Joomla Templates

The themes marketplace website offers the best mobile freindly Joomla templates designed by web designers from around the world Visit the website today to view over 100 Joomla designs for the latest version of Joomla! https://www.joomlatemplates.co

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Free Hosting

If your looking for the best free hosting you have to the right place. All the free website hosting services listed online come with all the features you need to create a blog or business website.

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Best Reseller Web Hosting

Find the best reseller web hosting services online can be difficult, however you dont need worry as the https://resellerhosting.host/ has all the information you need to help make the right decision when choosing reseller hosting to host your websites.

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Best WordPress Hosting UK

WordPress is one of the best free content management systems online. And the only one that's actually free, it being open source. https://www.bestwphosting.uk

Of course, you're gonna have to pay for your own hosting.

Finding the best WordPress hosting UK for yourself can be a tad confusing, especially with all the marketing.

Despite the small differences in language from company to company, you’ll find the same plans appear over and over again, with a few exceptions.

Or maybe things are listed that aren’t hosting at all. For example, the option to buy domains. Many companies provide all-in-one solutions like this.

Then some sites call hosting “web hosting.” But shouldn’t your site be on the web as a standard? Just a few oddities—all easily explainable.

We’ll make it real simple for you to actually understand what the "best" WordPress Hosting actually means. And also help you smell a bad deal, even when words get a bit jumbled up.

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Joomla 3.8.6 Released

Joomla 3.8.6 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla addressing one security vulnerability and including over 60 bug fixes and improvements.

What's in Joomla 3.8.6?

Joomla 3.8.6 addresses one security vulnerability and several bugs, including:

Security Issues Fixed

Low Priority - Core - SQLi vulnerability in User Notes (affecting Joomla 3.5.0 through 3.8.5) More information »

Bug fixes and Improvements

Various session management improvements #19548, #19687

Multilingual: Associated categories should display only when published #19551

Improve performance of the com_content category view with filter by tags #19284

[com_fields] Fields are not copied when batch duplicating an article #16958

Pass the configuration tmp_path to the archive package for extension installations #19608

Hide global configuration and system information from non super users #19697

Language overrides do not find plugin language files when files are in the plugin language folder #19740

reCAPTCHA V1 - Discontinued #19648

Delete existing user_keys, if password is changed #17827

PHP 7.2 compatibility fixes

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Joomla 4 compatibility layer

Namespaces

A big change in Joomla 4 are namespaces, a feature which exists since PHP 5.3.0, released in 2009. The whole PHP community has fully adapted to it and Joomla doesn’t want to fall behind.

In Joomla 4.0, the core architecture will be supporting and largely using namespaced PHP code. This applies for the core libraries and extensions.

Why a migration layer

We have a promise that a Joomla 3 extension will run on Joomla 4 and a namespaced Joomla 4 extension on Joomla 3.9. To achieve that, we decided to go step by step to reduce the risk of bugs and to give the extension developers enough time for adaption. The first step was to namespace the libraries folder in Joomla 3.8. This means that classes like JForm now have the class name \Joomla\CMS\Form\Form. To keep backward compatibility, the old class names do still work. That’s the migration layer we were talking about.

Classes which still do exist in the folders /libraries/cms, /libraries/joomla and /libraries/legacy are mostly deprecated or removed in Joomla 4. There is one exception, the filesystem package. We didn’t have enough time to convert it for the 3.8.0 release. It will be done then in 3.9.

What should I do with my new extension?

If you plan to do a new extension for Joomla 3, then you still need to do it the old way. You can use the namespaced libraries classes, but the extension, primarily the component, still needs to be NOT namespaced. We will backport most of the Joomla 4 features in 3.9.0 as 3.8 is in bug fix mode now.

Current status of Joomla 3.9

We didn’t start yet to backport the features from Joomla 4 to 3.9 as there are some issues we need to fix in 4 before we can start developing against 3.9. It means that it is not recommended to work against Joomla 3.9 yet.

Resources

The full Joomla 4 roadmap is published on the Developer site. If you want to have a look on the latest code, you can test the nightly builds.

Questions should be asked in the developer mailing list, but most of the backward compatibility issues are explained here.

