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!

We are so glad to present Religious Joomla websites because it is very noble thing to help communities with their comfortable web presence. There is no doubt that nowadays being online is very important and even such highly traditional organizations must have their own websites. Just stay connected with your ministry online with the help of our comfortable and multifunctional Religious Joomla 1.5 templates.

BHC Church

What a great Joomla website! Really, we are impressed with those original patterns in the header and we think that it is quite unusual style for religious template but it deserves to be noticed.

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Launceston Christian Fellowship

Very pleasant style of our next Joomla website sets right mood and you do want to join this great community. I like the color scheme – it is very bright and funny.

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Church52

Church 52 has originally designed website – we think that such style reflect in a best way their religious views. Nice logo in the header – it reminds me some ancient signs of European knights.

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FBC Texhoma

First Baptist Church’s website powered by Joomla was a real surprise for us – it has very remarkable design. Perfect navigation, charming header, superb color scheme – all these elements were successfully combined in this website.

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First Parish Congregational Church

Are you scared? Because we do and though that this is very beautiful Joomla website with numerous advantages and perfect design solutions those image in the header is very … remarkable.

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Stephan Bradley

Stephen must be very lucky man first because he knows how to marry people and second his personal web page is in our list. And you know what? It is not an accident because this Joomla web page has very smooth and glossy background. And romantic picture in the header is so charming.

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Religious Joomla 1.5 Template

We are glad to present our superb design from the collection of Joomla 1.5 Templates – really good-looking religious ready-made website template. Hope that you estimate white clean style because this template is performed in such kind manner.

Summer is a time for vacation and if you are going spend these days travelling – we have something for you. Of course web is the best place to look for original places and great destinations. We want to show you some great Joomla travel-related websites with truly original design.

Montanus

Ok, we agree that this design reflects all tendencies of 2009 – it is based on big image, has original navigation and original layout. This is our number and we hope that you’ll agree with us.

SherwoodResidence

I wonder where they have put Robin Hood? But even without this legendary hero Sherwood residence has very noble design. White background and luxury photo in the centre certainly impress any client.

VillaPandora

Italy is waiting! Villapandora’s website powered by Joomla performed in deep blue color and we think that such color scheme symbolizes the color of the Mediterranean Sea. 2-column layout and beautiful landscape image in the header are main features of this design.

Travel Joomla 1.5 Theme

Please welcome our Joomla 1.5 Theme for a travel web project. As you can see our template will perfect as for travel blog as for agency. We have created very flexible and functional theme with captivating design and hope that our vision will inspire you to travel more and of course don’t forget to check our collection of Joomla 1.5 templates.

Hi, guys We thought that maybe you have tired to read all those news about Joomla and decided to make a small showcase. Actually it was a big surprise for our team because we didn’t expect to find such really original and captivating designs. So, here we go – let the Joomla Music Showcase begin!

Famous Italian artist DJ Fresella is a lucky guy because his Joomla website is the first in our list. Impressive header with original patterns and taking blue color will make you stay longer at this page.

We must admit that Italian music sites have really professional design because we have another one noble representative. These two sites are performed in the same style and you may notice that some solutions have similar details but if you visit this site you’ll understand what I meant.

Sunny Jamaica welcomes you! Great Joomla website with abstract background and bright color scheme – well it is classical solution for Jamaican style.

Turkish rap portal has vintage TV-set in the header and very expressive graffiti. I like the background – it has smooth and gentle colors and remarkable curves.

Serious Joomla! style from DJ Murano’s site is the pearl of our collection – you may have noticed that this design performed in a clean style with accent on original photos in the background.

And now we will show you our vision of design for a music website. We hope that you’ll like this one and check out our collection of Joomla 1.5 Templates.

That’s all for now – take care and hope to see you again

I think that true Joomla fans have heard about this project – Joomla Multisite Support. It is not a secret that we are big fans of Joomla and we are waiting  impatiently for the official release of this wonderful project. In a few words this project will open great opportunities for all Joomla community.

According the information from Joomla!.org main advantages of the new project are:
– A simple interface to install multi-site configuration.

– One code base w/one database

– System is compatible will all existing modules/components/plugins

– Will enable more large organizations to adopt Joomla

– Share users, session, modules, components and content between sites

– Enables full control over Joomla URLs, grants ability to make your URLs shorter, user friendly and search engine friendly.

More detailed information about this project you can find here.

Accordins the official information from Joomla! they have announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.13 This release contains 26 bug fixes, two moderate-level security fixes and one low-level security fix. It has been 3 weeks since Joomla 1.5.12 was released on July 1, 2009. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

According the official information from Joomla.org headquarter of Joomla! Day in Brazil was chosen Rio. Guys from Joomla claim that event will visit important developers, companies and members of the Joomla Project! And they have already confirmed their presence. Joomla team is going to fill day with lectures for beginning users and developers, case studies and a lot of networking. This event is planned to be on September, 12 but they are offering a discount for those who sign up until July 25. So hurry up!

The Joomla Project has announced about new release of Joomla 1.5.12. This release contains 26 bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes.

This release is an important milestone for the Joomla Project due to the upgrade of the PEAR library to the new BSD licensed version, which brings the codebase into full compliance with the GPL. In addition, this release contains an important upgrade to TinyMCE v 3.2.4.1.

The Production Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

We are glad to be back and we hope that your spent your weekend as good as we did. It is not a secret that are just going crazy about Joomla 1.5 themes and that is why we have decided to show you few exciting designs powered by Joomla. These examples are very inspirational and remarkable and we think that we must share them with you.

Original design from the Planet Photo reflects great traditions of a professional design for Joomla and we are amazed because of such unique combination of functionality and design solutions.

Yeah, french guys know how to be extremely popular and they do have nice taste because this website of a french photographer is so taking that I can’t even find right words to describe my impression. But I know that our Joomla 1.5 templates as good as this one example.

Who says that simple style is for minimalists? White background and cool bike in the centre is exactly what you need and Falcon style is another example of an old rule – everything genius simple.

Do you like spicy style? I must say that it is not for everyone but I like the idea and color scheme is very soft. What I can say – this website is one of the best.