Joomla! 2.5 is on-schedule for lift-off today! That's Tuesday, January 24th, 2012. This is going to be a long-term release of Joomla! There are many new features to Joomla! 2.5, including:

• SmartSearch Technology: Major enhancement to search your Joomla-powered sites
• New JPlatform Under the Hood: Think “big power, little footprint”
• Multi-DB Support: Long awaited by enterprise, Joomla! goes beyond MySQL
• Update Notification: From the Admin panel, you'll see whether an update is needed
• Many More Features! See a great article with all the details here (by Andrea Tarr)

The really great news is that it's an EASY, one-click update from 1.7 to 2.5!

Read more...

The Joomla! Southern African Community Portal has been created by some of Southern Africa's biggest Joomla! fans. We have been using Joomla! sites for over 5 years years now, and are actively engaged in teaching and training clients and students, hosting and developing their Joomla! sites. We actively promote the use of Joomla! among Southern Africans, who are - on the whole - relatively ignorant of many open source solutions that can be employed with ease and managed with convenience.

Read more...