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Joomla 3 Template Design and Overrides

Our new class and webinar schedule is up-and-running.

Every Monday, we release a new video class. Every Friday, we hold a webinar for our members on that same topic.

This week we complete our Joomla 3 Intermediate class.

We've released a series of videos on Joomla 3 template design and overrides.



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Is Drupal Entityforms a Good Alternative to Webform?

Last month, we ran a webinar called 45 Modules in 45 Minutes.

In the webinar we listed 45 of the best Drupal modules in 45 minutes.

One of the modules we mentioned was Webform, which is a module we use in every beginner class.

In the comments on that webinar, someone mentioned Entityforms as a better option than Webform and one that is more tightly integrated to Drupal.

I decided to take Entityforms for a test drive ...



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5 Free Tickets for Joomla Day Atlanta

Come and join us at Joomla Day Atlanta on April 5.

This will be one of the biggest and best Joomla Days of the year.

We're going to be at the beautiful Global Learning Center in the heart of the Georgia Tech campus and Midtown Atlanta.

We're going to feature 4 tracks of excellent web education. Join us for excellent presentations from inside and outside the Joomla world.

Oh, and we've 5 tickets to give away.



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Akeeba CMS Update for Joomla

The Akeeba Team recently released Akeeba CMS Update, an extension that improves the Joomla! update experience. Its main features include improved reliability across web hosts, update notifications by email, automatic updates via cron, and a backup-before-update feature.

If it gets good feedback and there's interest, it could potentially get submitted for inclusion in the Joomla core. The Akeeba Team are also the authors of the current Joomla built-in core updater, which I thought is reliable already, but I guess they wanted to take it to the next level. Kudos to them.

With that in mind, here's a preview of Akeeba CMS Update Alpha.



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Drupal: You have not created any content types yet

Some times we write long blog posts with detailed, technical explanations.

Other times we write about very quick and simple fixes. This is one of those very quick posts.

We've had questions from OSTraining members about an error message on Drupal's Add content page. The message they get is: "You have not created any content types yet".



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Topher's Testing: WP Updates Notifier Plugin

This is video revies is part a series we call "Topher's Testing".

Topher is our WordPress teacher, and he's sitting down to test some really useful new WordPress plugins.

This week Topher introduces us to the WP Updates Notifier plugin, which monitors your WordPress installation for core, plugin and theme updates and emails you when they are available.

This plugin is an option if you don't login to your WordPress admin regularly or you support client sites.



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Joomla 3 Intermediate Class and Webinar

Our new class and webinar schedule is up-and-running.

Every Monday, we release a new video class. Every Friday, we hold a webinar for our members on that same topic.

This week's topic is Joomla 3. We've just released the first half of a new Joomla 3 Intermediate class.

Rod our Joomla teacher, takes you through the process of building a complete Joomla site. 



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WordPress Web Application Development Book

Every month, OSTraining members get a new, professional web development book to download.

Your book for March is "WordPress Web Application Development".

WordPress has moved beyond blogs and is now moving beyond websites too. Many developers are using WordPress as web development framework.

This 376-page book is a comprehensive resource for building web applications with WordPress.

This book normally sells for $45. You get it for free if you're an OSTraining member.



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Can You Trust BuiltWith, W3Techs and Software Usage Statistics?

The Drupal Association put out a press release today, quoting some statistics about Drupal.

The press release said:

According to Drupal.org stats, Drupal now powers more than 1 million websites.
According to Builtwith Research, Drupal powers more than 12% of the world’s top 100,000 websites.


I regularly see stats like this fly around the web, particularly on Twitter.

So, I decided to use these Drupal stats as an example and answer the question: "Can you trust software usage statistics?"



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Learning Launch: WordPress Web Application Development

Every month, OSTraining members get a new, professional web development book to download.

Your book for February is "WordPress Web Application Development".

WordPress has moved beyond blogs and is now is moving beyond websites too. Many developers are using WordPress as web development framework.

This 376-page book is a comprehensive resource for building web applications with WordPress.

This book normally sells for $45. You get it for free if you're an OSTraining member.



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