This seems like a natural follow-on to our previous questions about major companies using Joomla and Joomla sites with great rankings.

 "Do you know of any famous people using Joomla?"

I've decided to set the bar high again by looking only for official sites about truly famous people. A good rule of thumb is "do they have a Wikipedia entry?"

Here's what I've found so far: 

For a few years, I’ve been using Joomla (previously Mambo) to run an “interactive” website for students in AP English, humanities, and creative writing classes at my school: WSHSBeyond.com. This provided some “social” web work before the term caught on. Now, with additional extensions, the site provides a pretty excellent (though not perfect) social learning environment.

In case there are others searching for a way to move their students online, I thought I’d give an overview of what’s great and not-so-great about using Joomla as a solution.

After just having a chat with my brother about the growth of Joomla usage, and overall size/scope of Joomla's user-base

iJoomla Magazine is an excellent extension that has vastly improved the CMS experience for publishers using Joomla. The component has undergone a great deal of development since its first releases, and has been given a big thumbs-up by critics as well us developers and publishers. PHP Magazine Network contacted Merav Knafo, iJoomla's founder, for an interview about the iJoomla experience.

1- Merav, why do publishers need iJoomla Magazine?

Because Joomla may be great for blogs, but not everyone wants a site that looks like a blog! When I started with Joomla, I tried to use core Joomla and was always disappointed with the result. It looked okay but it just didn't give me the slick look I was after. That's why I've created iJoomla Magazine. It allows you to make your site appear really professional and clean.

1. Read Me First!
1. There's no free lunch! Don't be fooled by Joomla's award-winning easy of use. Maintaining a secure, dynamic Web site on the open Internet is not easy. Security requires continual watchfullness and effort.

Markus Bopp of Crosstec created a Mollom plugin for Joomla. The plugin is code named Jollom and can be customized to protect any form.

Welcome Joomla!

Yesterday, I read a tutorial by Copyblogger, explaining how to write attention-grabbing blog headlines. So excuse today's exclamation mark and over enthusiasm in the headline - I'm still practising the secret of better blogging (#2)! Before your patience runs out, here's a list of our favorite Joomla tutorials showing how you can get rid of frustration once and for all (#5) and how you can build a Joomla website you can be proud of (#9):

This seems like a natural follow-on to last week's question about Joomla sites with great rankings.

"Do you know of any major companies using Joomla?"

I've decided to set the bar high by looking for sites that do over half-a-million uniques per month or belong to a truly substantial company. A good rule of thumb is "do they have a Wikipedia entry?"

Here's what I've found so far: