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The April issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here!

IN THIS ISSUE:

A special thanks to the members of our Joomla! community who contributed articles to this month's issue: Eric Lamy, Dmitry Strizhov, Andrew Eddie, Hagen Graf, Sean Redfearn, Victor Drover, Jarrod Nettles, and Chad Windnagle.

Editor’s Introduction Get Open, written by Cristina Solana Feature stories

• Andrew Eddie provides updates on upcoming Joomla! releases in The Source April 2011   
• Hagen Graf shares insights about Multi-Language Websites with Joomla! 1.6 core
• Sean Redfearn points to two key questions for sitebuilders in Convincing the Skeptics about Open Source and CMS

International stories

• Community members have submitted two articles in two different languages for this issue.
• Opportunities are now open for community members to submit articles in 21 different languages.

Website Case Studies

• Dianne Henning knits up a sweet sounding case study in For Rocker Samantha Farrell, Joomla! Rocks.

Leadership Connections

• Alice Grevet shares updates on what OSM has been doing during March on behalf of the Joomla! project.

JUGs and Events

• Victor Drover invites you to submit your nominations for The J!OSCAR awards - recognizing excellence in the Joomla! community.

Developers Workbench

• Jarrod Nettles shows how get more out of templates in Rapid Development Techniques – Templates Within Templates!
• Chad Windnagle shares about the importance of Documenting Documentation.
• Arlen Walker introduces us to Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos in The Joomla! Setup.

Designer's studio

• Anthony Olsen shares How to become a css detective with CSS Edit.

The Joomla! Haikus

• Prolific poets,
  
• punsters and word masters too,
  
• spread the Joomla! love...
  
• Post your April 2011 Haiku here!
  

Joomla! Books

• Milena Mitova reviews Joomla! 24-Hour Trainer - the new A to Z book for novices.
  

Joomla! in the Press/Media

• Mark Bender bring us Joomla! in the Press/Media — April 2011.

On the lighter side...

• Yepr has contributed another Jane Beyond & friends cartoon.

In our next issue We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!







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