Joomla 3.0 - What Makes It So Totally Different?

1/25/2013

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Joomla 3.0 has taken the whole CMS world to an entirely new level, be it mobile integration or user friendliness. It just has all the features that developers would love to work on and deliver stunning applications that end user would be amazed to use. Being a Joomla enthusiast I love to keep myself abreast of all new happenings in Joomla world. Given below are some of the details of the Joomla 3.0 release that I have taken from the Joomla.org website – hope this is useful to you.


Joomla 3.0 is Mobile Ready:
Joomla takes a big leap into the mobile space with a total overhaul of both its frontend design and administrator interface. With the adoption of the Bootstrap framework, Joomla has become the first major CMS to be mobile ready in both the visitors and administrator areas. Now every website can have mobile friendly content for visitors and mobile friendly tools for administrators.

- Fully Responsive Site Template
- Fully Responsive Admin UI
- Fully Responsive Core Output


User Friendly
Joomla administration has a brand new look and feel, built with the power of Bootstrap responsive framework, along with a touch of the awesome UI/UX work of the Joomla JUX team. Joomla comes ready to go and fully responsive for mobile devices, tablets, and normal computer screens. The entire backend of Joomla and Joomla template editing has a brand new look and feel that will improve the workflow with any type of device.

- New user friendly interface
- Streamlined 30 sec install
- Refined Admin User experience


Developer Tools
Less time for coding and building interfaces with Joomla 3. The Joomla User Interface (JUI) library gives a standardized backend & frontend interface. LESS CSS and jQuery means developer can write less code and the Icomoon font icon library provides a wealth of retina-optimized icons.

Building a component with zero CSS
Styling a site with 1 CSS file
Icomoon font icon
jQuery and Mootools


Joomla 3.0 is a whole new exciting world. It has new look and feel and a host of features that bring Joomla to the forefront of the content management system world.
  • Extensive work on code style standardization and consistency
  • Incorporation of Bootstrap into a jui media package.
  • A new responsive administrator template Isis and interface.
  • A new frontend template Protostar built using Bootstrap and updated accessible template called Beez3
  • PostgreSQL Driver. You will be able to run Joomla 3.0 sites using the PostgreSQL database.
  • PHP Memcached Driver
  • Use of JFeed for feed management rather than SimplePie
  • Installation of language packages directly from the extension manager
  • Guest user group present by default
  • Saving blank articles allowed
  • New administrator statistics module
  • Update TinyMCE to version 3.5.6
  • Continued clean up of older unused code, files and database fields and tables and improved standardization of tables.
  • Improvements to Smart Search
  • Unit testing in the CMS
  • Updated system tests in the CMS




At Mindfire we have been working in Joomla for quite some time and always learn and keep ourselves up to date with new advancements in the Joomla world and ensure that our clients get all the good and new features built in their applications. If you are looking for a reliable Joomla developer India or Hire joomla developer who can help you build a robust CMS application then Mindfire Solutions with its team of development experts can be your trusted partner. Please contact us at sales[@]mindfiresolutions.com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.
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Drupal Runs Over Million Sites

1/22/2013

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Open-source is hot, helps to develop a project faster without spending money on licensing. Drupal is free open-source content management system which is written in PHP and is demanding too. It is leading in knowledge management and business collaboration projects. It is used to design, develop a wide spectrum of websites such as personal, corporate websites, discussion forums, social networking sites and complex e-commerce applications. Drupal runs over a million sites and powers some of the busiest sites on the web.

Drupal is extremely powerful, flexible, extensible, helps in building customized websites, responsible for development & deployment, extension development, support & maintenance, independent verification & validation.

Drupal developers enables customers to set up online stores in lesser time at reasonable rates. It has the largest active web developer community. Thousands of add-on modules, designs let you build any site you can imagine, from personal blogs to sophisticated enterprise applications. It is demanding because it is completely free to download, use, modify. There are no purchase or maintenance fees. Drupal developers enables customers to set up online stores in lesser time at reasonable rates. It has the largest active web developer community. Thousands of add-on modules, designs let you build any site you can imagine, from personal blogs to sophisticated enterprise applications. It is demanding because it is completely free to download, use, modify. There are no purchase or maintenance fees.

