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There are many slide show extensions available for Joomla, as the name of this offering from XML/SWF suggests. And as honest as the name sounds, they have also tried to separate from the pack by including a couple of interesting and less common features.
Minimal Skins, known for their very stripped down and basic Joomla templates has released another, even more minimal Joomla template this month. Developers are calling it, "A one-pager responsive minimalist joomla template. The easiest way to get a minimalist joomla template up and running."
Looking for a different HTML editor for your Joomla website? Now's your chance to get 30% off of the cost of JCK Editor. Although not as well known as some of the other editors available, JCK is gaining ground and becoming more popular.
A new service launched recently called Watchful.li, or simply Watchful, provides Joomla administrators with an easy solution to both monitoring and updating any number of Joomla installations through one dashboard portal. According to developers, "Watchful is an innovative, one-of-a-kind service that changes how you manage your portfolio of Joomla sites."
As part of what they are calling their Zen Building Blocks, Joomlabamboo has released five new clean and simple responsive Joomla templates for their club members. The new themes are meant to provide a fresh starting point for any web project.
Based on the Warp Framework, Simply is a clean, responsive Joomla template from ThemeForest developer, Webthemer. By integrating support for JomSocial, the template also provides an easy way to manage both clients and staff while allowing them all to interact with each other on your website.
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:
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:
A basic license from YooTheme provides Tasty Theme plus dozens of other high quality Joomla and WordPress designs for one domain name for €39.
