Feb
10
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Some Attractive Joomla Sites |
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Joomla -
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
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Historically, I've had trouble finding really attractive Joomla sites aside from those using professional templates from places like Rockettheme . Too many Joomla sites look like...Joomla sites. If you can tell it's joomla within a couple of seconds of loading the home page, chances are it's a pretty lame (full disclosure: this site is currently of my own design - which may change - and I don't have any illusions that it's particularly attractive or non-Joomla like).
I recently came across a couple of websites that showcase some Joomla sites that, for the most part, break out of the basic Joomla design mold, and show what can be done with a little creativity:  Be first to comment this article |  Add as favourites (0) | Print | E-mail
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Feb
09
2008
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Joomla, Other Open Source CMSs affecting bottom line of Vignette, Others |
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Joomla -
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
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An Australian IT site (aptly named "Australian IT") reports that commercial CMS provider Vignette
has struggled recently due in part to competition from open source CMS solutions like Joomla. In the article, industry analyst John Brand reports there is "competition from open source web content management solutions such as Joomla, OpenCMS, Bricolage, and around 50 to 100 other niche commercial and open source packages."
The interesting part of this is that it suggest that companies big enough to afford Vignette are sometimes choosing Joomla over something that costs a minimum of $75,000 (source: http://www.intelligententerprise.com). Ok, to me, that's a no brainer. But to the CIO with a large budget and a "you get what you pay for" attitude", choosing Joomla over Vignette would be a big deal.
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Feb
05
2008
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The Holy Grail(s) of Joomla(ness) |
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Joomla -
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
This post is not 1.0 or 1.5 specific ( though I'm really warming up to 1.5 in spite of my recent post kind of dismissing it for the present).
What I can't understand is why Joomla isn't either built from the ground up with the following or someone hasn't created really full-featured, robust, free or commerical, offerings of the following:
1. A decent Shopping Cart
Virtuemart ? Give me a break. A real pain in the ass to get it looking like the rest of your site. Just plain ugly unless you use one of the shape5 templates (they must be very patient over there). I've had terrible issues with SSL. When hunting around the code in a fruitless quest to assimilate Virtuemart with the design of a site I was working on, I still found references to 'phpshop' or something, which I think was the name of it prior to being stuffed into Joomla.
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Jan
10
2008
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3 things about Coda that still bug me. |
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MacOS -
Applications
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
I’ve already addressed my issues with Coda in a previous post , but as you adapt, issues come and go. Here’s what’s currently bugging me:
1. “Untitled.html” always being there when I don’t have an existing file open is just a nuisance. If I want to create a new file, I’ll create one.
2. I want Coda to always default to the local file listing for a site when I open the site (i.e., let me choose the default behavior) . Even if I happen to be working the remote side, close the program, then re-open it, I’m almost always going to want to work from local >> remote, and a few times I’ve started working on a remote file before realizing what I was doing. Messes up my workflow, dammit!
3. Just because I had 10 files open for a site the when I last worked on that site doesn’t mean I want those 10 files open the next time. Give me an option to turn that off.
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Jan
03
2008
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Joomla 1.5 is almost here, now what? |
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Joomla -
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
With the availability of Release Candidate 4, Joomla 1.5 stable is almost here. I've been exclusively using 1.0 (1.0.13a to be exact) for all client installs despite the promises of 1.5 release candidates and the widespread use of it already on a number of production sites.
The question is - considering available extensions, what good is 1.5 (stable) to me now?Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (0) | Print | E-mail |
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