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Joomla 1.5 Release Candidate Arrives The next generation of open source content management, Joomla 1.5 is now available as a Release Candidate. This takes it one step closer to being a stable release. Joomlas Best Blogging Components Celebrate your independence and freedom of speech with Joomla"s best blogging components! Here in the U.S. where Joomlashack is based, today is the Fourth of July, the day Americans celebrate our nation"s independence. While many remember the American Revolution as a war, the real struggle was one of ideas and words, not bullets and... Announcing Joomla User Survey Prize Winners Survey Winners content item Back in May we sponsored our first-ever Joomla User Survey (/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=194 Itemid=4) and received an incredible reponse. Whether it was the opportunity to participate in a study of Joomla users or the chance to win our awesome prizes (or to get 30% off any Joomlashack order), we"ll never know. We do... Whats New at Joomlashack? Whats New at Joomlashack TDE Here at Joomlashack its our continual goal to improve our customer experience. We have been taking careful note of suggestions you have all been making in our feedback board. We are please to announce the launch of Shack 2.0! Better support, more tutorials, a better cart and access to template updates. Let me... Joomla Survey Says: Who uses Joomla? Who is using Joomla? Does our survey tell us? In April and May of 2007, Joomlashack conducted the first ever major survey of Joomla Users. Over 3,600 people filled out 31 questions ranging from how many Joomla sites they managed to what Joomla tasks they do most often. The Joomla... SlideshowPro for Joomla is here! The web"s most attractive slideshow gallery, SlideShowPro http://www.slideshowpro.net has finally made it"s way into the joomlasphere! We"ve just released a killer module we know you"re going to enjoy. Take all the settings in SlideShowPro, plug them into the backend of the world"s best CMS, and you"ve got the potential to... Why do we like IntelliContact so much? Email marketing: Love it or hate it, it"s the way the web works. No matter what kind of website you have, building a list and communicating to a constituency is a key part of any successful website. Last year I THROUGHLY tested and reviewed many email systems, and my conclusion was that when your... Early Results from Joomla Survey Just two weeks after its release on Joomlashack.com, more than 2,000 Joomla users have answered our first-ever Joomla Survey (/joomlashack/news/joomlashack-joomla-survey.html?utm_source=earlyresults utm_medium=link utm_campaign=survey). Joomlashack has many big questions about Joomla users that the survey will help answer, such as: Is Joomla mostly used by developers? Nearly half of all respondents have made changes to the code of a Joomla component... J!Contact Professional Email Marketing for Joomla JoomlaShack has partnered with IntelliContact http://joomlashack.intellicontact.com/to develop J!Contact (../component/option,com_smf/Itemid,183/topic,3392.0), a simple way to integrate the registration process of Joomla, Community Builder and SMF into IntelliContact. J!Contact is an integration of Joomla and Intellicontact. With over 10,000 customers, IntelliContact is a leading on-demand email marketing service. IntelliContact allows... Help my new template doesn work with Joomla! 1.5beta2!! If you"ve tried to install a Joomla! 1.0.x template on your Joomla! 1.5beta2 http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3287/1/ enabled website you"ll know that legacy mode must be enabled before the template can be uploaded "But how do I enable Legacy Mode in Joomla! 1.5beta2?" I hear you ask Teaching or studying in Asia with ESOLASIA goes completely Joomla! ESOLASIA goes completly Joomla! ESOLASIA is a new community site for teachers who wants to experience working and living in Asia. And for Asian students who wants to increase their English skills. ESOLASIA offers information on language school and university across Asia hiring teachers. A section dedicated to teaching opening has been set up where teachers can apply online. A forum has also been set up for teachers to share their experiences and for students to get help from teachers. URL: www.esolasia.com http://www.esolasia.com Your Store - Shape 5 July Club Template Shape 5 has released their first eCommerce template called Your Store. The template was designed to work directly with the VirtueMart shopping cart. It includes some great features such as 20 module positions, 10 different color themes and S5 Effects. Most importantly, Your Store comes along with a Brand New VirtueMart http://www.shape5.com Menu module based of the mootools accordion menu! The module allows for up to the 3 levels. Let"s not forget S5 Effects, Shape 5 created this small, lightweight script from the ground up to power their S5 Slider and now the New S5 Box. Your Store was designed for eCommerce sites but can easily be used on any other type of