Recently, I wrote about how to change your favicon for your Joomla!-powered site. Today, I came across a great site for generating a favicon. Check it out (http://www.favicon.cc).

I have recently received a request from one of my readers to provide a printable PDF of all of the articles on HowToJoomla. My first thought was, "Great idea!", but after I looked into what it would take to make this happen, I started to realize that it might be difficult to accomplish given the fact that my time is limited due to other obligations.

So, my question to you is, how many of you would be interested in a PDF file with all of the HowToJoomla articles? If so, how much would you be willing to pay for this service? $1? $5? More than that? My first idea is to use a service like Fundable to raise enough money from your donations so that I can create this PDF and then release it to the community for free.

What do you think? Please respond in the comments below.

The core team has just announced the release of Joomla! 1.5 Beta 2! This release has been in the works for a long time (Beta 1 was released on October 12), and it marks a huge leap forward. I still wouldn't use 1.5 in a live site until the word "Beta" is removed from the title, but I can't wait to download it and start playing with the latest version.

Congratulations to the core team on a great effort! Great job!

I just discovered that the Joomlaboard team has merged with the Fireboard team. (Read the announcement at the Fireboard site here.) This is an exciting development for the Joomla! community because the Fireboard component breathes new life into a much needed component.

Joomlaboard has been around for a long time. It started out as a simple message board component for Mambo, and it grew into a more full-featured forum component like what you see today. It has long been the only full-integrated Joomla! forum component available, which in my opinion makes it more appealing than some of the bridged forum components like phpBB and SMF. However, development has slowed down in recent years, and it has not kept up with other forum packages' features.

With the birth of Fireboard, and the subsequent merger of Joomlaboard with Fireboard, it looks like this great component might once again become the forum component of choice for Joomla! webmasters. Thanks to the Fireboard team for picking up the slack, and thanks to the Joomlaboard team for recognizing their efforts by joining forces with them.