tour of joomla
DESCRIPTION
Jen Kramer will walk you through the great new features including in Joomla! 1.6, the latest and greatest Joomla release. From the simple "Save & New" button to the more complicated access control lists, Jen will identify the new features designed to take Joomla to the next level.Key Learning Points: * Joomla's release plan for the next 12 months * Differences between Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6 * New features in Joomla 1.6 * Joomla's strong points and weak points as a CMSTRANSCRIPT
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
