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Joomla forums reached a whopping 2 million posts

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:36:17 +0000

Joomla is not only known for its versatility but also for its highly responsive community. In fact, the official Joomla forum has made its 2 million posts shortly before April’s Fools day. This comes to great delight to the community and the developer itself as it shows how successful the content management system has become.

Joomla forums has more than 450,000 topics worldwide and with this number, it is estimated that eac topic contributed to at least 4 posts during their lifetime. Not much but this probably excludes the number of spams on the website. This also means that the website has 2,000,000 worth of high quality and informative posts.

Joomla users should definitely wait for the release of Joomla 1.6 as developers said there will be new features that will be worth checking out. They are anticipating another million worth of posts after version 1.6 is released.

Joomla Community Showcase Website: Splashrate

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:40:21 +0000

Today it is all about saving money and finding good items that works exactly like premium items that might cost twice as expensive. Splashrate is a social networking website that is integrated to with a lot of things but mostly products. They do have videos, polls as well as product reviews available for the visitors of this website.

The products that are shown here range from a wide array of categories such as computers, entertainments, toys and many more. Some of these products aren’t very famous but they do work just as good as the famous products.

Through the help of a few Joomla extensions, the webmaster of this website was able to create a community based site. It allows members to share videos, photos as well as interact in some of the many polls available on the website.

However, a good thing to note is that the positions of the advertisements are very poor. These are located at places where people will definitely not stumble upon them. In fact, these should be placed above the fold so that it would gain a lot more visibility.

Splashrate has a very interesting design and very eye-catchy as well. It is definitely worth to check it out.

Joomla Templates: RocketTheme Crystaline Template

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:07:34 +0000

RocketTheme is a popular designer for Joomla themes. Every month, a new theme will be released by the company which is part of its template membership program. Most of their themes look very elegant and by far unique.

The third month of the year 2010 saw another new theme by RocketTheme and it is called Crystaline. In a sentence, the theme looks very professional and is immersing.

Why the template is immersing is that it features a color chooser. It allows an infinite possibility on the overall layout of the website. Comes with the color chooser is 12 different templates preset by RocketTheme and all of them looks more than decent.

In addition to that, there is also an update with a famous module made by RocketTheme which is the RokTabs. The new update allows RokTabs to have inline icons in each tab. There is also a dynamic control that simplifies icon arrangements.

Crystalline is also built on the Gantry Framework version 2.5. This is a new admin structure made especially for users of RocketTheme templates.

Those wanting to check out the template can head on to rockettheme.com. Membership starts at $50 for 2 months so head on to RocketTheme and check them out.

Joomla vs Drupal

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:25:17 +0000

Joomla is very famous among the users just because of virtual interface that is very easy to use in comparison to other system. While Drupal is more advanced in comparison of Joomla and the users must know the various terminologies and techniques associated with it. Joomla is better that Drupal because a user does not need to learn complicated prohramming techniques and methods whereas a user can expect to work with Drupal without knowing proper programming commands.

The interface of Drupal is less intuitive than that of Joomla so makes it more complicated and difficult to be handled. New users can actively get the help from the Joomla community forum at any time as there are number of people who are negotiating with this virtual interface via forums and discussion groups. The installation of various extensions of Joomla is quite straightforward than that of Drupal. Drupal systems can vigorously integrate with any kind of plug-in but Joomla system can not integrate successfully. Actually, the quality of plug-in is decreases in Joomla system whenever the quantity of Plugin installation is increased in it.

The webmaster having more technical skill can work properly with Drupal but a new user who is unaware about all technical issues is not able to work with it efficiently. The existing users are providing the support to every one in the Joomla and Drupal in the community forum. Everyone can make the selection from a wide variety of modules by Joomla and Drupal; the module helps the user to create immense style for any type of website. Drupal is an open source system that’s why it is available free and no cost is involved in it. Skilled and knowledgeable webmaster has a chance to develop any thing for the website by utilizing creative ideas. Both Joomla and Drupal systems are offering a great power of monitoring and control on all the activities of users. The management of contents on the website is very simple for the user as he can make the changes by himself without taking the help of developer and any other person.

Why using Joomla and how is different from wordpress

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:23:07 +0000

A common question buzzes on the mind why Joomla is better than Wordpress, whenever the different between Joomla and Wordpress is in question. The answer is that Joomla is a content management system, means it an effective tool designed with a support to change, update and maintain the website without complications, Joomla is built to ensure that it would be easier for the webmaster to add, remove, change and organize the webpage(s) of his website. Additionally it provides a resplendent facility of HTML which makes it easily to work with the HTML editor and above all Joomla is an open source and free for everyone; you don’t have to pay something extra, like licensing fees for getting more components or features as it is already assembled with all components and features that a webmaster might need. Joomla is also known as the strong website builder for being structured in the valuable extensions and helps a webmaster in earning a high page ranking in the search engines and there is no better option that Joomla template when it comes to create a commercial, business and personal exquisite design based website.

Wordpress is a good blogging set up and Wordpress’s themes are built for creating and managing personal blogs. Wordpress is integrated with many good components; it helps in driving traffic to your website, you may add in tags relevant to your content or post, arrange content in categories and make good number of permalinks. You can also change your themes, font and style of the webpage using Wordpress but it does not facilitate you better than that of Joomla where you can make the most of some wonderful components by utilizing the advanced features. But if you want to make a parsimonious decision then you can also use the combination of Wordpress and Joomla, combination of both will drive more traffic to your website and you would be able to take the advantage of different features from the panel of two platforms.