The Friday Blog @ Greenville Associates - Jason & Stews Brews.

  COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IN THE INTERNET AGE                                                                              by Stewart Friday Most of us are shopping online, buying online, and dating online now... and the Internet unlike the retail market place doesnt favor the places with the most consumers... consumers don't care how far away a business is away from their house, because the US Mail system charges mostly flat rate service for all but the largest parcels... and even those are entirely predictable by the US Mail Service API's based on weight and dimensions. And if all of that is true, if I am running an Internet Business, I can just as easily put my employees on Hilton Head Island, as in Jersey City in practice, except for some financial issues like In...

  We've never known a major vendor/brand to have a successive release which is worse... but this one is...ITS HORRIBLE.... for three main reasons (Unless you have never built a Joomla site which is in production... in which case you are at first base anyway): 1) Joomla scrapped all their previous templates for formatting... so if you used Beez, or Prostar... they dont exist anymore... so you arent really upgrading your site YOU ARE STARTING OVER.....every page has to be reformatted... and the new fonts are like 18pt and so large it looks horrible, even hopeless. 2) Not all vendors plugins work on 4.0 because its a completely different architecture altogether... they rebuilt the table structure...so most of what you are using on your original site probably doesnt work (See OneAll Social Logins). 3) Joomla is struggling with market traction, and is no longer testing and certifying their vendors products. Vendors like Akeeba backup only have products which work on MySQL... but Joomla ...