Air Travel

Miami International Airport, one of the busiest international airports in the world, is the main airport serving the Miami metropolitan area, catering to over 35 million passengers a year. Identifiable locally, as well as several worldwide authorities, as MIA or KMIA, the airport is a major hub and the single largest international gateway for American Airlines, the world's largest passenger air carrier. Miami International is the United States' third largest international port of entry for foreign air passengers (behind New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport), and is the seventh largest such gateway in the world. The airport's extensive international route network includes non-stop flights to over seventy international cities in North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Alternatively, nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) also serves the metropolitan area, and statistically handles more passengers originating or terminating their travel in South Florida.

Seaports

Miami is home to the Port of Miami, the largest cruise ship port in the world. In 2005, the port served 3,605,201 passengers. Additionally, the port is one of the nation's busiest cargo ports, importing nearly ten million tons of cargo annually. Among North American ports, it ranks second only to the Port of South Louisiana in New Orleans in terms of cargo tonnage imported/exported from Latin America. The port is on 518 acreas and has 7 passenger terminals. The top port imports are cargo, stone/clay/cement/tile/bricks/concrete, and alcoholic beverages. The most common exports of the Port of Miami are cargo, paper/newsprints/towels, and textiles. China number 1 import country of the port, and Hondorus is the number 1 export country. Eight cruise lines sail from the port of Miami: [Carnival Cruise Lines], Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Crystal Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, and Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. ^[30]

Public Transportation

Local public transportation includes Metrobus, Metromover, and Metrorail—an elevated rapid transit system—each operated by Miami-Dade Transit. Furthermore, Tri-Rail, a suburban rail system, connects the major cities and airports of the South Florida metropolitan area. Several transit expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax surcharge throughout Miami-Dade County. The Metrobus system is also an option for those looking to reach destinations not served by the main transit lines. A new light rail system is proposed and is called BayLink. BayLink will connect Downtown Miami with the South Beach district of Miami Beach.

Road and Rail

Miami is the southern terminus of Amtrak's Atlantic Coast services, with its final station located in the suburb of Hialeah, Florida.

Miami-Dade County is served by four Interstate Highways (I-75, I-95, I-195, I-395) and several U.S. Highways including U.S. Route 1, U.S. Route 27, U.S. Route 41, and U.S. Route 441. For information on the street grid, see Miami-Dade County, Florida#Street grid. Some of the major Florida State Roads (and their common names) serving the county are:

• SR 112 (Airport Expressway) Downtown to MIA
• SR 821 (The HEFT or Homestead Extension of the Florida Turnpike: SR 91/Miami Gardens to U.S. Route 1/Florida City)
• SR 826 (Palmetto Expressway) Golden Glades Interchange to U.S. Route 1/Kendall
• SR 836 (Dolphin Expressway) Downtown to Turnpike via MIA
• SR 874 (Don Shula Expressway) 826/Bird Road to 878
• SR 878 (Snapper Creek Expressway) Kendall to Turnpike/Homestead
• SR 924 (Gratigny Parkway) Miami Lakes to Opa-locka

Miami is the 12th largest radio market and the 17th largest television market in the U.S. Television stations serving the Miami area include WAMI (Telefutura), WBFS (My Network TV), WSFL (The CW), WFOR (CBS), WHFT (TBN), WLTV (Univision), WPLG (ABC), WPXM (ION), WSCV (Telemundo), WSVN (FOX), WTVJ (NBC), WPBT (PBS), WLRN (also PBS) and WSBS Mega TV

Newspapers

• Miami Sun Post
• New Times
• Miami Today
• Biscayne Boulevard Times
• Diario Las Americas

