Compass Designs .net

Its been a while since we have been able to post new Joomla tutorials here at compassdesigns.net. I have been hard at work on the 2nd edition of my Joomla book and the accompanying Joomla video.

But I am excited to say that I managed to convince David Towers from Good Web Practices to take some time and contribute one for us:

How to Optimize Images in Joomla 1.5

You may have noticed a couple of days ago, I added some new community/social networking features to compassdesigns.net - powered by Joomla Jomsocial. "What's the deal?" you might ask...

Over the last few months I have noticed more and more of my blog posts and presentations talking about community in some fashion. From presentations at the Denver CMS Expo about Building Online Communities, to Joomla tutorials about Building Online Communities with Joomla, trying to help build communities around charity organizations websites and musings on "are Online Communities the new Blogs?". I have even watched over the growth of two communities in my own businesses at Joomlashack and Joomla Simplweb.

This hasn't been an intentional path, but last week I really noticed it for the first time.

Or is is Twit?

It got mentioned a couple of times at the Denver Joomla CMS Expo I was a twitter-hater. I think the expression I used was "web-enabled verbal diarrhoea".

Well, a got a good email from someone with a daft pic, so I thought I would take the plunge.

There are many things that are important in your Joomla hosting company: stability, support and a price you can afford.

When it comes to hosting for Joomla, the picture is even more complicated. The average web host server is not usually optimized for Joomla Joomla. Not only that, getting help for your Joomla questions can be difficult, if not impossible.

Compass Design is pleased to announce the launch of a new service to solve the problem of easy to use Joomla hosting. The service is called Simplweb and it provides instant fully managed and supported Joomla 1.5 hosting with rich educational materials.

Need to get the most out of Joomla Joomla?

Steve Burge of alledia.com has a great summary of Joomla training across the US. There are 10 more days you can get world class experts to help you with Joomla at venues across the US.

• Boston, MA - Sept 19th (Compass Design)
• Hartford, CT - Oct 3rd (Compass Design)
• Albany, NY - Oct 17th (Compass Design)
• Washington DC - Nov. 7th (Alledia)
• New York City - Nov. 15th (Alledia)
• Tampa, FL - Nov. 22nd (Alledia)
• Denver, CO - Dec. 5th/6th (Joomla CMS Expo)
  
• St. Louis, MO - Dec. 7th (Alledia)
• Atlanta, GA - Dec. 13th (Alledia)

You can still Joomla book Joomla Joomla Joomla training in Boston, MA and get $50 off with early bird pricing. There are 12 spots still left, and early bird ends tomorrow. The Manchester, NH class filled up fast, so this might be your only chance to get eastern new England Joomla training!