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Well its Friday 13th and on-time we are pleased to announce the first ever preview of the upcoming Joomla Tags Extension for Joomla. (Don’t worry – you soon will be able to download the real thing!)

We have put online a demo site that allow you to login and play with the new framework. Take a look specifically at these things:

• The ability to create and assign different layouts to each tag
• The ability to tag items on the front end with no page refresh
• View the new Tag Cloud – with its dynamic interface
• See one of the two new modules for Tags
• See the new tab in the Edit content screen, with its new functionality to search for tags to add
• Take a look at the frontend content editing screen – you can now add tags from there too!
• Fully xHTML valid on the frontend.
• See the new maintenance screen – full of tasks to make life easier

We are still working out a few niggles with the framework over the weekend before we release files to the public. This are minor really.

• We need to test the migration from Tags Component
• We need to complete the language support
• The Object caching needs tweaking for performance
• The installation of the component needs to be completed.
• The unpopular step of ionCube encoding the license file needs to be automated
• Review of UTF/Special Chars integration (Almost done!)
• a few other things…

We invite you to provide feedback TODAY and all weekend in the new dedicated forum at

http://forum.phil-taylor.com/index.php/board,16.0.html

Remember that all the frontend screens can be configured by the new Layout Manager – you have complete control over what the frontend looks like – we have not yet put much effort into the template layouts so do not be put off by them at the moment – when you click a tag it doesnt have to show the title only – it can and will show a lot more once we sort out the new default layouts.

We now invite you into our demo site. The Administrator usernames are admin, admin1, admin2, admin3, admin4, and admin5. The password for all these accounts in “admin”. If you get session expired messages then maybe someone else is also using the same admin user, try another one or create yourself a new admin account.

The demo is refreshed every hour!! All new users will be deleted then.

The URL of the Joomla Tags Public Preview is:

http://www.joomla-tags.com/demo/joomla1.0.12

(Dont forget – to login to the administrator console and select Joomla Tags from the components menu to see a fantastic new framework in operation!)

(The Joomla 1.5 Demo will be available soon too…)

PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK !!!