Download Joomla! 1.5 beta 2

Just under seven months after the first beta, people of Joomla! the second beta of the 1.5 branch made available† Joomla! is a comprehensive content management system that runs on a large number of platforms and can be used to create a weblog, website and/or collaboration site. The software also offers support for so-called extensions, with which the functionality of your own site can be expanded with, for example, statistics, response options and management tools. What Joomla! 1.5 beta 2 can be read below:

Joomla! proudly presents its most important coding adrenaline surge to the development and designer community. With today’s release of Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2, we’re shifting gears into turbo mode; an re-factored core, internationalization, FTP layering, next-generation API and framework that’s so flexible and powerful and, of course, a designer’s dream for unparalleled templating flexibility.

With Joomla! 1.5 the Joomla! project really starts firing on all cylinders. The difference between our current 1.0.12 and the upcoming 1.5 Beta-2 are not easy describe, but in essence Joomla! 1.0.x was based upon the Mambo codebase, whereas Joomla! 1.5 has been completely rewritten from scratch. Joomla! 1.0.x was written with “freedom of use” in mind; with Joomla! 1.5 we expanded on this and added “ease of use”. This all sounds very nice, but what does it mean? Freedom of use refers to the unlimited possibilities you have when building web-sites, and with ease of use we have tried to make life simpler for the end user, the web administrator and of course the third party developers.