The Joomla! community in Byron Bay is looking forward to their first ever Joomla! Day event. Joomla! Day Byron Bay 2008 will be held on Sunday, May 11, from noon until 5:30 PM. Those visiting the area for the Joomla! Day event will want to consider taking time needed to enjoy Byron Bay's beautiful beaches, parks, and nature reserves. This easternmost tip of Australia is a popular destination for tourists. As event organizer, Greg Cromwell, explains in this invitational video, Joomla! Day... Read More...

The Thai Joomla! Community is looking forward to their second Joomla! Day Bangkok in Thailand's beautiful and thriving capital city. The event will be held on Saturday, May 10, 2008, from 9:00 AM until 5:30 PM at the Chaophya Park Hotel. JoomlaCorner and the National Electronics and Computer Tecknology Center (NECTEC) invite you to attend Joomla! Day Bangkok 2008 which promises to be an incredible day of learning, sharing, and networking with others. This year, several key members of the... Read More...

This module is used to showing your image collection in module folder image with Flash Fade Effect on you Joomla 1.5.x native or Joomla 1.0.x native. This module really support for JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP images and work properly in company with jquery and mootools implementation. It's more simple and stable to use, just put your image in image folder and then the module will shown your image collection in random order. This Module have tested on several browser, like FireFox, IE6, IE7 and... Read More...

I was planning to write a list of must-install-CMP(Component, Modules & Plugins) for Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5.x. However after a disastrous migration last night (I forgot to download a backup of my /images folder!), I decided to just list 1.0.x compatible first. For new Joomla users, I reckon that its better for you to make yourselves familiar with Joomla 1.0.x first before moving to 1.5.x. The justification is simple, presently there is more components for 1.0.x available than for 1.5.x, and... Read More...

The Joomla! community is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla! 1.5.3 [Vahi]. This release is earlier than scheduled in order to correct a database name validation error introduced in 1.5.2. It has been a month since Joomla! 1.5.2 was released on March 23, 2008. The goal is to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla! end user community containing the latest bug fixes and minor enhancements.... Read More...

The VirtueMart Team is proud to announce the release of VirtueMart 1.1.0 Stable. The VirtueMart Team and the VirtueMart Community have put many hours into this release of the VirtueMart eCommerce Solution. Thanks to all those who have donated their time and skills to make VirtueMart a leading eCommerce solution that is both full featured and easy to use .... Read More...

In this tutorial Alex from Good Web Practices discusses how to create a 'Lightbox' effect on your Joomla 1.0 or 1.5 website using the YOOeffects from YooTheme. Using a Lightbox is a great way to show off your images on your website, as a slideshow or for individual pictures. Videos can also be shown using the Lightbox javascript - both from your own website or streamed from another site (such as YouTube).... Read More...

Tabs Manager is a fantastic new component from the team at GavickPro! With this module you can not only add user interaction to your website, but make it easy to manage and create multiple instances of tabs, each with their own unique modules or an article present on the Joomla! website. Tabs Manager comes with the two excelent module: TabMods 1.0 and TabArts 1.0. An overview of Tab Manager key features: * List of tab groups. * Choose custom names for your tabs. * Insert articles into t... Read More...

ThemesWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides for designing Web Themes and Templates. This site intends to ease the web design process by providing tutorials for a large number of systems at a common location. It is often difficult to find a resource that is focused on providing quality, relevant and free information for designing themes and templates; specifically one that covers a wide range of applications. This is where ThemesWiki.org intends to... Read More...

Toronto, ON – April 21 – Joomla! User Group Toronto, Toronto’s premier forum for Joomla! users and developers, announced today that it will be participating at the Massive Technology Show, Canada's largest technology tradeshow and conference for business The objective of Joomla! User Group Toronto, or JUG-T as they are often referred to, is helping web developers and webmasters to better leverage the Joomla! CMS platform. They will be on hand to demonstrate the software and take question... Read More...

Do you have events that people must register for to attend? Do those events cost money to attend? Well, now you setup online registration for those events where you can collect the registrant's information AND their payment via credit card. DT Register processes payment through the Authorize.net payment gateway (credit card and/or ECheck) AND/OR with PayPal. You can also setup an event as a FREE event. People can register as an individual, or take advantage of optional discounted ... Read More...

There are many components available for Joomla where you can accept donations via PayPal, but what if you have your own merchant account that you want to use? Until now, you've been left hanging. NOW, you can take online donations with a merchant account that processes through the Authorize.net payment gateway AND also still provide the PayPal option to users. When using your Authorize.net account, the payment is done completely within your own website. Donations can be set as recurr... Read More...