Compass Designs

If you spend your time like I do, checking out the changelogs for Joomla 1.5 beta (that and telemark skiing) you will have noticed the addition of a new accessible and standards compliant template to the Joomla package, one called Beez. Wilco Jansen posted in the Joomla developer blog a 1.5 beta-2 overview and noted the new accessible template.

The upcoming book about Joomla 1.5 is getting close to completion! For the last few chapters I am looking for some help from Compass visitors to help with reviewing some chapters.

One of the chapters is all about creating a school website powered by Joomla. 

If you ask people what they associate with Web 2.0, on the list will be social bookmarking.  If you're not sure what this is it boils down to a high school popularity contest for webpages.  Take digg for example, tens of thousands of people a day submit webpages to the Digg website.  Further tens of thousands of people then get to vote on them or "digg" them.  The ones that get the most votes gets a bubble to the top of the list and get shown on the Digg homepage.

I can't recall why, but today I happened to go to that fine "other" about Joomla, http://compassdesigns.net. I was shocked to find that it was an active competitor to my own blog at http://www.compassdesigns.net. It even had its own page rank!

I immediately reached for my research about canonical URL's to get my pagerank back!

Brian Teeman of www.joomlatraining.co.uk asked me to make a post for the “weekly rant” column in his new Joomla newsletter. I thought I would write something about the challenge of getting graphic designers to understand the dynamic nature of Joomla.

Back in December we asked the Joomlashack community to nominate their favorite charity for our contest. In eight days you sent us over 110 nominations from worthy organizations from around the world. After a fascinating, fun, and difficult evaluation process, Team Joomlashack picked these five charities as our finalists.

And the runaway winner of the contest were the children of Casa do Caminho Orphanage, with almost 50% of the vote.

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