Ok, here is a little disclaimer for your guys: this post will be full of different weird words and letters but don’t be afraid this is not a voodoo or something. It’s just a names of Joomla extensions and we must admit that it is very hard to determine really most popular extensions because as we all know Joomla is an open source software and any third party can create extension. This is a main reason of invasion (in a good way of this word) various useful Joomla extenstions on the market.

We offer out vision of popular and useful Joomla 1.5 extensions and hope this information will be useful for you.

1. Have you ever heard about JFusion? I think that many of you know such shopping platform as Magento. This extension allows you to integrate this great eCommerce platform in Joomla 1.5. JFusion is a free GPL plugin which provides universal user integration, by extending the Joomla 1.5 user authentication framework without any core hacks.

2. Xmap creates both HTML and XML sitemaps seamlessly. When creating a sitemap you have the possibility to exclude content items where desired. The XML sitemap is useful for submitting to Google Sitemaps and adding to your robots.txt file.

3. Joomla Pack is great extension that allows you to create complete back up for your website (both files and database) that can be simply restored to another Joomla capable server.

4. Google Adsence PLugin - it is very simple extension that will help you to implement Adsence into your content easily and without any problems.

5. Sh404sef is a free extension but requires legacy mode to be activated in order to be installed and function correctly. Anyway it is very useful extension that will help you to create search engine friendly URLs, meta tag management for each page (title, description, keywords, author, language), add h1 tags to contentheadings and componentheadings.

6. JCE 1.5 is a WYSIWYG editor that includes advanced Image/Media and File handling, plugin support, and an Administration interface for editor configuration.

7. RSGallery2 is the gallery solution for your images. This component brings you templates, image management, access control and it supports 35 languages.

That’s all for now and we hope that you’ll find our small list informative and we are waiting for your vision of most popular Joomla 1.5 extensions in comments.

Well it is not a secret that Joomla is very user-friendly and flexible software. It is hard to surprise you with the fact that Joomla can contain Flash elements. The point is that you can do that by yourself or just buy some of our awesome Joomla 1.5 templates. Of course if you think that you can handle this situation we have some advices for you.

Well there are two ways that might help you to implement Flash environment to your Joomla website. First create your Flash animations in Anim-FX, and make sure the *.swf and *.txt files are in the base html directory. Do not make the mistake of uploading them into the images or images/flash directory. Also the flash does not work if loaded into the template directory. Both files must be in the html directory where the index.php file is located.

Install Flash Modules available on the internet for Joomla users

There are 2 Joomla Flash Modules and they both seem to work fairly well but one seems to have some problems with the File Path Parameter.

This is also the one that runs a Java Script for the flash as an option which seems to eliminate some IE 7 anomalies when you click on the flash window. The Modules are then controlled through Joomlas Administrator window and can be assigned to different places in the website to appear and not appear as desired.The Modules can also be assigned to different locations on the page left, right, top, header, etc… More information you can find here…

Are you ready to enjoy original Joomla websites? I think you do and here is the next topic - food and beverage websites for your autumn inspiration or just for fun. We have gathered few nice websites powered by Joomla and hope that you’ll estimate our efforts. So let’s start!

Sweet Ihop’s website has very gentle and smooth background with attractive color scheme. I’m charmed with their logo - admit that this is very nice logo and of course their products are something really sweet.

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Pizza anyone? Marco’s Pizza Joomla website has quite original design with awesome header. I don’t know why they have put vineyards there but it is very creative solution. And I must say about their navigation - it is very obvious as for me.

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Metro’s Joomla is a real masterpiece with classical dark background, awesome images and of course superb colors. I must claim that I was pretty surprised because of layout - it has many original details.

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I like Sabor’s website because they have tried to create nice design with a speck of business style. I can tell you that they have reached a certain success in this. Original color solution is really worth to be seen.

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Ok, this is a Sobieski site and please note: by reading this you confirm that you are at least 18 years old and that you are aware of the drinking responsibility. As for the website I can tell you for sure that their products as so good as their design (it was not an advertisement). Background is very creative and everything is just great .

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Our last example is very sweet and it’s performed in a white clean style with sophisticated details. White background, nice images in the header and superb navigation - these are the main reason why we have placed WD chocolate in our showcase.

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