With Joomla 1.6 release candidate upon us, one of the first new features many Joomla enthusiasts are likely to explore is ACL (access control levels). Like most software, you change settings and see what happens. Whatever you do, be very careful when configuring the Super Admin permission. The Super Admin permission overrides all other permissions in Joomla’s ACL, such that a user with the Super Admin permission can create, edit, delete, change state, and configure anything [...]

The Media Manager is a longstanding feature in Joomla. It came over from the Mambo days. Between Joomla 1.0 and 1.5, not many changes were made to the Media Manager. Along the way, the Media Manager even lost functionality, when it lost the ability to upload multiple images at once. Fortunately, the Media Manager has been granted a bit of love in Joomla 1.6. Let’s take a look at some of the new features you [...]

Both Joomla and WordPress are established web design applications used by millions of websites across the world. Web Design Companies and web designers have in general supported various open source software for developing websites. Joomla and WordPress are two of the most popular ones and have established communities on the internet. There are hundreds of quality forums and blogs dedicated specifically towards the use of Joomla and WordPress for designing websites. Other web design and [...]

The “Menu Manager” Has a Purpose In 1.5 beginners always expect the Menu Manager to do much more … such as actually manage something. In 1.6 the Menu Manager is much more closely integrated with the display of menu links. Oh, and you no longer get those four confusing boxes when making a new menu: The “Tools” Menu Has Gone I hate explaining to beginners what the “Tools” Menu is and why its there: “well, [...]