This month's topic: What's New in Joomla 1.6

Speaker: Kendall Cabe, co-founder of Times Two Technology and member of the Chicago Joomla User Group

The February 9th meeting of the Joomla Portland Users Group looks to be a great start. Come help kick off the user group and find out what this group is all about. While you are here, learn a bit about Joomla 1.6, the newest version of Joomla! content management system. We'll discuss what's new in 1.6 and what's coming up in future releases.

Schedule: February 9th Meeting Agenda

6:30 pm - Networking and Refreshments

7:00 pm - What is Joomla PDX? Led by Joomla PDX organizers

7:15 pm - Joomla 1.6: What's New and What's coming Led by Kendall Cabe

7:45 pm - After Meeting Networking

This group is open to users of all experience levels. Registration is required. For more information visit JoomlaPDX.com

Description

This month's topic: SEO and Joomla

Speaker: Jim Hay

Jim is the owner of Jim Hay SEO. His firm specializes in developing business websites in Joomla that need to rank well in the organic search engines. Jim has 10 years experience in on and off site SEO and 4 years of Joomla web design experience in the North West working with companies nationwide

The February 9th meeting of the Joomla Portland Users Group looks to be a great start. Come help kick off the user group and find out what this group is all about. While you are here, learn a bit about Joomla 1.6, the newest version of Joomla! content management system. We'll discuss what's new in 1.6 and what's coming up in future releases.

Schedule: March 9th Meeting Agenda

6:30 pm - Networking and Refreshments

7:00 pm - Welcome Led by Joomla PDX organizers

7:05 pm - SEO and Joomla Led by Jim Hay

7:45 pm - Meeting close and After Meeting Networking

This group is open to users of all experience levels. Registration is required. For more information visit JoomlaPDX.com

Everything You Wanted to Know About Joomla! Content Construction Kits (CCKs), but where afraid to ask.

What is a content construction kit? Which one should I use? What are the differences between K2, jSeblod, Zoo, and FlexiContent, the four most popular CCKs in use today. How difficult is a CCK to learn and use? What affect will a CCK have on my template or design?

In our Joomla content construction kit presentation we are going to show you. The presentation will cover what a CCK is and why you may want to use one. We'll walk through some feature comparisons of the top four CCKs in use today to help you in choosing the right one. Discuss some of the pros and cons when implementing a CCK, like how the new content affects your templates and layouts. We'll take a sneak peek at some new CCK beta's for Joomla 1.6 and end with a discussion on what features may still be missing in the Joomla core versus a content construction kit.

What You’ll Learn

• What is a CCK
• CCK features vs Joomla 1.5 content construction (the S.C.A.M)
• Comparison chart of K2, jSeblod, Zoo, and FlexiContent
• Quick administrative back end look at each.
• Discuss which tie into Joomla's com_component and which don't effecting module creation.
• A quick look at Joomla 1.6 and the new CCK beta.

Agenda:

6:30 pm - Networking and Refreshments
7:00 pm - Welcome
7:05 pm - Content Creation Kits
7:45 pm - Meeting close and After Meeting Networking

Scott Hanselman will be presenting WebMatrix, a new free tool from Microsoft that allows you to create, customize and publish websites that can grow with you, from design and installation to deployment and maintenance. It is one of the simplest tools for creating web sites that has come along in a long, long time. To get started you can select an application from the built-in gallery, containing such applications as DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. Or you can create your own masterpiece from scratch, written in either PHP or ASP.Net.

Scott has made presentations to the OCCA before, and has always been well received and appreciated.

Scott Hanselman works out of his home office for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager, aiming to spread good information about developing software, usually on the Microsoft stack. Before this, for over 6 years, he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and he'll speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen.

Joomla! PDX is a user group dedicated to all things Joomla!.

Come join us!

Joomla! PDX is a user group dedicated to all things Joomla!.

Come join us!

Joomla! PDX is a user group dedicated to all things Joomla!.

Come join us!

Joomla! PDX is a user group dedicated to all things Joomla!.

Come join us!

Joomla! PDX is a user group dedicated to all things Joomla!.

Come join us!

Joomla! PDX is a user group dedicated to all things Joomla!.

Come join us!

http://www.joomlapdx.com/events/presentations/33-march-2013-joomla-open-house

We know... You're thinking "OMG, a Joomla Open House!!!!! ... Errrr, wait a minute, what is a Joomla Open House, exactly?"

Great question. In short, it's a gathering of (1) Joomla fanatics, (2) Joomla newbies, (3) Joomla-curious, and (4) others who maybe aren't totally "in love" with Joomla, but who might not mind fooling around a little bit with Joomla if there's beer involved, if you know what we mean. (Okay, actually, we don't even know what we mean by that one.)

What we were thinking was: If you've got a web site and are having some technical difficulties, then come to our open house, bring (1) any Joomla, web development, technical, or philosophical questions you like, no matter how easy or tough they are, (2) your laptops if you want to do some work right then and there (or, we may also project your site up onto the wall and work on it in front of others, if that's cool with you), and (3) your admin usernames/passwords, of course, if you want us to be able to look at your Joomla issues. And, if you have a "service dog," bring him or her along, too -- because, remember, here in Portland, no one ever asks you to verify whether your pooch is or isn't working. Anyway, your humble Joomla in-house experts will then roll up our sleeves and do the best we can to either fix your issue or at least point you in the right direction.

Types of tech difficulties: Actually, we're fairly open-minded here... Bring us any web-development challenge you're having and we're happy to talk about it -- even it it's not 100% Joomla-related. For example, maybe you're having trouble using CSS, or you're facing a user experience challenge, or you don't understand how MySQL works, or you need a little bit of PHP wizardry. Bring it on. We're not saying we'll actually solve your issue right then and there, but we're certain that we're geeky enough to probably give you way too many vague answers and contradictory directions. (On second thought, maybe don't come. ... No, we're kidding; DO come, okay?)

Please join us!

-= The Skinny =-

WHAT? Joomla! Open! House! WHEN? March 14th, 2013 -- 5:45 p.m. to 8-ish / maybe 8:30 / or, like, whenever. WHERE? At Backstage (3702 SE Hawthorne -- just behind the Bagdad Theater in SE PDX). HOW? Oh, you mean how much? It's FREE!! WHY? Because Joomla rocks and all other CMSs are laughably inferior.

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

We'll be discussing Access Control Lists.

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Come join the fun in next months meeting and learn how to use git in your Joomla! project.

Joomla!PDX meets at Free Geek monthly to discuss different aspects of the the Joomla! CMS. We are always welcome to experienced programmers, novices, and beginners alike. Even if you're just curious about Joomla! come join us and see what managing web content is all about.

Joomla!PDX meets at Free Geek monthly to discuss different aspects of the the Joomla! CMS. We are always welcome to experienced programmers, novices, and beginners alike. Even if you're just curious about Joomla! come join us and see what managing web content is all about.

Joomla!PDX meets at Free Geek monthly to discuss different aspects of the the Joomla! CMS. We are always welcome to experienced programmers, novices, and beginners alike. Even if you're just curious about Joomla! come join us and see what managing web content is all about.

Joomla!PDX meets at Free Geek monthly to discuss different aspects of the the Joomla! CMS. We are always welcome to experienced programmers, novices, and beginners alike. Even if you're just curious about Joomla! come join us and see what managing web content is all about.

Joomla!PDX meets at Free Geek monthly to discuss different aspects of the the Joomla! CMS. We are always welcome to experienced programmers, novices, and beginners alike. Even if you're just curious about Joomla! come join us and see what managing web content is all about.