30Jul Joomla! Student Outreach Program Continues
Our team is currently working on a project management tool extension for Joomla! 1.6. In short, the goal of our extensions is to provide user-friendly tool for everybody to manage his projects across all parts of their production cycles During last few weeks we worked on implementing nested tables and many other cool features. If [...]
29Jul 5×5: Cultural Institutions That Use Joomla
We’re running a series this week that we call 5×5. Every day we’re going to highlight 5 Joomla sites in a particular category. Today we’re focusing on 5 major cultural and historical organizations that use Joomla for their official websites. There are many more, so if know of others, please post in the comments. Guggenheim [...]
26Jul Take Part in a Happy 5th Birthday Movie for Joomla
Have you ever wanted to work with Steven Spielberg on his next movie? Could you be the next winner of the Oscar for the best Cinematography 2010? This is your chance now … we’re making a Happy 5th Birthday movie for Joomla. You can work with our talented professional directors, who have over 30 years [...]
21Jul Danone Uses Joomla
Danone is a French food-products multinational corporation based in Paris. It is the world leader in fresh dairy products and in bottled water and is second in the world in baby foods. They’re also one of many world-leading companies that use Joomla. Danone.com is a graphically adventerous site with a series of rotating panoramas on [...]
18Jul How One Joomla Company Is Improving Lives in Rural China
Over the last few months we’ve been interviewing developers who have worked on widely popular Joomla sites. However, not every successful Joomla developer has sites with a shelf full of awards or 5 million visitors per month. We’re now going to turn our attention to other types of successful web design firms. We’re particularly interested [...]
17Jul The European Union Uses Joomla in the USA
www.eurunion.org is the online home for the European Union delegation to the USA. The site aims to be a one stop shop for American citizens, politicians and media in providing key facts about the European Union, it’s history, policies and aims. Visitors to the site will find regular news about the European Union together with [...]
14Jul Gulf Restoration Network Uses Joomla
The Gulf Restoration Network is a 15-year-old environmental organization that focuses on the health of the Mexican Gulf. They work throughout the Gulf region, and have been providing independent monitoring of the oil spill. Moreover, they’ve been pushing BP to be accountable and transparent. Their website HealthyGulf.org runs on Joomla and has regularly updated blogs [...]
09Jul What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders
This is the first of a series of blog posts about improvements in Joomla 1.6. If you’d like to contribute, please click here to find out more. Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders Joomla 1.6 offers much to site integrators and builders that will make them very, very happy. I have spent so long working [...]
05Jul 13,000 Joomla! demo sites – Upgrades coming soon to demo.joomla.org
Hello Joomla! community. This is a demo site update. We want to tell you about some of the fun technical details of how the site operates and about upgrades that are coming to the demo site. CloudAccess.net provides a service to the community that gives each user a full individual install of the Joomla! open source [...]
29Jun People.Joomla.Org Progress Report
What an amazing first month of a beta launch at People.Joomla.org, 3249 members and climbing. So many opportunities for the Joomla community to network and socialize! We are presently testing extensions and are very anxious to add more functionality to the site in preparation for an official launch. At the moment we do not [...]
28Jun J&Beyond – a Joomla Conference with a Difference
Last week in Wiesbaden, Germany 190 people from 27 different countries gathered together for three days of Joomla, Joomla and a little bit more Joomla. The idea of this international gathering was several years in the making but after Joomla!Day Germany 2009 Robert Deutz was determined to make it happen and happen it did, in [...]
23Jun Scottish Rugby Uses Joomla For All Its Sites
With all the current hype over the FIFA World Cup it’s easy to forget that there are any other types of football. Rugby Union is a full contact sport played with an oval ball, but unlike American Football the players are not protected by crash helmets and body armour. Whilst traditionally Rugby Union has been [...]
15Jun Ask the Team Chat Log May 26 2010
We publish here the chat log from our last “Ask The Joomla Team” Session. Next Session will be happen on 2nd June 2010 4 UTC with Brad Baker and Ron Severdia. How Can You Join Ask the Joomla Team You can meet us in the #joomla-ask-the-team chat room on irc.freenode.net If you’re not sure about [...]
14Jun Offical Pentathlon Website Relaunches on Joomla
Earlier in this series we mentioned that FINA, the world governing body for aquatic sports (swimming, diving etc) uses Joomla. Well, that’s far from the only such organization running Joomla. This week we’ll introduce you to Pentathlon.org, the website of the UIPM which is the governing body of Modern Pentathlon. The site is a showcase [...]
13Jun What was that about communication?
The Joomla 1.6 Beta has been published, and now it’s time for scrubbing and polishing. I was already involved in the development of Joomla 1.5, but was only responsible for the template and had little influence on the code and the development process itself. This changed for 1.6: I have been far more intensely involved [...]
11Jun Optical Networks Company Running Joomla Sold to Cisco
Congratulations to CoreOptics, an optical networking company based in Germany and the U.S.A. Cisco purchased the company in late May for $99 million because of their ability to improve the infrastructure required by online video and cloud-hosting services. CoreOptics.com runs on Joomla and uses ChronoForms and JoomlaWatch. Source:Optical Networks Company Running Joomla Sold to Cisco
07Jun Congratulations to Two Major Joomla Sites in San Diego
Congratulations are due to two Joomla websites in San Diego, U.S.A.: The Port of San Diego PortofSanDiego.org was selected as an “Official Honoree” in the 14th annual Webby Awards, which recognizes the best work displayed worldwide on the Web. That places its work alongside six othew media organizations: New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, [...]
05Jun Sponsor Gratitude: Fullestop
We’re delighted to introduce a Joomla! Development Sponsor at the Platinum level: India and UK-based web developers Fullestop. A nine-year old company with several blue-chip clients, Fullestop provides full-service web solutions that include custom Joomla! development. One of the company’s primary reasons for deepening its involvement with Joomla! is to become even more hands-on with [...]