• Sun-Sentinel

Magazines

• Ocean Drive

Miami Radio Stations

FM

• WIRP 88.3 FM Pennsuco Religious
• WKPX 88.5 FM Sunrise Rock Top-40
• WDNA 88.9 FM Miami Jazz
• WMCU 89.7 FM Miami Christian Contemporary
• WVUM 90.5 FM University of Miami College radio (Coral Gables)
• WLRN 91.3 FM Miami Public Radio
• WCMQ 92.3 FM Hialeah Spanish
• WHDR 93.1 FM Hollywood Rock
• WLVE 93.9 FM Miami Beach Smooth Jazz
• WMGE 94.9 FM Miami Beach Spanish
• WXDJ 95.7 FM North Miami Beach Spanish
• WPOW 96.5 FM Miami Rhythmic CHR
• WREH 96.9 FM Fort Lauderdale Christian
• WFLC 97.3 FM Miami Adult Contemporary
• WRTO 98.3 FM Goulds Spanish
• WEDR 99.1 FM Miami Mainstream Urban
• WHYI 100.7 FM Fort Lauderdale Top-40
• WLYF 101.5 FM Miami Adult Contemporary
• WMXJ 102.7 FM Pompano Beach Oldies
• WMIB 103.5 FM Fort Lauderdale Mainstream Urban
• WHQT 105.1 FM Coral Gables Urban Adult Contemporary
• WBGG 105.9 FM Fort Lauderdale Classic Rock
• WRMA 106.7 FM Fort Lauderdale Spanish
• WAMR 107.5 FM Miami Spanish

AM

• WQAM 560 AM Miami Sports
• WIOD 610 AM Miami News/Talk
• WMEN 640 AM Miami Hot Talk
• WWFE 670 AM Miami Spanish
• WAQI 710 AM Miami Spanish
• WAXY 790 AM South Miami Sports
• WACC 830 AM Hialeah Spanish
• WFTL 850 AM Fort Lauderdale News/Talk
• WINZ 940 AM Miami Talk
• WMYM 990 AM Miami Children's
• WRHB 1020 AM Kendall Caribbean
• WLVJ 1040 AM Boynton Beach Religion/variety
• WTPS 1080 AM Coral Gables Black Talk
• WQBA 1140 AM Miami Spanish
• WAVS 1170 AM Davie Caribbean
• WNMA 1210 AM Miami Springs Spanish
• WSUA 1260 AM Miami Spanish
• WLQY 1320 AM Hollywood Ethnic
• WKAT 1360 AM North Miami News/Talk
• WFLL 1400 AM Fort Lauderdale Caribbean
• WOIR 1430 AM Homestead Spanish
• WOCN 1450 AM Miami Spanish
• WMBM 1490 AM Miami Beach Gospel
• WRHC 1550 AM Coral Gables Spanish
• WRHC (CP) 1560 AM Kendall Lakes Spanish
• WJCC 1700 AM Miami Springs Caribbean

• Dynamic form builders
• Business or organisational directories
• Document management
• Image and multimedia galleries
• E-commerce and shopping cart engines
• Forums and chat software
• Calendars
• Email newsletters
• Data collection and reporting tools
• Banner advertising systems
• Paid subscription services
• and many, many more

You can find more examples over at our growing Joomla! Extensions Directory. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by our active developer community!

A useful guide to the extension site can be found at:
http://extensions.joomla.org/content/view/15/63/

Types of Extensions

There are five types of extensions:

• Components
• Modules
• Templates
• Plugins
• Languages

You can read more about the specifics of these using the links in the article table of contents (another useful feature of Joomla!) at the top right or by clicking on the next link below.

Components

A component is the largest and most complex of the extension types. Components are like mini-applications that renders the main body of the page. An analogy that might make the relationship easier to understand would be that Joomla! is a book and all the components are chapters in the book. The core content component (com_content), for example, is the mini-application that handles all core content rendering just as the core registration component (com_user) is the mini-application that handles user registration.

Many of Joomla's core features are provided by the use of default components such as:

• Contacts
• Front Page
• Newsfeeds
• Banners
• Mass Mail
• Polls
• RSS Syndication

A Component will manage data, set displays, provide functions and in general can perform any operation that doesn't fall under the general functions of the core code.

Components work hand in hand with Modules and Plugins to provide a rich variety of content display and functionality aside from the standard article and content display. Components make it possible to completely transform Joomla and greatly expand its capabilities.

More information on components is available from the Joomla! help manual: Components
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/77/153/

Modules

A more lightweight and flexible extension used for page rendering is a module. Modules are used for small bits of the page that are generally less complex and able to be seen across different components. To continue in our book analogy, a module can be looked at as a footnote or header block, or perhaps an image/caption block that can be rendered on a particular page. Obviously you can have a footnote on any page but not all pages will have them. Footnotes also might appear regardless of which chapter you are reading. Simlarly modules can be rendered regardless of which component you have loaded.

