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Joomla 2.5 Upgrade

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With the release of Joomla! 2.5, We’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our one click install to the latest version. Joomla has continued to develop in leaps and bounds over the years, and 2.5 follows version 1.7 in extending the CMS’s functionality further.

What’s new

Joomla 2.5 is a significant release and there are plenty of new features and improvements across the platform.

New features includes:

• Enhanced developer framework for easier third party themes and plugins
• Improved ‘Smart Search’ website search
• Enhanced offline/maintenance mode
• CAPTCHAs for user registration
• Mobile enhancements
• User notes functionality
• Subcategory filtering
• Custom menu usability changes
• Updated MooTools compatibility.

To find out more about the new features (with detailed explanations of the changes), go here.

How to install

If you’re a Business Pro or Premium package web hosting customer, simply log into eXtend and scroll down to the Joomla 2.5 icon to install via our one-click installer.

Enjoy Joomla 2.5!

The benefits of using Joomla as a Content Management System

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Using Joomla as a content management system (CMS), enables you to create and manage websites in a very simple way. Thanks to its licensing conditions (GPL), you do not need to pay for the software itself. Because of its open source nature, it is also possible to customize the code to best suit your needs and requirements. The flexibility comes from add – on modules provided which can be easily installed.

Joomla

Joomla! is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques and software design patterns, stores data in a MySQL database, and includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, news flashes, blogs, polls, search and many more .

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework was built so that anyone with the knowledge could override the core of the CMS without actually modifying the original code.

Joomla can be use to create a wide range of websites such as

  • Portals or corporate websites
  • Online shopping websites, ecommerce applications
  • Small or large business websites
  • Organizations websites
  • Government applications
  • School and church websites
  • Personal blogs or family homepages
  • Online community portals
  • Online newspapers websites or magazines

and with over 7,000 extensions available on the Joomla official website extension directory, one of the most daunting aspects could be deciding which Joomla extension is right for the job.

At Websoftnet, we provide a control panel which automates the deployment of a basic Joomla web site. Joomla is beneficial to both website owners and web developers.

You can view or download the latest collection of Joomla templates here


 

Web hosting content management system and blogs

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Content Management Systems (CMS) are great tools for maximising the full potential of your web hosting.  This blog post will look at the various web hosting scripts and web hosting tools we provide at Websoftnet with your web hosting to help you simplify your web publishing. We have included the blogging scripts that come free with our web hosting as the line between the two is becoming increasingly blurred.

WordPress
WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It’s easy to install and use with our web hosting one click install script and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. WordPress is the most popular blog software in use today

Joomla
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Ready to be installed in your web hosting control panel, Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Mambo
Mambo is a fully featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Geeklog
Geeklog allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, web links, and more

Nucleus
Nucleus offers you the building blocks when you need your web hosting to create a memorable web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.

Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website through their web hosting control panel. Drupal is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

Typo3
TYPO3 is a content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. Using a graphical user interface which interacts with your web hosting, authors can simply create text, insert images and multimedia files, schedule content (and much more) to build and maintain a dynamic website. This is especially true if you take advantage of TYPO3’s server-side graphics generation for making image menus, graphical headlines, etc.

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Create killer website with zero coding skills

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Building a website that looks pretty good and has working (and secure) scripts can be a strenuous task. Below is a list of resources for you to take Create killer website with zero coding skillsadvantage of if you need an element for your website but creating it yourself is beyond your skill set.

Edit content with minimal knowledge of HTML

If you are a Websoftnet Premium web hosting customer you can install Content Management Systems (CMS) such as WordPress (yes its officially for blogs but it is being used more and more as a CMS), Joomla, Drupal or Mambo with just one click. Once these are set up you need never edit an HTML file again (although you can if you still want to!). To get started log in to your eXtend web hosting control panel.

Create attractive looking website without HTML/ CSS or Illustrator

I can hold a paint brush but that doesn’t mean I can paint and just because you know how to use the software that doesn’t mean you can design a beautiful website. To get yourself started or even to use it as it is “out of the box” here are some great websites to download readymade designs. Some are free, others require payment.

Edit images without Photoshop

Admittedly you’ll never be able to hit the dizzy heights of those that can use the likes of Photoshop but you don’t need to for most sites. Being able to rotate, re-size and crop an image is enough for the majority of editing requirements and you can do it all online with these programs:

Deploying scripts without understanding the code

It may sound odd that anyone could so this, but as the majority of free scripts come with nice clear step by step installation instructions, with only a little bit of knowledge you can add advanced scripts to your site quickly and relatively easily. For example, if faced with a blank text editor I wouldn’t be able to write a secure “contact us” form, but I can certainly copy & paste one in to my site or click ‘install’ on a WordPress plug-in!

Still not enough? if you don’t want to have to do any of the work, you can always buy a readymade website: http://flippa.com


 

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