The Thai Joomla! Community is looking forward to their third Joomla! Day Bangkok in Thailand's beautiful and thriving capital city. The event will be held on Saturday, August 22th and Sunday,August 23th 2009, from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM at Sripatum University.The place where the event has a conference room for 800+ people. JoomlaCorner.com and the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) invite you to attend Joomla! Day Bangkok 2009 which promises to be an incredible day... Read More...

It's been a great week (and as a consequence, you might have noticed less blogging) ... its was my birthday, my sister's birthday, my wife's birthday ... oh and my sister-in-law had a baby too (Rory, on the right here) So this weekend, from now until Sunday evening, we're offering a special discount ... use "happyweek" for a 20% discount on any of our products. It might be a template, an SEO club subscription or any of our August training classes. Offer ends just... Read More...

The next Joomla User Group Brisbane will be 7.00-9.00pm August 11th 2008 iLab Level 1, 80 Jephson St. Toowong Brisbane Damian will be supplying some pizza. If a few people would like to bring a bottle of softdrink that would be appreciated. Please respond with a yay, nah or maybe coming to mamboblue@gmail.com to help with catering. Suggested topics are currently to showcase extensions that people have written. If there are any other suggestions for topics please let us know. I've ... Read More...

This Joomla Component does the same as the spider from Google. It crawls your Joomla website (until 3rd level) and write the urls to a XML sitemap. Afterwards you can submit the sitemap to Google, MSN and Ask.com (Yahoo will be added soon).... Read More...

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We’ve seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I’ve collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn’t always the culprit for your CSS woes.... Read More...

Magic Zoom™ is a JavaScript zoom tool. It's the best way to display images in incredible detail. Users do not need to click anything - they just move their mouse over the image to see every detail of your product! Features * Fast - the page loads as normal, then the high-resolution image downloads invisibly in the background. * Easy - add it to your website in minutes. * Customisable - change the size, position, colors to suit your website. * Accessible - works when... Read More...

I guess pretty much everyone has seen Barack Obama’s website by now, which is clearly one of the prettiest of all candidates we’ve heard of so far. Not only is it an example of state-of-the-art design, but it’s also nice to navigate and interact with. I decided to imitate the homepage slideshow. I had already experimented with similar animated lists, which allowed me to have it ready within minutes The creation I took my previous class (SlideList), and made a few changes here and there. I... Read More...

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...