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March

Details: Written by: Grigor Mihov; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 44

Administrators

As you all know – Joomla!'s page loading speed is not one of the main advantages of the system. Of course, there is some advice you could follow and there are two very important things that needs to be done:

Details: Written by: JCM Team; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 58

Developers

Not everyone is, or wants to be a programmer. However, you don’t have to be to help find and track down bugs in software. Using a few techniques, you can often get to the bottom of a problem and determine if it is a bug, user error, or something else. Since software development is an ongoing process, you may find yourself wondering when you come across a problem if it is a bug, or not.

Read more: Is it me, or is this a bug?

Details: Written by: Jon Neubauer; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 127

Events

Each month Joomla! users around the world gather for collaboration, learning, and good times with Joomla! User Groups in over 50 countries (55 to be exact). Groups range from get-togethers of 8 or 9 people, to meetups of over 40 people! I caught up with the Joomla! User Group in Suffolk, England for this last month's meeting for a good time, and a quick interview. We were able to talk with JUG members and get their thoughts on JUG's and how the Joomla! Community is affecting them.

Details: Written by: Bo Astrup; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 189

Joomla! Books

Yes, I have heard the rumors. Joomla! 1.6 is out. So why review a book on 1.5? My main two reasons are: 1.) If you want a “production” site working now with a stable version of Joomla! and stable versions of the extensions used. 2.) This book is a great starting point to get into Joomla!. Yes, it is called “Joomla! 1.5 Site Blueprints”, and even author Timi Ogunjobi states that this book is not an introduction to Joomla!, nor an in-depth manual for using Joomla!; but... it's the book I wish I had picked up when I first got started with Joomla!.

Details: Written by: Dianne Henning; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 48

Join the Jimerick!

Grab your shillelaghs and shamrocks... and beguile us with your best blarney! This month, we are taking a little side trip from our Haikus and asking for your limericks, written in the spirit of Joomla!.

Read more: Join the Jimerick!

Details: Written by: JCM Team; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 52

Designers

Someone must have said something bad about Joomla! template clubs last month, because they certainly stepped it up a notch in February.

Details: Written by: Mark W. Bender; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 48

Joomla! in the Press/Media

Welcome to Joomla! in the Press/Media. You will find links and short descriptions of where you can read recent articles about Joomla! in the Press and Media.

Details: Written by: Milena Mitova; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 153

Did you know...?

As the number of websites worldwide continue to grow at an incredibly fast pace, and the race to be at the top of search engine result pages is getting more and more competitive, SEO optimization is hardly a matter of choice any more. If you want to bring more traffic to your website — and not just any traffic, but visitors who are uniquely attuned to and looking exactly for the services and products that you offer, then take the time to optimize your website — it’s free, it’s easy to do, and most importantly, if you do it right, you can see real and tangible results within several months, or even sooner.

Details: Written by: Joe Sonne; Category: March; Published: 01 March 2011; Hits: 92

Feature Stories

I wandered into the Joomla! community shortly after the fork of Mambo to Joomla! in 2005. I had no idea what Joomla! was. At the time, I was involved in a huge web-based enterprise project and wondered if something like Joomla! might be an alternative, or even compliment parts of an enterprise system. The commercial system we were building was really expensive. Joomla! on the other hand, had a lot of what the enterprise system didn't have right out of the box. I'd investigated other open source website systems and bulletin boards but when I stepped into the Joomla! community I knew I'd found something special.