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46 Joomla Questions Answered
Transcript From Episode CMSW2009-08-24

Barrie North has put up the transcripts. He held a highly successful free webinar on Joomla as part of promoting the second edition of my book on Safari Books Online. Ably assisted By Steve Burge of Alledia.com, we gave an hour long intro to Joomla, and were also able to answer many questions. 46 of them to be exact; here are the answers. —-Newbie questions included, what do you recommend for a forum that’s simple to administrate for a newbie? How about a community? A lot of questions on the 1.5 to 1.6. For instance, there are a lot of 1.5 extensions that rely on section category in the backend to display there content, will they work on 1.6?

His book got a strong review on Slashdot.org from Michael J. Ross. “There are countless content management systems (CMSs) available for building websites, and they offer varying levels of built-in functionality. But once a site developer has successfully installed any given CMS, a critical form of help (or hindrance) is the CMS’s documentation, which for some CMSs is quite impressive, and for others absolutely atrocious. Joomla is a powerful and popular choice for Web developers, but can be daunting to newbies confused by its non-intuitive menu structure and restrictive content hierarchy. The documentation for Joomla is frequently criticized, for various reasons, and that may largely account for the popularity of third-party books, such as Barrie M. North’s Joomla! 1.5: A User’s Guide, now in its second edition.”

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