So everybody love colleges and universities? Even if you haven’t any life experience with these educational organizations I’m sure that many do love to watch college comedies and laugh at those simple jokes and captions in the web. Anyway Joomla becomes integral part of many nice things and today we want to show you how Joomla conquered colleges :).

Good old Oklahoma strikes us with very modern Joomla design. Our fathers - founders must be proud of OSU because they have showed their best trying to present their University online. I like that they have used dynamic gallery as a background and nice interactive elements.

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CEPSR Clean Room sounds like some secret military project in Area 51 but this is just  Columbia University’s project. I’m sure that you’ve noticed that this Joomla has really strict design. But I think that this is a best decision for such kind website. Cute background and original header are worth to put this design in our collection.

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Oh yeah, those faces in the header are the best symbol of really cool college life. As for the Howard’s (reminds Harry Potter’s school) Joomla website I can claim that they have done a really nice job. Amazing background, original logo, superb navigation - these features impress me most of all.

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Green Joomla website of Mount Carmel College of Nursing makes me wonder do they have really nurses-designers? Because their design is really elegant and remarkable though that this college hasn’t any relation to web design. Dynamic gallery in the header is one of the best details in this Joomla website.

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Clean and strict Newbold’s Joomla design is performed in a original manner because as you can see they have used simple white background and classical header.

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That’s a real college community’s website! I remember when I was in college - we can only dream about such things but now everything is possible. It is interesting that these guys have decided to make such original header - I haven’t seen before anything similar.

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Our last exhibit is a pure and clean Joomla that has constraining and sophisticated style. Basically this website is not a masterpiece of web design but it has its own charisma and I think that sometimes this is very important especially when you want to present very serious organization like UNC.

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I think that it is the one of the most favourite topics to discuss - what CMS platform is the best? I’m sure that we all like to make controversial discussions and try to argue that your choice is the perfect. Endless polemics about advantages of Joomla and WordPress have one useful feature - all these posts and forum threads are very priceless for the rookies.

Ok, first thing that seems to be very obvious - WP is only for blogging and Joomla is more universal CMS platform. Many of WP users say that this software is very simple and even unskilled user can handle it and I agree with that because Joomla requires some special knowledge. WordPress was created as more functional alternative for Blogger and Joomla was aimed to beat Mambo - and this is a reason that makes their origin almost the same. It is kind even ironical to write about these opposition using WP .

I don’t like that WP hasn’t normal navigation bar in the header but this problem can be solved by choosing one of the WordPress templates that contain this bar. In general many users consider that you can’t build normal website with the help of WP because Joomla contains ready-made submit page and many other things that you can’t find in WP. But those developers that have worked a lot with WordPress know that you can use TODO mini forms  in WP that can make your WP-powered website more functional. I have experience to work with such forms and will say that it is very comfortable and easier than Joomla.

As for Joomla we must admit that this software pretends to be almost perfect CMS platform because you can create any website powered by Joomla - from simple personal blog to webstore or portal. To cut a long story short - I believe that both platforms are great and what to use - it is your personal decision. And our business is to provide you with more professional Joomla 1.5 Templates and some useful information about Joomla.

The Joomla! User Group Toronto will be holding it’s next informal pub night on Wednesday September 23, 2009, at 7pm. We’ll be meeting at Hemingway’s in Yorkville.

The team that normally organizeds these events is suffering from the bane of all volunteer groups — real life. Everyone is just a little busier than usual, so we’re relying on the community to get the word out. Please tell your Joomla friends, get the word out in social media, and find other creative (but legal!) ways to attract some attention.

Web is a great place because you can find a lot of different freebies there. It is no a secret that free website templates are extremely popular nowadays and sometimes even users without any skills can get pretty good design and create nice website. Now let’s get back to the business - today was launched new project that is aimed to create huge collection of Free Joomla Templates. As you know we are great fans of our Joomla 1.5 templates but we can’t miss opportunity to inform you about this fact. This project is really great because you can find there and Download Free Joomla Templates. They have great numbers of various categories and we think that many people can find there many useful and great free designs. That’s all for now have a nice time of day and see ya!