The Joomla! 1.5 Demo Web Site is now available online. Using the demo site, you can take a closer look at the new Joomla! 1.5 features and changes. The demo site content is refreshed every 30 minutes. There are security precautions in effect to protect the privacy of other site users and to better ensure site stability. To test drive the demo site, you need to register and activate your account by clicking the link in the activation email. All user accounts are given Super Administrator acces... Read More...

Simple Subjects (an information resource for small businesses) has chosen to use Joomla! as the CMS for its new site about tax topics for self-employed taxpayers in the The site is using a slightly-modified version of Joomlashack's Weblogic template. ... Read More...

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS. The core of Galleria lies in it's smart preloading behaviour, snappiness and the fresh absence of obtrusive design elements. Use it as a foundation for your custom styled image gallery.... Read More...

Jira , DOP and Joomlatools are organising the second Dutch Joomla! 1.5 Bootcamp in Zaltbommel, The Netherlands. The event will be take place on the 24th of January 2008 at the beautifull White Rabbit Locations . Based on the feedback of the first bootcamp the second bootcamp will focus more on the technical aspects of Joomla! 1.5. If you want to ... * Discover the new features of Joomla! 1.5 * Learn all about Joomla! 1.5 templates and the new override system * Create your ... Read More...

The SOBI2 Development Team proudly presents a new version of SOBI2. In this version we focused our work on the reduction of the memory consumption to make SOBI2 more flexible. But there are also many other highlights. In the new version you will find a lot of new features, like * Basic template for the add/edit entry form - You can now customize your add/edit entry form. See example of use here: http://mambo.sigsiu.net/directory/add-new.html * Possibility to edit the... Read More...

Learn Joomla! is holding it's next 1 day training course in central London on Friday February 15th, 2008. The course will feature the new Joomla! 1.5, and is expected to be one of the first training courses covering Joomla 1.5, hotly anticipated to be released in January 2008. Participants are encouraged to bring along their latest website project to work with and receive hands on support and help in the workshop section. The course is aimed at Joomla! beginners who are developing ... Read More...

View a complete range of new and free Joomla 1.5 Tutorial Videos, presented to you by Open Source Network to get you going. Available are: * Joomla! 1.5 Administrator * Joomla! 1.5 Content Management * Joomla! 1.5 Layout The total collection free Joomla! Tutorial Videos comes to more than 100 videos, including free Joomla! 1.0 Tutorial Videos and Joomla! 1.0 Extension Tutorial Videos. ... Read More...

If you using Joomla 1.5 RC4, the chances are that your site visitors are not getting all the information they need. Prior to RC4, many messages such as when you register "Your account has been created and an activation link has been sent to the e-mail" where output to the mainbody, not any longer. There is now a new jdoc with the syntax <jdoc:include type="message" /> which now serves as the output of many system messages... think of it as a specialized module. Fo... Read More...

If you are using a template that was designed for 1.0 in 1.5 in legacy mode, you might have found a small problem with table headers disappearing. The issue is caused by slight different XHTML output in 1.5.... Read More...

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online for free. Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported). You can use it anywhere you like, I think it would be useful when you would like a 3d-box image for your web applications. P.S. You can also create CD-box and DVD-box easily as well.... Read More...

That’s not all! There are more than 300 (three hundred!) professionally designed icons for your applications in this collection. And, they all are completely free! AW/Systems are offering a full set of professionally designed icons for web applications for all developers for free! There are more than 300 awsome icons in our package, and we welcome you to use them in your web applications, both personal and commercial. The only thing we ask is that you put a link to this website somewhere in y... Read More...

Photoshop Layer Styles are the easiest way to speed up the design process. I found that my previous article - Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients v3.0 was a lot helpful to many. Coming to the Layer Styles, I found a lot of styles on the Web to download but none of them were of the today’s trend of Web 2.0. So here is a set of 131 Photoshop Layer Styles I created in .ASL ( Photoshop Layer Style ) format. As explained in the below image, I feel this set of Layer Styles could be the fastest way to cre... Read More...