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Joomla! Community Magazine - September 2010 Issue Released
pimg align="right" width="157" hspace="10" height="157" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/jcm_september_2010.jpg" alt="" /The Joomla! Project proudly announces the September 2010 Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. The magazine is a monthly collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the Joomla! community./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FqZrQ61zVpR0ajMhsxGgdGHXvI0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FqZrQ61zVpR0ajMhsxGgdGHXvI0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FqZrQ61zVpR0ajMhsxGgdGHXvI0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/FqZrQ61zVpR0ajMhsxGgdGHXvI0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=qpO-L9BZlKk:mx-m3otmwnU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=qpO-L9BZlKk:mx-m3otmwnU:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?i=qpO-L9BZlKk:mx-m3otmwnU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /div
Joomla 1.6 Beta 8 Now Available
pimg align="left" vspace="0" hspace="10" alt="1.6 Beta Logo" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/beta_logo.png" /The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 8 (a target="_blank" href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5378"download/a). strongIMPORTANT NOTE:/strong This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only./p pSince the Joomla 1.6 beta 7 release on August 9, we have fixed approximately 90 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the a target="_blank" href="http://groups.google.com/group/joomlabugsquad"Joomla! Bug Squad/a. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!/p pSee the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release./p pWhat's next?/p pThis is the eighth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 9 will be released on September 6, 2010./p pDownload here: a target="_blank" href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5378"http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5378/a/p pRelated Links:/p pJoomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gearsbr / a target="_blank" href="http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html"http://community.joomla.org/wbr/wbrblogs/leadership/1168-joomla-wbr/wbr16-development-shifting-gears.wbr/wbrhtml/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/wbr/wbrannouncements/release-news/wbr/wbr5275-joomla-16-beta-now-wbr/wbravailable.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 7 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5291-joomla-16-beta7-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5291-joomla-16-beta7-now-available.html/a/p p#160;/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K-Sx2i9InvEXUFRSNuTE6b3kYfs/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K-Sx2i9InvEXUFRSNuTE6b3kYfs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K-Sx2i9InvEXUFRSNuTE6b3kYfs/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/K-Sx2i9InvEXUFRSNuTE6b3kYfs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=mbu562OsTLg:EejBPyMcxzw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=mbu562OsTLg:EejBPyMcxzw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?i=mbu562OsTLg:EejBPyMcxzw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /div
Joomla 1.6 Beta 7 Now Available
pimg vspace="0" hspace="10" align="left" alt="1.6 Beta Logo" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/beta_logo.png" /The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 7 (a target="_blank" href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5364"download/a). strongIMPORTANT NOTE:/strong This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only./p pSince the Joomla 1.6 beta 6 release on July 26, we have fixed approximately 85 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the a target="_blank" href="http://groups.google.com/group/joomlabugsquad"Joomla! Bug Squad/a. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!/p pSee the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release./p pWhat's next?/p pThis is the sixth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 8 will be released on August 23, 2010./p pDownload here: a target="_blank" href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5364"http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5364/a/p pRelated Links:/p pJoomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gearsbr / a target="_blank" href="http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html"http://community.joomla.org/wbr/wbrblogs/leadership/1168-joomla-wbr/wbr16-development-shifting-gears.wbr/wbrhtml/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/wbr/wbrannouncements/release-news/wbr/wbr5275-joomla-16-beta-now-wbr/wbravailable.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5285-joomla-16-beta6-now-available.html/a/p p#160;/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i7b2oZQvtGp1-_Wa_FZ9IxgkK8I/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i7b2oZQvtGp1-_Wa_FZ9IxgkK8I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i7b2oZQvtGp1-_Wa_FZ9IxgkK8I/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/i7b2oZQvtGp1-_Wa_FZ9IxgkK8I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=TKnpLtrmJaY:rShFzStkx8U:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=TKnpLtrmJaY:rShFzStkx8U:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?i=TKnpLtrmJaY:rShFzStkx8U:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /div
August 1, 2010 - The Joomla! Community Magazine Issue Released
pimg vspace="0" hspace="10" width="175px" align="left" alt="Joomla! Community Magazine - August 2010" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/jcm_aug10_main.gif" /Thea href="http://joomla.org/" Joomla! Project/a proudly announces thea href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/itemlist/category/2-2010-August" August 2010 Issue/a of thea href="http://magazine.joomla.org/" Joomla! Community Magazine/aspan. The magazine is a collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the free software community behind Joomla!, an award-winning open source content management system. /spanspan /span/p h3Administrators, Developers and Designers/h3 pThe a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/administrators-toolkit" Administrators Toolkit/a article, a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/108-the-prefix-has-nothing-to-do-with-telephony"The prefix has nothing to do with telephony/a , includes a free program to enhance site security. In the a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/developers-workbench" Developers Workbench/a , instructions to a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/24-sync-joomla-development-websites-with-dropbox-and-mamp-on-your-Macs" synchronize a Joomla! website with MAMP and Dropbox/a and advice on a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/107-create-docs" creating end-user documentation/a is shared. a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/123-tjsFotis" The Joomla! Setup/a focuses this month on developer and designer Fotis Evangelou./p pThe a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/designers-studio" Designers Studio/a calls for participants to a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/designers-studio" Redesign Joomla!