Joomla Theme

Joomla! is one of the most popular open source content management systems CMS on the net which is secure, flexable and easy to use. It is also released / licensed under the GNU/GPL license so its free to use.

Joomla! features include:

• Completely database driven site engines
• News, products or services sections fully editable and manageable
• Topics sections can be added to by contributing authors
• Fully customisable layouts including left, center and right menu boxes
• Browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site
• Dynamic Forum/Poll/Voting booth for on-the-spot results
• Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX

Extensive Administration:

• Change order of objects including news, FAQs, articles etc.
• Random Newsflash generator
• Remote author submission module for News, Articles, FAQs and Links
• Object hierarchy - as many sections, departments, divisions and pages as you want
• Image library - store all your PNGs, PDFs, DOCs, XLSs, GIFs and JPEGs online for easy use
• Automatic Path-Finder. Place a picture and let Joomla! fix the link
• News feed manager. Choose from over 360 news feeds from around the world
• Archive manager. Put your old articles into cold storage rather than throw them out
• Email-a-friend and Print-format for every story and article
• In-line Text editor similar to Word Pad
• User editable look and feel
• Polls/Surveys - Now put a different one on each page
• Custom Page Modules. Download custom page modules to spice up your site
• Template Manager. Download templates and implement them in seconds
• Layout preview. See how it looks before going live
• Banner manager. Make money out of your site

For more information visit the following links.

Joomla offical web site.

Joomla forum

Download Joomla!

Joomla! 1.0.12

The Joomla! development team have advised that all users upgrade to the latest version of 1.0.12 which includes features:

• 140+ General Bug Fixes
• Several low level security fixes
• A full security audit of SQL queries
• SSL switchover support
  

If you are using Joomla! 1.0.11, it is recommend that you upgrade to 1.0.12 as it addresses several long standing bugs and several low level security issues.

A new Security Announcements Forum. has also been announced will be used for security announcements for the Joomla! core and third party extensions. You are strongly encouraged to register on forum.joomla.org and subscribe to this forum to ensure that you receive notification of important security issues.

So you have just installed Joomla and created a cool web design template but you are missing something, yes those cool 3rd party components and modules. But before you visit the Joomla extensions web site and install as many components as you can find take a step back and consider the following. 

1) Visit the offical 3rd Party/Non Joomla! Security Issues forum area which will provide you with a list of the 3rd party components which may have security issues.

2) Only install what you need, dont go crazy with components and modules. If you plan to install a component or module for testing purposes then make you remove it once you have completed the testing.

3) Always check the offical 3rd party component developers web site for the latest security updates and upgrades.

Hope this helps.

Joomla! has announced the launch of its official merchandise shop. The new shop offers some cool T-shirts , supplied by PrintMojo.com and Amazon Joomla book shop.

All profits from the shop will go back to the project to further its not-for-profit aims and now there is a way to donate to the project and receive a cool J! T-shirt."

Why not visit the Joomla shop today and buy a cool T-shirt

The Joomla development team have announced the release of Joomla! 1.5 RC3 codenamed Takriban which is now available for download from the Joomla web site. The release of 1.5 RC3 means that the core team are getting close to releasing a stable version of Joomla 1.5 which includes all the improvements taken from the RC1 and RC2 releases.

For more information read  Joomla! 1.5 RC3 — Codename Takriban at the offical web site.