Friday, June 22, 2012

Joomla’s Latest Features’ Advantages

DCKAP has come up with the latest technologies of Joomla and has enhanced its provisions to clients. Joomla developers from DCKAP have been using Joomla for developing simple blog sites to building complex business websites.
 
The latest release of Joomla and its updates has been reviewed by various Joomla developers and Joomla programmers as one of the best website development applications. Many Joomla developers from all around the world using various platforms such as Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux and Mac OS X, have been using this open source content management framework for publishing and developing content on the world wide web and independently.
 
Joomla has attained the position of being one of the best content management systems for various reasons but the reason for the increase in the number of Joomla developer and Joomla programmers is Joomla’s search engine friendly aspect.
 
There are various techniques used by a Joomla developer during the development of a website using Joomla which boosts its chances of being optimally placed in a Search Engine such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc. But for using these techniques the Joomla programmer has to have some basic understanding of Search Engine Optimization.
 
As Joomla is an open source content management system the Joomla programmers get a chance to study the system intricately and understand its working efficiently. The core installation package of Joomla is instantly installable and can be used immediately after it is installed. Once the package is installed and loaded in the Joomla developer’s platform it can be used to develop and manage content without adding any independent extensions.
 
These new added features of Joomla are integrated in DCKAP by its team of Joomla programmers in an efficient way to provide customers with applications and content with world-class quality.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

The First JoomlaDay in China

Joomla in China has a long tradition. Derek Joe is the head of the Chinese Translation team since Mambo days and runs joomla.cn. The Chinese Joomla forum attracts 12,000 members. Most of them are spread all over the country. As you know, China is a quite big country and many Joomla users cannot afford to spend a few days for traveling to and attending a JoomlaDay. At this first event 110 delegates registered and 80+ attended.

The event was held in the German Centre. A kind of conference and office space where eBay has its offices too.

Open source software in China is seen as free software in the sense of free, as in free beer. There seems to be also a lack of understanding of the GPL and the ideas of an open source community. People first have to think of earning money and they have simply not the time to investigate and/or collaborate in software projects. Another reason is that the language barrier is quite high. Younger people learn English at school and they understand it very well. Speaking is not that easy. In both ways. English speakers are mostly not able to speak Mandarin and vice versa. An additional little problem is that the Shanghai dialect is very different from Mandarin. 

If you want to run a website in China, you have to ask for a license. If it is an easy case it takes a month, if not it can be very complicated. I met a few people like Derek Joe who consult clients on Joomla websites, ecommerce and other services based on Joomla. Joomla is not well known in China and clients often cannot imagine what's possible with it. It's good to have eBay as a strong voice talking about the platform. It is very necessary to tell people more about the CMS and available extensions! Maybe the translated Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide is a start.

China is blocking websites like Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, YouTube and more (Google+ is available). Many people use proxies to connect to these sites. Luckily, I had an old URL of the Joomla promo video (Joomla