JoomlaJunkie.com - July 2008

Template release: Snappa

Matt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100

It's the summertime, let's get a little dirty with Snappa.

Everybody makes shiny templates, so this month we decided to get our hands really dirty and go the other direction and get a little grunge. Don't let the dirt fool you, we restructured our code for Snappa and it is our cleanest and fastest yet.

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Smooth the way for buyers

munaiba — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100

I am still amazed at the number of sites that make it difficult ( some really, really difficult) for you to buy something from them.

Are your buyers falling at the first hurdle?

If so, the answer's simple. Remove the hurdle! There are all sorts of barriers to buying, outside of price and availability. Here are a few that you can easily fix on your site:

Shipping and delivery information - make it easy to find from every page on your site. Even if it needs to be calculated at [...]

Latest Template Release: Introducing Aurora!

stoker — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Our latest release is officially available! We extremely happy to introduce Aurora as the latest addition to our template family! A lot of TLC has gone into Aurora, which after a bit of looking under the hood, we are sure you will agree!

Aurora started out (much like Absolute V1) as a template with a couple of [...]

Aurora v1.2 and sexy new version of Tatami for your pleasure!

stoker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:00:00 +0100

We have had some really good feedback since Aurora launched, but there were still a couple of things that we bugging us and being the perfectionists that we are, we couldn't resist revamping the code to make it even better! Not only have we added gzip compression to the templates core css and javascript files, but also added the css / js combining to have fewer http requests, thus improving the templates performance.

On the Tatami front, we have been working feverishly with the gu [...]