Joomla 1.5 has many similarity’s to 1.13 so i made fairly quick progress in setting the shell of the portal. Too begin with i downloaded and installed an excellent skin, 68portal by Axel Wehner. This was one of the finalist in the Joomla 1.5 template competition. Lot of nice designs to choose from, green seemed a good color for real estate.

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I finally took the plunge and downloaded and installed the latest Joomla CMS. Joomla 1.5 release candidate one. Having several sites running 1.13 i wanted to get a head start on seeing what the new version was all about. I installed on a unused domain at ChinaRealEstateMarket.com I will try and build a Chinese real estate market portal as a learning tool with Joomla 1.5 Installation was pretty straight forward. set up the SQL data base with C- Panel and ran the browser based install program. I was asked my SQL database name and user name, and that was pretty much it. installed without a hitch. I accessed the admin section and was greeted with a much cleaner and streamlined GUI then previous versions. Components, Modules, Templates, and Plug ins have all been rolled into a single Extensions menu. The install included two templates Beez and Rhuk_milkyway. I have heard a lot about the beez Accessible Template template and look forward to seeing what all the fuss is about. Well…thats all for now stay tuned for further developments. feel free to monitor developments at ChinaRealEstateMarket.com