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What Joomla Components do you need? | Print |  E-mail
Written by Shane Gibson   
Thursday, 12 July 2007

I have been helping a friend create a Web 2.0 style site called Tea Australia (site will be unlocked when we have finished)

He has come up with a list of fucntionality that he needs the site to provide and so I have been trawling the land of Joomla Extensions to see what fits and more importantly works.


The list so far (will be updated as I complete my research of course):


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Yah - I don't need to Speel | Print |  E-mail
Written by Shane Gibson   
Monday, 02 July 2007

I love using Joomla (the open source content management software we use on this site and for our customers.)

But one thing that is really missing is a spell checker when entering articles.  When I type fast my hands seem to go faster then my brain and that always ends up with speeling mistakes ;-)

A spell checker plugin is on the development cards for us but the meantime I got emailed the foloowing which means we probably don;t have to bother!

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Sugarcrm to vTiger and back again | Print |  E-mail
Written by Shane Gibson   
Sunday, 01 July 2007
I originally started using Open Source SugarCrm software (version 3) as the CRM system to manage all the customer details for Portali.

A number of years ago a couple of Indian based developers forked the SugarCRM open source code and created a new version called vTiger.  (there was some controversy between SugarCRM and vTiger as the latter claims the former sees them as a competitive threat and even threatened legal action)

SugarCRM provides a professional (licensed) version as well as the open source version and charges for addin-ons such as outlook integration.  So when I was due to upgrade to SugarCRM 4 I moved to vTiger 4 instead as they provided free outlook integration.

I have been using vTiger for a couple of years and needed to move to vTiger 5, but instead I have ended up going back to use SugarCRM (version 4.5).

Here is why:
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