site without VirtueMart. CLICK HERE to Demo Your Store http://demo.shape5.com CLICK HERE to Join Shape 5 Today http://www.shape5.com/join-now.html briefcase Factory 1.0 - Joomla equivalent for Yahoos Briefcase. Briefcase Factory is the only Joomla equivalent for Yahoo"s Briefcase. - A new approach to document and file sharing The user interface is intuitive and uses AJAX for several operations, therefore no page reloads to slow down your work. You can ADD more than one file at a time; number can be set in admin backend. The uploaded Files can be SHARED with one user, more than one user, all users, or with the public (registered and unregistered users). Ol aneta - Club Templates from Olwebdesign Ol_aneta is a perfect template for business and company sites. Some of the features: - Flash header based on xml native database. - 2 built-in menu options: suckerfish drop-down menus and flat dropdown menu. - 3 screen resolutions default (800x600), wide screen (1024x768) and auto (100%).. - Font size changer (increase, decrease and default size). View Ol aneta in live demo http://demotemplates.olwebdesign.com/demo/ Homepage olwebdesign.com http://www.olwebdesign.com/ German newcomer Rap Artist www.Massiv.de.gg Fanpage based on Joomla The german newcomer hardcore rap artist Massiv Fanpage is now based on the powerfull Joomla Solution. Massiv is the new german rap star the real ghetto rap master. We offer our Fans all news about Massiv, guestbook, gallery and much more. Please check out www.massiv.de.gg http://www.massiv.de.gg (gangster, gangster!) to support our music. Joomla is something wonderful to do this job. NEW COMPONENT FOR JOOMLA: Survey Force DELUXE - for doing professional surveys New component from Elearningforce Inc. for doing advanced professional surveys integrated in Joomla! Make online advanced professional surveys using beautiful appealing front end with administration back end with invitations front end authoring enhanced decisions tree user tracking advanced reports create advanced questionnaires quickly and easily conduct online surveys at a VERY low price analyze survey results during the survey JoomlaLMS integration. Ability for JoomlaLMS teachers to create their own surveys to do quality checks of their online courses JoomlaJet Releases 3 new templates,, JJ39, JJ40 and JJ41 JoomlaJet http://www.joomlajet.com has released 3 extra templates which are now available for purchase or download through the template club. The joomla templates JJ39 http://www.joomlajet.com/preview/jj39 , JJ40 http://www.joomlajet.com/preview/jj40 and JJ41 http://www.joomlajet.com/preview/jj41 have now been released and are now available for purchase or download through the different template clubs (joomlajet-joomla-template-club.html) . Joomla template JJ39 http://www.joomlajet.com/preview/jj39 and JJ40 http://www.joomlajet.com/preview/jj40 are clean and professional templates with a corporate feel and JJ41 http://www.joomlajet.com/preview/jj41 is a beautiful template with rich warm tones to it.. The templates are fully tableless, XHTML and CSS compliant. The customisation of these template are made very easilly by simply changing colors in the css file and the photoshop files provided. New Killington, Vermont Web Site Launched Using Joomla If you"ve ever gone skiing in Killington, Vermont, you know how difficult it can be to find a good place to stay that isn"t an exclusively-priced Luxury Resort. The Edelweiss Lodge and Motel"s web site was created with Joomla, pre-1.5 version, and incorporates a great sampling of extensions appropriate for a small motel site. Thanks to Joomla, easy collaboration between the designer, and the content writer, and the owner allowed a boatload of SEO content to be created without risking anything. The designer designed, the content creator had limited access, and the owner had complete control. 1 month worth of work, and a complete web site appeared. Check it out at http://www.killington-lodge.com/ http://www.killington-lodge.com/ New JContentSubscription Released (v.1.5.7) JContentSubscription is the "best subscription solution in today’s Joomla market". At last, all those who were waiting for PayPal recurring payment integration can enjoy full automatic integration of PayPal Subscriptions with JCS. You do not need to follow PayPal alerts. All new regular charges will create new user subscriptions automatically as well as subscription on your site will be canceled after customer cancels it on PayPal. Also in new release: Ability to grant Joomla standard User group to new subscriber. Say you wish to make someone “Publisher” after purchase $10. Added new lines in report charts an ability to limit report by period. See list of subscription on Login page or create subscription page without login. JContentSubscription is a great tool to not only to manage site subscriptions but also analyze subscription data information. See why JCS is a solution http://joomlaequipment.com/content/view/7/34/. New Web Conference tool including recording of sessions for JOOMLA LMS Elearningforce Inc. has