The latest news affecting Joomla website owners and website developers.
JoomlaShine has updated two of their popular premium Joomla templates, JSN Epic and JSN Dome, and offered free versions for developers to use as trials or as basic, fully functional websites.
Open Source Excellence, makers of quality Joomla extensions including OSE Membership, has released their latest extension, which is all about marketing.
Joomlabamboo has released their latest template, called Corporate. It is based upon their popular Lifestyle template, which was released earlier this year.
Mike Reumer's popular Googlemaps Plugin has been updated to include version 3 of the Google Maps API, providing several new features including Streetview. There are several Google Maps extensions in the Joomla Extensions Directory; however, Reumer's is one of the stand outs.
According to JoomlaShine developers, "JSN PowerAdmin makes your Joomla administration process easy and enjoyable." This newly added extension promises to solve three major problems with Joomla administration, and all within one screen.
When household brands employ the Joomla CMS in their website projects, the entire Joomla community benefits. MTV, a household name around the world, chose to relaunch their website in Greece doing just that.
JoomlaPraise has updated their database query extension, PraiseQuery, for use with Joomla 2.5 and recently added it to the Joomla Extensions Directory, giving users an easy way to "run any database query and display the returned rows in a table on your Joomla site."
The latest Joomla property to be released is called The Joomla! Events Site. This new website will be used to announce and report on Joomla events around the world. With this addition, the Joomla community will be able to more easily get information about Joomla!Day events, User Group meetings, conferences and more.
Voxel is the name of the May template release by popular provider RocketTheme. It includes a flexible layout which would be perfect for a magazine site.
Joomla template designer GavickPro, has released their latest template called Restaurant. As its name suggests, it is perfect for restaurants, cafes, bars, pizzerias or any food outlet.
A new section of Joomla.org dedicated to presenting local and worldwide events to the Joomla community has been launched. The new site will be used to convey information such as Joomla! Days, Joomla! Conferences and Joomla! User Group meetings.
The Joomla! Events Site
YooTheme has released its latest theme which is called Subway. The new template features 13 different styles and would be ideal for a blog website.
Academic, the newest Joomla template from JoomlaShack has been released, and it is the ideal template design for an educational website.
Envato, parent site of both ThemeForest and CodeCanyon which are publishers of Joomla templates and extensions respectively, has announced a competition to encourage the development of Joomla resources. Envato notes that Joomla templates and extensions are among their "most wanted file type."
Open Source Excellence has released a new matrix comparison extension that allows Joomla owners to easily create and implement a feature table on their websites. The extension is called OSE Feature Table for Joomla.
AddThis, a social sharing tool that is available for Joomla now includes four new follow tools. Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram and FourSquare have all been added.
Magic Toolbox makers of other popular website imaging software including Magic Magnify and Magic Zoom have released their latest imaging solution.
Many people struggle to decide whether to using WordPress or Joomla as the content management system of choice. But it is in fact possible to have the best of both worlds.
Five Joomla related businesses have combined to launch a Joomla 2.5 upgrade contest. This contest is presented for Joomla website owners who would like to have their current website upgraded to version 2.5 for free.
JoomAce has released a new extension that makes it much easier to manage a Joomla database, right from within Administrator. AceSQL is a lightweight solution and a free version is available.