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Twitter Bootstrap Framework to build a responsive Joomla! Template

Templates in Joomla

Joomla consists of a frontend (the website) and a backend (the administration interface). Both parts have their own templates. They are stored in the folders

/templates - Frontend

/administrator/templates - Backend

Each template has it's own folder. In Joomla 2.5 you'll find two preinstalled non responsive templates (Beez 2 and 5) and one template framework (Atomic)

/templates/atomic Atomic a kind of an uncommon template framework

/templates/beez_20 Beez 2 is the Joomla standard template.

/templates/beez5 Beez 5 is the HTML5 version of Beez 2

/templates/system In this folder Joomla stores all the files that are common for all the templates, e.g. the Offline and the Error page.

The administrator folder looks the same

/administrator/templates/bluestork Bluestork is the default standard administrator template

/administrator/templates/hathor Hathor is an optional administrator template. It is accessible and colours are customizable.

/administrator/templates/system In this folder Joomla stores all the files that are common for all the templates, e.g. the Error page.

How to create a new Template?

You have three options for creating a new template

start from scratch with creating a folder and all the necessary files

install a starter theme and modify it

copy an existing template and modify it

In this chapter we want to try option one. We'll create a responsive frontend template based on the Twitter Bootstrap framework for Joomla 2.5 from scratch. I'll keep it as simple as possibible. The aim of this chapter is to understand Joomla's template structure. It's quite easy to make it more and more pretty and complicate afterwards :)

Template name

First of all we need a name for our template. The name will appear in XML files, the database, the webservers files system and several caches. Avoid special characters and blanks in the name. I'll call the template cocoate.

Files and Folders

Create a /templates/cocoate folder.

In the folder we need the following files and a subfolder css

/templates/cocoate/index.php

/templates/cocoate/templateDetails.xml

index.php

<?php defined('_JEXEC') or die; ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" > <head> <jdoc:include type="head" /> </head> <body > <jdoc:include type="modules" name="top" style="xhtml" />     <jdoc:include type="modules" name="breadcrumbs" style="xhtml" /> <jdoc:include type="modules" name="left" style="xhtml" /> <jdoc:include type="component" /> <jdoc:include type="modules" name="right" style="xhtml" /> <jdoc:include type="modules" name="footer" style="none" />     </body> </html>

Listing 1: index.php

The index.php file is the "page" template, the "big picture". Inside this file all the bits and pieces (CSS, JavaScript, Joomla content) were loaded. In our example I just loaded the Joomla content with the <jdoc:include ...> command. It contains the head, the component content and the module content depending on the postion of the module (What is a module?).

templateDetails.xml

This is the most important file in a template. It is the manifest, or packing list file that includes a list of all the files or folders that are part of the template. It also includes information such as the author and copyright. Without this file, Joomla wil not find your template. The positions are the module positions that are already mentioned in the index.php file. You can create as many positions as you want. So far, there is no naming standard in Joomla.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE install PUBLIC "-//Joomla! 1.6//DTD template 1.0//EN" "https://www.joomla.org/xml/dtd/1.6/template-install.dtd"> <install version="2.5" type="template" method="upgrade">    <name>cocoate</name>        <creationDate>2012-07-17</creationDate>    <author>Hagen Graf</author>    <authorEmail>[email protected]</authorEmail>    <authorUrl>http://cocoate.com</authorUrl>    <copyright>Copyright (C) 2012 cocoate</copyright>    <version>1.0</version>    <description><![CDATA[    <p>cocoate is a template exercise from scratch.<p>    ]]></description>    <files>        <filename>index.php</filename>        <filename>templateDetails.xml</filename>        <folder>css</folder>    </files>    <positions>        <position>top</position>        <position>breadcrumbs</position>        <position>footer</position>        <position>left</position>        <position>right</position>        <position>footer</position>    </positions> </install>

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Responsive Design

All of this has caused a fair bit of internal conflict: I'm a big fan of responsive web design; I like most of Twitter's Bootstrap framework; I love the visual appeal of a clean, simple user experience. I appreciate that complex interfaces are intimidating and that they are a huge impediment to adoption of any application. Yet when it comes to getting a complex job done quickly, those same streamlined interfaces rapidly have me wanting to toss a keyboard through a window.

