Breeze – the World’s Easiest Joomla Template It’s named “Breeze” because it’s so speedy and lightweight and because installing is a “breeze”. Here’s how to set it up: Install Joomla Upload Breeze Upload your logo Enjoy your template! It’s that…
Someone mentioned to me this week that they were worried about Joomla because not much work was being done on the project’s code. To reassure them I headed over to Ohloh.net which keeps useful data on the amount of work…
Official support for Joomla 1.0 will end in 281 days. That announcement was made by Wilco Jansen on joomla.org. July 22, 2009 will be the two year anniversary of the first Joomla 1.5 release, and it seems an appropriate day…
Hitting the wall: “In endurance sports, particularly cycling and running, hitting the wall describes the condition when an athlete suddenly loses energy“. (via Wikipedia) Hitting the open source wall: “In building a project, particularly when giving it away free, hitting…
I hope this will be the first of a series of open discussions focusing on popular Joomla extensions. A very smart SEO Club member ( Suchmaschinenoptimierung Joomla ) helped me brainstorm a list of things to be aware of when…
If you read the Alledia blog regularly you know we’re doing training for Joomla beginners across the eastern, southern and mid-USA. You can find a full list of classes on JoomlaTraining.com. Each week, with about 2 months before the class,…
For about a week this month there were problems with the cache component we use here on Alledia.com. I turned it off while we tried to bugshoot the issue. We also use Pingdom.com to track whether our sites are offline…
Last week, I discussed Acquia which provides managed commercial grade support for Drupal sites. This week, I’m going to talk about some companies that don’t quite have $7 million in their back pocket, but are creating new support and hosting…
If you read the Alledia blog regularly you know we’re doing training for Joomla beginners across the eastern, southern and mid-USA. You can find a full list of classes on JoomlaTraining.com. Each week, with about 2 months before the class,…
Back at the beginning of 2007 I wrote about why I’d love Joomla developers to stop encoding components and gave a rundown of why encoding bugs me. However, sometimes the only solution, short of writing your own, is to use…