Now you have a simple Firefox add-one, Wappalyzer. It is an add-on for Firefox that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects CMS and e-commerce systems, message boards, JavaScript frameworks, hosting panels, analytics tools and several more. Full story

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build small individual blogs and websites to even large social communities. To date, Joomla has recorded their 10 millionth download! Reasons include its growing popularity, ease-of-use, extensibility and it's powerful template system is flexible beyond belief have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available for personal and business. Full story

Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews. What's surprising is that this issue is true even for such popular solutions as Drupal and Joomla. Full story

Drupal and Joomla have made Google Friend Connect available on their platforms, reports ReadWriteWeb. This gives users of Drupal and Joomla the ability to leverage the immediate social features of Google Friend Connect without having to do any extra coding. For Google, the availability on these two major platforms gives it a wider potential of publishers to use its service. Full story

This tutorial quickly leads you through installing Joomla 1.5. It details both a local installation for testing (if you do not have a hosting account or have a slow internet connection) and a real web server installation. Full story