Maybe it's my ADD, but I thrive on complex interfaces. I want to see as much information as possible, packed as tightly as possible, and formatted for readability and easy access. I don't mind scrolling, particularly if it's only the secondary information that scrolls. In other words, I'm a mobile designer's anti-user.

In addition to some supportive comments, I got a lot of positive feedback from people who agreed with my position on complex interfaces. At the same time I noticed that most of the support came from more experienced users. I wondered if maybe my complaint was a generational thing. Sort of an “ageing laptop user with Big Monitor whines about mobile systems passing him by” theme, while also insinuating that I also miss rotary telephones (I don't).

Surely if 70% of new browsers are on smart phones and tablet devices, the complex user interface is all but dead? To test this, I tried composing this article on a mobile device. Three times. On two devices with two browsers. I didn't get past the second sentence on any of them. Our WYSIWYG editors just aren't ready for the mobile, tactile interface world.

With this I came to a conclusion: while a lot of content – usually short form and multimedia content – will be created on mobile devices, anything that requires significant editing and post production is going to be done on devices with big screens and keyboards for a long time to come.

So UX designers have a problem: there is no single user interface that is optimal for all user communities.

I believe the solution is the scalable user experience. A scalable UX starts with the clean, simple design that makes people label a product as friendly and easy to use, but over time it allows that user to transition to a more complex experience, perhaps allowing each user to customize the interface to expose the tools they need to get their job done. The casual blogger can have an interface that is as receptive as a default Wordpress site; the mobile reporter can have a hybrid of Twitter and Tumblr; the journal editor can access formatting, publishing, and categorization tools; and the Marketing/SEO specialist can see all of that plus realtime keyword reporting, tagging, analytics, even stock prices and the local weather radar – if that's what the job function requires.

The Joomla 3.0 administrator interface offers a lot that's great, but at the same time that gain comes at a cost. Our challenge as we progress towards 3.5 (or 4.0) is to build an experience that can adapt to the needs of the individual.

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LESS in Joomla!

LESS is a dynamic stylesheet. It may be helpful in understanding LESS by thinking of LESS as similar to PHP. In much the same way that PHP is interpreted by the server and then outputs the corresponding evaluated HTML, LESS is interpreted by the server and outputs the corresponding CSS. It's that simple.

To be more specific, LESS extends CSS with a variety of additional features. The three features this article will focus on are: variables, mixins, and functions.

Variables

With LESS you can specify a set of variables that can then be reused throughout your stylesheet. Below we will define three variables and then demonstrate how they are used throughout the template.

@primary : #336699; @secondary : #444444; @bordercolor : #d5d4d4;

Once these variables have been defined you can then use them anywhere later.

h1 { color: @primary; border: 1px solid @bordercolor; }

When the code is read by the server it will write out CSS code similar to how you would be used to seeing it.

It's that simple. It may not appear from this example that this is very beneficial or very time-saving, but in the scope of a full template with hundreds of lines of code it becomes incredibly easy to change a style by simply changing a single variable at the top of the file.

Mixins

This is a fancy way of saying you can add full sets of styles inside another style. In some ways its very similar to variables, only instead of a single value we are now including entire styles. Below is an example of this technique.

.thinborder(@radius: 5px, @color: #d5d4d4, @width: 1px) { border: @width solid @color; -webkit-border-radius: @radius; -moz-border-radius: @radius; border-radius: @radius; }

This could then be used in the following way:

.moduletable { .thinborder(2px,#336699); }

As you'll notice, you can modify any or none of the parameters. Any parameter not defined will use the default value (in the above example the width defaults to 1px). Again, this provides a fantastic way to have a well-managed stylesheet without enormous amounts of extra lines of styles. Again, simply changing the default style will update every corresponding line throughout the entire stylesheet.

Functions

The last item to look at is the functions feature of LESS. LESS functions are a way for you to perform simple operations on variables. We can use multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. It's an extremely powerful way to create a single style and then reuse that style easily throughout the stylesheet while still being able to manipulate the styles for unique situations. See the following example:

//Define variables @borderwidth : 2px; @background : #222222; .moduletable { background-color: (@background / 4); border: (@borderwidth + 1) solid (@background * 2); }

By creating this style and adding LESS functionality to specific cases we can quickly create styles that are standardized across the entire stylesheet while still maintaining unique cases when needed.

