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Welcome to 2011! We're looking forward to an exciting year in Joomla! With Joomla! 1.6 to be released soon, and the Joomla! community constantly growing, there's lots to do around here! Hopefully you've already made some plans for the upcoming year, but if not, we've got some great suggestions for how you can contribute to Joomla! in 2011! So get your pen out, check out the list of opportunities for you to help, and add a couple to your resolutions for this year!

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What type of web sites can you create in Joomla!

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Joomla! in the Press/Media - January 2011

Joomla! in the Press/Media - January 2011

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.

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Top 10 Joomla! Template Picks for 2010

Top 10 Joomla! Template Picks for 2010

A few weeks ago Kyle and I set about the task of choosing our top 5 templates for 2010. To say it was a difficult task is an understatement.

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Party Like It's Joomla! 1.6

Party Like It's Joomla! 1.6

It's time to CELEBRATE! Joomla! 1.6 will be out this month! Put on your party hats, crank up the music, pop open the bubbly, grab a partner and do the happy Joomla! dance of joy!

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The 2010 Video Interviews - Part 3

The 2010 Video Interviews - Part 3

During Joomla! Day West 2010 and the Community Leadership Team and Production Leadership Team Summit, Kyle Ledbetter and Jeremy Wilken were asked to produce a series of video interviews with Joomla! Leadership that was in attendance. Additionally, some interviews were done with other members of the community that were there. In this third installment we meet Paul Orwig, Sandra Warren, Ron Severdia and Louis Landry. They all take a few minutes with us to share their thoughts on the project, community, the impact Joomla has had on them and why they love it!

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Insights From: "The Official Joomla! Book" (Part 3)

Insights From: "The Official Joomla! Book" (Part 3)

During Joomla!Day West 2010 Pearson Publishing announced the release of Joomla! Press. The mission of Joomla! Press is to enhance the Joomla! experience by providing useful, well-written, and engaging publications for all segments of the Joomla! Community from beginning users to framework developers. Titles in Joomla! Press are authored by leading experts and contributors in the community.

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Lights, Camera, Action!

Casting call! Grab your camcorders! The JCM is looking for a few good videos of how you use Joomla! in your part of the world!

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Team EaSE Article: Passwords - Don't walk in front of a Bus!

Team EaSE Article: Passwords - Don't walk in front of a Bus!

Team EaSE discuss passwords in general and stress how important password construction and safety are to the overall security of your website and backups.

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Backup Now! - You know you should!

Backup Now! - You know you should!

In Joomla! we are exceedingly lucky with the quality of extensions provided to make backing up your site easy - just a few parameters and the job is done. In this article Team EaSE shows you three free backup extensions, one plugin and two components.

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Jane Beyond & friends

Jane Beyond & friends

Illustration by:  YeprJane Beyond

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The 2010 Video Interviews - Final Selection

The 2010 Video Interviews - Final Selection

During Joomla! Day West 2010 and the Community Leadership Team and Production Leadership Team Summit, Kyle Ledbetter and Jeremy Wilken were asked to produce a series of video interviews with Joomla! Leadership that was in attendance. Additionally, some interviews were done with other members of the community that were there. In this third installment we meet Sam Moffatt and Ian MacLennan as well as yours truly, Matt Lipscomb. They all take a few minutes with us to share their thoughts on the project, community, the impact Joomla! has had on them, and why they love it!

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Kyle Ledbetter: King of the launch room

Kyle Ledbetter: King of the launch room
In the days before the launch of 1.6, the Joomla! community came together to produce web pages, banners, announcements and resource links. Joomla! developer and designer Kyle Ledbetter of Pixel Praise played a key role in this endeavor, and shares his reflections on that suspenseful process with the JCM.
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Joomla 1.6 - Thoughts from Around the World!

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Good Resources for Joomla! Beginners

Good Resources for Joomla! Beginners

This article helps you, especially Joomla! beginners, get started with Joomla! CMS systematically by providing you with good sources of Joomla! tutorials. The selected websites have proven their reliability to many Joomla! users, and to me, for a long time. All sources are thoroughly designed with detailed instructions in both text and videos format so that readers have the best understanding of these tutorials.

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Website Case Study: High Court of Australia Case Study

Website Case Study: High Court of Australia Case Study

The High Court is the highest court in the Australian judicial system, and was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution. The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts. The new High Court website acts as a central point of information relating to cases and the High Court. PB Web Development crafted a creative interface that is not only visually appealing, but is also built to meet web accessibility standards.

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Born to be Wild: An Interview with Chris Marinou

Born to be Wild: An Interview with Chris Marinou
Chris Marinou, a free-wheeling adventure seeker and Joomla! developer, sat down long enough to answer a few questions for the Joomla! Community Magazine.
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Rapid Development Techniques – Removing Mootools

A fact of web development is that no two people use the exact same tools – why should Javascript frameworks be any different? Whether you use jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Dojo, or something in between, we should all have the freedom of choice when it comes to our development tools.

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Fourteen secrets of Joomla! templating

Fourteen secrets of Joomla! templating

Over the past few months, Kyle and I have been compiling a killer list of Joomla! templating snippets that has the potential to change the way that you approach templating in Joomla!.

We had planned to publish this article well before the release of Joomla! 1.6, and to release the 1.6 version of this post to coincide with it going stable ... but alas, that is not to be. Given that the Joomla! 1.5 end life is still a long way off, I'm pretty sure you will find this list useful for your upcoming projects.

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Joomla! - We Keep It Movin'

Joomla! - We Keep It Movin'

For many of us, today we celebrate the ability to look back on a year filled with challenges and opportunities and say to ourselves, "One more time, I've made it." It's also a time when we look forward and resolve to change those things we think we can improve and commit to working on all those great ideas there just wasn't enough time for.

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