siliconesafaris.com Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:37:30 Joomla! 1.5 en-gb Welcome to Joomla! http://siliconesafaris.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11 ** Joomla! 1.5.0 Beta should NOT to be used for `live` or `production` sites. **

Joomla! is a free open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and eCommerce applications.

Joomla! provides an easy-to-use graphical user interface that simplifies the management and publishing of large volumes of content including HTML, documents, and rich media. Joomla! is used by organisations of all sizes for Public Websites, Intranets and Extranets and is supported by a community of thousands of users.

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]]> frontpage Thu, 01 Jan 1970 04:33:24 How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ? http://siliconesafaris.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=141 Joomla 1.5 does not provide an upgrade path from earlier versions. Converting an older site to a Joomla 1.5 site requires creation of a new empty site using Joomla 1.5 and then populating the new site with the content from the old site. This migration of content is not a one-to-one process and involves conversions and modifications to the content dump.

There are two ways to perform the migration:

]]> frontpage Thu, 01 Jan 1970 04:33:26 Why does Joomla! 1.5 use utf-8 encoding? http://siliconesafaris.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=161 Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again?

Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish?

With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) glyphs (charcter forms) of all basically all languages can be displayed with one single encoding setting. For example if you might wish to say WELCOME in as many language possible you could do the following:

"Welcome" in utf-8 (Identify the languages as an exercise)

Welkom
Mirë se vjen
أهلا و سهلا
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Прывiтанне
Dobrodošli
Добре дошли
Benvinguts
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歡迎光臨 [欢迎光临]

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