4 weeks of horizontal living

Matt — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 [...]

SuperSlider is now available for club members

Matt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:31:46 +0100

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 [...]

2008 Open Source CMS Most Valued People Announced

tess — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 Ju [...]

New extension: Slideshow module for Joomla

mozami — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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

Screenshot of superslider

Treasures of the week

tess — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 services.

I [...]

2008 Open Source CMS Award

tess — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 importan [...]

JoomlaJunkie template club price increase

tess — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 possible, but [...]

As the economy forces a shift to Open Source, make sure you benefit!

tess — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 sever [...]

New professional Joomla template release: Zappa

tess — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 ve [...]

Joomla plugin available for MailChimp

tess — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

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 r [...]

Search Engine Optimized Copywriting

munaiba — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

Is your cool new JJ website user friendly? There's more to a successful website than cool JoomlaJunkie templates. They're an important first step. People judge by first appearances but then they want to find what they're looking for quickly and easily.

How to hook your customers and then keep them

You need sales oriented SEO copy that engages both your customers and the search engines! And then you need to ensure that your site navigation makes it easy fo [...]

Joomla template ideas? Make your voice heard!

tess — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

You begged for a Joomla 1.5 version of Aurora and we heard you. Now it's time for the rest of the templates...but where do we start? Well, you decide.

Do you want us to convert one of our 1.0.x templates to 1.5? ...or implement a new feature in future templates? Bring out your wishl [...]

New JoomlaJunkie team members

tess — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0100

What a month! Lots of coding, lots of coffee... It's been hectic but productive and we've got heaps to share with you very soon.

Some exciting new projects are taking place and at the same time we are doing some serious fine tuning of our templates. Follow the JoomlaJunkie team on Twitter and g [...]

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