Fotis Evangelou
Founder of JoomlaWorks, developers of the groundbreaking K2. Co-founder of Komrade, "craftsmen" of high-traffic Joomla! websites like Gazzetta.gr & TNAWrestling.com.
Website URL: http://www.joomlaworks.gr E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Advanced K2 session: leverage the power of Joomla! and K2 to build world-class websites
If you have been building websites with Joomla! professionally, you probably know the advantages as well as the shortcomings of the CMS. Your clients want features and you end up with sites that are difficult to extend or maintain. Enter K2 to the rescue!
K2 is the popular powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features developed by JoomlaWorks. It provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more!
With almost 200,000 downloads in less than a year, K2 already powers two of the world's highest traffic Joomla! websites (Gazzetta.gr & TNAWrestling.com), popular websites like Gorillaz.com & The Arts Desk, websites of prominent Joomla! template developers (JoomlaPraise & JoomlaBamboo), thousands of personal or business websites around the world, as well as the JandBeyond.org website.
Fotis Evangelou from JoomlaWorks will reveal the true power of K2 in a session targeted at professional Joomla! integrators, developers and designers. From content configuration and CCK field building to templating and to writing basic plugins (without existing coding knowledge) that extend the item, category and user forms. You will learn how to prepare K2 for a multi-author environment (ready to handle dozens of thousands of articles/items), leveraging K2's in-built ACL capabilities and frontend editing features.
Finally, you will learn all the tips & tricks of using K2 at the professional level, including matters of performance, upgrading and easy maintenance.
More on K2: http://getk2.org
K2 for beginners: build powerful websites with Joomla!, the easy way
K2 is the popular powerful content component for Joomla! with CCK-like features developed by JoomlaWorks, makers of fine Joomla! extensions since 2006.
It provides an out-of-the box integrated solution featuring rich content forms for items (think of Joomla! articles with additional fields for article images, videos, image galleries and attachments), nested-level categories, tags, comments, a system to extend the item base form with additional fields (similar to CCK for those acquainted with Drupal), a powerful plugin API to extend item, category and user forms, ACL, frontend editing, sub-templates and a lot more!
Using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website to a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! Since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.
In this "beginners" session, Fotis Evangelou from JoomlaWorks will show you how to make use of K2's power to build flexible and easy to maintain Joomla! websites.
More on K2: http://getk2.org
Support J and Beyond! Grab the banners and spread the word!
We have prepared some cool banners for you to use on your website and support the J and Beyond 2010 conference.
You can either use the HTML code prepared for you already or simply grab the banner images in PNG format (attached below) and add them to your website with a link back to the jandbeyond.org website!
Organizing credits
Anyone who has made such a event knows that this is a real challenge and making it a success could only happen with many helping hands. We are in an early stage and we hope that many people will help in the next weeks and during the event but it is never too early to say thank you!
Thank you:
- Arno Zijlstra for the conference name idea and the wonderful logo
- Fotis Evangelou and Chiara for the great website
- Alex Kempkens for the support in the marketing area
- Brian Teeman for the special event organisation
- Jeremy Wilken the support in planning the video recoding
- Robert Deutz for having the initial idea and pushing things forward