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I have used the fantastico at cpanel to create my joomla instance. I found I can't type any chinese characters, after saving, they became like "???". The problem is the collation in mySQL database is set to latin by default. My solution is create a sql dump and ten replaced to collation on each table and field to utf-8.

I am looking for the tools to do a Multilingual Joomla. I found Joom!fish. It works prefectly fine, if your website has a same structure across different language version. But in my case, that is hard. Because each version has a unique menu structure. All of them are very similar, but not exactly same. So, Joom!fish is not a solution in this case.

I built a Joomla for my Church and gave Chinese Version Admin interface for that instance. I found the problem on translation. Because that is built by some Taiwan Opensource Developers. That is not suit for Hong Kong People. Even Taiwan and Hong Kong both are using Chinese. My users gave me the feedback they can't understand some wording in Admin interface. Thus, I suggest please do a focus group review before you give them a final solution!

I have tried a number of photo gallery components. I want somethings simple. The component should have only thumbnail and view photo. I found JoomGallery is fitted with my requirements!

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,5481/Itemid,35/

That is simple and can view the full view image in an ajax window. That is good, reducing popup!

I have given up to learn Mambo. Mainly, I can't find any resource to say Mambo supporting MVC. But I found a lot of resources and tutorial for Joomla 1.5 about MVC. Thus, I am learning Joomla 1.5