Joomla 1.5 RC2 Test Drive

New Joomla 1.5 RC2 is very good. It is not perfect but much improved from the latest 1.13 version. I have just tested it. It is much simpler to use, The admin section is improved, not so complicated for newbies anymore. Now you can much easily orientate thru the admin section of Joomla.

What is new in Joomla 1.5 RC2

1. Well they integrated SEO in the Joomla code. Now you do not have to use a special add-on for SEO in Joomla anymore. And that is a huge step. Drupal has it, so why Joomla would not have it. It is very simple, you can not set what the friendly url would be like, like in Drupal for example but still it is a step into right direction. I am still dissapointed because some strange characters appears instead of spaces between words and that is a BIG MINUS. I hope they will fix this ISSUE!!!!! I am sometimes disappointed that CMS makers just forget about SEO. I remember I had a personal chat with Geeklog (another CMS) maker about met titles, meta tags, meta description, meta keywords and he told me that that is just a snake oil. I could not believe that a Geeklog leader is such an idiot. Now if I have to build a CMS site it is Joomla or Drupal, no more Geeklog and other low proficient CMS.

    

2. The other thing I have noticed is that you don’t have static and non static content. SO I you want to make a page with intro you just select with a button where the article should devide between the whole article and the intro. It is really good and simple. BRAVO for that. I don’t want to explain more about that because it might get complicated. You will see it.

    

3. Another thing is that it has a very cool integrated WYSIWYG editor, the new version, and everything runs smoothly. You can upload pictures, resize them on the spot, you can use the url where the picture is and it is automatically pulled into the Joomla. This is really cool.

    

4. And also the code for the template seems to be simpler. That is a great plus. That is what I saw new for now. Joomla developers said that they improved the core Joomla code so that is good also.

So the time is coming to upgrade Joomla to 1.5, the upgrade will nt eb simple, but they claim they will make a special tool to move all the data to new Joomla setup.

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