Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Free Joomla Templates

Free TemplatesFree Joomla Template - Div style, tableless, valid
Written by achille falzone
Sunday, 27 May 2007
Web 2.0 template in div style - no tables. Valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0. Demo on www.posizionamento-web.it


Free Joomla Templates
Written by Lisa Clark
Friday, 25 May 2007
Skytop Designs has released a nice selection of free css converted templates for joomla. Please see the site for more details.


Free templates for Joomla 1.5 beta 2
Written by raduga
Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Bizcity_ii and Biz_blue_ii — two free templates for Joomla 1.5 beta 2 from mambasana.ru.

Bizcity_ii has three colors (blue, green, red). You can change color in parameters of the template.

download template bizcity_ii for Joomla 1.5 beta 2

download template biz_blue_ii for Joomla 1.5 beta 2




Ressdesign new free template release
Written by firmansyah
Monday, 14 May 2007

ressdesign has released new free template named ress_orb. ress_orb is a simple, stylish, and clean template. You can use ress_orb for free.

visit ressdesign for demo and download


Two new free template from IbolDesign
Written by Iboldesign
Wednesday, 09 May 2007

Iboldesign release two new free template: greenleaves, freshgreen. This two template features tableless layout, lightweight, fast loading and also clean style design.

Greenleaves and freshgreen designed with green colouring theme and some decorative elements.

Also included psd file for further customize, find more and download at http://www.iboldesign.com




Ocurt: free template by Pigrecoemme released
Written by Giacomo Fabbrocino
Monday, 07 May 2007

OCURT is a FREE Joomla template from Pigrecoemme.com. This template is a very clean, single columned, and suitable for different purposes. You can see it in action on www.ocurt.it

The demo and the download are here:
http://www.pigrecoemme.com/produzioni/free-joomla-templates.php

This template is free to use and modify, but please leave credit and link in the footer or wherever you want with a link like this: Template by: Scuola di Cinema | Pigrecoemme

IMPORTANT
In order to use this single column template you need to download the swmenu free from
http://www.swmenupro.com/

Install the plug in and set it to position USER1 from your admin panel. You can obviusly use other menu systems, if you prefer.

THE FLASH MOVIE:
The provided source for the flash header is a swi file. You'll need SWISH to edit it. Download swish from: http://www.swishzone.com

The template can be downloaded from http://www.pigrecoemme.com/produzioni/free-joomla-templates.php


Free Joomla Template - IceBerg
Written by Reza Farshbaf
Saturday, 05 May 2007
Joomla CSS Guide is proud to announce the release of their first free template for joomla called Iceberg. IceBerg comes with 5 module positions and is 100% table-less. Registration is required to download this template.

Check out this at Joomla CSS Guide website .


New Joomla! template with Simpleviewer flash gallery integrated
Written by Achille Falzone
Tuesday, 01 May 2007

In this new free Joomla! template is integrated Simleviewer flash gallery. Simpleviewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Design is tableless fully css drive! On the template is installed Simple Image Rotator by Jooma Works. For Newsflash use "-flash" (background blue color and white text). For News i used flat list in order to have horizontal link.

You are free to use this template as you want; please leave copy div. Achille Falzone - MediaMente.biz.

Enjoy!


Ol Techno - Free Template From Olwebdesign
Written by olwebdesign
Tuesday, 01 May 2007

Ol techno is a FREE Joomla and mambo template from olwebdesign. This template is a very clean and fast loading design. It
uses almost all Joomla modules ( left, mainbody, right, user1, user2, user4, user6, user7, user8, inset, bottom and banner).

