Joomla 3.0 - What Makes It So Totally Different?

By Author: Marvin Cole
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Joomla 3.0 has taken the whole CMS world to an entirely new level, be it mobile integration or user friendliness. It just has all the features that developers would love to work on and deliver stunning applications that end user would be amazed to use. Being a Joomla enthusiast I love to keep myself abreast of all new happenings in Joomla world. Given below are some of the details of the Joomla 3.0 release that I have taken from the Joomla.org website – hope this is useful to you.

Joomla 3.0 is Mobile Ready:
Joomla takes a big leap into the mobile space with a total overhaul of both its frontend design and administrator interface. With the adoption of the Bootstrap framework, Joomla has become the first major CMS to be mobile ready in both the visitors and administrator areas. Now every website can have mobile friendly content for visitors and mobile friendly tools for administrators.

- Fully Responsive Site Template
- Fully Responsive Admin UI
- Fully Responsive Core Output

User Friendly
Joomla administration has a brand new look and feel, built with the power of Bootstrap ...
... responsive framework, along with a touch of the awesome UI/UX work of the Joomla JUX team. Joomla comes ready to go and fully responsive for mobile devices, tablets, and normal computer screens. The entire backend of Joomla and Joomla Template Customization has a brand new look and feel that will improve the workflow with any type of device.

- New user friendly interface
- Streamlined 30 sec install
- Refined Admin User experience

Developer Tools
Less time for coding and building interfaces with Joomla 3. The Joomla User Interface (JUI) library gives a standardized backend & frontend interface. LESS CSS and jQuery means developer can write less code and the Icomoon font icon library provides a wealth of retina-optimized icons.

Building a component with zero CSS
Styling a site with 1 CSS file
Icomoon font icon
jQuery and Mootools

Joomla 3.0 is a whole new exciting world. It has new look and feel and a host of features that bring Joomla to the forefront of the content management system world.

Extensive work on code style standardization and consistency
Incorporation of Bootstrap into a jui media package.
A new responsive administrator template Isis and interface.
A new frontend template Protostar built using Bootstrap and updated accessible template called Beez3
PostgreSQL Driver. You will be able to run Joomla 3.0 sites using the PostgreSQL database.
PHP Memcached Driver
Use of JFeed for feed management rather than SimplePie
Installation of language packages directly from the extension manager
Guest user group present by default
Saving blank articles allowed
New administrator statistics module
Update TinyMCE to version 3.5.6
Continued clean up of older unused code, files and database fields and tables and improved standardization of tables.
Improvements to Smart Search
Unit testing in the CMS
Updated system tests in the CMS

At Mindfire we have been working in Joomla for quite some time and always learn and keep ourselves up to date with new advancements in the Joomla world and ensure that our clients get all the good and new features built in their applications.

If you are looking for a reliable Joomla development services or want to hire joomla developers who can help you build a robust CMS application then Mindfire Solutions with its Joomla development India team of experts can be your trusted partner. Please contact us at sales at mindfiresolutions dot com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.