The above code demonstrates a case where we set a default background color and then use that background color to create variations as necessary. In this specific example we take advantage of the background color to use for both a border color and background color as variations.

There are other ways in which LESS is used, however for the sake of the length of this article we’ll not look at other examples but rather turn to how LESS can be used within a Joomla! template. If you have additional questions about LESS you can view more information on the official website, http://lesscss.org.

How LESS is implemented with Joomla! templates

Joomla! 3 includes a JUI library in the root media folder. This folder holds all the core LESS files available for use. Joomla! templates can then use those files by importing them into the template specific LESS files. Below is an example of importing these:

// Grid system and page structure @import "../../../media/jui/less/scaffolding.less"; @import "../../../media/jui/less/grid.less"; @import "../../../media/jui/less/layouts.less";

// Base CSS @import "../../../media/jui/less/type.less"; @import "../../../media/jui/less/code.less"; @import "../../../media/jui/less/forms.less"; @import "../../../media/jui/less/tables.less";

The full list of available file imports can be found here: http://jui.kyleledbetter.com/

Once you’ve imported the base LESS classes you want in your template and have added your own LESS styles you can then compile a single template.css file to control your entire site with one unified style. To compile your LESS styles you will need to run a compiler to generate the CSS file. Don’t let the idea of compiling scare you. It’s merely a fancy term used to define the process of writing out CSS files from the LESS files ($emember all those variables, mixins and functions have to be parsed out and written as normal CSS). Joomla! default templates use a tiny Joomla! platform application to generate their CSS and the code is available to copy and use for personal template styles from the GitHub directory for the Joomla! CMS.

https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/master/build/generatecss.php

This file contains a singular doExecute function which when run will write the CSS files out based on a standard Joomla! class (JLess). Run it and generate your CSS and your brand new template stylesheet is ready to go.

In conclusion

Don’t think this process to be too technical to actually use. It is quite easy to understand and you will be surprised with how simple it is to implement. Get started today writing LESS files. Take advantage of the formatting available in the root JUI / LESS folder and write your next template with the power of LESS.

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Joomla Blog Design Tips

Are you frustrated with your current blog design? Are you preparing to launch a new blog, but can’t figure out a design that effectively reflects your goals? Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. While content may be the primary focus for some bloggers, the most successful bloggers are those that spend the same amount of time perfecting the aesthetics.

In order to maximize the efficacy of your Joomla blog, you need to have a plan in place for how you’ll satisfy your users’ demand for simple, aesthetically pleasing sites. Not only is design a significant component of your overall brand message, but it also plays an important role in pushing users through your conversion funnel. While every blog differs in terms of specific goals and outcomes, the following Joomla blog design tips should provide universal value.

1. Cleanup the Sidebar

Have you ever visited a blog with an overly crowded sidebar? It’s intimidating and overwhelming. Sidebars are meant to add value and convenience to your blog, not distract and confuse. Unfortunately, many bloggers don’t know the difference.

Some of the more common sidebar mistakes involve long blog rolls, referencing a long list of tags and keywords, having too many drop down menus, and having a sidebar that’s longer than the actual content.

Sidebars serve a purpose, but they need to be streamlined. The Nutrition Secrets blog is a great example. The sidebar has an opt in box, search bar, brief author section, handful of popular posts, list of recent posts, and a couple social icons. And while that may sound like a lot for a sidebar, it’s displayed in a very simple manner with no distractions.

2. Gently Encourage Users to Sign Up

The second thing to think about is the opt in box. Just as in the Nutrition Secrets example, you also need to consider having a sidebar section that allows users to provide their email address in return for regular offers or updates. This is one of the keys to developing a successful blog. It allows you to build an email list, which can then be leveraged to accomplish much bigger goals. It’s best to place it near the top of the sidebar.

3. Select a Clean and Simple Color Scheme

Your blog’s color scheme is obviously very important. Whereas the wrong color scheme can distract users and turn them away from your blog, the right color scheme can keep them engaged and immersed in your content.

The Help Scout blog is a strong example. The blog has a very clean and simple color scheme with a predominantly white background mixed with bright color pops in the form of congruent rectangles and shapes. While the bright colors grab the user’s attention, it’s the white background that adds consistency and stability.