View live demo

Homepage olwebdesign.com


RokWebify - New GPL Template Plus Tutorials from RocketTheme
Written by Andy Miller
Tuesday, 01 May 2007
RokWebify is a brand new GPL template from RocketTheme. This template was created for use as the basis of a comprehensive series of Joomla! template modification tutorials. Along with the template itself, we've released the first two tutorials "Customizing Your Logo", and "Creating a Color Variation". This is not your average tutorial template however, it's a nice clean web 2.0 style that was used as the basis for RocketTheme's ColorMatic template. In the coming weeks we will release new tutorials that will cover a large array of common template modification requests including:
Converting from fixed to fluid width
Changing primary side column
Adding new module positions to your template
Converting a table layout to pure CSS layout
Converting a Joomla! 1.0 template to a native 1.5 version
Adding module hi-lights
Adding 3rd party menu systems
Adding 3rd party javascript effects and features
Check out the tutorials and download RokWebify today at http://tutorials.rockettheme.com
New free template from IbolDesign
Written by IbolDesign
Saturday, 28 April 2007

IbolDesign release new free template, they call it blackbox. they design it for blog or personal website.

Also included PSD for further customize to fit your needs. With balanced soft colours, made blackbox will make up your joomla sites

See more and download at http://www.iboldesign.com


"Minted One-Point-Five" v2.0 - Advancing Joomla! 1.0.x administrator templates
Written by JoomlaWorks
Thursday, 26 April 2007

JoomlaWorks is proud to release version 2.0 of the "Minted One-Point-Five" administrator template for Joomla! 1.0.x. Perhaps one of the most advanced admin templates ever created for Joomla! 1.0.x., not only does it look "fresh", but it is the fastest loading admin template around and comes pre-packed -yes, you read correctly- with Joomla! 1.5's icon set. That means you simply install the admin template and the backend administration user interface completely transforms.

his free template is released from JoomlaWorks under the GNU/GPL license.
Checkout the LIVE DEMO at: http://joomlaworks.org/j1012/administrator/
Read more...


AlfyStudio release a new Fireboard template
Written by Ahmad Alfy
Wednesday, 25 April 2007

Its finally out! Ahmad_Dark Template for the popular Fireboard forums. This template is based on one of the default templates of FB with modifications to suite Joomla! websites that use dark designs

Installation Instructions:
Download the file and extract it
Use JoomlaXplorer or FTP to upload the files to : http://yoursite/components/com_fireboard/template/ahmad_dark
Go to the backend and open Fireboard Configuration
In the frontend tab , Set the template and image set to ahmad_dark

Demo and download here


www.gopip.de released a new simpel template gopip_easy
Written by Rene Wandel
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
goP.I.P. released a new simpel Template for Joomla. The Template is wc3 conformal, 2 columns and consists of ccs programming. For more Information follow the Link.


Downlaod: http://www.gopip.de/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,17/Itemid,48/


Information: http://www.gopip.de/content/view/55/49/


New tmplates from Lady-Beetle
Written by Rami ben ami
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Two new and free templates for Joomla 1.0.x released from the "Prime Heaven" series. Totally table-free and CSS/XHTML valid with the W3C standards. 800px centered fixed-width with 2 and 3 columns.


2 columns: See The Demo

3 columns: See The Demo
This template design for general purposes. the logo integrated as a separate file. so you can change it to your logo (see the readme file).


Download the templates from here (requires registration):


http://www.lady-beetle.com/joomla-templates/free-joomla-templates-2.html





Design4Donations releases second free template: D4D Sunscan!
Written by Design4Donations
Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Design4Donations has just released their second template! This original, tropical themed Joomla! template supports many features including:
Sleek transparent design
Drop down menus (easy instructions for setup included)
Supports left, 5 user positions, 1 top and an inset module position
Auto-hide and modules
Customizable stylesheet (Lots of comments included)
Supported template

Best of all - its FREE for private or commercial use under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License, for more info please visit Creative Commons.

You can preview the demo version at www.design4donations.com/testsite or visit their homepage for downloading and full details. Enjoy!


2 new free templates available now!
Written by Jaser Bratzadeh
Tuesday, 03 April 2007
This month we want to offer two fresh new designs named DOG and LOVE. These two has the same layout structure but differs with the header and the color. fixed width and optimized for 1024x 768. Have fun !