released a new version of the popular JoomlaLMS. The new version has a load of new features for doing learning and teaching easy and efficient for students, teachers and companies. For the first time ever you can have Joomla integrated online Web Conference tool including: Record your sessions and have them archived for later reuse Webcam Sound Whiteboard Chat File upload URL sharing and totally integrated in Joomla! This new Conference tool suddenly changed the possibilities for using JoomlaLMS - new customer groups do now use JoomlaLMS for business meetings, team sessions, sessions for different located company departments....... Only your imagination sets the limit.... Please go and take a test ride at www.joomlalms.com http://www.joomlalms.com/ You can look at demo courses or even register as a teacher and do your own course also using the web conference tool. Photophiles chooses Joomla Photophiles http://www.photophiles.com http://www.photophiles.com, the well-known french photo e-zine, released this month its new version, fully based on Joomla. Replicant - July 07 RocketTheme Template Replicant is an exciting new type of template that, with a fully transparent body, takes on the style and colors of the background images you use. With this approach, you can create an infinite number of variations and looks, simply by changing the background image to whatever you wish! It is also packed full of the great features and extensions you"ve come to expect from RocketTheme http://www.rockettheme.com templates. Joomla 1.0+ compatible Beautiful Fully Transparent Design An Infinite number of color and style possibilities - Independently configurable elements 20 Hilite Module Variations 50 Preset Styles with the Style Add-on pack Clean and lightweight portal design 2 built-in menu options - The all new RokMooMenu menu system, SplitMenu, as well as a module position to use your own custom menu module (Module) NEW RokFlow - Incredible flowing images, perfect for galleries and selection items. NEW RokSlide - tabbing sliding module with custom animation effects NEW RokZoom - custom slimbox variant built from the ground-up with cool zoom effect NEW RokLatest - Our highly popular module has been updated and incorporated into Replicant Source Adobe Fireworks PNG"s and fonts included XHTML 1.0 and CSS valid Demo feature details available at http://demo.rockettheme.com http://demo.rockettheme.com Full information http://www.rockettheme.com/Templates/Available_Templates/Replicant_-_July_07_Joomla_Templates/ including screenshots can be found at RocketTheme.com http://www.rockettheme.com/Templates/Available_Templates/Replicant_-_July_07_Joomla_Templates/ Red Evolution Scrapbook free template Red Evolution have released another free css/xhtml compliant tableless template. The template uses an untidy worktop theme and would suit fun sites. You can preview the template here http://www.wavingattrains.com/redevo_nine/ and download it here http://www.redevolution.comWe ask you to register to download our free templates. Muay thai Indonesia Traning Camp Once again thanks for joomla that build this site. MTTC http://mt-tc.com/ Indonesia is stand for Indonesian MuayThai Training Camp, which is center and the first teaching and training of MuayThai at Indonesia in form of their gym, MTTC readily constructing of the members as well as athletes candidates, through practice program which have been compiled in the form of curriculum as according to standard in Thailand. MTTC Indonesia Established since 24 April 2004, by member of trainer of MuayThai which have 1 semesters exercise under tuitions a instructor / kru Dodi Karya.S. Beside Training and teaching Muaythai MTTC also open class Boxing Thailand and Aerobic, Boxing, supported by great facility and by providing appliances Martial art to complete desires of the member. MTTC also produce various equipments of MuayThai with labels IMTC ( Indonesia Muaythai Training Camp) like bandage, heavy bag, MuayThai short ,MMA Glove and still many again. Himbio Unpad Community - Himpunan Mahasiswa Biologi Universitas Padjadjaran himbio-unpad.org http://www.himbio-unpad.org - Himbio Unpad Community Site. This Site is proudly present especially to 'Himpunan Mahasiswa Biologi Universitas Padjadjaran'. This site is builded with the following resources: Joomla 1.0.12, JA submission from Joomla Art, Fireboard Forum, and many more. Thank you to Joomla for the Great CMS and the great Community. You can see the site at http://www.himbio-unpad.org http://www.himbio-unpad.org Himbio Unpad Community Komunitas Himbio Unpad - Indonesian Language New template atict.com called SUMMERLIFE 3 columns business template Sucker fish menu Font size changer (increase, decrease and default size). Flash header based on xml (image editable) All browsers compatible Joomla 1.0+ compatible, Mambo 4.5.2/4.5.3 compatible Includes adobe photoshop image files LIVE DEMO: http://www.atict.com http://www.atict.com/ Emporium, a new Joomla! theme by Web Revolution Web Revolution is proud to present the Joomla! theme available from July 1st, emporium, a new great table less 100% CSS based layout, valid XHTML and CSS, 18 module positions, 1 or 2 columns layout, horizontal scrolling modules and CSS dropdown multilevel menu included. All these features, included in one great package for the latest stable version Joomla! 