Joomla! Community Magazine™

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Managing a membership site can seem like a herculean task, but when you combine it with one of your other tools it can become a breeze.

A few days ago, with the Association Joomla! Lombardy and the Web Advisor Team, I had the great opportunity to live a work day with Xaverian Missionaries; I don’t want to hide the strong emotion I felt in bringing our beloved CMS in a so prestigious area, with the presence of official Vatican State delegates and missionaries coming from all over the world.

February 9th was Safer Internet Day. Google offered Gmail users an extra 2 GB of space to perform a quick security audit on their account. The tasks were easy: a quick review of the account recovery information and the connected applications. Even though it took only a few minutes and many will never realize it, the audit will have a big impact for thousands of users who dodged a bullet with their name on it.  Small things can make a big difference. It's the magic of preventative care.

Who’s the boss? In every business, the boss is the Customer. Without customers... we have no business.  “Cost” is what a customer pays; “Value” is what a customer gets. We need to focus on what we give. Here are three ways we can increase our service’s value in the context of a Joomla web business.

Over the past year it has become evident that better User Experience (UX) is being demanded by our community. We believe UX is critical to the future of the Joomla community and see an opportunity to improve our platform while bringing our community together in new ways. We’ve spent the first few months of 2016 rebuilding the JUX team and we want you to be involved!

Joomla est un CMS basé sur PhP et MySQL. La popularité et la distribution de Joomla ont été rendus possible il y a 10 ans car avec PHP et MySQL, nous avions trouvé une base très conviviale et moderne pour le développement et c'est encore le cas aujourd'hui. Dans cet article, nous allons parler un peu d'histoire et expliquer les avantages et les inconvénients de l'utilisation de PHP 7 avec Joomla 3.5. 

Joomler in Focus is a new collumn in Joomla! Community Magazine where volunteers who contribute to the Joomla! Project will be introduced to our readers. We expect to show some of the faces from Joomla around the world who make Joomla happen each and everyday. Our first guest is Marco Richter. Enjoy his interview!

University students from many parts of the world will spend the summer break ("winter break" in some countries) writing code and learning about open source development. Joomla! is one of the selected mentoring organizations in Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC 2016). Does it mean that students will be coding to make Joomla! even better? Yes! And we invite you all to join us in the GSoC 2016 journey.

Standing in front of an audience of 167 (including an 11 day old baby) and not seeing a single empty seat when the event began was an awesome feeling. It was only then that I knew we had succeeded in rebooting JoomlaDay UK and proving that we have a large community.

Joomla! viene con un componente para manejar contactos. Una limitación que algunas veces me ha llevado a buscar otra extensión para mostrar los contactos en una página, es que la vista de todos los contactos en una categoría no permite mostrar las fotos o avatares de las personas. En este artículo te voy a mostrar cómo hacer un override que agrega las imágenes en la lista de contactos.

Una nueva edición del JoomlaDay UK tuvo lugar en Londres y la comunidad hispana estuvo bien representada, haciendo escuchar el idioma español y nuestro particular estilo para el festejo, la risa fácil y el bullicio.

Para nosotros, este evento fue especial ya que la expectativa del J and Beyond 2016 Barcelona es muy grande y nos sentimos especialmente convocados para ser mejores anfitriones y embajadores en el idioma.

Joomla! es el CMS de código abierto y gratuito más grande mantenido y gestionado por una comunidad de voluntarios, que recientemente ganó el premio al Mejor CMS Gratuito 2015 otorgado por CMS Critic. Vale, pero … la pregunta es cómo puedo colaborar yo con Joomla!.

2016 is only a month old, and there’s already a buzz of activity in Joomla-land.

Anyone can contribute to Joomla and have a say in it’s future - including you! Joomla is 100% volunteer based and countless volunteers over the past ten years have made it what it is today. We are the future of Joomla and every person makes a difference. Our community is diverse and there are so many ways to contribute it can seem complicated. These tips will help you get involved with the Joomla community.

The first four years I was in business, I had a reccurring problem where I would go through cycles of being overwhelmed. I would be trucking along, knocking out projects, and a previous client would reach out to me with an urgent need for help. I would pause whatever I was working on, get them taken care of, and get back to work. Periodically though, several urgent client requests would arrive back-to-back when I didn't have a spare moment to look at them. My bandwidth would quickly get maxed out and I'd end up working weekends trying to stay on top of everything.

In order to maximize the efficacy of your Joomla blog, you need to have a plan in place for how you’ll satisfy your users’ demand for simple, aesthetically pleasing sites. Not only is design a significant component of your overall brand message, but it also plays an important role in pushing users through your conversion funnel. While every blog differs in terms of specific goals and outcomes, the following Joomla blog design tips should provide universal value.

How can anyone be crazy about some application, game, or web technology? This was me few years ago, until I came across this powerful content management system: Joomla!

Desde el 2011 tengo un cliente que me ha costado muchos nervios y sudor, pero al mismo tiempo me ha ayudado muchísimo en mi desarrollo con Joomla, hasta el punto de programar mis propios plugins!

Helping to make more satisfied, more productive employees

There are infinite ways to use a membership site. In previous articles, we talked about ways to externally use membership sites to make your business better. Have you thought about using one internally to improve your employees experience and productivity?

The Joomla! Project is proud to announce that we are kicking off this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) bid! Google Summer of Code is a global program that connects students and open source projects to work on exciting projects during summer break.