Joomla is one of the most popular and talked about content management systems in the world; the other one is Wordpress. Content management system is a software that allows the owner to make changes to the website content themselves without any knowledge of web designing. From students to big companies have used Joomla to help them develop powerful and easy to manage websites. It saved them not hours but days of development time because of its scalability and the supportive community.

Most business owners wants to be able to update their websites themselves without the need of a web designer. They understand the extra cost they pay upfront will save them money in the long run. What this means is that if you are a freelance web designer then you need to be prepared for this. As the web design industry grows, it will become more competitive, therefore people will expect more from you.
With the help of Joomla you can give them exactly that! You clients will feel like they got a good deal from you.

Open source software/scripts have made it easy even for people without much of technical knowledge when it comes to building a website. The Joomla CMS software is a good example. It’s is one of the most popular free CMS on the Internet to date. Whether you run a professional web design company or you are someone who just want to build your own website, you can benefit from this great free CMS software. Many professional web designers have built simple websites as well as complicated ones with Joomla.

Windows has introduced since Windows Vista a new Desktop addition - Windows Sidebar.

Windows Sidebar is a pane on the side of the Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 desktop where you can keep your sidebar gadgets organized and always available. Gadgets come in a great variety, from Weather packs to financial information. There are a huge number of free gadgets available for download in Microsoft Sidebar Galleries. Windows Sidebar makes great use of the space on widescreen monitors and also works smoothly on standard displays.

You can easily customize Windows Sidebar to suit your preferred location—always on top or resting below maximized windows. If you don't want to keep your gadgets docked on the Windows Sidebar, you can simply move them off, hide the sidebar, and place them anywhere on your desktop.

Joomla Version 1.5.15 is now a Release Candidate on joomlacode.org - what is new and what to expect from this version?

Here are the changes at this point in 1.5.15 :

* several regular expression fixes (eregi replaced with preg_match)

eregi is DEPRECATED as of php v 5.3.0 and will be removed in php 6.0. Using this function in php 5.3 and later will cause a E_DEPRECATED exception

* several replaces of ereg_replace with str_replace

eregi is DEPRECATED as of php v 5.3.0 and will be removed in php 6.0. Using this function in php 5.3 and later will cause a E_DEPRECATED exception

* memory leak in com_menu

small memory leak - object not unset

* some language strings added

minor language strings additions

* upgrade of Simplepie library

Simplepie RSS parsing library upgraded to newer version. If your website relies heavily on RSS feeds then this will be good news for you

* upgrade of TinyMCE library (2.4.1 --> 2.6)

WYSIWYG editor upgraded from version 3.2.4.1 to 3.2.6 (latest version is 3.2.7, but that is quite a nice upgrade)