Take a view here...
Become a member to get access to the psd files


Three new templates at SiteGround Joomla Gallery
Written by Kate Michaels
Tuesday, 03 April 2007
SiteGround web hosting is happy to announce the release of 3 brand new templates for Joomla - Denim, Flame and Tropics. The Denim theme is in dark colors and clan webmasters will love it; Flame is easy to customize and has a very nice effect in the menu; the Tropics theme is a great choice for traveler’s and holiday sites.


The tiny changes in the design of the SiteGround Joomla Templates Gallery page now allow you to review the newest templates and the 6 most popular templates directly on the index page. With these 3 new themes, the total number of the SiteGround collection reached 44. View the new Joomla templates here


Deal-Times: My new free template for Joomla
Written by Eugene
Tuesday, 03 April 2007
I would like to introduce my new free template for Joomla.It's variable width (liquid) layout with 3 columns. Positions that are not in use are collapsed, so they are not wasting space. This also means that you can easily choose between 1, 2 or 3 column appearance. PSD file for logo is also included, so you can easily customize it.Some module positions are custom, so I’ve included module position and CSS customization descriptions in this article (page 2).

Deal-Times-My-template-for-JoomlaRead it before downloading template from deal-times template download





Simpliadict - New Template from IbolDesign.com
Written by IbolDesign
Tuesday, 03 April 2007
Simpliadict completed first ten free joomla templates from iboldesign. Simpliadict suitable for variety sites type,and style.IbolDesign recommends for e-zine/weblog sites.

with tableless and fast loading, simpliadict will fire up any joomla sites community download and see more at http://www.iboldesign.com

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 — The Developers' and Designers' Revolution!

Joomla! proudly presents its most important coding adrenaline surge to the development and designer community. With today's release of Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2, we're shifting gears into turbo mode; an entirely re-factored core, internationalisation, FTP layering, next-generation API and framework that's so flexible and powerful and, of course, a designer's dream for unparalleled templating flexibility.

The Red Barchetta — Beta-2
We've dubbed Beta-2 'Red Barchetta', in keeping with the spirit of freedom, power, simplicity and flexibility unknown in an Open Source framework. Besides Red Barchetta conjuring up triumph through coding revolution, this baby provides developers and designers with unequaled tools. This makes Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 the ultimate enabler for your projects. Now is the time for you to take it for a serious drive to help our team refine the software for our release candidate goals. It's also probably the best time for you to start learning the nuances of the new system to enable you to migrate your extensions and templates to the next generation CMS.

How you can Fuel the Red Barchetta?
Thowing real energy at 1.5 by jumping into the codebase — making your current extenstions and templates compatible, creating new extensions, new templates and making use of all the wonderful features in 1.5. Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 is feature complete so dive in under the hood and lets see what you can create. There never has been a better time to get motivated as this is the last beta prior to release candidate.

What's the best way community users can contribute?

While our primary focus on this release is for developers and designers, if users have questions or want to report a bug, our forum is the place to be. We want to move forward to the release candidate as soon as possible. For this it is important to be as specific as you can be if you file a bug report, and before you file a report please take the time to check whether this problem has been reported before.

What is the difference between a beta and a release candidate?

The difference between a beta version and a release candidate is best described in terms of code maturity. A beta version is not considered to be ready for production sites. With a release candidate out the development workgroup says that they are almost done, and consider it production ready.


Why should I use Joomla! 1.5?

With Joomla! 1.5 the Joomla! project really starts firing on all cylinders. The difference between our current 1.0.12 and the forthcoming 1.5 Beta-2 are not easy to describe, but in essence Joomla! 1.0.x was based upon the Mambo codebase, whereas Joomla! 1.5 has been completely rewritten from scratch. Joomla! 1.0.x was written with "freedom of use" in mind; with Joomla! 1.5 we expanded on this and added "ease of use". This all sounds very nice, but what does it mean? Freedom of use refers to the unlimited possibilities you have when building web-sites, and with ease of use we have tried to make life simpler for the end user, the web administrator and of course the third party developers.