1.0.12. If you are getting tired of boring portal-looking Joomla! themes, emporium will surely satisfy all your professional needs. Not a WR eClub member yet? Would you like to use the same theme on multiple websites? WR eClub includes an unlimited license usage, so there is no needs to purchase multiple license! More information available at Web Revolution http://www.webrevolution.org. Visit the emporium Online Demo http://www.webrevolution.info. Theme's features: Joomla! 1.0.x compatible1/2 columns layout17 module positions5 horizontal scrolling modules CSS Multilevel Dropdown menu General preferences configuration file included 100% CSS and table less layout Valid CSS and W3C XHTML 1.0 TransitionalVery lightweight and really fast loadingHighly accessible and web standard theme Clean, Simple and Stylish look Source .psd Photoshop files included (layered and sliced) Compatible browsers: MS Internet Explorer v6 MS Windows Explorer v7 Firefox for Windows v2 Opera v9 Safari v2 Firefox for MAC v2 Camino v1 Joomla SEO eBook Alledia.com http://alledia.com/ have released a major bonus for Joomla SEO eBook http://www.alledia.com/joomla-seo-ebook/ Subscribers. We've opened a new Joomla SEO Forum http://www.alledia.com/forum/. Over the next few months, we'll build the forum into the most comprehensive Joomla ranking resource on the web. What does this mean for you? Existing SEO eBook Subscribers You receive free lifetime membership to all areas of the forum. You can download the Joomla SEO eBook http://www.alledia.com/joomla-seo-ebook/ whenever you want from the forum. Future SEO eBook Subscribers You can join the forum and subscribe to have access to the Joomla SEO eBook http://www.alledia.com/joomla-seo-ebook/. The price of the book is not changing ($37) and in addition to the book, you will now get 6 months of forum access and free updates. Non SEO eBook Subscribers Continuing our tradition of giving away the best free Joomla SEO information on the web, non-subscribers will also have access to sections of the forum. We'll be on hand to answer any Joomla SEO question you have. Click here to visit the forum now! http://www.alledia.com/forum/ New Joomla template and FAQ section There is a brand new template at the SiteGround Joomla templates gallery (%E2%80%9D), which you can download and use for free. The new GreenFluff theme is in black and green colors and can be reviewed here http://joomla.siteground.com/index.php?mos_change_template=siteground53 . 2007 Open Source CMS Award Launched UK publisher Packt has announced details of the follow up to its 2006 Open Source CMS Award, which saw Joomla! declared winner after 72 nominations and 15,000 votes. The 2007 Award will build on last years, with prize money doubled to $20,000 and five new categories created for a wider variety of CMS’s to benefit from; these include an Overall Winner, Most Promising Open Source CMS, Best Open Source PHP CMS, Best Other Open Source CMS and Best Social Networking CMS. A new version of component of recruitment : NeoRecruit is available NeoJoomla is happy to announce the release of version 1.4 of recruitment component: NeoRecruit ! NeoRecruit 1.4 allows a clearer posting of your job offers. The new module NeoRecruit Categories (supplied with the component) will display the categories tree, from which you could access directly the offers of a specific category. Joomlaexpress.com - New Joomla Web Link Directory There is a brand new Joomla Web Link Directory at Joomlaexpress.com http://www.joomlaexpress.com. Submit your Joomla site! Joomla Advertising Network Launched A Joomla Advertising Network has been launched at joomlaADs.com http://www.joomlaads.com. joomlaADs features Joomla-related advertising. Advertising will be only shown on Joomla-related websites. joomlaADs is free to use for Publishers. mXcomment This last has to replace AkoComment Tweaked Special Edition of which visualclinic.fr do not ensure any more the follow-up. This new component was developed of A to Z and also takes again all the options which visualclinic.fr has added in AkoComment T.S.E. and more new features. The innovation is the possibility of adding templates much more easily. Gavick News Show Module News Show is the universal module for content presentation. Module is easy to use, and a great addition to any site that wants to display news or any content in a news-style format. News Show is to create a first news with image, txt., date and nameod category with list of links to content items. eXtplorer - web-based File Management Component eXtplorer is a web-based File Management Component for all your needs. You can use it to access and modify the files and directories on your server via FTP or direct file access. JooFox Content Header JooFox Content Header is a Joomla