 What a month!
Lots of coding, lots of coffee...
It's been hectic but productive and we've got heaps to share with you very soon. Some exciting new projects are taking place and at the same time we are doing some serious fine tuning of our templates. Follow the JoomlaJunkie team on Twitter and get the news in real time! | Bring out your wishlist and make your voice heard!
You begged for a Joomla 1.5 version of Aurora and we heard you. Now it's time for the rest of the templates... but where do we start? Well, you decide.
 What would you like to see in our Joomla! templates? Maybe a new feature? Or would you like us to convert one of our new 1.5 templates to 1.0.x? Go on, break out your "10 things I want in a Joomla template" wish list, point your favourite browser to http://joomlajunkie.uservoice.com and get it off your chest!
No great idea to submit? Don't worry. Read through the list of existing suggestions and vote for your favourites or leave your comments. All feedback is good feedback.
| | | New template release: Zappa
Enough with the dirty, let's get shiny! Envious of all those trendy and hip Web 2.0 websites and templates out there? Make your site pop with a new and fresh look! Everybody knows what the Web 2.0 style is - this is our fun and bright take on it.
Zappa information | Zappa demo
The Web 2.0 look is all about color, so what joy would Zappa be without loads of color options to play with. Zappa comes included with a total of 30 colorful module suffix styles that can easily be mixed and matched to your liking:
- 6 Glossy color gradient headers
- 8 Candi color gradients headers
- 4 Icon headers
- 3 Alert headers
- 1 Beige gradient
- 8 Module background colors
Zappa gives you the ability to easily combine module suffixes. "Combine how?" you may ask. Easy! You simply set multiple styles for the module header and module background to create different effects. Check out Zappa's snapshot page to see how each of these styles look (as well as all the module suffixes in action). | | | Is your cool new JJ website user friendly?
Search Engine Optimized Copywriting There's more to a successful website than cool JoomlaJunkie templates. They're an important first step. People judge by first appearances but then they want to find what they're looking for quickly and easily.
How to hook your customers and then keep them
You need sales oriented SEO copy that engages both your customers and the search engines! And then you need to ensure that your site navigation makes it easy for your customers to find the information and products they're looking for.
Special offer for JoomlaJunkie members
To help you get the most from your cool JJ site The Copywriter Online has come up with a great special offer for October. You can have your homepage professionally written with crisp, sales oriented SEO copy plus a site review (10 pages max) that will tell you what works and what doesn't for only $250! That's great value. The average cost for such a service is $520. Get in quick as this offer is available to first 20 customers only. Visit the contact page and put "JJ site offer" in the subject field and then The Copywriter Online will contact you to discuss details. Simple!
| | | Prices are going up! But only in 5 days...
(Price increase Monday, 13 October) We have kept this decision back for a few months now as we have been trying our best to keep the prices as low as possible, but now we have decided to implement a small increase to our club membership prices (USD 10 per license).
We feel this is a very reasonable increase (and the first in 2 years!) and by signing up as a club member, there are much more benefits than with once off purchases. Not only do you have access to all our templates to use on your domain (number of domains specific to which club subscription you choose), but we are also working on a number of other great club only benefits that will be added over the next few months. CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CLUB NOW! |
What's going on at JoomlaJunkie HQ? | | | New members of the JoomlaJunkie team
JoomlaJunkie has grown in many ways and we're happy to welcome two new members to our team - James and Tess.
You will meet James in our forum where he will assist you with any questions you might have around our templates.
Tess will take care of all our emarketing and you will find her on Twitter as well as on all (social) emarketing accounts related to JoomlaJunkie (like UserVoice).
Get instant notification about template updates, new releases, interesting blog posts, tutorials and more. Click here to follow the JoomlaJunkie team on Twitter. | Earn money on the JoomlaJunkie forum
Do you know Joomla, xhtml, css, php and/or javascript?
JoomlaJunkie is looking for talented and skilled developers and coders (a mixture of Joomla, xhtml, css, php and javascript) to help out in our forum. We work very hard to offer speedy and helpful support to our club members and as we grow we need more people to maintain this.
If you fit this description and like to work with a cool team and make some extra money in your spare time, or more often if you like, then send us an email: jobs@joomlajunkie.com. Please attach a resume and summary of skills and why you feel you would like to work with us. There are only 2 positions open. |
| Joomla plugin available for MailChimp
 MailChimp honestly makes our email marketing fun and easy and one of the reasons is that they keep on developing new cool and powerful things around it (their plugin page just keeps growing). This Joomla! plugin will place a Subscribe box for your users to use. Allowing your users to sign up without refreshing the page with AJAX as well easy management for the site admin. Very simple to use. (thanks to generationsix!). Sign up for your own MailChimp account and get $30. | |
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