/aspan for version 1.7. The Administrator interface, largely unchanged since Mambo, is in need of renovation, a task that will require the diverse talents of the Joomla! community. This month's/spana href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/56-Website-Case-Study-Joomla-Community-Magazine" Website Case Study/a looks at the team, the planning, and extension choices behind the new a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/122-Website-Case-Study-Scottoiler" Scottoiler Joomla! website/a ./p h3Extensions and Evaluations/h3 pA key strength of Joomla! is template development. To help community learn about offerings, the a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/Extensions-Services-Evaluations" Extensions and Evaluations/a section continues an examination of a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/Extensions-Services-Evaluations" Joomla! Template Frameworks and Toolsets/a. Podcast interviews and comparative analysis of three leading template providers: JoomlArt, JoomlaPraise, and ProThemer are available, along with advice on how to select templates,a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/113-Team-EaSE-Article-SEO-Joomla-and-your-Template" improve site search engine optimization/a gt;and a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/90" additional learning resources/a ./p h3Events and User Groups/h3 pThis month, the a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/Joomla-Events-User-Groups" Joomla! Events and User Groups/a section features a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/120-San-Jose-becomes-San-J-Oct-1-3-2010" Joomla! Day West 2010/a , a community event to be held October 1-3 in San Jose, California, and a story about the August 27-29th a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/104-Joomla-to-be-featured-at-OpenCamp-Dallas" OpenCa.mp/a in Dallas, Texas, where members of the Joomla! community will present./p h3Features and Leadership/h3 pThis month's a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/feature-stories" Feature Stories/a include an a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/118" in-depth interview with Elin Waring, former President of OSM/a and an a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/115" invitation to community/a to a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/116-international_splash_page" submit non-English articles/a . In a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/Leadership-Connections"Leadership Connections/a , the magazine spotlights a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/128-clt-mike_carson"Mike Carson/a who supports Joomla! User Groups. Open Source Matters board member, Steve Burge, a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/127-Open-Source-Matters-Report-for-July-2010" discusses July board activities/a and thanks outgoing members Elin Waring and Dave Huelsmann for their service./p h3For more information/h3 pFor more information about the a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/" Joomla! Community Magazine/a , contact a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/itemlist/user/66-paulorwig" Paul Orwig/a , Lead Editor and Joomla! Community Leadership Team member. For more information about Joomla!, see the a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/topics/item/103-joomla-in-the-press-media-August-2010"Joomla! in the Press and Media/a section. The a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/authors" Joomla! Community Magazine Team/a invites those interested to a href="http://magazine.joomla.org/author-resources" get involved/a and help tell the Joomla! story./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P5F3wM6JxWNKh-bAo8g82L8q6EM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P5F3wM6JxWNKh-bAo8g82L8q6EM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P5F3wM6JxWNKh-bAo8g82L8q6EM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/P5F3wM6JxWNKh-bAo8g82L8q6EM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=KFslHunSO9M:8ktOWbePV-8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=KFslHunSO9M:8ktOWbePV-8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?i=KFslHunSO9M:8ktOWbePV-8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /div
Joomla 1.6 Beta 6 Now Available
pimg vspace="0" hspace="10" align="left" alt="1.6 Beta Logo" src="http://www.joomla.org/images/stories/beta_logo.png" /The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 6 (a href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5346" target="_blank"download/a). strongIMPORTANT NOTE:/strong This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only./p pSince the Joomla 1.6 beta 5 release on Jun 12, we have fixed approximately 98 issues in the tracker. This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the a target="_blank" href="http://groups.google.com/group/joomlabugsquad"Joomla! Bug Squad/a. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!/p pSee the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release./p pWhat's next?/p pThis is the fifth in our series of continuous beta releases. Beta 7 will be released on August 9, 2010./p pDownload here: a href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5346" target="_blank"http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowseamp;frs_package_id=5346/a/p pRelated Links:/p pJoomla! 1.6 Development Shifting Gearsbr / a target="_blank" href="http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1168-joomla-16-development-shifting-gears.html"http://community.joomla.org/wbr/wbrblogs/leadership/1168-joomla-wbr/wbr16-development-shifting-gears.wbr/wbrhtml/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/../../../../announcements/release-news/5275-joomla-16-beta-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/wbr/wbrannouncements/release-news/wbr/wbr5275-joomla-16-beta-now-wbr/wbravailable.html/a/p pJoomla 1.6 Beta 2 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/../../../../announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5278-joomla-16-beta2-now-available.html/a/ppJoomla 1.6 Beta 3 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/../../../../announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta3-now-available.html/a/ppJoomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/../../../../announcements/release-news/5280-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta4-now-available.html/a/ppJoomla 1.6 Beta 5 Now Availablebr / a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/../../../../announcements/release-news/5282-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html"http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5279-joomla-16-beta5-now-available.html/a/p p#160;/p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_HzCNu_UrBo9xNnGyYTycxDDLqw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_HzCNu_UrBo9xNnGyYTycxDDLqw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_HzCNu_UrBo9xNnGyYTycxDDLqw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_HzCNu_UrBo9xNnGyYTycxDDLqw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=rIMbYQrFFdQ:ciOwCQFEZlQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joomla.org/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?a=rIMbYQrFFdQ:ciOwCQFEZlQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JoomlaAnnouncements?i=rIMbYQrFFdQ:ciOwCQFEZlQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /div