Blog Entries for Matt king

Template Release: Rational Magic!

Matt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0100

The train of excellence keeps driving onward, and this month brings us our newest template--Rational Magic.

We love clean and effective designs. We wanted a template that was super lightweight, fast loading and still had a lot of versatility and we think we nailed it with Rational Magic.

Demo | [...]

Help spread the word of the Junkie.

Matt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0100

We feel it is important for real people and real customers to spread the word about JoomlaJunkie. If you have had a good experience or just enjoy our templates, please say a few words about us at BestofJoomla.com.

Here is a direct link, http://joomlajunkie.com/review-us.

It will only take a few seconds, and we really appreciate it. Rememeber, the more people that know about us, the faster we can churn out more quality templates. If we start doing 2 templates a month, you club [...]

Joomla.org is converting over to 1.5, are you?

Matt — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Joomla.org is a huge site with thousands of users and multiple Joomla installs. It appears to be one install, but upon closer inspection of the code you will see that different sections are sometimes more then they appear. The main page which we all know and love is a current build of Joomla, but you might notice the forum is not really Joomla at all. It is HTML added to the header and footer of phpBB. Joomla shop? Yup, it's 1.5. Joomla developers, yessir, 1.5. The documentation? M [...]

Get your fork out, Mambo did it again with MiaCMS.

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Those of you who have been around a while should rememeber Mambo, the CMS that our beloved Joomla is based off of. A few years back there was a bunch of bickering and discussion about how Mambo was to evolve and thus Joomla was spawned. Well, another fork of Mambo has popped out again, this time taking a bunch more developers and coders. This group has now created MiaCMS.

From the official MiaCMS website

The MiaCMS Story

MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. W [...]

Flock. Get ready to meet your new favorite browser!

Matt — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

http://flock.com/

Want a browser that is stable, functional, and incredibly useful? I think we all do. I have been using Camino for some time due to how fast it is but I have been using Firefox more and more due to me needing to do a lot more debugging and diagnosing of Web sites. The most recent versions have let me down a bit due to the betas being much crashier then I am accustomed to by Firefox.

Of course this isn't a post bashing Firefo [...]

Template Release: Extreme Blogger Lite!

Matt — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

You said you didn't want a dark template, so we developed a new version of Extreme Blogger that had a lighter color scheme.

People loved how Extreme Blogger was clean, simple, and easily configurable, but not everybody wanted a dark website.
So we took our popular Extreme Blogging template and f [...]

Releasing a Joomla template is harder then you might imagine

Matt — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

I have been on the front end of Joomla for years. Creating Web sites for clients, myself, friends, anybody who would pay, and even a few who wouldn't. I have always had a general idea of what it took for a template company to produce a template, but no real proof to validate my assumptions. JoomlaJunkie recently hired me on staff and gave me all the proof I needed to discover it is way more complicated then I ever dreamed.

Joomla templates are pretty straight forward. You come u [...]

Fireboard 1.1.0 alpha

Matt — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:00:00 +0100

A little under one year ago Joomlaboard announced it would merge with a new crew of developers and rebrand their popular forum component into Fireboard. Fireboard has dominated the category of self contained forum components ever since. Now, on it's one year anniversary they have announced a new version of Fireboard being developed to better cope with Joomla 1.5 and it's new structure.The new version will initially be built to adjust to changes to the Joomla core while still keeping [...]

Fonts, where can I find more?

Matt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Have you ever struggled to find a font for a project? Tired of all your default fonts? Does your client want something really obscure?

We have all been to a website with a font we really liked, or really disliked. Sometimes it is really hard to find the one you want in a simple and effective way. I have found a site that makes it all easy.

Neatfonts.com [...]

Build your Joomla site locally and faster.

Matt — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:00:00 +0100

Develop your Joomla site on your own network. You will be amazed how much faster you will get things done.

I am pretty stubborn sometimes. When I am creating a new Joomla site I will typically upload it to my webspace and edit things around to my liking. &nbs [...]