4. Ensure You’re Using Headers

One of the things bloggers often forget to use is headers. Headers exist for a reason and should be used in every single post. They help break up large sections of text and provide guidance and direction for the eyes. Headers follow a systematic order, starting with the largest (Heading 1) at the top and moving all the way down to smaller headings (Heading 3,4,5, etc.) as you get towards the end.

While quality content will keep users engaged, quality design is what attracts their attention and leaves a lasting impression. If you want to maximize the value of each visit to your blog, attention needs to be given to the latter. Keep the aforementioned tips in mind and do your best to create a simple and pleasing design that adds to your blog’s overall message.

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Joomla E-commerce why use it?

So why Joomla should be your CMS of choice

Joomla is the middle ground between WordPress and Drupal. It isn't as complex as Drupal but it has the awesome ability to manage complex functionalities for an eCommerce website, besides offering must-have features for a website out-of-the-box. Here are the five solid reasons why you should choose Joomla for your e-Commerce website.

Enhanced Security

Joomla has built-in secure layers that make your eCommerce website invulnerable to security threats. Starting from the CSRF protection to preventing other known vulnerabilities, Joomla excels. Apart from this you also have extensions that help you boost website security. These extensions allow you to add an additional security barrier in the form of captchas, protection from SQL injections, XSS attacks and more. Since e-Commerce websites deal with sensitive customer information day in and day out, these features come in handy to ensure safe transactions on your website.

Fabulous built-in features

This is Joomla's selling point. It's vast range of features that  allow you to do almost anything with your store. A fine-grained access control lists allow you to manage different user (customer) groups with ease. You can sell to a retailer and a wholesale merchant all on the same website. Powerful content management with the built-in meta management gives you a greater SEO advantage. You don't have to rely on external plugins as Joomla itself offers you a great publishing platform.

Multilingual Capabilities

Another big plus is the multi-lingual capability. In the globalised economy, businesses are targeting customers worldwide. You can build a multi-lingual online store easily when compared to other CMS platforms. You can also host websites in any kind of language thanks to its multilingual support. The features are limitless.

Thousands of Third Party Extensions

Want to add a membership feature to your website ? No problem.  Need to accept donations ? Yes. You can. Need to sell tickets and taking bookings for your events? You have got it. The CMS has more than 8000+ plugins to extend the functionality of your website. The best of all, many of the extensions are free and well-supported. Developers, out there are constantly bringing in new plugins and modules that can make running an e-Commerce website smooth and hassle free.

Another thing to love about Joomla is the fantastic array of templates available in the market. And you have them designed for every kind of e-Commerce possible. The best part is not all of them have to be paid for. There are a great number of fantastic free templates if you have budget constraints.

A responsive, friendly community

Along the way building your website, you need help. With Joomla, you can get it easily.  The Joomla community is vibrant,responsive and you can accelerate your learning curve smoothly.You have a lot of experts on the forums who provide helpful advice, hacks, and solutions to newcomers on how to set up their eCommerce on Joomla. The community is quite large and you can receive a lot of help for Joomla related queries.

Start building your e-Commerce website with the most-loved CMS in the world.

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What is Joomla!

Joomla! is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) for publishing web content. Over the years Joomla! has won several awards. It is built on a model–view–controller web application framework that can be used independently of the CMS that allows you to build powerful online applications.

Joomla! is one of the most popular website softwares, thanks to its global community of developers and volunteers, who make sure the platform is user friendly, extendable, multilingual, accessible, responsive, search engine optimized and so much more.

What's a content management system (CMS)?

The definition of a CMS is an application (web-based), that provides capabilities for multiple users with different permission levels to manage (all or a section of) content, data or information of a website project, or intranet application. Managing content refers to creating, editing, archiving, publishing, collaborating on, reporting, distributing website content, data and information.

Joomla! in the real (online) world

Joomla! is used all over the world to power millions of websites of all shapes and sizes. Discover examples of companies using Joomla! in the official Joomla! Showcase Directory.

Joomla! can be used for:

Corporate websites or portals, intranets and extranets

Small business websites

Online magazines, newspapers, and publications

E-commerce and online reservations

Government, non-profit and organisational websites

Community-based, school and church websites or portals

Personal or family homepages ...

