Tour of Joomla

Tour of Joomla! Jen Kramer 4Web, Inc. CMS Expo, Evanston IL May 2011

Agenda
Introduce Jen
Tour of Joomla:
Project information
Highlights of Joomla 1.6 & differences with 1.5
Strong/weak CMS points
Development cycle
Q & A

First, about Jen
President/Chief Janitor, 4Web Inc.
Manager, Joomla! User Group New England
lynda.com author, 6 video titles
Author, “Joomla! Start to Finish”, Wrox Press
Author, “Joomla! 24 Hour Trainer”, Wrox Press
And I get 8 hours of sleep a night.

Joomla is…
Forked from Mambo, 2005
Version 1.0 released September 2005
Version 1.5 released January 2008
Version 1.6 released January 2011
Considered one of the top 3 open source CMSs in the world, with Wordpress and Drupal

Joomla by the numbers
6351 new forum users each month
As of April 27, 2,335,882 posts , 546,311 topics , and 476,212 members
113 new extensions released each month
7407 extensions available
Powering 2.7% of the top 1 million sites on the web
For an open source project, great participation from women: 12-29%
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/cozimek/leadership-lessons-learned-from-joomla-open-source-days-2011

Joomla 1.5 strengths
Easy installation and interface
Straightforward site and template configuration with no knowledge of PHP/MySQL
Thousands of 3 rd party extensions easily installed

Joomla 1.5 weaknesses
Poor access control lists (ACL), only available by 3 rd party extension
No multi-site management, only available by 3 rd party extension
No core CCK (several 3 rd party extensions)

Joomla 1.6 Strengths
Nested categories make structuring a site more intuitive
ACL is powerful and flexible
New templating system means more options for designers
Better language support
Better SEO features

Joomla 1.6 Weaknesses
ACL is difficult to understand and configure
Still no multisite management features in core (by extension only)
Still no CCK in core (by extension only)
Extensions still catching up with the new version

Joomla 1.6 demo

Joomla CMS release cycle LTR At least 15 months Jan 2012 “ 1.8” STR Feb 2012 July 2011 1.7 STR Aug 2011 Jan 2011 1.6 LTR April 2012 Jan 2008 1.5 Type EOL Release date Version

Joomla framework release
First release (version 11.1) was scheduled for April 30 (no confirmation if it happened)
First release separates the CMS from the framework
Successive releases every 90 days

Questions?
Jen Kramer
4Web, Inc.
www.4webinc.com
www.joomla4web.com
[email_address]
Twitter: jen4web

Tour of Joomla

by Jen Kramer on May 09, 2011

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