Apologies for the lack of blogging over the last few weeks, I’ve been wrapped up in something else since the beginning of September.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve always tried to be honest with people and acknowledge that Joomla had two achilles heels:
- It didn’t allow a lot of control over what people can and cannot access (ACL or Access Control Level)
- It didn’t allow you to customize your content articles with extra fields or extra layers of categories (CCK or Content Construction Kit)
Joomla’s Ecosystem is Strong
If you want proof that the Joomla ecosystem is strong, you can find it here. Lots of commercial providers stepped in to create ACL solutions and then this week we had the announcement that ACL has entered the Joomla core.
And then there’s CCK:
Before 2009, there was really only Sobi2 and Mosets Tree, both of which were really business directories that could be repurposed. Now it seems that you can’t turn around without tripping over a new CCK release.
Back to the Mile-High City …
Over the last year our business model has evolved quite substantially. From being a traditional webdesign firm we’ve increasingly focused on Joomla training. After starting slowly last summer, we’re now holding up to 15 classes per month.
Sometimes its hard to think of ideas for a blog post, so here are ten topics that will guarantee a really popular Joomla article:
Back in March I was able to test iJoomla.com’s new SEO component called, somewhat appropriately: iJoomla SEO. It didn’t impress me much. You weren’t able to add metadata to menu links or third-party extensions which meant that the homepage and many key sites pages were missed.
For several months now I’ve been hinting that we have a major geographic domain name to launch on Joomla.
All three classes are led by our expert teacher, Rod Martin. They take place at the beautiful Mets Center on the Ohio and Kentucky border, right next door the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. About four tickets are left for each of these classes: