Joomla 1.5 Templates Blog

30,000th Template from TemplateMonster with a Nice Promo

Joe — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:55:25 +0000

Hey guys, would you like to get a freebie? And would you like to be able to point at something in a store and just say “I want it” to be able to get it right away and for free? I think everybody dreams of it. And today is a miracle day when you can take things you like absolutely for free (in fact you can do it during two days: 10th and 11th of August)! Well, almost for free because TemplateMonster.com gives you a chance to choose one of 3,000 corporate design products without having to pay for them. But this promo is valid on one condition: you should buy any template from TemplateMonster.com (including those lovely Joomla 1.5 templates that we’re so much crazy about).

Anyways, what is the reason for such a generosity, you will ask. The reason is clear and it’s very nice. On the 10th of August TemplateMonster – a web templates provider – launches their 30,000th template! The theme is really fantastic. It is a Flash CMS template powered by FlashMoto CMS. But this is not the one zest of the theme. The template is made using Papervision3D technology, which will make a website based on it extremely dynamic. So this template is a reason for the promo under which you buy any template from TemplateMonster and may then choose a present out of Powerpoint templates, Logo templates, corporate identities, Iconsets and logosets.

Well, put off all your affairs and hurry up to buy a perfect Joomla template (other themes from TemplateMonster are awesome too so don’t turn away from them) with a pleasant additional free product.

Joomla 1.6 Beta 4 Now Available

Joe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:27:04 +0000

The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 4 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 3 release on Jun 14, it was fixed approximately 103 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable! Read more here.

Joomla! 1.5.18 Released

Joe — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:44:11 +0000

The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.18 [Wojmamni ama wojnaiki]. This is a security release and also corrects one priority issue in version 1.5.17.

The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community. You can dowload Joomla 1.5.18 packages here.

Enhance your Joomla 1.5 Themes with MooTools

Joe — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:35:28 +0000

MooTools is a compact, modular, object-oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.

MooTools code respects strict standards and doesn’t throw any warnings. It’s extensively documented and has meaningful variable names: a joy to browse and a snap to understand. Frankly speaking this small Java script is extremely useful tool gives superb functionality to any website. Lower you’ll find a few nice examples of our Joomla 1.5 themes that have Mootools powered elements. Hope that you’ll estimate all features of these awesome Joomle 1.5 Templates.

Moto News

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Structural Consulting

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Game Portal

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SimVex

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Industrial Products and Services

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7 Best Free SEO Tools for Joomla

Joe — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:33:34 +0000

Well, it is unnecessary to explain that SEO optimization is more than important direction for any web project. Of course Joomla is a great CMS platform but it requires a lot of extra tools if you want to see immediate result. Today we have collected small list of most useful and popular SEO extensions for your Joomla website.

1. SEO Simple Joomla 1.5 PLugin

This native Joomla 1.5 plugin automatically generates description meta tags by pulling text from the content to help with SEO. It also gives you the ability to set different title configurations.

2. Joomla SEO / SEF Component

ARTIO JoomSEF is a component for Joomla SEO (Search Engine Optimization). JoomSEF will rewrite your Joomla! URLs not to be only Search Engine Friendly (SEF), but also to be human easily understandable.

3. Joomap

Joomap is a Sitemap component for Joomla CMS version 1.5.x. Joomap offers a wide range of configuration options and can also generate a Google Sitemaps listing of your website’s structure. Joomap also implements a very simple plugin-mechanism to import content from external components.

4. JoomlaSEO

JoomSEO automatically places the relevant Keywords and descriptions in the places that count for Search Engine Optimization. JoomSEO now adds Heading Tags to content titles for accessibility and further Search Engine Optimization.

5. SEO Canonicalisation

SEO Canonicalisation is a system plugin for Joomla! 1.5 that enables site ‘canonicalisation’, which means that when a user hits your site from another domain than your preferred (for example, www.sammoffatt.com.au instead of sammoffatt.com.au), Joomla! will redirect the user to the appropriate hostname.

6. Redirect 301 plugin for Joomla 1.5

The J!Redirect301 plugin for Joomla 1.5 will allow you to set up a permanent redirection (HTTP 301) so that if you have several sites pointing to a single Joomla site you can forward all requests properly to a single domain name.

