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Joomla 1.5 released

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Joomla!, the open-source content-management system has reached a major milestone today with the release of Joomla! 1.5. Like similar projects WordPress and Drupal can be used to drive a blog or full website. Joomla!, which formed in 2005 as a fork of Mambo has a strong developer community and focuses on being simple, elegant and flexible.

The API has received significant updates in Joomla! 1.5, for both the interface and the structural framework. The administrative interface is now more streamlined and easier to use. It is now easy to add and manage media items directly into posts. There are also improved pagination controls and search-engine friendly URLs.

Designers now have greater control over how their layouts, and can automatically override a custom solution over the table-heavy output from Joomla! of old. This model is being adopted into third-party extensions. Additionally designers can now create custom modules to have greater control over how their sites look.

For developers, significant changes to the API are aimed to make Joomla! easily workable with future enhancements. The Joomla! 1.5 API is object oriented and pattern based, while also offering compatibility with both PHP 4.3 and PHP 5.

All in all, the enhancements look pretty impressive and we cannot wait to try out the new Joomla!. Stay tuned to DownloadSquad as we compare other content-management systems later this week.

Filed under: Developer, Text, Blogging

Wysiwyg Pro eases blogging

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If you blog, or use web-based discussion forums, or use any sort of web mail app, then you know just how frustrating it can be to compose rich content with the limited tools provided for word processing on the web . To go from writing in a feature-rich word processor like Word to composing in a stripped-down text box with very little formatting functionality. Forget about embedding pictures, and definitely forget about embedding YouTube videos.

But Wysiwyg Pro from ViziMetrics, now at version 3, makes life a little easier for those of us who spend plenty of time composing content for the web. This tool is a rich, web-based graphical editor that's compatible with Joomla, Wordpress, and Mambo, among other web content management systems. The editor provides full formatting capability, even allowing you to pre-program HTML code blocks as dockable toolbar buttons. This way, if you need to perform a repetitive task (say, put a blank floating table with room for a picture and caption in your posting), you needn't waste time typing code over and over. Wysiwyg Pro includes an editable, color-coded HTML source view as well as a draft preview.

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Joomla! 1.5 Beta to be released October 12th

JoomlaJoomla (formerly Mambo), is set to release its latest, version 1.5 on October 12th, one year to the day that the Joomla team began coding it. Thirty-two "man-years" of work ($1.7 million in wages) have been put into Joomla's 1.5 release. Not bad. Joomla remains one of the most robust and comprehensive content management systems on the market, is open-source and free for the downloading. I have used Joomla and Mambo for a number of years, and though it has its quirks, that is generally due to your hosts problems, not the CMS itself. One good tip is to be sure that the host you use is Joomla friendly, or better yet, will install it for you via a one-click install process. It is safe to say that not many hosts will support the new version of Joomla, but that shouldn't stop you.

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