JoomStew Radio – August 11, 2010 – Custom vs. Commercial Templates

The first two shows of our 4 Week Template Series focused on User Experience Design and Design Trends with template developers, both commercial and freelance. Today, we discuss how Joomla! site builders use templates in the sites they build.

Our Guests

Joe Sonne of JoeJoomla.com
Dianne Henning of Hosting Paris
Sully Sullivan of Terrace Media Group

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Joomla News

Joomla!Day DC: Saturday, October 16, 2010. The $49.95 early bird ticket price is in effect until August 31. The venue is the Microsoft office building in DC. Seating is limited so sign up fast! The list of speakers is growing it promises to be a star studded event! Our guest Sully is an organizer for this event and he explains more in the podcast... Promote Joomla!Day DC with a banner!

On the Economics of Joomla - Action Required!  Aarti Mahajan is a graduate student in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Management at Ghent University in Belgium. Aarti’s doctoral research is aimed at revealing the entrepreneurship and revenue generation opportunities within the Joomla! ecosystem. Fill out a survey about your activity with Joomla! to help in this research endeavor.

What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 4: Access Control Levels by Jen Kramer is now out on the Joomla! Community blog. This gets down to the nitty gritty, the part we’ve all been waiting for! Who gets to do what? Jen walks us through the new ACL with some spiffy graphics.

ATAAW Movie Team has started shooting video and they have something really special in the works for the upcoming Joomla 5th Birthday video. August 15th is the deadline. Questions or comments please post them on the blog.

Pub Night for JUG Toronto - Wednesday  - August 11th
JUG Toronto - Meeting  and Workshop - August 21st

Useful Links

Joomla! Template Tools Part One, by TeamEaSE published in the July issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine gives a good overview of templates, including some of the template options mentioned in the podcast.

Contributor of the Week

Jen Kramer for her tireless efforts on the ACL Tutorials. We all know it’s tough to do tutorials on software that’s still in development. Good job Jen!

Badboy of the Week

Robert Deutz for a late apology to Philip Locke, Robert was busy sleeping... @philiplocke: 7am Sunday morning & working #fail Phillip Locke promises to give you a wake up call next Sunday Robert so you can share in his misery!

Working in the Community

Joomla Article on Wikipedia - Sully has a blog post on ATAAW looking for help to update the Joomla article on Wikipedia. Go there, comment, and get in touch!