Within a year of the launch of Joomla!, the biggest open source content management system of the world has another fabulous offering to give to the world - Joomla! version 1.5. Joomla! 1.5 is still present in its beta version and the intention is to make an effort to improve the functionality of the content management system when it will be ready to be released into the open market. The creators of Joomla! 1.5 insist that the system is not yet ready to be used on production websites, but when it will be ready, we can very well imagine what a grand benefit it will be for webmasters around the world.
There are two important points that are stressed in this beta version release of Joomla! 1.5. The first point is its overall simplicity. There is great promise that the Joomla! 1.5 version will be markedly easier to use than the original release. The clear intention is to grow the legion of Joomla! users with this release. The second improvement in the enhanced version is improved flexibility for the users. Now the users will be able to choose more aspects of the content on their website than they ever did. They will be able to check out how the content management system operates, how it integrates the content on the website and even what kind of output is generated. That means, the users of Joomla! 1.5 beta version will be able to do much more in the management of the content on their websites than they ever could do.
For people using websites for their businesses, this could be a very good move. Of course, they will be able to integrate more features into their websites, which could be better for their business as well as for their safety. One of the points that needs to be stressed is that with the Joomla! 1.5 version, the webmasters will be able to control the ways in which their users are authenticated in a much better manner. That does spell out added safety for their websites, and better records of transactions.
All indications are that Joomla! 1.5 will be a bigger success than the original release was. They already have a pool bank of 60,000 users in their community site forum, who will be targeted to download and test the beta version and pick out potential bugs. The website of Joomla! could also be a very potential way of increasing the Joomla! horde, because it attracts an astounding traffic of 2 TB a month. These people are aimed at being the initial users of Joomla! 1.5 who will then help to make the release version better than the beta version.
Joomla! 1.5 is promised to be a complete refactoring of the original Joomla! version. It has a completely restructured codebase and uses a better application programming interface that will help webmasters to build sites that are stronger and more creative than their previous ones. That, and the promise of the freedom that the webmaster will get to achieve what he or she actually wants with the website is enough to take Joomla! 1.5 to the topmost rank in the content management systems available today.
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