I am pleased to announce the release of two new Joomla! 1.5 templates available for download in the template club for all JoomlaJunkie subscribers. If you have purchased a Joomla 1.0.x version of either of these templates, an email will be sent with a download link to the new 1.5 version for free. If you don't get a download link, then please email "update [at] webmonkeys.co.za"

Rational Magic

I am extremely excited about this template - the feedback since it was launched a week ago has been phenomenal! We have received emails from various well known people in the Joomla community with high praise for this great looking template.

Why is Rational Magic such a special template for me? The main reason is because we spent an insane amount of hours on the design, it went through the "design mill" about 10 times as we continually refined each element in order to achieve our goal in providing one of the best looking premium Joomla templates available today.

At JoomlaJunkie HQ, we are extremely aware of how an attractive and professional website can create an almost immediate web presence. By web presence I am referring to the website visitor' s subconscious impression when visiting a web site. If done correctly a professional and graphically pleasing website will immediately make the browser feel like they are looking at a website from a company who knows what they are doing, and this is the ultimate goal to convert visitors to business. This is what we attempt to provide with all of our Joomla! templates, which are also easy to install and are ideal to be used by our customers as a base for their own or client web site that will create that immediate perceived web presence I am referring to.

When we first sat down to create Rational Magic our main aim was to encompass the above concept and create a template that would be hailed as our best piece of work to date, we certainly hope you like the results.

Extreme Blogger Lite

The darker version of this template was launched more than 2 months ago, with the 1.5 version trailing a few weeks behind. This template soon hit our top download list and with as many requests for a lighter version of this template, we embarked on the journey of turning this themes color scheme around to use a lighter soft gray scheme that was lighter on the eyes for those people who don't like a dark website. The result a few weeks later was Extreme Blogger Lite, same template, same features with a different feel to it all together. I know there are many people out there who will be super exited to get there hands on the Joomla! 1.5 version of this template.