The Joomla Team announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.18. This version inludes a security fix as well as a roll-back for the plugin auto disable feature, which was introduced in version 1.5.16 but did not satisfy the community at all.

There has recently been an uprising of enthusiastic Joomla! developers and users, such as Nicholas Dionysopoulos and parts of the ATAAW community, who aparently want to help the core developers and speed up the process to bring Joomla! 1.6 forward. The article received a provocative title, to hopefully raise some awareness about Joomla! and how you can help.

When it comes to populating your Joomla! site with contents, you won't find a match for the Content Uploader. Two noteable features have been added to the pro version. A new interface for uploading your web links as well as K2 support, which had been added to the prior release, now grace the list of features.

Joomailer, our Campaign Monitor integration for Joomla!, is moving ever closer towards the release candidate. In this upgrade we have implemented a few requested features. Joomailer 0.9.4 has received some cruicial changes, which will allow us to apply some exciting interface changes to the next version.

And it is tuesday again. Here comes a collection of brilliant sites with uncountable patterns and textures and some with communities behind them. A couple of them offer cool background generators, so let your imagination run wild. Enjoy these bookmarkable resources all in one place and feel free to share yours in the comments section below. Next time around we will post some really nice vector packs. Have a good week.

In the 4th part of our series we have put together a short list of some amazing icon collections. Some of these collections comprise of collections including hundreds of different icons. If you are looking for a quick and clean solution to find a nice standard set, you should check out Iconza. You can change the colors and sizes and download them for free. And if all those still aren't enough for your icon cravings you can browse the endless icon collections at Iconfinder, Iconfever, Iconspedia, Findicons and the bit old school Iconarchive. Have a great weekend!

The continuation of our series includes some stunning photoshop brushes with which you will be able to add those individual touches to the collections of textures we will have for you next time. All together over 3000 paintshop brushes assembled in 6 collections for your template and newsletter designing pleasure. It might take you some time to sift through all of those, but it will be well worth it.

When you are looking at designing a new site or logo or wallpaper or letterhead, you want to find a good font. So in addition to the list of font files you will find 3 really nicely assembled collections of free fonts by Vitaly Friedman.   I know there are many more, but these are good quality sites and should provide a good starting point to newcomers. Also check out http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ if you saw a font and want to find out what it was. Stay tuned for brushes, textures, patterns and more every tuesday and friday until we run out of topics. :) And then we will make up some more. Enjoy.

Welcome to our new site with a spankin' new interface. Even though the site itself appears to be more colorful, the structure has been kept simple and in parts made even easier to navigate. The general theme is simplicity.

Joomla is a great content management system and once you get to know about the structure of components, modules and plugins you can begin to create your own custom extensions.  However, online documentation is pretty sparse when it comes to this part - the most in-depth documentation usually only consists of how to create a 'Hello World' extension.

As a newcomer to the world of Joomla I found this lack of tutorials quite frustrating so I've decided to write my own.  The following instructions explain how to create a module from scratch that includes parameters, a third party library and a Google map chart.  Once finished we will have a module that displays visitor information on a map of the world using data grabbed from Google Analytics.  Hopefully this will shed some light on the topic for some of you.