Staying Up to Date with Joomla!

A Content Management System is a software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to.
If your clients need specialized functionality, Joomla! is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free under the GPL license) are available in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

Joomla! is the most popular open source CMS currently available as evidenced by a vibrant and growing community of friendly users and talented developers. Joomla!'s roots go back to 2000 and, with over 200,000 community users and contributors, the future looks bright for the award-winning Joomla! Project.
Joomla! is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes.

* Corporate Web sites or portals
* Corporate intranets and extranets
* Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
* E-commerce and online reservations
* Government applications
* Small business Web sites
* Non-profit and organizational Web sites
* Community-based portals
* School and church Web sites
* Personal or family homepages

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.14 [Wojmamni ama naiki]. This release contains fixes for two material bugs that were introduced in version 1.5.13 and one low level security issue.

Click here to download Joomla 1.5.14 (Full package)
Click here to find an update package.

An important aspect of Joomla! clubs membership is not only access to the template downloads and new template releases, but also updates to existing templates that correct known issues or bugs as well as expand features and functionality.
Updates can be quite tricky due to the nature of the way the templates and styles are implemented. The logic and styling that controls all of the template features as well as the 'look and feel', is the same code that developers and designers using the templates will modify and customize for their site. The template logic mainly consists of HTML, CSS, and PHP which once modified, sometimes heavily depending on the needs of the site developer, make an automated "patch" or automatic update system cumbersome as a bad merge, or overwriting files and code would wipe out any customizations.
To update the template to the latest version, you can either download the latest template package and replace the existing template with the newly downloaded one, or manually update the files listed in the update changelog either by replacing them with the ones from the newly downloaded template package, or by merging in the changes using merge software.
With CSS files in particular, it is generally best to utilize merge or differencing software to compare the latest updated CSS file, to the one you have customized (since most site developers will make extensive modifications to the CSS files when building their site). Applications such as WinMerge or Araxis Merge allow you to compare the two files, and merge in any new changes to the file, without erasing any modifications you have made. This will allow you to take advantage of the latest bug fixes, tweaks, or functionality updates, without losing customizations and changes you have made.

SOBI2 Download Plugin
The SOBI2 Download Plugin extends SOBI2 to a document management and download system. With this plugin it is easy to create a download directory or a documents directory using SOBI2.

Jumi
Jumi is an universal multipurpose module and plugin.

* you can include php html javascript scripts into the modules position and content articles
* you can include thousands of your scripts into the modules and content articles with just one module and/or plugin installation
* you can even include static html or txt pages into your pages without using wrapper component
* you can easily set up, change and pass to the php script unlimited number of argument values and thus modify the behavior of the content of your modules and articles, you have full access to Joomla!/Mambo variables, functions, constants, etc. in your php scripts.
* Jumi is ideal solution for including banners or text ads into your Joomla! site: no matter if your own or affiliates ones, easy and fast inclusion of smart javascript, php, html and dhtml scripts into your Joomla! content, fast development of not only small and simple customized modules and plugin solutions based on php, javascript and html or dhtml scripts like flash shows, ads and picture presentations, forms inclusion, etc. but for the development of more sophisticated solutions including database data processing.

PDA mambot
Enables a PDA version of the site so that users could visit a site through a pocket computer.

joomlaXplorer
joomlaXplorer is a File and FTP Manager. It allows you to edit files, delete, copy, rename, archive and unpack files/directories directly on your server. You can - Browse Directories & Files - Edit, Copy, Move and Delete files - Search, Upload and Downloading files - Create new files and directories - Change file permissions (chmod) and much more.

Social Bookmarking Buttons Plugin
This highly customizable plugin adds social bookmaring links, icons and "smart" buttons to your website.

Mass Content
This extension will allow you to: - create multiple pages(static and non static) with only titles - add these pages to a section and a categorie - link the created pages to a menu - add some intro text - edit some parameters (published, access level..) - create multiple sections and categories with a similar way - delete content, categories and sections Only a couple of clicks are needed!

Joomla Content Obfuscator
JosObfuscator tool is a very powerful mambot (Plug-in) to prevent automated systems, spammers, email hunters and even regular human copy from being theft your emails and content.

jReviews
jReviews is a review and rating system (or PHP review script) for the Joomla and Mambo Content Management Systems. With jReviews you can easily build a sophisticated review site or add a review section to your site.

Page Peel Banner
Page Peel Banner is a Candy Joomla Ads System. Use this to display your ads.

Xmap
Xmap allows you to create a map of your site using the structure of your menus.

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