General News

Joomla! Community Magazine - November 2010 Issue Released

The November issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here with news about exciting volunteer opportunities, along with inspirational Joomla! success stories, invaluable how-to articles, and so much more.

In this Issue:

Editorial

Joomla! Rising!, written by Dianne Henning

Feature stories

The Joomla! Haiku: Share yours!

International stories

Leadership Connections

Website Case Studies

  • Robert Vining brings us to Zuno Studios' Maribel Lackey, Director of New Media & Client Services to ask her about a recent site build they just completed: Women's Refugee Commission.
  • Keeping it on the African continent, and welcoming Joomla! community contributor,Phehello Mofokeng, we learn how the Dihlabeng Local Municipality embraces the positive and strong traits of Joomla! and rebrands their website.

Extensions and Services Evaluations

Developers Workbench

  • In this month's The Joomla! Setup, Arlen Walker takes us to the Big Easy with an interview of art and renaissance progeny, Louis Landry.

Did you know…?

Designer's studio

Administrator's toolkit

  • Community contributor Theophanis Mastakas gives us some sound advice on website security.

Joomla! in the Press/Media

On the lighter side...

A special thanks to the members of the Joomla! community who are contributing authors in this month's issue: Michael Babker, Lars Eggert, Mike Hamanaka, Theophanis Mastakas and Phehello Mofokeng.
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Joomla! Extensions Directory Reaches 138 Million Downloads!

138 Million Extension DownloadsThis past week the Joomla! Extensions Directory reached 6000 published listings.  However, it also reached 138,000,000 downloads of extensions!  This impressive number surpasses the other top open-source CMS competitors and shows substantial growth and extendability.   Read more about this achievement and what's coming up for the Joomla! Extensions Directory here.

Joomla Press Titles from Pearson

Introducing Joomla Press - Books reflect best practices and the mission, vision and values of the Joomla Community

Dive into more Joomla! knowledge

The releases for Joomla Press were announced October 1, 2010 during Joomla Day West in San Jose, California.

The first two titles slated for publishing are The Official Joomla! Book which is scheduled to be published in December 2010 and the second title Joomla! Explained:  Your Step-by-Step Guide with a publishing date of early 2011.

The books will be the flagship releases in a new Joomla Press, representing a publishing alliance between Pearson, the global leader in education services and technology, and Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla project.

A portion of the proceeds will go back to the Joomla! Project.

For more information on purchasing and download information, visit InformIT Safari Books