Just posted this new feature over on OpenSourceCMS.pro. Here's the teaser -- click the read more to read the full story on that site
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Joomla’s newest release, 1.6, includes a slight revision to the system’s automatic installer. Accordingly, we thought we’d write up a quick tutorial to help you get started and get your new Joomla! 1.6 site up and running quickly. In the paragraphs that follow, I take you for a quick stroll through the Joomla! 1.6 automatic installer, with lots of screenshots to show you what you can expect.
10 December 2010 - water&stone has released the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. PHP-based systems WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal continue to dominate the web content management space. But, while the Big Three remain unchanged from last year, the Report concludes that WordPress has re-taken the overall lead from Joomla!.
My newest title, the Joomla! Bible, is out today -- here's the press release:
Global publisher John Wiley & Sons has released the newest title in their Bible series -- The Joomla! Bible. The title, authored by Ric Shreves, provides the most comprehensive documentation yet released for the award-winning Joomla! Content Management System (CMS).
The Joomla! CMS is one of the world’s most successful Open Source projects with more than 200,000 community members and users. Shreves adds, “Joomla is an advanced content management system and a complicated software package. While the system is easy enough for most people to attain a basic proficiency without extensive coaching, it is hard to reach the full potential of the system without additional guidance.”
Security is not one single thing; it is a process, a set of steps that need to be taken in order to achieve a result. The process begins with your server settings and the Joomla! core files. If you fail to make this base level of the system secure, than additional steps are at the very least of limited effectiveness, at the very worst -- they are pointless. Note as well, the first step towards assuring your site’s integrity is also one of the easiest: Only install the most recent version of the Joomla! core file packages found at the official download site, JoomlaCode.org.
If you have ever worked with the front end content management workflow in the default Joomla! system, you will appreciate that, straight out of the box, it is not as user-friendly as you might like it to be (indeed, some might say that is a generous description!). Nonetheless, it remains a powerful tool when properly configured -- and when the team using it is adequately trained.
