The Launch of Joomla 3.0: Another Progressive Jump

The developers of Joomla have launched Joomla version 3.0 of CMS. This is noticed to be the progressive jump for open source CMS and is justified on the basis of the new and exciting features Joomla 3.0 is offering.

Moreover, there are templates for administration interface and many websites which conform to responsiveguidelines for web designs and generate fine results on mobile devices and large screens as well.

Joomla Platform

The Joomla Platform was upgraded to 12.2 version. The installation at web site is a simple three step process and easy to utilize. It also comprises of numerous sets of data which are there at the time of installation and utility.

Administrator Template of Joomla 3.0

Detectibly different in looks and style from that of the forerunners, the innovative administrator template is called Isis, named after goddess of Egypt. This administrator template and interface of Joomla 3.0 can function on the mobile devices as well with a smaller screen display, whereas this wasn’t the case with Bluestork template of Joomla 2.5.

The Bootstrap HTML5 Framework

There is a new inclusion of sidebar with items of menu as Joomla 3.0 has employed HTML5 Bookstrap framework and there is a flexible lattice draft and layout. The menu items are harmonized by drop down lists from display at the page top.

The settings of global system can be accessed by clicking the configuration tab. The useable settings are arranged together and many options are displayed in the sidebar. There are small buttons for different new features which can be seen when the items and categories are edited.

Other than Protostar, there is a standard template offered by Joomla 3.0 which is usable for the mobile devices as well.

Backward Compatible Joomla 3.0

Joomla 3.0 has backward compatibility and for this Mootools JavaScript framework has been included in it. However, it might be excluded from Joomla.

Upgrading to Joomla 3.0

Joomla 3.0 necessitates PHP 5.3.1 and MySQL 5.1. The PostgreSQL is also used. With the use of feature of backend’s auto-update, upgrade from Joomla 2.5.x is done simply.

Basically, there aren’t any complications due to upgrading in the installation of Joomla. But this might occur when the extensions and templates are installed.

It is important to have slow and steady update. Like, there can be auto updating of versions1.6 and 1.7 to 2.5.x and after that to version 3.0. With JUpgrade extension, the Joomla 1.5.xcan be firstly updated to 2.5 version.

• Read about Joomla 3.0 Requirements here.

The Major Progress for the Open Source CMS

There are no improvements and progression expected for Joomla 2.5 by the developers and security linked updates will be released only, but this will start in June 2014 because there is a long standing support of 18 months for version 2.5.

The Joomla 1.5 support has come to an end due to Joomla 30 release. However, the developers suggest the users to remain with 2.5 version if they don’t specifically want new features of Joomla 3.0.