Joomla 32 Hosting - New Features That Makes Joomla 3.2 Great!

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Here is a list of the top 15 new features of Joomla 3.2:

End-user Features:

1) Content History: Content versioning is for storing, comparing, and reverting content. It can be used to revert back to a previous revision of an article if a mistake happens.

2) Joomla User eXperience (JUX) Improvements: There are improvements to the Joomla User eXperience (JUX) to make Joomla a more user-friendly CMS. Joomla 3.2 comes with a new look control panel.

3) Front-end Administration of Global Configuration Settings: Joomla now has two new menu item types that allow end-users to change some of the settings from the front-end. This feature points to the direction that Joomla is heading toward front-end in-line editing for the future.

4) TinyMCE Update: TinyMCE has been updated to 4.0 and it looks great.

Power-user Features:

5) Install from Web: Content versioning (see #1) might be the most exciting improvement in Joomla 3.2, the Install from Web feature might be the most welcome for Joomla users. It's basically the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) in the backend with one-click installs! This feature is reminiscent of Apple's AppStore and Google's Google Play.

The Install from Web feature will include free and commercial extensions, with commercial extensions redirecting to the developers' sites for payment, then automatic installation.

6) Multilingual-site Automatic Installer: Need a multilingual site in Joomla? with Joomla 3.2, you'll now be able to set one up automatically during Joomla's initial installation saving you precious setup time.

7) Improved Template Manager: With this new feature, you can:

• edit all the files in a template (including in full-screen view)
• copy templates
• create new files and upload new files
• delete files
• rename files
• copy files
• crop and resize images
• create new folders
• compile LESS files
• easily create template overrides of modules, components, and layouts

8) Post-install Messages: There's now a post-install component that is used to notify admins of important information when Joomla or an extension is installed or updated. There's also an additional message that displays in the control panel to notify admins when they first log in or visit the control panel.

DEVELOPER FEATURES:

9) Rapid Application Development Layer(RAD): The new RAD layer is a rapid application development framework comes with the following key features:

• Significantly speeds up 3rd party development within the CMS
• Low maintenance
• Easy to understand how to create a components and lowers the learning curve
• Well documented
• Strictly optional for developers to use and will not break existing sites
• Uses convention over configuration
• Implements DRY code
• Implements HMVC
• Decouples input data from the request
• Manages MVC classes from only one location (front/back) instead of both
• Reuses view templates in the same way as MVC classes
• Provides automatic JSON and CSV dump views, and potentially JSONP
• Incorporates Unit Testing
• Implements a RESTful web services interface
• Implements Tags support
• Improves ACL asset management
• Provides JObject Removal
• Provides Application Abstraction
• Triggers events in as many places as possible

10) AJAX Interface: Joomla 3.2 has an added interface for AJAX entry points. This will save development time and provide standardization for 3rd party custom extensions.

11) Micro-data Semantics Library: This feature is particularly useful to developers as it at implements http://schema(dot)org micro-data semantics.

12) HTML5 form Fields and Attributes: The last, but not least, improvement for developers is the addition of new HTML form fields and attribute.

SECURITY FEATURES

13) Two Factor Authentication: An optional Joomla security feature that has been added to the arsenal is Two Factor Authentication (TFA). TFA produces an extra temporary security code that is then sent privately to the user (e.g. to their smart phone app) and which allows them to login. This prevents unauthorized login attempts.

14) BCrypt Encryption of Passwords: Joomla now provides an even stronger password encryption method using BCrypt.

15) MooTools to jQuery Conversion.