The Art of Joomla is a free magazine about Joomla!^(TM) 1.5 for users, web masters, designers and developers alike.

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The Artisan's Directory is a free community directory for amateurs or professionals that can somehow help you get more out of your Joomla! website.

Issue 2

Welcome by Andrew Eddie
Welcome to Issue 2 of The Art of Joomla. It's taken a little longer than expected due to the Christmas break and then the push to release version 1.5 of Joomla last month (January 2008) and organising things for the release of version 1.0.14 and planning for version 1.6.
Joomla vs Mambo by Andrew Eddie
Is there really a difference?

Removing a Legacy: Part 2 by Andrew Eddie
Welcome to Part 2 of my series on converting an existing component to work natively in version 1.5. Last time we looked at Legacy Mode, fixing the constant that prevents direct access to files and solved some database problems. We also had a quick look at what to do down the track with translations. So let's continue and find out what our next error is.

More Menu Tricks – the Split Menu Technique by Andrew Eddie
Many template designers have included what we called a “split menu” technique by providing some extra functions within their template. While this worked, it wasn't very flexible because you were generally limited to where you could put the respective menus. Well, in Joomla 1.5 we change all that.
Perfect Popups by Andrew Eddie Popup images are a very popular part of web-sites today. You see them used particularly in galleries but more and more within articles in general. Joomla 1.5 gives you the ability to add popup images very easily.