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Good news, our dear Joomloids! The latest version of Joomla CMS has been demonstrated to the world (even though in beta so far) and now we can savour all its new features and improvements. We all know that Joomla has one of the greatest communities in the world and many of the new features were implemented due to the work of devoted community members. Soon you’ll be able to download the stable version of Joomla 2.5 by yourself – official Joomla blog informs that the Joomla 2.5.0 GA (general availability) is due to be released on 24 January 2012. Also there is a solution for the lazy Joomla fans that have no time or just don’t want to do that manually – there is an one-click upgrade message that you will be able to find in the administrator page.
Below you’ll find a list of the most significant features of Joomla 2.5 release. Some of these will melt web developers’ hearts because there is nothing more charming than finding out that Joomla has released the support for other types of databases or some useful core improvements. Anyway, one thing that is 100% clear concerning this release is that everybody will receive some “sweet” new features for sure.
Core Features
Our today’s post offers a showcase of superior Joomla 1.7 Templates that have been recently added to TemplateMonster collection. They are based on the all-time favorite design standards that reveal the vision of both simple and sophisticated Joomla layouts. What adds up the strength values of every single Joomla 1.7 template featured here is that being enhanced with a whole array of functionality features, these designs also offer extreme ease of use for both site owners and visitors. Make sure you can easily personalize Joomla 1.7 templates to your website content, and this in the long run will considerably cut down on your website development time. Now check out the list we’ve made for you today and choose your next Joomla 1.7 powered design.
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Growex Business Solutions Joomla 1.7 Template
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Bonus Joomla 1.7 Template
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Deqerion Business Joomla 1.7 Template
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TemplateMonster’s best-selling Joomla 1.7 Templates list ranks the 5 top selling designs based on analyzes of sales from the website. Over the past months there have been many nice templates created for the Joomla platform version 1.7, but the really striking ones are featured here. Guys, you all know that the competition is tougher than ever. What does it take to make your Joomla website stand out from the rest? And how is anybody going to actually spot your site? Use one of these templates. Now we’ll show you why they are so popular with webmasters and web users alike.
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Grafix Joomla 1.7 Template
This one is really elegant sophisticated template that appeals to the web design or business sector and those web developers looking for something that is easy to setup and configure. The design incorporates attractive slider solution that is being displayed with a shadow to add some depth to it. The layout feels incredibly neat and clean letting the images and content shine enough to be clearly seen and feel comforting to the eye. Here the main content is placed on the overlay that’s on the top of the page, whereas gray & black contrast divides the template to accent the footer. Plus, this template combines content in a grid structure with the front page being laid out into three columns. Professional clean quality design for a variety of functions.
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Semioli Joomla 1.7 Template
What is great about this particular Joomla 1.7 Template is its bluish style with a gradient effect applied. This design can appear to be a real helping hand in the process of new Joomla-powered corporate website establishment. The beautiful fusion of reflective icons, seamlessly integrated text blocks, framed thumbnails, neat fonts and huge typography elements make the current Joomla design a favorite. For the navigation bars the design uses a slick pointer that is center aligned with the text link to give users a clear visual feedback in the navigation. In addition, a huge typography used here is playing the role of an eye-catchy design element to promote key ideas of the company.
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Let the whole world know about you by seeing your own personal Joomla website. Now is the great news. Since Joomla templates is one of TemplateMonster’s most popular product types, now the number of versatile Joomla 1.7 Templates is also out for the latest version of Joomla. Our Joomla 1.7 templates are designed to give you maximum control over the appearance of your site, plus having them you can take full advantage of the updated Joomla core features.
With every Joomla 1.7 Template that you buy from TemplateMonster you also get one year of free unlimited hosting and a free domain registration from JustHost. What’s even more, we offer a good archive of free tutorials and help info, plus you’ll get 24/7 free support via Live chat, phone support or tickets system. Make sure even if you’re still new to Joomla, you’ll manage to create a really nice website for your company. In case there’ll be some problems in setting up the template contact our support team, and they’ll be glad to help. TemplateMonster will support you till your issue is completely resolved.
There’s also much questioning on how to convert a website or any other template into a fully working Joomla 1.7 template. Those who are interested in easily updating to Joomla 1.7 are welcome to read the following instructions and step by step tutorials:
- What you need to know about Joomla 1.7
- Download Joomla 1.7
- Installing Joomla 1.7
- Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7
- Upgrading 1.6.5 to 1.7
When you modify the template, you’ll probably want to add some extensions to make the design elements better relate to your project’s focus. Check out the directory of Joomla 1.7 extensions, right now there are about 2000 add-ons and modules serving to the Joomla community.
