Appendix B. Resources

As with all open source applications, Joomla’s supporting communities—from developers, to extension creators and template designers, from personal blogs to tutorials—is vast.

This appendix gives you a brief overview of the major improvements of Joomla 1.5.x over 1.0.x, examples of sites currently using Joomla, and a few links for more information, templates, and extensions.

What’s New in Joomla 1.5.x

An overview of the improvements of Joomla 1.5.x over Joomla 1.0.x follows (to get a full list of differences, visit www.joomla.org):

  • Completely reworked administrative interface

  • Improved template preview

  • Better program logic separated from design logic; easier for designers to truly customize every detail of a Joomla template

  • New plugin ...

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