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When installing Joomla 2.5, an option exists to install one of three sets of sample data. This post includes a video walkthough of the difference between each of the sample data options.

As our total YouTube views approaches the 1 million mark, I thought it was timely to revisit some of our most popular videos. Read on to discover why our YouTube channel has become one of the most popular destinations for learning Joomla.

Metadata:

Metadata is generally described as "data about data." On a very simple level, this means that it describes the actual data in some way. There are different types of metadata, but in relation to Joomla, we are talking about metatags such as description and keywords that are accessed by search engines and web browsers in order to learn something about the content on your website.

Metadata has been a very hotly debated issue over the years, and it is now thought of as quite a bit less important in terms of search engine rankings and overall Google performance. Tags such as description are still very useful, but the approach to metadata in web development has changed dramatically.

This is another of those "Save failed with the following error" messages. It's not always apparent why you get these errors, so hopefully we can help guide you through fixing these.

As The Joomla! Project begins to finalize its goals and strategy for the coming year, they are asking for help and input from the Joomla community. The Project has put together a 16 question survey with questions ranging in subject from how you use Joomla to thoughts on paying contractors and employees. The deadline to participate in this survey is October 29.

jQuery:

jQuery is a JavaScript library that was initially released in 2006 and is currently used by more than 55% of the 10,000 most visited websites. It is claimed to be the most popular JavaScript library today. The Joomla! Project has decided to include jQuery in the core of Joomla 3.0 and on.

While the MooTools JavaScript library will still be included in the Joomla core as well, jQuery will be heavily used as it integrates directly with the Twitter Bootstrap framework, which the Joomla CMS is based on beginning with version 3.0.

I go on about Email Marketing a lot, but it's for good reason. Quite simply - it works! In fact I wouldn't have a business without it. Watch a quick video I created explaining why you need to add an email marketing solution to your website today. I even reveal the typical subscribe/unsubscribe numbers for our newsletter.

RocketTheme developer wssb has created a simple and clean responsive Joomla template that can be used in almost any web setting from blogging to a corporate site.

One common error that Joomla admins encounter when working on sites with multiple people is the following; Check-out failed with the following error: The user checking out does not match the user who checked out the item.

MooTools:

MooTools is an object-oriented JavaScript framework that is still somewhat widely used throughout the internet. It is the JavaScript library that Joomla has used since its inception. The name is taken from an acronym: My Object-Oriented Tools.

Using a JavaScript library such as MooTools allows developers to rapidly create extensions and update code, while reusing trustworthy pieces of code over and over. This saves time and is generally thought to greatly reduce errors and security problems.