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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.

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.

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.

Jtop10 is one of our free extensions that displays the 10 most viewed articles for several categories.  We've just updated it so that you can now choose to display the hits per article and also display these hits in awesome CSS bar charts!

... for Google Analytics Tracking. Modern marketing demands a social media presence and there are many companies who do a good job of engaging their customers in conversation on sites such as facebook and twitter.  However, there are times when you may wish to move this conversation to your own site by getting your fans or followers to click on links. 

You can track the number of people who click on your links by using a URL shortener but what happens if you wish to track conversions from these social media campaigns? This question led us to the discovery of an article by Hendry Lee that explains how Google's URL Builder can be used for this exact purpose.  Check it out for the technical details or just follow the instructions below so that you can begin to measure social media marketing effectiveness more accurately today!

...except Internet Explorer. :-p In a three hour long session, you can learn the necessary skills to create a professional Joomla! template. This unique opportunity is offered by Daniel from Compojoom in a one time 20 seat Webinar via DimDim .

We have just released an update for JsIFR3!
The new version offers two new options in the plugin configuration:
- Added an option to improve the clickability of links
- Added an option to define a line height inside the sIFR elements

We have just released a new version of J2top!
This update addresses a bug that appeared in combination with sh404SEF. When both extensions were activated on a site it happened that the page didn't scroll up properly but refreshed instead.

It is a good day for Joomailer subscribers that have patiently been waiting for the new version. K2 support and the new authentication system are the major features of this release, but read on to find out more.

We have just released a new version of the Excel Uploader for Joomla!. The new update includes the following changes:
- component is now in MVC form.
- the configuration screen has now been changed