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World Travel II is a responsive designed, image gallery based Joomla template from ThemeForest developer, Templaza. The template is an updated and improved version of a previous release, TZ Portfolio 2.5.12.

JUX Portfolio, from JoomlaUX, harnesses the power of jQuery to display images and video in a grid layout using the Masonry effect to provide a simple, yet elegant responsive gallery.

Sometimes, you just need a smile, quick web template to get you on your way with a professional site. Folio by JoomlaTemplates sets you up with a clean, easy to browse design right of of the box. Making excellent use of white space, this Joomla template is easy to set up and visually suggest a professional business at a glance.

Features of Folio Include:

• 50 Customizable Modules
• Modular Slider
• Flexible Template and Module Width
• 4 Unique Color Selections
• K2 Component Theme included

Folio is available from JoomlaPlates for a one time fee of 25 Euros. 

Blogs about food are one of the hottest things on the web right now. Eating it, cooking it, taking pictures of it, if you can put it in your mouth, people are blogging about it. To better help foodies and amateur chefs make the most of their time blogging about their culinary interests, YooTheme has released the Tasty Theme, a simple but effective way to provide an attractive display of whatever delicacy you're posting about without undermining what you actually write about it.

Tasty Theme features a design with an emphasis on image and quick navigation. The front page is perfect for blog-style posts in addition to providing a unique menu theme suited towards culinary bloggers. Tasty Theme Features:

• 3 Module Styles
• Responsive Design
• Smooth Image Scrolling
• A flexible theme with user controlled column widths
• A variety of colors and background themes.

A basic license from YooTheme provides Tasty Theme plus dozens of other high quality Joomla and WordPress designs for one domain name for €39.

You've learnt Joomla - now what?

Join me for a free webinar where I teach you the steps to planning a successful website. This has been designed for those who are about to build or rebuild their website. 

As mentioned in the Editor's Introduction of the publication, this latest issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine, which happens to be their biggest yet, is about getting "Back to Life" and looking forward to what's ahead.

Poznan, Poland will host the first Joomla! Day Poland on September 22nd and 23rd, 2012. "It’s an opportunity to share ideas, techniques and knowledge and to meet professionals and members of the Joomla! community," writes Gary Brooks on the Joomla! Community Portal website.

Popular Joomla Template and Extension provider RocketTheme has updated their widely used Gantry Framework to version 4, which now features "a responsive layout core, a rejuvenated administrative interface and optimized coding." Their latest template release, Fracture, takes advantage of Gantry4's new features.

Downtime can be a major problem for webmasters. Every minute a site is down means one fewer chance to grab a new visitor. Unfortunately, webmasters can't pay attention to their site's status 24/7,  especially if they're running a whole suite of sites. That's why services like Earlywarn are so great. By sending out text message alerts whenever a site's connectivity becomes spotty, site managers will never be caught unawares by long outages they never even noticed!

Anyone running a website should take into account the legal ramifications of earning money off of your visitors. Many countries require a website to provide anyone reading it with a full rundown of all the information they might be gathering. In fact, if you're running Google Adsense on your site and don't have a privacy policy available, you're technically within breach of contract. Creating a proper privacy policy can be a major hassle for many webmasters. There's a lot of "legalese" involved and failure to properly parse the language can lead to potential lawsuits.