What You Need to Know About Joomla 1.6. Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders

This is the first of a series of blog posts about improvements in Joomla 1.6. If you'd like to contribute, please click here to find out more.

Part 1: Improvements for Site Builders

Joomla 1.6 offers much to site integrators and builders that will make them very, very happy. I have spent so long working with Joomla 1.5 and its quirks that I’ve forgotten about many of my pain points. Now that 1.6 is out, I can’t wait for the final release, and it’s all due to a few little things that make my life much easier. I hope you enjoy these new features as well!

Hooray For Save & New!

In Joomla 1.5, we had the options of Save, Apply, and Close for most functions in the Joomla administrator area.

We now have some new options for creating and editing content, and they're located fairly uniformly across the Joomla admin interface. Here's how they look and change in regards to an article.

After clicking the "New" button in the Article Manager to create a new article, the buttons look like this: