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.

The Joomla core team have published an announcement regarding the GPL Licensing for Joomla 1.5 moving forward.

For more information read the open source matters article at the offical web site plus the forum at GPL Questions Continued, Developer related plus forum lounge area.

With the release of Joomla 1.5 is just around the corner the Joomla team have announced a Joomla! 1.5 Template Contest

Winners of the Joomla template contest could win a cool Joomla! laptop bag, Joomla! shirt, Joomla! hat or a Joomla! 256MB USB memory stick plus there template theme will be included in the 1.5 distribution.

The rules for the template contest is as follows.

To find out more about the contest read Joomla! 1.5 Template Contest at the offical web site.

Joomla have announed the release of the long awaited stable version of Joomla 1.5 code named Khepri. The new release marks a major milestone in Joomla! history plus it also marks a new beginning offering more functionality, flexability plus improved preformance and secuirty. To find out more about upgrading to Joomla 1.5 plus to download the new version use the links below.

Offical Joomla 1.5 News release

Joomla 1.5 Download