Modules are like little mini-applets that can be placed anywhere on your site. They work in conjunction with components in some cases and in others are complete stand alone snippets of code used to display some data from the database such as Content (Newsflash) Modules are usually used to output data but they can also be form items to input data (Login Module and Polls as an example)

Modules can be assigned to module positions which are defined in both your template and backend under the Site/Template Manager/Module Positions menu items. For example, "left" and "right" are common for a 3 column layout.

Displaying Modules

Each module is assigned to a module position on your site. If you wish it to display in two different locations you must copy the module and assign the copy to display at the new location. You can also set which menu items (and thus pages) a module will display on. You can select all menu items or you can pick and choose specific menu items by holding down the control key and selecting multiple menu items one by one in the Modules Edit screen

Note your Main Menu is a Module! When you create a new menu in the menu manager you are actually copying the Main Menu module code and giving it the name of your new menu. When you copy a module you do not copy all it's parameters you simply allow Joomla to use the same code with two separate settings.

NewsFlash Example

NewsFlash is a Module which will display content items from your site in an assignable module position. It can be used and configured to display one category, all categories or to randomly choose content items to highlight to users. It will display as much of an article as you set, and will show a "read more" link to take the user to the full page.

The Newsflash component is particularly useful for things like Site News or to show the latest content item added to your site.

More information on Modules is available from the Joomla! help manual: Modules
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/91/153/

Plugins

One of the more advanced extensions for Joomla! is the plugin (formerly called a mambot). In previous versions plugins were known as mambots. Along with the development of Joomla! 1.5, mambots have been renamed to plugins and their functionality has been expanded. A plugin is a section of code that runs when a pre-defined event happens within Joomla! Editors are plugins, for example, that execute when the Joomla! event "onGetEditorArea" occurs. Using a plugin allows a developer to change the way their code behaves depending upon which plugins are installed to react to an event.

More information on Plugins is available from the Joomla! help manual: Plugins
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/110/153/

Languages

New to Joomla! 1.5 and perhaps the most basic and critical extension is a language. Languages are packaged as either a core language pack or an extension language pack. They allow both the Joomla! core as well as third party components and modules to be internationalised.

More information on languages is available from the Joomla! help manual: Languages
http://help.joomla.org/content/view/23/160/

• Completely database driven site engines
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX]]> Administrator Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:32:45 -0400 http://www.businessmiami.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=37 Joomla! provides plenty of flexibility when displaying your web content. Whether you are using Joomla! for a blog site, news or a website for a company, you'll find one or more content styles to showcase your information. You can also change the style of content dynamically depending on your preferences. Joomla calls how a page is laid out a layout. Use the guide below to understand which layouts are available and how you might use them.

  Content

  Joomla! makes it extremely easy to add and display content. All content is placed where your mainbody tag in your template is located. There are three main types of layouts available in Joomla! and all of them can be customised via parameters. The display and parameters are set in the menu item used to display the content your working on. You create these layouts by creating a menu item and choosing how you want the content to display.

  Blog layout
  

  Blog layout will show a listing of all content items of the selected blog type (section or category) in the mainbody position of your template. It will give you the standard title, and Intro of each content article in that particular Category and/or Section. You can customise this layout via the use of the content parameters, (See Content Parameters) this is done from the menu not the section manager!

  Blog Archive layout
  

  A Blog Archive layout will give you a similar output of content as the normal Blog Display but will add at the top two dropdown boxes for Month and year plus a search button to allow users to search for all archived content from a specific month and year

  Table layout
  

  Table layout will simply give you a table of all the titles in that particular section or category. No intro will be displayed just the titles. You can set how many titles will be displayed in this table by Parameters. The table layout will also provide a filter section so that users can reorder, filter and set how many titles are listed on a single page (up to 50)

  Wrapper

  Wrappers allow you to place stand alone applications and 3rd party websites inside your Joomla! site. The content within a wrapper appears within the primary content area defined by the "mainbody" tag and allows you to display content to display them as part of your own site. A Wrapper will place an IFRAME into the content section of your website and wrap your standard template navigation around it so it appears in the same way a content item would.

  Content Parameters

  The parameters for each layout type can be found on the right hand side of the editor boxes in the menu item configuration screen. The parameters available depend largely on what kind of layout you are configuring.

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