One of the main, if not the main, things that makes Open Source software different is that the code is freely available and anyone can contribute fixes and new functionality. All those contributions need people to test them and the more people that help to test then the better the code will be and we will all benefit.
It's often hard to remember that while we live all our working day (and often all the night) inside a Joomla web site our users don't. They might only need to do something on the web site once a month or maybe not even that often. So no matter how much time you spend to simplify the process they will always forget something.
When you only have one or two content creators then Joomla is pretty good but when you increase the number to ten or twenty with their content distributed across the site it can be improved.
For my latest project I need, for security purposes, to check the details of every user who registers on the site BEFORE I approve them. Dependent on their answers to the questions on the registration form they will either be rejected, approved or approved as members of a privileged usergroup.
Something that has been on my personal Joomla todo list for quite a long time has been a real coming soon page. Setting Joomla to offline mode is OK but it looks ugly and because it requires you to login to view the site you don't get to see the site as a regular user will do.
In part one of this series of blog posts I showed you how I created a simple distraction free template to use when editing content. In this post I am going to expand on that work and customise the content creation form itself. Testing showed that there are too many fields on the default form and that this was confusing to users.
Editing Joomla content on the front end is really easy and its something that Joomla has supported for a very long time. But I have found that if you have a complex website with lots of modules on the page then those modules become a distraction. My user wants to click on the edit link and just have the article to edit. No modules, no menus, no slideshows cluttering up the page and distracting them from writing their content.
It's been a while since I posted anything here but I seem to have some spare time now that I haven't had for a while.
I just completed a site for my synagogue. Along the way I hit numerous bugs or limitations with joomla that I had to find a solution to. This short series of posts will describe the issue and the solution that I adopted.
(I am not a lawyer and I am not a tax accountant and I am not German)
The German Joomla community needs your help - please take a few minutes to read this and then share it with all your Joomla and Open Source software friends.
J and Beyond e.V. is the legal entity that supports the Joomla community in Germany and operates the JoomlaDay Germany, JoomlaCamp Germany and J & Beyond conferences. It was founded in 2004 as a non-profit organisation but now that non-profit status is in danger.
