Joomla is a favorite tool for building websites and I have been leading the Joomla User Group Chicago North for a few years.  Check out the year in review shared below, on magazine.joomla.org and on joomlachicagonorth.com The end of 2020 is here. Looking back at JUGCN, we've covered some great topics, hosted fantastic guest speakers, and are looking forward to 2021. J...

 A few days ago, we announced our hosting of Pizza, Bugs and Fun on October 19th with Joomla User Group Chicago North (JUGCN).  This is a worldwide event to help Joomla! to be the best Content Management System (CMS).   This Saturday Sept 21st at 8am AND 7pm UTC,  Benjamin Trenkle and Mike Brandner will give an introductory training for P...

The 2nd Wednesday of each month, is the JUGCN or Joomla! User Group Chicago North meeting. These meetings are hosting by me for the local Joomla! community. Last Wednesday was the first for 2020.  The topic was rather fitting as it was, Web Trends for 2020.  Additionally, I covered implementing SEO for Joomla! sites.    2020 Web Design Tr...

With today being a chocolate holiday (one of my favorites), I thought it might be fun to get you to help me with this year's compilation of favorite Joomla! extensions.  Each year, I compile a list of Joomla! extensions that are my favorites covering forms, calendars, social sharing, galleries, and such.  Except for 2018, where the focus was on calendar...

Back in August we announced that we would be hosting Joomla! Pizza, Bugs & Fun or PBF.  A worldwide event to bring the Joomla! community together to work on the next release, Joomla! 4.  PBF is here!  This Saturday at 9 am the fun begins.   What is Joomla!  Joomla! is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) that is used to publish w...

​Every second Wednesday is the Joomla User Group Chicago North (JUGCN) meeting.  This Wednesday, Sept 11th we will be giving an overview of EasyBlog, a blogging extension from StackIdeas.   To be clear, blogging can be done in Joomla! by creating articles.  With the latest enhancements to categories, tags and custom fields you can do all of your blogging wit...