In this section you can read Alledia blog posts about the Joomla! project.
A few weeks back I made a deliberately provocative post entitled “Even WordPress Usability Sucks” and ended with the suggestion that Joomla form a Usability team. It looks like one is starting to roll. Congrats to Kyle from Joomlapraise, Chris…
This was the third year of the CMS Expo in Chicago and it took another leap forward. Rather than getting lost in downtown or suburban Chicago they’ve moved to the suburb of Evanston, right on the lake and next to…
The Joomla team is happy to announce that they’re moving beyond T-shirts, hoodies and bags. They’ve decided that the Joomla community needs a sexier and more athletic way to show their love for Joomla. So say hello to the “Joola-Hoop”.…
This is a post that’s been lying around in various forms as a draft for over a year. I’ve dusted it off and decided to publish after the series of announcements made by the Joomla team over Christmas. The announcements…
Are h1 tags any use? At last as far as SEO experts go, there’s a lot of disagreement: Russ Jones: “In my opinion, the second most important HTML tag available.” Todd Malicoat: “I can’t imagine h1 tags having very much…
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…
Happy Birthday Joomla! September 1st is the project’s 3rd birthday. You can read the original announcement from 2005 here. Only 10 days previously the domain name had been registered alongside several other alternatives that the team were considering. How far…
Joomla.org has a new template today. The design looks a little similar to the website of another emerging new force in the United States. It’s also interesting to note that the ! has been dropped from most uses on the…
There are some third rails in every community … things that people are reluctant to discuss. Joomla’s move to a GPL license was one of those, and I think we did a reasonable job of openly talking about the issues…