Welcome to the new Compass Designs website, powered by Joomla 1.5! The goal of this new site is to be the place to bookmark if you are looking for quality Joomla  tutorials, news and tips.

Archive >> June 2007

Joomlashack Announces Joomla Survey Winners

Posted on Jun 30, 2007
Tagged in Untagged 

In May you might have been one of the 3600 people that filled out our Joomla user survey. We released the results a few weeks ago (I hope you checked them out), but now I have something more exciting....

The winners have been announced!!

That's right, if you filled out the Joomla survey, you might have won an Amazon gift certificate or templates for life!
 


Joomlashack Launches Shack 2.0

Posted on Jun 25, 2007
Tagged in Untagged 

You may know that our main ecommerce site is www.joomlashack.com where we sell our world class templates and components.

At Joomlashack it's our continual goal to improve our customer experience. We have been taking careful note of suggestions you have all been making in our feedback forum. We are please to announce the launch of Shack 2.0!


Joomla Petition is started

Posted on Jun 20, 2007
Tagged in Untagged 

It seems that some major news outlets are talking about Joomla's recent licensing change, among the big boys were Wired (Joomla Sticks With the GPL), CMS Watch (Joomla! CMS faces a governance challenge) and Linux.com (GPL compliance issues are tearing Joomla! apart). Interestingly it seems some inaccuracies were creeping to their stories, showing just how complex this subject is.

There is also a petition that has been started. 


Whose Joomla is it anyway?

Posted on Jun 15, 2007
Tagged in Untagged 

The core team of Joomla has finally (after 2 months of high tension discussion) issued a statement about a change in the license of Joomla.

I have been keeping my posts relatively neutral, encouraging people to express an opinion, but I have had several people ask me for my take on all this, and what I think the consequences will be. So here goes…


The GPL license debate at Joomla still going after 45 days

Posted on Jun 12, 2007
Tagged in Untagged 

The GPL discussion at the joomla.org forums is still raging on, the thread has now become the most posted to thread in existence and its only a month and a half old!

The debate has expanded from the license into the business models of the the 3rd party developer community.

"Due to the uncertainty of their futures many developers have paused further development of software for Joomla 1.5" www.jcd-a.org

What does this mean for 1.5?


How Many Websites Use Joomla: 30 million?

Posted on Jun 06, 2007
Tagged in Untagged 

Joomla is a powerful open source content management system that has grown in popularity since its rebranding from Mambo in 2006. Its two key features of ease of administration and flexibility of templating have led to it being used to power everything from corporate Intranets to school district sites.



Did you enjoy this Compass Design blog post/tutorial?

Then sign up for regular monthly newsletter. I'll send you great tips on Joomla, email only offers and news from the Joomlasphere.

Email: First Name:

Find more posts tagged with...

RSS Feed For The Joomla Blog


Joomla 1.5 Book

Get the "have to have book" about Joomla 1.5 from Amazon and free access to the companion site, joomlabook.com.

Joomla 1.0 eBook

Get the best selling Joomla 1.0 Admin Manual eBook

Also available in hard copy from
Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

Who's Here

We have 181 guests and 4 members online