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Most people new to CMS and Joomla! can’t imagine how on earth they would manage the content of their own web site.
Well, it really is so easy that we have compiled a one minute video showing how simple it is to edit a page and publish those changes to the world wide web… in one minute!
Here is Joomla! front end site management at its best.

Most web sites could do with a quick freshen up to get them noticed. Here are 5 good tips that will make a real difference.

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Although Joomla! is certainly the most powerful Open Source CMS on the planet - until now it was based on the Mambo codebase.

The new upcoming version of Joomla! 1.5 (currently in Beta with Release candidate 2) will become a powerful new framework and content publishing system that has been completely rewritten from scratch.

Joomla! lead developer Louis Landry commented that “This release candidate is more than one small step for Joomla!, It’s a massive technology step for open source as a whole. This release candidate marks a defining moment in Joomla! history … our progression away from old legacy code into a more powerful, flexible modern framework.”

So what are the goals for Joomla! 1.5?

• Substantially improve usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the any Mambo origins, hybrids or incantations.
• Expand accessibility to support internationalisation, double-byte characters and Right-to-Left support for Arabic and Hebrew languages.
• Extend the integration of external applications through Web Services and remote authentication such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Enhance the content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination.
• Achieve a more sustainable and flexible framework for component and extension developers.
• Deliver considerable backwards compatibility with previous releases of components, templates, modules and other extensions.

You can download the latest Joomla! 1.5 RC here

For hoteliers and companies with an international web presence probably one of the biggest advantages of Joomla! CMS is its ability to run multi-lingual web sites - and there is only one ‘back office’ to manage it all! Joomla recognises a users operating system and automatically displays a site in the users language if it is available. Of course users may switch to other languages as they wish.

‘Navega Bem‘ has developed a 12 language hotel site for the Grande Real Villa It