What, another new version of Joomla came out today?  But didn’t Joomla 1.6 take over 3 years to develop and just come out a matter of months ago?  Yes, indeed it did.  In fact, this is the first release on Joomla’s new 6-month release schedule, since version 1.6 was released in January 2011.  Joomla 1.8 is scheduled to be released in January 2012.

So what does this mean for Joomla users and web designers?  Is it a worthwhile upgrade? What if ...