tour of joomla

Tour of Joomla!

Jen Kramer4Web, Inc.CMS Expo, Evanston ILMay 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 3rd party extensions easily installed

Joomla 1.5 weaknesses

• Poor access control lists (ACL), only available by 3rd party extension

• No multi-site management, only available by 3rd party extension

• No core CCK (several 3rd 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

Version Release date

EOL Type

1.5 Jan 2008 April 2012

LTR

1.6 Jan 2011 Aug 2011

STR

1.7 July 2011 Feb 2012 STR

“1.8” Jan 2012 At least 15 months

LTR

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 Kramer4Web, Inc.www.4webinc.comwww.joomla4web.comjen@4webinc.comTwitter: jen4web