I recently installed Adsense as well as Adbrite modules to my Joomla Test Site and both are working just fine without any compatibility problems. You can check it by clicking on the link. Im alternating the modules daily though so it could be that you will see either just adsense or adbrite ads when you visit the site.

I have just installed the sitemap component on my tset site and it works fine. You can see it tby visiting the test site and clicking on the sitemap link on the main menu.

Today I installed the AkoComment component to my Joomla Beta 1.5 Test Site. I use this comment component in one of my Joomla 1.0.12 websites, the WebSEO (click on the link to go to the website) particularly to my blogs on the site since I decided not to use the WordPress blogging engine. Instead I used the articles as blog posts, and that’s where I use the comment component.

Unfortunately though, AkoComments has some compatibility issues with Joomla 1.5 even if it runs in legacy mode. I also tried other comment components to no avail. I will test some other components of the same nature though. I’ll post whatever I find, here.

I have recently built a new Joomla Beta 1.5 Test Site (click on the link to visit the site) with the latest “Nightly Build” dated November 16, 2006. The first 3rd party component I tested was the Community Builder. Though running on legacy mode, the extension works just fine. You can test it by registering on the site, though I’m refreshing the database weekly, so expect your profile to disappear in the site after a week or so, unless you tell me no to.

I will be updating the test site regularly, so feel free to bookmark it and visit as frequently as possible.

I recently visited the home of Joomla! where I’m a member of its forum. They already closed the Beta 1.5 threads and thanked everybody for their participation in discussions on bugs and other issues related to the Beta release.

This they did for the coming of  the Beta 2. Though no specific  date  is announced yet,  I for  one is  anticipating the release  of the next beta. Hopefully though, the developers of 3rd party software such as components, modules, plug-ins, and even templates  could keep up with the pace. I’m still waiting for the release of the Community Builder that is compatible with Joomla! 1.5 release.

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I recently downloaded a nightly build of Joomla Beta 1.5 (dated11/27/2006) and installed on my local computer running on a pre-complied Apache, MySQL, and PHP environment. So far, there’s alot of improvements on it’s lay-out especially on the administrator’s control panel.

I haven’t tried to install the components and modules that I have tried before since I’m quite busy for the time being. But I will be doing so as soon as I have enough time to see the real improvements of Joomla Beta 1.5 after a month and a half since its release.

I’m looking forward to seeing the compatibility issues gone, even just a few if not the majority of those bugs. I’ll post my findings here, so stay tuned…

After a month of beta testing by a lot of users, a graduate student at the Florida State College University of Information will be doing a usability study on Joomla 1.5 which will define the usability of the sytem to the users as a whole. Testing will be done in four (4) website categories which will be On-line Community, Media Portal, Blog, and eCommerce.

I personally am looking forward to the results of this study and will be posting updates on this matter here. So stay tuned…

Joomlapolis recently announced the release of the Community Builder 1.0.2 which will be compatible with Joomla 1.5. As mentioned in my previous post, the current version of CB which is 1.0.1 is not compatible with the newest (beta) release of Joomla!.

It’s good to know that 3rd party components/modules/plug-in developers are gearing toward correcting the backward compatibility issues of their software with Joomla 1.5. But until the release of the said updates, we can’t do anything but wait…

Three weeks have passed since the release of Joomla! Beta 1.5 and counting. So how’s the beta testing? For me, so far so good. Been downloading the the “nightlies”, and I think the people at Joomla! in conjunction with the thousands of professional beta testers have done their homeworks well.

Hopefully, it won’t take long for them to release Beta 2 and then the release candidate, the stable Joomla! 1.5. I’m eagerly looking forward to that day…

I installed Zoom Gallery component today. And just like the other 3rd party components that I have installed these past few days, it did not work with Joomla! Beta 1.5 release.

After installations and tests, i have come to a conclusion that Joomla! Beta 1.5 has a backward compatibility issue with most if not all 3rd party components developed for the earlier 1.x versions.