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Check our special J! and Beyond 2012 page for info, articles, tweets and more about J&B 2012. Next Thursday the 3rd edition of J & Beyond will kick off in Bad Nauheim. The event will start with a pre-event party on Thursday, followed by three days of presentations and fun on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The … Read more

Last weekend the Dutch Joomla!Days were held. We have already published a recap of the 1st day, but I had yet to find time to write up a nice story about the second day. What seemed like an important theme of this second day was the future of Joomla. Where are we heading? What is being worked on? How can you help to get … Read more

Last weekend the Joomla!Days Netherlands 2012 was held. You can read more about the events of day 1 in the our recap or view the infographic we've created about the history of the Dutch Joomla!Days. The ThemePartner team has also given several presentations at the Dutch Joomla!Days. You can view them below. If you want to see … Read more

[update 10AM day 2: added the report of the post-event zombie darts to the recap, check it out!] [It's 1:30AM as I'm typing this message before putting this blog live. Thank god for having live blogged most of the content during the presentation, because currently I just want to go to sleep (after just having rode my bicycle … Read more

At April 22th in 2006 the first officially documented Joomla!Day was organized in The Netherlands. The phenomenon quickly spread across the globe, leading up to 29 officially documented Joomla!Days worldwide in 2011 and at this moment 13 planned (or already organized) Joomla!Days in 2012. The Netherlands still has the lead in … Read more

Next Friday the 7th edition of the Dutch Joomla!Days will kick off in Zeist. The event will start with a Meet & Greet on Friday, followed by two days of presentations and fun on Saturday and Sunday. The ThemePartner team will be giving 3 presentations at the event: CSS3 - Robin Poort First off will be the presentation … Read more

It's almost Easter! To celebrate this event, we've created a special promotion. No need to look for any colored eggs to eat enormous amounts of chocolate, everyone is in on this promotion! The promotion is valid for all our Joomla! templates and will be applied immediately to your shopping cart after you click the link. A … Read more

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are a part of many large Joomla websites. Considering that many of the questions that are asked via a contact form are already answered before, one can choose to display these answers on their website. An easily accessible resource for these answers is called a FAQ page. Pros Less questions to … Read more

Internal search engines are being used more every day. A likely cause for this is that many software packages used to build websites (such as Joomla) have such a functionality built in. The search engines are used mainly "because it's easy" and not because it's a thoughtful decision of whether or not the functionality will add … Read more

It's almost St. Patrick's Day! To celebrate this event, we've created a special promotion. No need to wear a green wig or drink countless glasses of beer, everyone is in on this promotion! The promotion is valid for all our Joomla! templates and will be applied immediately to your shopping cart after you click the link. A … Read more

Link exchange is (as the name suggests) the exchanging of links. What this means is that somebody (website A) puts a link on his website pointing to somebody else (website B). In exchange, website B will also put a link on his website pointing to website A. Website A and website B have now exchanged … Read more

Many (if not all) of the world’s major brands are blogging these days. While the benefits of having a popular blog are plenty, keeping it up-to-date with articles relevant for your target audience can be time consuming and difficult. Image credits: Maria Reyes-McDavis Introduction Aside from the time investment required … Read more

We're getting a lot of support requests (and seeing a lot of topics at the Joomla forum) about a particular issue: after installing a template on Joomla 2.5.x, a message is shown that the installation was successful, the files are present in the file system, but the template isn't showing up in the Template Styles of the Joomla … Read more

Template clubs like RocketTheme, JoomlArt and YooTheme are pumping out at least one new template per month. JoomlaShack has recently even challenged itself to release 6 templates in as many weeks. Of course let’s not forget about sites like TemplateMonster that manage to launch dozens of new templates per week. Then lastly … Read more

First off I would like to say that I'm fully aware of the fact that Joomla isn't the software equivalent of a magical fairy land. Neither have I spotted any unicorns in the Joomla scene, nor do I recall seeing double rainbows in the source code. Nevertheless, both a lot has changed with regards to Joomla lately and a lot of the … Read more