How do 3PD developers get to learn how to develop for 1.5?

This is the moment you all have been waiting for to dive into Joomla! 1.5 and discover the new framework. The code is fully feature complete and feedback from early adopters has been very positive. If you're interested in developing extensions on the new Joomla! Framework this is the time to jump on board!

Developer Resources:
Developer Network Wiki
Joomla! 1.5 API Reference

Where do I find information on templating for Joomla! 1.5?

Before we point to an excellent piece of documentation it is important to realise that all templates for Joomla! 1.0.x can be used in Joomla! 1.5. A lot of features have been added to the templating system in Joomla! 1.5, but all 1.0.x templates can be used within Joomla! 1.5. There are several resources that describe the new template features, a great resource is the template tutorial and of course the BEEZ template that we included in Beta-2.

The Red Barchetta

And the Red Barchetta? A catchy code name for Beta-2 with a hint of metaphor about open source.
The "Red Barchetta" is a futuristic song about a wise uncle who keeps a Red Barchetta in his barn long after automobiles are outlawed (Before the Motor Law). A kid takes the car for a ride and ends up being chased by a Gleaming Alloy Air car. He outruns and ditches the law and returns to the barn, hides the car and goes off to dream about freedom with his uncle by the fireside. The Red Barchetta symbolises the spirit of freedom and freewill. Stories like this manifest in true open source spirit. But what has it to do with Joomla? Quite simply, we are one step closer to celebrating the new levels of freedom, by offering the second beta of Joomla!

For many of us, participating in open source is about as close as we'll ever get to being revolutionaries. Go on, we dare you ... jump in the Red Barchetta and take it for a serious spin. Be part of something that creates dramatic, wide-reaching change.

Let the revolution begin and show your spirit by displaying our Beta-2 Badges .
One More Thing ...

We feel it's fitting to pay tribute to 'an old friend', Joomla! 1.0+, whereby this video showcases some of the amazingly creative developers and designers who make Joomla! sing. A special thanks to Julian of Georgia Wonder for allowing us to use 'Genius' for this videocast.
Joomla! Beta-2 Tribute Videocast

Joomla CMS

What is Joomla! ?

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.
Joomla! in Action

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our software:
Corporate websites or portals
Online commerce
Small business websites
Non-profit and organizational websites
Government applications
Corporate intranets and extranets
School and church websites
Personal or family homepages
Community-based portals
Magazines and newspapers
the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.
Joomla! for End Users

The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting our software up and running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies. We have a growing, active community of more than 40,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.

Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site. You can try our simple demo to get quick taste of what Joomla! is all about.
Taking Joomla! to the Next Level

Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:
Dynamic form builders
Business or organizational directories
Document management
image and multimedia galleries
E-commerce and shopping cart engines
Forums and chat software
Calendars
Blogging software
Directory services
Email newsletters
Data collection and reporting tools
Banner advertising systems
Subscription services
and many, many more…

You can find more examples over at our growing Joomla! Extensions Directory. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by our active developer community!
Joomla! for Developers

Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! package or in a freely available extension.

Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.

Using the core framework, developers can easily build:
Integrated e-commerce systems
Inventory control systems
Data reporting tools
Custom product catalogs
Complex business directories
Reservation systems
Communication tools
Application bridges
or any kind of application to suit a unique need…

If your company or organization hires a third party Joomla! developer or builds in-house software using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any one developer or to a proprietary, closed application.

You can learn more about developing on the Joomla! framework over at our developer’s network. The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage our framework and user interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment.
So what’s the catch?

There is no catch. Joomla! is free, open, and available to all under the GPL license. We don’t claim to be perfect, and can’t promise to meet every requirement in the world. But for many web applications, our software is perfectly suited for the job. We are adding great new features with each release, and with the help and advice of our incredible user community we plan on delivering award-winning software for years to come.

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