Differences Between Joomla! 1.0 and 1.5 |
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As explained earlier in the sidebar titled “The History of Mambo and the Birth of Joomla,”Joomla has roots in the Mambo open source CMS. Joomla’s first version (1.0) departedfromMambo primarily in the user interface. Joomla and Mambo’s shared lineage was apparent from their structural similarities to their complete mutual compatibility of modules, components, and plug-ins.
It really wasn’t until the significant upgrade to version 1.5 that Joomla came into its own. If you’ve used Joomla version 1.0, the update will be like a breath of fresh air. There is a new administrative interface, and complex project deployment has been simplified.If you plan to program Joomla, the 1.5 update is a revolution. The new Joomla source code implementation loads painlessly into a standard HTML editor such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage (something that was never simple with the original PHP coding).Some of the changes in the upgraded version include the following:
• Completely revamped Administration interface
• Improved template preview
• New plug-in manager
• Multi-CSS file editing
• Full support for Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds
• Improved accessibility options
• Increased focus on internationalization, including full UTF-8 support, RTL support,
and translation using INI files
• Native LDAP support
• XML-RPC support
• A streamlined component call interface that allows easy implementation of Ajax
applications
• Completely overhauled Joomla programming framework |
Joomla 1.5 Tutorials