Drupal development services has the ability to develop dynamic and complex sites by great extensibility. There are thousands of add-ons developed by its active developer community thus it has been chosen to power this commercial-class solution. Fast search and fast loading is accomplished through Drupal caching system. It can reach out beyond your site to give you a presence on Twitter, Facebook and in other venues. It has built-in features which gives search engines what they want, improving web impact automatically. It helps in building fully customizable themes, including several base themes to help you launch your own designs.

Mindfire gains tremendous expertise and deep use of Drupal and successfully delivered high quality projects for global clients across diverse industries such as FMCG(fast moving consumer goods), IT, distribution, food, floristry, high-tech, healthcare, education, media, sports, tourism entertainment etc. They have run 50+ Projects for Global Clients , have expert knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Apache, Ajax, jQuery, Web Services , flexible business model & fine-tuned processes , believes in customer-centric, on-time delivery, cost-effective & competitive pricing.

Mindfire Solutions is a 12 year old leading Software Development and IT services company with a strong track record of working with small, mid-size clients in US, Europe, and AsiaPacific. With more than 750 spirited software engineers across two advanced development centers, Mindfire has successfully delivered over 1000 projects for its 300+ clients spanning SMBs, ISVs, SaaS, Global 2000, and Fortune 500 firms. Mindfire Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner & an Apple Developer Connection Premier Member. The company is the only organization in India to be at the highest level of partnership with both Microsoft and Apple. If you want to Hire Drupal developers and to do Drupal development India. And need some help, get in touch with us today call us in 1-248-628-1424 or drop an email at sales[@]mindfiresolutions.com or leave a quick note to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of our Drupal experts to bring your ideas to life.
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Common Drupal Questions Answered

1/18/2013

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Which Open-Source Content Management System is best for me?
Talking of open-source content management systems, the most popular ones are WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. All three of them are PHP-based and have thousands of ardent users, developers, vendors around the world. Each of these has thousands of readymade add-ons and designs available for most common needs. Beyond these similarities, however, one of these will be preferred over the others depending on the particular context of use.


WordPress, for example, is simple to set up and treats everything as either a blog post or webpage. For new users with little technical knowledge and relatively simple needs, WordPress can be a great starter CMS. Joomla is more suited for sites of higher complexity and larger user base and requires more technical know-how and coding than WordPress. On the other hand, when you need to create highly dynamic sites for virtually anything imaginable and want the flexibility to scale it up to any level of complexity and user demand, Drupal is the best choice by far.


What exactly is Drupal?
Drupal is not only a powerful content management system, but also a versatile application framework. You can use it as a CMS to organize, update, and present a website. You can also use it as an application framework to build other applications with it. Drupal has a powerful core, a flexible content presentation paradigm, a plethora of versatile add-ons, and matchless flexibility to scale up to highly dynamic and complex business needs and user demands.


What type of websites can I create with Drupal?
Drupal CMS is used to create almost all types of web applications: from simple personal blogs to complex enterprise applications and everything in between. Drupal shines with growing complexity and Drupal’s flexibility to scale up to extremely high levels of complexity and user demand is incomparable.


Who is using Drupal?
Today Drupal is powering millions of websites around the world spanning Community, E-Commerce, Blogging, Enterprise, Government, Non-profit, Media, Real Estate, Retail & Distribution, Healthcare, Technology, etc. applications. Some of the biggest sites on the Web use Drupal, such as The White House, The Economist, Examiner.com, etc.


What are some of the challenges of working with Drupal?
Drupal presents a very sophisticated interface to Drupal CMS developers which can be overwhelming to some. Drupal gives you dozens of different ways of accomplishing the same task with subtle differences, which can be confusing if you don’t know what’s going on. Drupal is relatively harder to learn.


Who can help me with Drupal?
Drupal has a vibrant ecosystem of service providers. You can hire expert Drupal developers to perform powerful Drupal customization and extension of Drupal’s core functionality to meet your unique needs. Drupal customization services offered by expert Drupal developers can help make your Drupal vision market-ready faster and better. Mindfire Solutions, a 12-year old leading software development and IT services company, provides expert Drupal CMS developers and extension services backed by a team of expert Drupal developers and an experience spanning 50+ successful Drupal projects for global clients. If you want to hire drupal developers or extend Drupal’s functionalities and need some development help, get in touch with Mindfire today – call 1-248-686-1424 or email sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com – to leverage the strong track record and solid experience of drupal development India to personalize and extend Drupal capabilities.
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