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According to famous web design blog Smashing Magazine the web design trends for 2009 are:
one-page layouts, multi-column layouts, huge illustrations and vibrant graphics, a lot of white space and large search boxes, icons and visual clues, handwriting, retro and vintage, organic textures, etc. So, let’s speak about organic textures, mainly wooden textures.

Used as background images, wooden textures are quite popular on the web theses days.
Wooden texture gives a site a warm and natural feel.

In this post I’ll show you 6 Joomla Templates with beautiful wooden textures. You can use these templates to enhance your designs. Note some Joomla Templates listed below are free to download and others can be purchased at a fair price.

Free Joomla Template with a wooden texture

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The Joomla Project announced that Joomla 1.5.13 is now available and all Joomla users are invited to upgrade to this version.

Hopefully you remember that last month we’ve informed you of the Joomla 1.5.12. So, the Joomla team is always busy with providing frequent updates to the Joomla content management system.

The Joomla 1.5.13 is more reliable than the Joomla 1.5.12 and it contains a lot of bug fixes and security enhancements. To get a better understanding of what makes the Joomla 1.5.13 so special you can check the release notes.

Please visit Joomla.org to download the latest version of the Joomla CMS. You’ll also find the update instructions and technical requirements there. What is nice about Joomla is that you have a step by step guide whether you want to download this CMS for the first time or you want to switch from one version to the other.

Keep in mind you’d better always backup your site before upgrading.

If it happens that you find any bug with the Joomla CMS, please report it on the 1.5 Bug Tracker.

Would you like to start an educational website to promote your school, college or university? Do you believe the Joomla content management system is your key to successful website building? If so, it’s time to browse Education Joomla Templates.

The case is Education Joomla Templates are usually used to build the kind of websites you want to create. These templates are fully compatible with the Joomla CMS and they come with the design images you may need. By saying this I mean education related images, fonts and layout styles.

Below you’ll find Free Joomla Templates as well as Premium ones. All these templates are designed to be used on educational sites. So, you can check them all and see if any Education Joomla Template may suit your project.

Free Education Joomla Template

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Food and Drink Joomla Templates will give you a perfect chance to represent your cafe or restaurant to the widest audience. If you use a certain Food or Drink Joomla Template you can build an outstanding web site and make your business even more successful and profitable.

Luckily there are a lot of Food and Drink Joomla Templates available. Some of them are free to use, and others are available at a low price. In any case a price for a Joomla template can hardly be compared to a price you pay for a custom Joomla design.

Below you’ll find many Restaurant Joomla Templates to choose from. Be sure to find a perfect design for your coffee house, restaurant, pizzeria, etc.

Premium Joomla Template

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Businesses want to bring more visitors to their websites, and this is where SEO companies step in.

A good SEO company is the one that is listed at the top of search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc. Why? Because Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is about getting a website to the top of search engines. The better SEO company is, the higher its site is ranked and the more visitors it gets.

Since SEO companies provide services for different Internet businesses, it’s critical for them to have impressive websites. And here comes the question “What is a good SEO company web site?” It’s the one that

• has a professional design (a custom design or a Joomla Template for a SEO company)
• attracts potential clients
• informs site visitors about the services the SEO company offers
• helps customers contact the SEO company
• provides helpful SEO tips and therefore proves the company’s competence

Please take a look at the Joomla Templates for SEO companies. Each template is a great web design for a SEO company site.

Joomla Template for a SEO company #1

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Great news for the Joomla community: a new Joomla Websites Gallery has been recently launched. It’s named Best Joomla Design.

BestJoomlaDesign.com is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of beautifully designed Joomla websites. All Joomla websites are categorized for easy browsing. You can search the Joomla designs by category and by color.

The visitors may not only browse truly amazing Joomla designs but also vote for the best of them. The Joomla websites that receive the largest number of votes become the Top Rated Joomla Designs. Thus, BestJoomlaDesign.com is not only a Joomla Showcase site but also as a web designers community.

If you are looking for inspiration or want to showcase your Joomla Website, then BestJoomlaDesign.com is the right place to come.

By submitting your Joomla Design to the Joomla Websites Gallery you promote your site and also get a quality back link to improve your site ranking. In case your site is featured as a Top Rated Joomla Design you’ll get a special badge that you can place on your site. Thus, you’ll tell your visitors that your site was flagged as the Best Joomla design.

So, what are you waiting for? Get extra exposure to your Joomla website design!

Firstly, Happy upcoming Independence Day!

Secondly, let’s welcome the latest version of Joomla!

Yes, Joomla 1.5.12 is now available for download. Feel free to give it a try.

Please remember you can download a full package or an update package. Be sure to check the instructions on installing the Joomla CMS or switching from one version of Joomla to the other. Also you’d better backup your site before performing the upgrade.

If you are new to the Joomla, you can see the online demo of this content management system.
Keep in mind that the latest release of the Joomla content management system contains a lot of bug fixes and three moderate-level security fixes. From now on the code base is brought into the full compliance with the GPL.

Please read the Release Notes before upgrading to the latest version of the Joomla CMS. Thus your experience with Joomla 1.5.12 will be as valuable as possible.

The Independence Day is coming soon. With this in mind I’ve been looking for the Political Joomla Templates.

My search ended with 3 Political Joomla Templates listed below. Thus, I must admit that there are just a few Joomla Templates for political sites and blogs available.

Please take your time to see the Political Joomla Templates. Two of them can be downloaded for free and one of them is of a premium quality and is available at a fair price.

Free Political Joomla Template

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