Monday, May 7, 2007

New Joomla 1.5 - Beta 2. Amazing

"Joomla! proudly presents its most important coding adrenaline surge to the development and designer community. With today's release of Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2, we're shifting gears into turbo mode; an entirely re-factored core, internationalisation, FTP layering, next-generation API and framework that's so flexible and powerful and, of course, a designer's dream for unparalleled templating flexibility."

Well after quick overview of new Joomla templating system I have figured it was outstanding achievement. Templates for Joomla will be better, more flexibile and userfriendly.

This is what we have been waiting for a quiet long time.

So stay tuned in because in June we plan to make new Joomla 1.5 template with some cool stuff.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Free Wordpress Theme - Clean

Although we at www.zkaradza.com develop Joomla themes, up 'till now, we started to create themes for Wordpress. Although I was sceptic about this bloging platform I was suprised how more freedom you have when creating themese for Wordpress. I must say I love it.

So last night I have created my first theme for Wordpress. You can download it at www.zkaradza.com (download section).

Sunday, March 4, 2007

What can I do with Joomla?

Have you asked your self what I can do with my Joomla. How can I customize it to suite my needs. Well if you know what are you doing you can make almost everything you wish.

For last few years I have been running news site in Joomla (started with Mambo but then converted it into Joomla) at www.livno-online.com. I have developed a few modules on my own to style the frontpage in different way on this site.

Also at www.livno-online.com/frontpage.jpg you can see current project that I work on. At first glance you would never notice that is Joomla.

Summary:
With Joomla you can create whatever you wish. You just need time and knowledge.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Green Blog - Free Joomla Template

Zkaradza.com has released a new free template for Joomla CMS. Live demo can be seen at www.zkaradza.com/showcase/ and you can download it at www.zkaradza.com

Friday, February 16, 2007

How to install Joomla?

Before you start installing Joomla you will be needing a hosting account which supports PHP and MySQL. There are plenty of web hosting companies where you can host your web site. For example godaddy.com. Also do not forget to get your domain name (e.g. www.example.com).

Once you get your domain name and hosting account next step is downloading Joomla instalation package from official site www.joomla.org.

After you have downloaded the package unzip the archive on your desktop and upload it to your host. Once all files are transfered open your favourite browser and type in address bar name of your domain name followed by /index.php (www.example.com/index.php). If you have done everything as described in section above you should see in your browser window welcome screen.

In upper right corner click "Next" button. Next step is very important. In this step you should enter name of your localhost (usually you should write "localhost"), database username, database password and finally name of the database you wish to use (you need to create database in you phpAdmin interface).
Do not forget to check the checkbox to populate your database with demo data. This way it will be easier to learn how to use Joomla.

Click "Next" button in upper right corner.

Next screen gives you a information about your installation. In this step you only need to enter your email address and password for administration.

Click "Next" button.

In this screen enter your site name and click "Next".

Last screen prints your username and password and informs you that you need to delete installation folder before you can see your site. Delete installation folder on your host using FTP.

After that type the name of your domain in address bar and you should see default Joomla site.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

What is Joomla?

Joomla is Content Managment System (CMS).  With this software you 
can have your own web page in matter of minutes and best of all it is 
completly free. To run your site in on web using Joomla you need hosting account with PHP and MySql support.

If you want to find more about this software please visit 
www.joomla.org where you can download Joomla CMS and read 
more about it.

In next few articles I will explain all tips nad tricks on how to 
use Joomla either for your personal sites or business sites.