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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
Ok, you all know our good friends and partners from MotoCMS, right? They really need no introduction. A couple of days before 2012 has arrived MotoCMS launched their new revolutionary product – the e-Commerce widget – and now we’re ready to present it to you, as it’s now available for purchase with Flash CMS templates being sold on TemplateMonster. This e-Commerce solution was created to help you sell goods and services using PayPal, Google Checkout, Robox or simply via the handy contact form. The widget is already installed in Flash CMS e-Commerce templates (so far it’s only a Watches store Flash CMS template), and again – it’s also available while purchasing any Flash CMS template of your choice – it will be offered to you on a shopping cart. Another option is you can buy the widget separately in case you already have a theme that you want to add the eCommerce functionality to (but if you buy a widget separately its price would be $150, if you buy it with any Flash CMS template it will cost $99).
The e-Commerce widget includes 7 feature-rich components: Category Menu, Products List, Banner Rotator, Shopping Cart, Shopping Cart List, Product Details and Add to Cart Button. We have a couple of words on each of them.
Category Menu
This component is a basic one in the e-Commerce widget because it allows to create shop categories and to complete them with products. It will be connected with other components within the e-Commerce Connection ID, so be attentive while arranging the ‘Category Menu’.
For those who don’t know, TemplateMonster now offers the designer’s bundle that will deliver 61,015 design goodies to the creative community. And you can get such a huge goodies pack for only $49 – along with any template purchase on TemplateMonster!
Yes, we break that price down for you! But a special deal like this just cannot last for long. Expert designer’s bundle is now on sale until January 2nd, 2012. The next day after this date it will no longer be available – so be sure to act quickly and get your bundle today!
The bundle itself comes packed with a gazillion of your favorite design goodies including vectors, web elements, Photoshop patterns, gradients, and layer styles, hi-res textures, stock photos, 3D clipart and iconsets.
- You get ultimate designer toolkit (reg. $99):
- 27,000 Photoshop gradients;
- 18,000 Photoshop layer styles;
- 815 Photoshop patterns;
- high-quality vectors;
- hi-res textures;
- icons and tutorials;
- ProClipart.com 1 year membership (reg. $19):
- 1600 3D clip art items;
- 2200 illustrations;
- 380 iconsets;
- IconDenom.com 1 year membership (reg. $19):
- any 500 items from the total amount of 5,300+ premium icons;
- 15 stock photos from DepositPhotos (reg. $30):
- any hi-res 15 images from the huge collection of 4,000,000+ stock photos.
And all that you get for as low as $49 (regular price of all the resources included in the bundle is $167 although they’re really worth thousands of dollars). So there’re lots of reasons to go shopping! Those of you who love graphics and design would buy this bundle in a heartbeat. The elements it contains can be combined to awesome effect and they will actually save you tons of time and effort, especially when you get stuck just before the deadline searching for the right items to polish off your work. This bundle will help you out – save up to $118 when you buy it today!
To get the special price just add any TemplateMonster’s product to shopping cart and from there you’ll be able to add the bundle to your order and pay for it along with a template payment.
Holiday time would not be without some engaging promos. Over two weeks ago TemplateMonster initiated the biggest and grandest Christmas promotion, and now’s the time to announce the results and deliver the gifts.
The closing date for participation in our Christmas lottery was December 26th, so entries posted after the corresponding date are now deemed invalid. We’ve just randomly picked the winners with a help of a nice little widget from Random.org.
So the lucky customer whose name is Mike Saad from Raleigh, North Carolina, will happily make away with a valuable gift – iPad2 (64Gb, WiFi only version, $699 value). We also offered you a chance to win one of five TemplateMonster gift certificates. Customers whose names are Kristen Gusler, Alexey Chesnok, Brennan Robinson, Spyros Iliopoulos, and Todd Chant will bring home the awesome gift certificates that will enable them to get any template from TemplateMonster for free. Other 10 lucky runner-ups we’ve randomly chosen will get sweet 50% discounts for any purchase at TemplateMonster.
All winners will be notified at registered emails based on the customer’s contact details indicated in their winning entry. Once the information of the ongoing promo results reached them, we’d appreciate if they share their impressions in the comments to this blog entry.
We hope you have been having fun with our Christmas promo, we certainly enjoyed making it. Next time join in and be part of the good things coming from TemplateMonster. Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New year!
This post will cursorily cover the new product line of Adobe Edge Templates that are now available at TemplateMonster. These new website designs take advantage of the advanced interactivity features in the Edge, web motion and designing tool from Adobe. If you review templates’ environment, you’ll see that they offer engaging interactivity that fills standards-based animations with nuanced details and creative personality. Admittedly, Adobe Edge designs bring animation similar to that created in Flash, but they do not require Adobe’s Flash plug-in for viewing as their web page elements are developed using standards like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript – have a look at our Adobe Edge Templates presentation page to find out more. In the overall, for many designers and website owners this new web animation software may replace Flash for creating animated content.
Adobe Edge has been offered as a free beta public preview and is now available for download through the Adobe website. If you want to know more about this web animation software, please check out the Introduction to Adobe Edge – the post has a brief overview of Edge technology and offers a more in-depth look at its major features and functions. And don’t forget to check back often our templates collection as more Adobe Edge Templates will be added.
