I’m off to Vancouver tonight and I’ll be taking my wife, so in addition to going to JoomlaDay Canada, I’ll have a couple of days vacation. The new Vancouver.com is incredible and its really whetted my appetite for a day or two off in such a beautiful city. Posting will be light so I thought I’d post a short round-up of whats going on:
Mambo has been dying a slow death since the split from Joomla. In fact, the last time I visited their site was when they were forking again! Its sad to see a once-great project in such a state. Several links on the homepage are broken, only three users were in the forum compared to over 800 in the Joomla forums and the “Download Mambo” didn’t work. There are even paid links on their homepage. Scroll to the bottom of Mamboserver.com and you’ll see “CYLON: Internet Marketing, Check out our Customers:” and underneath a list of links including “Phone Card |…
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Around 5 weeks ago, we annouced Joomla training classes in Atlanta. We’re happy to announce that the first class in June has sold out and that we’ve been able to schedule several more. There are two dates for Beginner Joomla Training. No Joomla knowledge is required. The classes are aimed at people who want to manage and build successful Joomla sites. We’ll be giving practical but not highly-technical tuition: Saturday, 23 August 2008 Saturday, 18 October 2008
This is a straight-forward tutorial explaining how you can place different header or logo images on different pages of your site. For example, your sports site may need a baseball player on top of the baseball section, a golf player in the golf section and so on. How Not to Do It Create a different template for each page. Believe me, I’ve seen this done with over 30 header image, which means over 30 extra templates.
Do you know of any major companies using Joomla? I’ve decided to set the bar high by looking for sites that do over half-a-million uniques per month or belong to a truly substantial company. A good rule of thumb is “do they have a Wikipedia entry?” Here’s what I’ve found so far: Angelica (Publicly-traded health services company) Avis (The car rental company in Nicaragua) Burger King (For a special promotion) CW.com (Main corporate site) Danone (A lot more than just yogurts) Derbi (Motorcycle maker – part of Piaggio) English National Ballet (England’s flagship ballet company) IBS Software (Software for airlines)…
I’ve never made a recommendation for anyone else’s services on this blog, but I’m going to break that habit today. A Joomla Security Expert Its easy to find templates, extensions and web-designers but in some other areas high-quality people are in short supply. One of those is security. Few people have the server knowledge and Joomla know-how to effectively protect a Joomla site. If you have been hacked or need a security audit to pre-empt problems in the future … we recommend Tom Canvan from JoomlaRescue.com. He doesn’t know I’m writing this blog post, but he deserves it. Here’s why…
Open Source Training is a partner company of Alledia.com and a major provider of WordPress training classes. With over a dozen teachers across the United States, Canada and Britain, we have classes running almost every week. Students get six months of support after each class. We hold WordPress beginner, intermediate and theming classes. Upcoming WordPress Training Classes {source}<?phpinclude_once(‘classes/wordpressclasses.php’);?>{/source} Details of Our WordPress Training Classes How long are the classes? 7 hours. We start at 9 am and finish at 4 pm. We provide lunch for students and regular breaks. What do I need to bring? Nothing. We provide computers, all…
Open Source Training is a partner company of Alledia.com and a major provider of Drupal training classes. With over a dozen teachers across the United States, Canada and Britain, we have classes running almost every week. Students get six months of support after each class. We hold Drupal beginner, intermediate and theming classes. Upcoming Drupal Training Classes {source}<?phpinclude_once(‘classes/drupalclasses.php’);?>{/source} Details of Our Drupal Training Classes How long are the classes? 7 hours. We start at 9 am and finish at 4 pm. We provide lunch for students and regular breaks. What do I need to bring? Nothing. We provide computers, all…
When Apple, Sun and IBM need to learn Joomla,here’s what they do … Every day, people are building great websites with Joomla.With Open Source Training, they have access to online classes and support from the best teachers in the Joomla world. Our professional teachers have created videos and tutorials for you that walk you step-by-step through everything you’ll need to build wonderful Joomla websites. These are the same lessons we use to help clients like Apple, Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and NASA. Learn Joomla Or Your Money Back … We’re so confident that you can learn Joomla with our classes and…