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Advertising and informational banners are an integral part of most web sites but sometimes, despite your best efforts at trying to trick the Joomla Module Manager, sometimes they just will not display where you want them to.  A customer of ours had the same problem - no combination of module assignments on menu items seemed to get the right banner on the right page.  Fortunately for him the problem had already been solved in Joomla 1.5 with a feature called Banner Tagging. 

Techinfocenter is a research and marketing firm specializing in Electronic Content Management (ECM).  They offer free research and product/software reviews and analysis pertaining to the ECM industry.  We caught up with Jim Madden about how JXtended helped empower their web site.

We are pleased to announce the release of JXtended Reports 2.1.2 Stable for Joomla! 1.5.  Along with bug fixes, the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) reports has been improved to help you find articles without meta descriptions and keywords more easily.

Reports is a simple framework for creating reports on your Joomla! database. It includes example reports for showing visitor statistics and content. Examples show how you can extend the Reports to do additional operations such as mailing the owners of old content, or exporting your database to CSV files.

We are pleased to announce the release of JXtended Exchange 2.0.3 Stable for Joomla! 1.5.

Exchange is a tool for Developers and Site Implementers that gives you several ways to export, import and migrate data from and to various formats.

We are very excited to announce the release of Labels for Joomla 1.5, an innovative tool that allows you to categorize and group content in a way that is friendly to people both browsing and administering your Joomla site. Labels takes the idea of tagging content to a whole new level by not only grouping content for visitors, but by performing the same organization for site administrators as well. No longer will content managers have to sift through all the articles and extensions on your site - no matter how simple or complex your site is, finding and editing content is only a few clicks away.

I had the pleasure of attending the most recent Joomla Day San Francisco Bay Area last weekend. Like every other Joomla Day I have attended, this event did not disappoint.

These events are always my favorite to attend and really tend to exemplify what the Joomla community is all about. There are always interesting people to meet, great debates and conversations to have, and new friends to make. The event was facilitated by the talented Allen "Gunner" Gunn, Executive Director of Aspiration. Gunner is the master of the unconference and his events are always beneficial for everyone who participates.

The event was planned and organized by the people of the Bay Area Joomla User Group and graciously hosted by Google via the Google Open Source Programs Office. A special thanks and "Love Bomb" goes out to Leslie Hawthorn, program manager at the Google Open Source Programs Office (who also runs Google Summer of Code and the Google Highly Open Participation Contest) for being ever-helpful and making everyone feel so welcome.

I stumbled upon a post in the Joomla forums about speculation surrounding the mysterious origin of ID 62 for the default Joomla Super Administrator.

Fortunately, and many years ago, I pulled down all the historic downloads for Mambo (from which Joomla spooned, I mean spawned) and decided to look through them.  The earliest version of Mambo I had was from 30 April 2001 being what I think was version 3.0.0.  The install script for this version has the default user ID set to 1.  This is the same for the next five versions but in verison 3.0.6, released around 27 July 2001 we see the first introduction of the now famour ID 62 for the Super Admin.  Version 3.0.7, released in November 2001, and then the first of the 4.0 series, released a year later in November 2002, carred on the tradition (I joined the project in February of the following year).

The JXtended crew is very happy to announce that public beta testing of Content Manager, a free extension for Joomla 1.5, has now begun. Content Manager integrates with Control, our ACL management system, which allows you to control the access to frontend editing of articles down to the category level.

School Family Media, Inc. recently announced the launch of SchoolFamily.com using JXtended Magazine, the only website to focus exclusively on school-related issues for parents of Kindergarten – 8th grade students, providing easy-to-access, reliable content on how to help their children (and their families) make the most of the school year.   The site features extensive expert editorial content, downloadable resources and even interactive quizzes to help parents navigate the diverse challenges and opportunities that present themselves throughout the school year.

We are pleased to announce the release of JXtended Reports 2.1.0 Stable for Joomla! 1.5.

Reports is a simple framework for creating reports on your Joomla! database. It includes example reports for showing visitor statistics and content. Examples show how you can extend the Reports to do additional operations such as mailing the owners of old content, or exporting your database to CSV files.