I am back from the land of the incapacitated. Many of you of Junkie users will know me from the support forums. Over the past few weeks I have been totally absent due to a herniated disc that left me unable to walk or do anything more then lay on my back.

I have always been a very active person. Before JoomlaJunkie I held a blue collar type job where I did a lot of lifting, climbing and physical activity on a daily basis. I put my back in a lot of insane

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The wait is over. JoomlaJunkie SuperSlider module is now available for free for members of our Joomla! templates club.

Our newest member Zahir has really shown his skill by knocking this amazing module out in a few short weeks. The amazing thing is it has more features in it then most of the slider modules you have used before, and plenty of style to boot. You have to install this and use it to really appreciate it.

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Today PacktPub.com announced "the inaugural list of Most Valued People from Open Source Content Management Systems". For background info about the award and all the categories coming up, see our previous post about the 2008 Open Source CMS Award.

PacktPub.com has been accepting MVP nominations since early July and for the majority of Content Management Systems, there were a number of candidates that received enthusiastic support. This demonstrates how many

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Good things come to those who wait... The JoomlaJunkie SuperSlider module will be available for free download next week for members of our Joomla! templates club. To get the news about the SuperSlider release first of all - sign up for Joomla!Junkie newsletter.

SuperSlider Joomla extension

We have been hard at work creating a nice little Joomla extension that is sure to brighten up even the most boring website.

This little Joomla 1.5 gem allows you to

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Bookmarking on Delicious, Magnolia, Digg or whatever is one thing. Picking the diamonds out of the heaps of internet treasures you find every week is another thing all together. Below you will find three of the diamonds we found this week.

SOCIAL MENTION

Real-time tracking of what people say about you

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging

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The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to packtpub.com.

Now entering its third year, the CMS Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems.

The 2008 CMS Award will continue to support a range of Open Source

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Whether you're a personal user, a small business or regular developer, the JoomlaJunkie Club subscriptions are great value for money and can also potentially save you many invaluable hours of development.

Prices are going up!

As announced in our newsletter - our Joomla! templates club membership prices are going up! But only on Monday, 13 October.

We have kept this decision back for a few months now as we have been trying our best to keep the prices as low as

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The economic climate of the world is forcing corporations and institutions to rapidly divest from expensive, inflexible proprietary solutions in favor of less costly (free) and far more flexible Open Source solutions.

Get Exposure. Get Trained. Get Informed. Get Business.

The Open Source CMS market is red hot and several Open Source solutions have tested their mettle in the marketplace, so this is the EXACT TIME to make sure you are at the forefront of the Open

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Envious of all those trendy and hip Web 2.0 websites and templates out there? Make your site pop with a new and fresh look! Everybody knows what the Web 2.0 style is - this is our fun and bright take on it.

Enough with the dirty, let's get shiny!

Welcome to The Web2.0 version of Snappa! Ideal for any website, ecommerce store or blog.

Zappa information | Zappa demo

The Web 2.0 look is all about color, so what joy would Zappa be without loads of color options

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MailChimp honestly makes our email marketing fun and easy and one of the reasons is that they keep on developing new cool and powerful things around it (their plugin page just keeps growing).

 This Joomla! plugin will place a Subscribe box for your users to use. Allowing your users to sign up without refreshing the page with AJAX as well easy management for the site admin. Very simple to use. (thanks to generationsix!). Sign up here for your own

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