module that help you in change the principal H1 tag content of your Joomla installation. JooFox Content Header help you to specify a different H1 tag content for every page of your site. JooFox Content Header is a little module part of JooFox Extension. Xtreme Locator Dealer Locator/Data Mining Xtreme Locator is the fastest and easiest way for manufacturers, distributors, retailers and restaurateurs to add a dealer locator to their Joomla websites. With the most powerful features in the industry, customers will find it easy to learn where to buy your products and services, while simultaneously providing you or your marketing team with valuable market data via the application’s sophisticated reporting features. UGM Ultimate Gallery Manager Joomla Component AJAX UGM is a SmoothGallery Mambot 1.1 companion Component. It allows you create Photo Albums quickly and easily. It has a simple Ajax based backend interface that allows you to Create, Change and View your albums without refreshing. GMaps Firestorm Technologies released GMaps 1.0.1. GMaps is a Joomla extension (both component and plugin) that enables you to build and manage map data from the backend admistration panels with a user-friendly interface. Jnews JNews! a component for the announcement and banner management with Flash technology. From the administrative panel it is possible to insert announcements that they will come visualizes in a module and with the possibilities to insert HTML tag to set link and images.It is moreover possible to set up the dimensions of the module in height that in width, for a better positioning. Movieblog template Movieblog is the new one template realized from joomlaskin, like the name leaves to suppose is a layout dedicated to online community, portals, blog in which there is the necessity to share video files.It is a fast load template,two columns with wide space for the contents, in order to render output decent in presence of the Fireboard forum . But the movieblog package it is not only this! FS Templates releases new template - FS Cesi FS Cesi is a simple and elegant template that would be perfect for any project. It is a very flexible Joomla template with one, two or tree column layout and collapsible module positions. Get Connected - July Joomla Template {mosimage)This Templates Club release will give you more options than ever before. Get Connected http://www.demo.youjoomla.com/connected Joomla Template is a real celebration for Joomla administrators. Let us ask you a question. Do you have transparent image that you cannot get it to work in IE6 and lower? Well no problem it works now! Get Connected comes with build in PNG FIX. All you need to do is define your attributes. Switch - July YOOtheme Template It is time to Switch! This month YOOtheme http://www.yootheme.com brings you a wide variety of color combinations. Switch http://demo.yootheme.com combines a multi-color Tab Menu with different template backgrounds stylings which gives you up to 100 possible color mixes. It also features a mash up of YOOtheme's famous Tab Menu and Drop Down Menu which provides a flexible and powerful navigation for large web portals and shopping sites with a lot of different menu categories. July 2007 Rocket Theme Template Released Replicant is an exciting new type of template that, with a fully transparent body, takes on the style and colors of the background images you use. With this approach, you can create an infinite number of variations and looks, simply by changing the background image to whatever you wish! It is also packed full of the great features and extensions you've come to expect from RocketTheme (http://www.rockettheme.com/aff/affiliate.php?id=136 group=1) templates. Learn to Create Professional Quality Joomla! Templates Packt is pleased to announce a new book on designing Joomla! templates. Written by Tessa Blakely Silver, Joomla! Template Design is a complete guide for web designers to all aspects of designing unique website templates for the free Joomla! PHP Content Management System. Introducing Vintage, the latest Joomlashack Template If you"re one of the many people using Joomla! for small and medium sized websites, Vintage was designed with you in mind Check out some of Vintage (/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=35 Itemid=1)"s great features: Pure CSS/Tableless Design CSS Suckerfish drop-down menu system 15 fully collapsible module positions Supports all major browsers and OS Lightweight and fast-loading design Four gorgeous color choicesVintage is... Briefcase Factory - File Sharing and Document Management under Joomla Imagine you worked all week on a report for presentation to an important client tomorrow morning. At the end of the day you congratulate yourself and save the report files to your computer's hard drive. POSitive Retail Manager Integrates with VirtueMart POSitive Software Company is proud to announce the integration of POSitive Retail Manager (PRM) with VirtueMart, an open source e-commerce shopping solution.

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