7. Auto-FrontPage plugin

Auto-Frontpage is a native Joomla! 1.5 plugin which takes care of automatically publishing articles on the frontpage of your Joomla website.

Best Aquatic Joomla Websites

Joe — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:10:07 +0000

We wanted to bring you a piece of nice summer mood by collecting best Joomla Aquatic designs. Hope that this post will inspire you to take a vacation or make another great Joomla design. We as Joomla 1.5 themes providers are really proud that there are many great and unique Joomla designs. Here you will find different stlyes and many creative solutions that might be useful for you in case if you are designer or going to create new website. Enjoy!

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Joomla 1.6: Is it so good?

Joe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:56:27 +0000

Recently I have read post about the troubles that will met any sure who would start building it’s website using Joomla 1.6. Here are some points, quoting the author:
6 reasons why you should not wait for Joomla 1.6

1. Uncertainty
No one knows when it will be released. Not even when the beta version will be released.
2. Instability.
When Joomla 1.6 is released, there will be a lot of patches released before the software is stable enough for a production site.
3. Incompatibility.
Because Joomla 1.6 has a lot of new functions, your favorite extensions will not work as is. They will need to be updated and tested to utilize the new Joomla 1.6 ACL functions, removed sections, nested categories etc.
4. Lacking support
The support for new software will obviously not be as extensive as with established software.
5. Missing documentation
Most likely, the documentation for Joomla 1.6 will not be released at the same time as the software itself. It takes time, and someone has to do it.
6. Incomplete language support
Most languages will not be ready at the time of the Joomla 1.6 release.

Ok, we agree with that language problem but I think that Joomla has really great community and it’s not gonna be a problem to make a professional translation. About uncertainty - actually it’s not a big problem because there are many good examples that show us value of really good products that were created with really huge time resources, so we just hope that 1.6 will be very good. As for extensions - of course it is normal that new software requires new extensions and I don’t think that all Joomla 1.5 extensions were released same day day with 1.5 version.

To cut a long story short - we are still believe that new 1.6 version will be something really awesome despite all those pessimist forecasts.

Joomla Is Getting More Social Friendy

Joe — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:24:44 +0000

Google announced that Google Friend Connect features are now available for the Drupal and Joomla content management systems. This means that content publishers using these platforms can integrate Google’s product, which basically turns your site into a mini social network.
“The social gadgets can be placed anywhere in the site using the standard Drupal and Joomla administration interfaces. Site owners can moderate reviews and comments, create new polls to collect information about community members, and then advertise on the site using that information. The newsletter feature allows site owners to create and manage their newsletters using Friend Connect’s interface, and site members can subscribe and unsubscribe as desired using the newsletter gadget.” says Globant’s Mauro Gonzalez on Google’s Social Web Blog.
The Google Friend Connect integrations with Joomla include next features:

- Interest Polls
- AdSense
- Newsletter Subscriptions
- Featured Content
- Gadgets (like Members, Comments, Recommendations, Activities, Reviews and the Social Bar)

10 Well-Designed Virtuemart Online Shops

Joe — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:15:40 +0000

Holidays are almost over and we think it’s time to continue our work. According the latest marketing researches eCommerce Joomla extension - Virtuemart is getting more popular. Actually before this post I haven’t met Virtuemart shops with really stunning design, but I must admit that it was a big mistake to consume that are no such store in the net. We’ve heard that some companies are planning to produce Virtuemart Templates but for now it’s just a gossip.This small showcase hasn’t any topic except good design and we hope that you’ll enjoy it.

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Installing VirtueMart - Video Tutorial

Joe — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:21 +0000

There is no doubt that you’ve heard about VirtueMart and we have published few posts about this superb extension. But we still want to remind that VirtueMart can be run in Store- and Catalog-Mode. With its powerful Administration Tool you can handle an unlimited Number of Categories, Products, Orders, Discounts, Shopper Groups and Customers. But before using this Joomla extension we think that it might be very useful for rookies to check out this tutorial - maybe this info will help you a lot.