Joomla! - Main Main News Help Forums Developers OSM Flexible Simple Elegant Customizable Powerful Cutting Edge Content Management 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. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Demo Download Details   Main Menu What is Joomla About Us FAQ Official News Roadmap Joomla License Joomla Logo Sponsors Download 1.0.5 Online Demo of 1.0.x Bug Tracker for 1.0.x Version Info 1.0.x In the Press Search Submit Community News If you have some Joomla! news that you would like to share with the community, please submit your short story, article, announcement or review here . Syndication from Frontpage Welcome to Joomla! Joomla! 1.1 Developer Power, User Excitement Sunday, 01 January 2006 Well folks, we've had this under wraps somewhat but what better time to share some good news than at New Year. The concrete is setting on our Joomla!™ 1.1 codeset and it will be delivering many cool features, primarily designed to provide Third Party Developers (3PDs) with more power and ease of code integration. Yes, it's true. Joomla! 1.1 will provide an entry into a modern codeset allowing Object Orientated development, with inbuilt internationalisation (multi-lingual support), a refactored core and, FTP extension installation. Put simply, core restructuring and modernisation of code all built on a robust framework which allows the developer more power and flexibility with less effort. UTF-8 built in — Internationalisation (translation of the core system) allowing multi-lingual support Core Restructuring — modernisation of core, providing a more powerful, flexible framework FTP uploading of extensions (components, modules, plugins, templates), resolving file ownership and Safe Mode issues Database drivers — a project providing the ability for Joomla! to work with databases other than mySQL Hooks for officially supported components already in the core Plugin framework - a system to allow easy integration of external web applications Read more...   Joomla! Powered in 2006 ... Friday, 30 December 2005 With a New Year around the corner, the Joomla!™ Team would like to wish the community the best. Thanks to those of you who've taken the time to write with your wishes for the year end. Our happy worker bees have been continuing development during the Festive Season and released 1.0.5 in time for Christmas . We've got some more good news coming in the New Year.  In fact, we've already hinted a couple of times about raising the bar in terms of power and standards for third party developers.  We've also got some news about a forthcoming release with both feature and functionality improvements. 2006 will see us build on new technologies enhanced by a more robust, standardised, modern codeset. What are we saying here Well I guess you'll need to wait to see the announcement on January 1st! Until then, enjoy your New Year celebrations and if you're not partying too hard drop by for a Joomla!™ Powered 2006.    Double Dutch Treat for Joomla! Tuesday, 27 December 2005 Two Dutch mainstream information technology magazines have delivered Christmas/New Year t