If you need to find Joomla designs for other major Joomla releases, we invite you to see the full assortment of our Joomla Templates. TemplateMonster offers all versions of Joomla (1.5, 1.6, and 1.7) as well as Joomla templates made with various technologies (such as Flash or jQuery, for example). With different subcategories and an enhanced search options, we made it easy for you to find a suitable design for your Joomla based website. So, come and get them! And look through the Joomla 1.7 Templates listed below – depending on the category they were designed for, each of them was built to express your individuality.
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Pure Web
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Semioli
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Being one of the usability cornerstones, search is the part of your website’s functionality that needs constant attention and improvement. Of course default search box is not that bad at all, but often website owners simply forget about some important details which cause negative reactions from the visitors. Our today’s collection devoted to the useful Joomla extensions that are aimed at enhancing your search. All these plugins differ by the size and number of various options and you will choose which one fits you the most. The obvious thing about any default search is that it’s good to have it, but often it just doesn’t have enough features to be called user-friendly. So if you like something from our list don’t hesitate and install it on your Joomla website.
1. AceSearch
AceSearch is powerful Joomla search extension with a great interface and a bunch of superb features. By installing this component you’ll receive front-end search for all components, advanced search with custom fields, AJAX searching & suggestions, Google Analytics Site Search compatibility.
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2. JXFinder
This Joomla search plugin delivers great advanced search options and will make your website more user-friendly. It is a very fast, smart and powerful software with many great options such as Alternative Phrases generation, search filters etc.
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Hello, our fellow Joomloids! Today we are glad to share with you our small tutorial that would hopefully help you to install Joomla 1.6 template on your website. But not just a template, today we’re going to install a Joomla 1.6 template with dump files. As you may have noticed, Joomla templates from TemplateMonster (as well as the templates from other providers) are delivered with dump files that are included into the download package and are meant to make your template-based website look more prepared. Basically, it is a file containing initial settings that have to be applied to the template to make it look good.
Sometimes our clients complain about inappropriate template’s look after it has been installed at the hosting. Of course there are many different issues that might occur during the installation, but today we are going to highlight some of the most important steps that will help you to avoid most common mistakes. Today’s tutorial will help you to know more about the process of installing Joomla 1.6 template and importing dump files into database. But before we begin you can also check out another useful tutorial delivered by our friends from Templates.com Blog recently – it’s a tutorial on how to install Joomla 1.6 engine.
Alright now, let’s get to business. For this purpose we’ve chosen one of the most popular Joomla 1.6 templates that we have on TemplateMonster (8 downloads so far), it’s a simple corporate Joomla template for consulting services company.
Step 1: Login to the Joomla administration panel (yourwebsite.com/administrator/) using your admin details
Step 2: Open the ‘Install’ tab at the Extension Manager of the admin panel
Step 3: Unzip the template package folder and find a directory containing design theme
Usually this directory is called Joomla and there you can find an archive with all files that you need. In our case we’ve unzipped it to check that everything is okay and continue by uploading theme’s zip file to our website.
As a popular open source solution, Joomla has a very flexible architecture and ever more developers build various components and modules for Joomla, which makes it more and more popular among other platforms. This time we will show you the top 10 free Joomla extensions you could use in case you’re looking to add a photo gallery to your Joomla project, they will surely help you take your Joomla website to the next level. The biggest advantage is that by using the following simple solutions you can easily add awesome image galleries for your Joomla-powered website without any hassle at all, plus totally for free. Yet note that all these extensions, except for Ignite Gallery, are for non-commercial use, so you may want to pay attention to the respective license terms.
Our today’s range of Joomla extensions is sure to give you slick new simple ways to display your photo album or personal portfolio and additionally you’ll have flexibility in setting up your Joomla photo gallery to be able to change it the way you like. That will help to reduce the amount of space wasted on the web page and highlight your most prominent works. So if you would like to use image gallery extensions on your Joomla-powered website, see the options we have for you:
1. Sigplus
Simple and powerful extension that delivers a great set of useful features including lightbox, slider and carousel options among others. Also you can configure many important features such as image margin, border, padding, slider/rotator orientation, animation speed and so on.
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2. Phoca Gallery
This extremely popular and efficient Joomla photo gallery solution has a bunch of cool features that will make your photo gallery simply perfect. Lightboxes, slideshows, shadowbox effects and many other wonderful options are available with using Phoca Gallery.
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Now that the latest version of Joomla 1.6 has been released, we’re super excited to offer our customers a wide variety of solutions for your Joomla driven websites. The Joomla 1.6 compatible templates presented here and designed by TemplateMonster’s expert team have premium quality in functionality and look, plus they’re simple to customize, having a large online community with hundreds of active members. You may use our Joomla 1.6 templates as a powerful tool to promote your business and have a clean, professional, corporate web presence with ease.
