlashack University, a brand new online class for Joomla. You can learn from our expert team from the comfort of your own home.
We launched late yesterday afternoon with spots limited to only 100 students, but in a few hours we have had over 80 sign up to be part of the quickest and easiest way to learn Joomla.
If you want to grab one of those...
One site I visit a lot is SEOmoz.org, a great resource for SEO and marketing. I noticed today that that have a great top 500 list of "most important domains".
I was interested to see that Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal all make it into the top 500, with Wordpress taking the lead, and Drupal bringing up the rear.
The corresponding top 500 pages list saw Wordpress.org and Joomla.org in the top...
At the current download page of Joomla you will not find a nightly build download option as it was available earlier on (1.0 and early 1.5 development). There are a lot of people who are eager to see the current state of 1.6 and would like to download a development version. In this article I will explain how you can get a copy of the latest development version.
Before we show the tools that...