Being a web agency, how can Joomla! help me?

If you’re an agency who develops websites for your customers, Joomla! is the perfect tool for you (have a look at our benefits and features). Designed to be easy to install and set up, even if you're not an advanced user. With a short learning curve (we provide free video training as well) you’ll be able to quickly build sites for your clients. Then, with a minimal amount of instruction, you can empower your clients to easily manage their own sites themselves. If your clients need specialised functionality, Joomla! is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free under the GPL license) are available in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

As a developer, can I use Joomla! in a more advanced way?

Some companies and organisations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the Joomla! Core package. In those cases, Joomla's powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla into virtually unlimited directions.

The core Joomla! Framework enables developers to quickly and easily build:

Inventory control systems

Data reporting tools

Application bridges

Custom product catalogs

Integrated e-commerce systems

Complex business directories

Reservation systems

Communication tools

Since Joomla! is based on PHP and MySQL, you're building powerful applications on an open platform anyone can use, share, and support. To find out more information on leveraging the Joomla! Framework, visit the Joomla! Framework site.

Joomla! seems the right solution for me. How do I get started?

Joomla! is free, open, and available to anyone under the GPL license. Read Getting Started with Joomla! to find out the basics.

If you're ready to install Joomla! by yourself:

Download the latest version of Joomla! You can find it on the Joomla! Downloads Portal, you'll be up and running in no time. And if you need any help, visit our official forums and documentation. You can also watch our training videos. Download Joomla! now >>

Joomla! provides also two other ways to get started without having to install it:

Free website on Joomla.com This is the easiest way to start your first Joomla! website immediately. You can launch a totally free website in seconds and start publishing your content online immediately. Try the Joomla.com service now >>

Self-hosted Joomla! website You can also start a Joomla! website on a web hosting account. Most hosts provide a Joomla! auto-installer or you can download Joomla! and install it yourself. On a self-hosted Joomla! website you can extend the core Joomla! functionalities with third-party extensions and templates and built anything from a simple website to a complex system. You can test the self-hosted Joomla! experience through the 90-day free Joomla! demo. Try a self-hosted Joomla! now >>

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Joomla Core Features List

Here are some of the Joomla! features you will love.

Multilingual: Offering over 70 languages.

Search Engine Optimisation: Out of the box SEO & SEF.

Flexible: Make a blog, business website, intranet, community website… From the simplest to the most complex website.

Free forever: Joomla! is free to use under GPL.

Extendable: Over 7,500 extensions are available to extend your website and broaden its functionality.

User Management (ACL): ACL stands for Access Control List, it allows you to manage the users of your site, and different groups.

Menu management: Create as many menus and menu items as you need.

Cache management: Speed up your website with caching.

Awesome design features

Template override: Achieve superior custom designs.

Jlayouts: Allows you to render HTML from objects/arrays of data.

Template assignment : Assign specific templates to specific pages.

Responsive : Joomla! uses Bootstrap for perfect responsive designs.

Do more with Less: Joomla! features LESS CSS.

Template frameworks: Use external template frameworks or template clubs.

Create your own: You’re able to create your own template. The only limit is your imagination.

Content editing & publishing made easy

Publishing tools: Choose when articles are published.

WYSIWYG editor: Edit content without any knowledge of code.

Content versioning: You will never again lose a previous important version of your article and other changes on your site.

Article management: Add, manage and organize your articles.

Frontend editing: Edit your content while browsing your site.

Editor buttons: Add extra functions to your content in 1 click.

Drag & Drop image: Adding an image is as easy as dragging and dropping it from your computer directly into the content. This works anywhere that you are using the default TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor.

Media manager: A tool to upload and maintain images and other files.

Categories: Be able to create categories with nesting and no limits on depth.

Great Core functionalities

Redirect: Easily redirect URLs when needed.

Banners: Monetise your website by adding banners or ads.

Contacts: Add several contacts, departments and contact forms.

Tags: When categorisation is not enough to structure your content.

Syndication: Create a RSS feed from your content.

News feed: Show an external news feed on your website.

Custom fields : 15 different field types to add to articles, users, and contacts.