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Starting today goes live our mega Christmas promo in which customers can win iPad2 (64Gb, WiFi only version, $699 value), one of five TemplateMonster gift certificates (that means any template for free) or one of ten 50% discounts! The current promo is all about celebrating the Christmas spirit being also meant to reward each and every of our customers for their unwavering loyalty towards the TemplateMonster company. So let’s make the spirits bright and check how you can claim your presents and discounts.
It’s pretty simple – if you make any $45+ order at TemplateMonster starting December 12th 2011, you’re eligible to take part in our awesome Christmas promo. In other words, there has to be at least one order registered for your email address.
Now we’d recommend reading all the instructions for claiming the Christmas sweeties on our special Christmas Promo 2011 info page. As this promo requires your email in order to receive iPad2, gift certificates or 50% discounts, you will also have to submit the email address you’ve used for purchases at TemplateMonster. Naturally, the email address will only be used to contact you in case you’re the winner, no spam or other bad things, we hate it just as much as you do. Good luck!
We’d also be happy to answer any questions that you may have regarding this new promo and please feel free to post any comments for this promo here in the comments area.
Offer active for participants from the following countries: Australia, France, Mexico, South Korea, Belgium, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand, Finland, Brazil, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Indonesia, Austria, Taiwan, Ireland, Philippines, Thailand, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, United Arab Emirates, China, Japan, Portugal, United Kingdom, Denmark, Luxembourg, United States, Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Spain.
That’s something you will definitely love and something that will totally rock the way you search products on TemplateMonster’s website! Our team of developers has made a range of major improvement in templates search functions to let customers have better control over their browsing experience. From now on, we have the variety of topic filters with subcategories meaning that you can browse the templates in a more precise manner. With about 80 categories of how it used to be, now you have over 500 options that enable you to easily filter the templates display.
Another addition to the functions is the new color and functionality filters. If you check out templates assortment, you will see a functionality filter that will enable you to find template for your blog, forum, gallery, online store, portal, or personal page. The colors filter implies that customers can now configure search options so that they’ll see the templates of only the colors they preferred.
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We hope you will find this a useful addition. Now let us know what you think of these enhancements, and we would also appreciate any suggestions you can offer to improve certain aspects of our search. Your feedback is now especially important for us.
We all know that the hottest online sales are found on the Monday after Thanksgiving, and the savviest customers know that TemplateMonster has the best deals in web design. Well, we’re trotting out even sweeter deals this Cyber Monday for our audience. TemplateMonster is now holding a major five-day promotion that begins today and will end on Friday, Dec. 2 2011. This promo guarantees sweet discounts on products from specific categories all week long. Today a huge discount will apply to our Premium Templates category and Extended Package Templates that are our most popular product categories and are today available 40% OFF.
Customers will be saving today from $25 to $110 on each deal. But the prices will only stay that low on Cyber Monday 2011, as starting Tuesday and till the end of Friday the templates from the above-mentioned two categories will be offered 25% OFF for those who won’t be able to make their 40% off purchases on Monday, November 28th. We take the savings further – so don’t miss these great specials!
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Shop TemplateMonster now for current discounts and kick-off to the greatest part of the templates shopping frenzy! Go ahead and browse our premium templates and extended package templates categories and get the hugely discounted products. Remember that all these templates that you can now purchase up to 40% OFF are designed for maximum efficiency and comfort, besides they’re favored for their professional ergonomic design and ease of usage. Choose from Cyber Monday specials today!
Finally this day has come – you know we’re happy to say thanks to all of you pretty much every day, but today is the only day that our habit of giving thanks doesn’t look like a sick obsession. So yes, today we’re setting our Thanksgiving spirit free and roaring our monstrous gratefulness to our worldwide audience!
Seriously, we would like to thank every single one of our customers and friends today, because you all are what makes us keep going and striving to be even better than we are now. We really appreciate the honor to be close to you, your businesses and all of your brilliant ideas. We thank you all for making us the happiest templates provider in the world.
Also, don’t forget that our gratefulness is not just words. Today starting at 6AM EST on our Facebook page we’ll start revealing our today’s special discounts – 10x promocodes, each giving you an opportunity to get a template from us at a 50% discount. Also, for those who won’t get one of ten 50% discounts there will be a 20% discount that’s active all day today (and today only), for every single TemplateMonster order. So please go ahead and join our Facebook community if you still haven’t, and watch our feed closely as new discounts will be published each hour. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
For those of you who know our good friends and partners from MotoCMS, here is a good news: last Friday, November 11, 2011 Moto Flash CMS has been updated to version 1.6. This major release includes a bunch of new features (as well as the significant improvements to the existing ones) which were implemented to make your website development process better and easier. Of course all of the Flash CMS templates and Facebook Flash CMS templates that were previously available on TemplateMonster will also include the latest version of Moto CMS.
So what are the updates about? Basically, from now on it will be much easier to maintain fully-functional websites based on MotoCMS. Here are several of the most important features which come with the update.
1. Create password protected pages/popups
An ability to protect pages and popups with a password has been added as a response to numerous customers’ requests. Now it’s finally here. It’s a good way to diverse your content for different groups of customers.
Password protected pages and popups will still be visible on your website menu but only vip visitors will be able to view their content.
Also there are some changes made to the ‘Preferences’ window. Due to the new options and design improvements, it becomes easier to adjust website settings and activate password protection to website pages and popups.
2. Contact Form widget improved
Within this update the ‘Advanced Contact Form’ widget has become even more advanced then before. Radio button and text area items will add the real communication experience to your website. It is the next step to more convenient and efficient communication between website owners and potential customers.
3. Search widget added
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