With a template management having gone to a whole new level in Joomla 1.6, web developers can now as well enjoy new abilities Joomla 1.6 provides in allowing extensions to be easily built and updated, offering a new access control system, bringing unlimited depth organization models, and many more new Joomla 1.6 features which you can find in our previously featured blog entry. So if you want to build your site with Joomla 1.6 and your website needs an extra bit of graphical touch, go grab one of our newly crafted Joomla 1.6 Templates which are available for purchase, plus you may check for regular updates for new templates released daily. Also you might be interested in checking in a tutorial from Templates.com Blog – How to Install Joomla 1.6.
We have also released a line of Joomla 1.7 Templates. On our blog you can find a post containing top 20 Joomla 1.7 Templates as well as some useful resources on how install them and configure. Have a look!
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Bravo
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LagunaDesign
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WebWorks Web Agancy
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As you might be aware of, Joomla has released a new version of its popular content management software – this dynamic portal engine has been finally advanced to Joomla 1.6, on January 11th 2011. From the official Joomla 1.6 release announcement the company has unveiled the range of new functions and features the new version delivers to designers, developers, admins and webmasters, as well as about manifold style improvements Joomla has undergone.
So what’s new in Joomla 1.6?
- new admin, template choices: Joomla 1.6 offers a whole new look at the Administrator Interface with some new templates that extend the Joomla! system;
- template styles: Joomla 1.6 offers a whole new world of versatility by allowing webmasters to create template styles. Basically, you can easily clone your template to apply custom changes or edits to it, and then assign it to specific menu items to create unique pages;
- core layout files are tableless: new for Joomla 1.6, all core output files are written in XHTML 1.0 Strict. HTML 5 is also supported in Joomla 1.6;
- codemirror editor: finally, there’s a color-coded editor for easier HTML and CSS editing in Joomla;
- media manager improvements: the Flash-based media uploader brings the ability for users to upload multiple files at one time. You can also upload multiple images at once to the Media Manager.
- SEO features: meta-keywords and meta-descriptions can be assigned to articles, categories, and menu items, and you can easily add a site name to the HTML page title;
- new package installation capability: developers can now pack their components allowing users to install one file and include multiple extensions all at the same time;
- easily included language capabilities: with Joomla 1.6′s new language structure, developers are allowed to include additional language packages right with their extensions;
- integrated ACL capability: the development team has made it very easy to include advanced ACL features inside of any 3rd party component. With just a few code changes your component can allow your users to take advantage of the revolutionary ACL structure for their users;
- upgraded system requirements: the new operating requirements for Joomla 1.6 (particularly PHP 5.2) offers developers a great advantage by allowing them to take advantage of object-oriented programming and functionality;
- nested categories: with infinite layers of categories, creating a representation of your site map in Joomla! is a breeze;
- easy extension updates: you can easily update those extensions from within Joomla, without visiting dozens of extension developer’s websites, in Joomla 1.6;
- new plugin format: with the release of Joomla 1.6, plugins now have the same common structure as components and modules;
- consistent component programming: Joomla 1.6 provides a new and cohesive method for building components;
- for more principal changes introduced in Joomla 1.6, you may read the information offered by the Joomla Documentation.
Guidelines in upgrading your Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.6
Web design community has recognized Virtuemart as a sole leader of the Shopping Cart rivalry for Joomla CMS. Its leadership is unquestionable and we are sure that many of you have positive experience of using this software. Today we would like to talk about the alternative pieces of software which are quite underrated due their current status (it’s obvious that new and mostly unknown products have huge chances to fail the marketing competition – even if they’re good).
In general any shopping cart plugin must have several universal features which are equally important both for the shop owners and webmasters. Simplicity is the key feature that must be kept in mind while developing any shopping cart software. Simple and quick checkout is a perfect way to improve your website usability, comprehensive interface will save a lot of your resources and of course clear and understandable structure will be a great find for the webmasters.
New or unknown software often scares potential clients with the possible issues that might occur during the installation process. Actually this myth can be easily busted because most of the new software is developed according the web standards which automatically removes possibility of occurring this problem. Anyways, all we are trying to say is that you shouldn’t judge things without having your own experience in using it. All right folks, let’s now go back to our dear shopping cart plugins.
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1. HikaShop
If you are looking for simple and non-frustrating shopping cart than this is your lucky ticket. Excellent user interface, clean code and many useful features – these are the main features that won’t let you stay indifferent to this software. This extension has a convenient dashboard that displays sales rate and geographical distribution, affiliate program and powerful currency support, easy-going checkout and many useful marketing tools. It is an excellent software for successful online businessmen. Here is the demo version of this shopping cart plugin.
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