Search: Visitors will be able to quickly and easily find the appropriate information.

Messaging: Sent messages in between administrators.

CMS Management made easy

Easy core update: Keep your Joomla! up to date with 1 click.

Easy extensions update: Keep your extensions up to date easy and fast.

Install from web: Install extensions without leaving your backend.

User registration: Allow visitors to register and gain access to additional resources.

Global and professional support

Extended documentation: A complete wiki about Joomla!

Integrated help system: Joomla! has an in-app contextual help system.

Helpful forum: Our worldwide community of world class developers and business consultants actively help at no cost.

Professional service providers: Who can help build & maintain your Joomla! project.

Take Joomla! to the next level as developer

Extended developer documentation: All you need to know to start extending Joomla!

Microdata library implementation : Incorporate microdata more easily into your extensions and sites.

PHP 7 support : We prefer PHP 7 to run on.

Secure Coding guidelines : Best practice for coding in Joomla!

MVC : Joomla makes extensive use of the Model-View-Controller design pattern.

Extend further with the Framework : Create both web and command line applications.

Routing system: New and more flexible interface to handle creating and processing URLs

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New Joomla Designs

We have added some new Joomla designs at the themes marketplace website which are available to download today. Each new Joomla design included at the themes marketplace has been hand crafted to the highest standards to help you create stunning website for your business.

https://www.themesmarketplace.net/product-category/joomla-templates/

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Joomla 3.8 is Ready For You To Download

The Joomla! Project is proud to announce the release of Joomla! 3.8, the latest in the Joomla! 3 series. 

The new release features over 300 improvements to the popular CMS, with two primary major features aimed at developers: the new routing system and the beginning of a forward compatibility layer with Joomla! 4.0. Additionally, two security issues have been resolved.

So what’s is new in Joomla! 3.8?

New Routing System - The new routing system gives users more control over their URL structure, including the often requested ability to remove IDs from URLs

Joomla! 4 Compatibility Layer - The development of Joomla! 4 has made some changes in how the core code is structured by migrating classes to use PHP namespaces. Joomla! 3.8 includes a mapping layer to allow developers to use the older class names while being able to take advantage of the new class name structure.

Improved Sample Data Installation - It is now possible to install sample data within your site backend after finishing the installation process, allows users to create their own generic data sets or extension developers to provide easy-to-install sample data for their extensions

Sodium Encryption Support - PHP 7.2 introduces the new sodium extension for processing encrypted data, through a polyfill of this library Joomla! 3.8 makes this new API available for all of our users even before they upgrade to PHP 7.2

Visit the Joomla! 3.8 site to learn more about this release.

Security Issues Fixed

Core - Information Disclosure in LDAP Authentication Plugin (affecting Joomla 1.5.0 - 3.7.5) More information »

Core - Information Disclosure in com_content Archived Articles Model (affecting Joomla 3.7.0 - 3.7.5) More information »

https://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5713-joomla-3-8-0-release.html

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Joomla shop Templates

Looking for Joomla shop templates for Virtuemart or J2store ? We have a wide collection of the best shopping cart templates for Joomla which are great for build a professional store and selling products online.

https://themesmarketplace.net/vendors/virtuemart-templates/

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New Responsive Joomla templates added to the themes marketplace

We have added some new responsive Joomla templates to the themes marketplace which are great for building a mobile friendly website for your business. To view all the new templates we have for the latest version of Joomla! visit us today https://themesmarketplace.net/product-category/joomla-templates/

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Joomla Services Marketplace

Running a Joomla! website and balancing the day to day tasks of running a business can really challenging for business owners. https://www.joomlamarketplace.online offers professional Joomla services provided by the best Joomla designers and developers on the internet which you can trust to help you create an amazing website for your business. The Joomla services marketplace also offers a wide range of other services including Custom Joomla templates, website updates, website security and website speed optimization and so much more at really great value for money.

At the Joomla marketplace website we understand business owners don’t have the time, skills or knowledge to build websites this is why the marketplace is the ideal solution as it acts as one stop shop to hire the best Joomla experts to help you build a stunning website.

To find out more visit the Joomla marketplace website today to hire a professional designer or developer to build your dream website

https://www.joomlamarketplace.online/