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Have you already voted for the best web design trends for 2010? If not, you can still do it by commenting the post published at Blog.TemplateMonser.com. The above mentioned post, as well as the voting itself, has inspired us to learn what web design trends are common for Joomla websites. Basically, we’ve discovered the list of web design trends which are on the top this year and tried to find the websites that actually follow these trends.

This way we could see if the web design trends we vote for are really that popular in modern web design, and particularly in Joomla web design. So, we’ve checked a few web design galleries which showcase Joomla-powered websites and the results of our search are the following: a lot of Joomla websites keep up with the latest web design trends. To prove this we provide these images.

Note: each image comes with the name of the website it belongs to and the trend this website follows.

Dotcominfoway.com (Slideshows)

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Usually our articles are aimed at those whose websites are powered by Joomla but today we’d like to share the news which is equally important to all web designers and webmasters.

The official blog of Template Monster, the world’s largest website templates provider, needs your vote for the best web design trends for 2010.

You can either cast your vote for the trends mentioned below or suggest other trends which could be awarded this year’s best web design trends, according to your opinion.

1. More Whitespace
2. Change of Perspective
3. Multi-Column Layouts
4. Out-of-the-Box Layouts
5. Oversized Headers
6. Elements Transparency
7. Slideshows
8. Hand-drawn Designs
9. Huge Typography
10. One-page Layouts
11. Minimalism
12. Huge Images
13. “Speaking” Navigation
14. Oversized Footers

Do you agree that these are the most essential web design trends which will continue to be popular in 2010 or do you think Template Monster Team has missed something out?

Your point of view is more than welcome and your comment will be published on the official blog of Template Monster. Therefore, your thoughts will be read by web designers from all over the world.

Would you like to be an active member of the Joomla Community? It’s really easy to help Joomla grow! All you have to do is choose what kinds of activities you’d like to be involved in.

• First of all you can enter the Joomla forum and start sharing your experience with others as well as getting helpful advices from the other members of the forum.
• Secondly you may open an account with the documentation wiki and get involved into the documentation forum
• In case your native language is not English you may help the Joomla community by translating the Joomla documentation and articles.
• If you are well in Joomla website development and coding you may find it useful to check out the Development Mailing Lists and the developer site.
• The issue trackers for Joomla! can be found on Joomlacode.org.
• Also, you are always welcome to attend any Joomla! event or even organize one.
• And the last but not the least you can start a new Joomla! User Group or join the one that already exists.

As you can see you have so many options to help Joomla grow! Just join the Joomla Community
and be a part of Joomla’s success!

No doubt children would love a new toy or sweets, but the problem is these objects are not lasting. And what if you build a website for your children? Don’t you agree they would be impressed to see their pictures online, or even read about their hobbies and peculiarities?

Luckily this is a very easy to create a Joomla website that children would enjoy. All you need is an open source Joomla platform and attractive Joomla Templates. While Joomla is free to download we’ve decided to focus on Joomla Templates which come with the images of children (note, the images can be easily replaced by the images of your children!).

Each of these Joomla Templates could be used for a personal website or a family website. After all your children are wonderful enough to tell the whole world about them, isn’t it?

Free Joomla Template

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Blue is the most popular color in web design whether it comes to personal blogs or corporate web pages. First of all blue color scheme evokes positive emotions, also it’s very easy to work with.

Blue is the color of the sky and the sea. It is often associated with health, freedom, inspiration, stability, cleanliness and calmness. Blue symbolizes sincerity, trust, wisdom, confidence, faith, and heaven.

It seems blue will never go out of fashion. With this in mind we suggest you to browse 10 Blue Joomla Websites and enjoy their sophisticated appearance. Also, it’s your chance to make sure that Joomla websites designed in blue look clean and professional.

Update: a new showcase of Blue Joomla Sites is available.

Note even Joomla.org enjoys blue website!

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The Holiday Season is over but it was so special, don’t you agree? We all have visited our friends and families and could share the holidays with them. Also, there are high chances you’ve been to many cafes, restaurants or pizzerias. If not, you’ve surely tried something tasty these days.
By featuring Yummy Joomla Templates we want to remind you of all the places you’ve been and all the dishes you’ve tried.

Also, you may find it interesting to see Restaurant Joomla Templates.

Premim Joomla Template

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