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After Xoops basics in Serbian, here is the install guide or How to install Xoops in Serbian language.Instalacija XOOPS CMS-a @ AlviblogXoops instalation in English via Google TranslateEnjoy :)

You might remember St. Matthew-in-the-City from their Mary and Joseph billboard a few months back. They're making headlines again, but this time, I'm a little more sold on what they're doing. Here's the jist:Recently, there was an advertising campaign in New Zealand for atheism. The ads, displayed on buses, read, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." New Zealand Bus got some complaints on the campaign, and they ended up taking the advertisements down.Enter Archdeac...

Erik Germesin recently wrote a gap-bridging piece for pastors and designers. It's no secret that pastors can find designers to be troublesome to work with, and vice-versa. For whatever reason, these two groups just don't always seem to gel. We were curious as to how the pastors and designers that you know play together.The biggest group, pleasingly, are the 43% of you who have pastors and designers who go above and beyond to understand one another and work together. Your designer doesn't go c...

Xortify - Fortify your XOOPS.Xortify is a network security drone that uses Web 2.0 techniques to link between your XOOPS installs and other via a XML Cloud. This will prevent security intrusions to your xoops with accurate deceptive notation of the intruder and prevent any farmed attacks. It is an accessory and required Protector to be installed an running to be part of the hookup. Otherwise it will run without protector just make sure you deselect protector as a provider.It will display a te...

A huge release like 1.2 always has some issues that come along. Those have now been addressed in ImpressCMS 1.2.1, which is now has reached Release Candidate status, after a beta cycle which saw very few bugs!ImpressCMS has had a short, but notable history - founded in 2007, an initial release in January 2008, 3rd place in Packt Publishing's Most Promising Open Source CMS in 2008 and 1st place in 2009, a 2008 finalist in SourceForge's Community Choice Awards, 32 separate releases and almost 1...

Last month I read a blog post from Mark Batterson, pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. He said that the church ought to be a dream factory. Yes! Churches need to dream more and imagine what God can do in our neighborhoods and communities. But then Jeremy Scheller, the communications and design coordinator at The Sanctuary in Minneapolis, made the comment that "the church ought to be a 'do' factory. It spends too much time dreaming of crap it never does." Yes! How many drea...

As previously mentioned here, XOOPS will have an Annual "XOOPSer of the Year Award", honoring the most dedicated members of our community!This year, to give every past "XOOPSer of the Month" a chance, we'll include all of them in the voting Please review carefully all the past XOOPSer of the Month winners (till January 2010), read their interviews, and why they have become "XOOPSer of the Month", and select a person/team that you believe made the biggest difference for XOOPS And then cast you...

As previously mentioned here, XOOPS will have an Annual "Marcello Brandao XOOPS Innovation Award", honoring the best XOOPS Innovations!This year, to give every past Innovation winner a chance, we'll include all of them in the voting Please review carefully all the past Innovation winners (till January 2010), and select a person/team that you believe made the biggest and best XOOPS INNOVATION within the last two years, from which XOOPS and our users benefit the most And then cast your vote her...

Yes, it's true, the Geeks and God Podcast is back! An all new hosting crew will be bringing you new episodes on the first Monday of every month. This month, Rob Feature and Matt Farina introduce the new team, followed by a great interview with Pastor Lucas Forsthoff on the benefits of embracing technology to further the Gospel. We wrap up this month with a Drupal Spotlight on selecting modules.

by Brett Borders, Guest BloggerEvery church’s brand has a face. And that face belongs to its head pastor. Yes, other components help define the brand: its logo, its graphic standards, its facility, its style of worship. But I’d argue a growing number of churches’ outward identities are inextricably wrapped up in the humanity behind the pulpit. That’s because, unlike cars, software or fast food which we marketers regularly anthropomorphize by giving them brand attributes like a persona...