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Written by Kshipra Singh
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
Packt Publishing has today launched a new series of Beginner’s Guide books designed to make open source tools and other advanced software accessible and usable for Beginners.
“There are thousands of tremendous software tools out there,” says series editor David Barnes. “The way they are designed, built and documented means they can often feel like they are created by experts, for experts. Newcomers often don’t know what the software can even do, let alone how to do it.”
Packt Beginner’s Guides aim to overcome this problem. They teach newcomers a technology by presenting realistic, useful examples with clear step-by-step instructions.
Packt has already announced two Beginner’s Guides on their web site: Moodle Course Conversion, due out next week, and WordPress Plugin Development, due out in January.
“If you’re trying to teach a new application to somebody sitting next to you, you won’t just give them loads of facts about it” Barnes continued “Instead you’ll guide them through some simple, useful operations before explaining them and then gradually moving on to more complex tasks. Beginner’s Guides work like this. They feel more like a hands-on ‘lab’ than a lecture” he concluded.
Beginner’s Guides are especially suitable for tools that aren’t completely geeky, and aren’t completely mainstream either. Tools such as Moodle, WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal all suit this kind of ‘learn by doing’ approach.
Beginner’s Guides take Packt’s approach a step further by providing friendly step-by-step books on topics and tools that are just starting to be adopted by mainstream users. Not long ago, if you used a computer for anything more than typing a letter, sending email and using Google you were considered an expert. But now anybody can use a computer in a wide range of creative and interesting ways –from building web sites to making videos and music. The need for friendly Beginner’s Guides on a wide range of topics and tools is greater than ever.
Packt is looking for authors to write books in the Beginner’s Guide series. “A good Beginner’s Guide author thinks like a teacher,” says David. “They need to be well versed and comfortable with the topic, so that while writing they can focus their attention on leading the reader into the topic area. We have plenty of editorial resources, templates, and guidelines that will help authors do just that.”
If you are well versed with the technology you want to write a book on and are keen to train new comers, you fit the bill. Good English skills are also a big help of course! If you are interested in writing these Beginner’s Guides please approach Packt at
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with the subject you want to cover, or some information on your areas of expertise.
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Written by Reza Farshbaf
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
Joomla CSS Guide is happy to announce the release of their new joomla 1.5 template called JCSS Bizz. JCSS Bizz with its clean and simple layout and corporate color scheme is a great template for business and consulting related websites and blogs.
JCSS Bizz includes 14 module positions with 8 different module styles. Suckerfish drop down menu is also implemented in the template.
JCSS Bizz Template Features
Clean, simple and fast loading template
Joomla 1.5 Native
100% table-less layout
14 module placement positions (Fully Collapsible)
Integrated Image Slideshow module
8 Different module styles
Suckerfish dropdown menu
Included print stylesheet
Valid XHTML and CSS markup
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Written by Alecfyz
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Tuesday, 09 September 2008 |
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Template ColorFall for Joomla! 1.5.x. from Anch [Gorsk.net Studio]
Three-column template with switchable middle column (when there are no modules in the positions of TOP, USER1 or USER2) can be fixed by width, and "rubber", ie 100% by the width. The color and width parameters are configured on the admin`s back-end of template.
Template presented in seven variations of color: blue, red, olive-green, orange, magenta, cyan and grayscale. The width and color pattern set in the options.
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Written by Reza Farshbaf
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
Joomla CSS Guide is happy to announce the release of their new Joomla template called JCSS Wedding. This lightweight, web2-style template is a perfect choice for wedding salons, personal sites for wedding couples, bridal shops, online wedding shops, etc.
JCSS Wedding comes with 6 elegant module styles and 14 collapsible module positions.
JCSS Wedding Template Features
- Web2 style glossy design
- Joomla 1.5 Native
- 100% table-less layout
- 14 module placement positions (Fully Collapsible)
- Collapsible 3 column structure
- 6 Different module styles
- Valid XHTML and CSS markup
JCSS Wedding Demo
JCSS Wedding Specifications
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Written by Neil Maycock
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Monday, 07 July 2008 |
Webformatique have now launched there Car Manager software for Mambo. While it has been available on Joomla for a while, recent tests show it is fully compatible with the latest version of Mambo.
With Car Manager you can manage fleets online with its unique 1-2-3 booking system.
for more information please see Fleet Management Software
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Written by Reza Farshbaf
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
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Grunge Joomla Template (1.0.x & 1.5.x) by JoomlaCSSGuide
Joomla CSS Guide is pleased to announce the release of their new Joomla template called JCSS Grunge. This template goes in the opposite direction of those web2ee glossy buttons and colorful reflections and gives your websites a stunning old fashioned dirty look and feeling.
JCSS Grunge supports Joomla 1.0.x and Joomla 1.5 native mode and comes with 3 artistic module styles and 10 collapsible module positions.
JCSS Grunge Template Features
Artistic old-fashioned layout
Joomla 1.0+ compatible
Joomla 1.5 Native
Pure table-less layout
10 module placement positions (Fully Collapsible)
Collapsible 3 column structure
3 Different module styles
JCSS Grunge Demo
JCSS Grunge Specifications
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Written by Mjeshter Kotelja
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
Smart smiles is a template released by veero.net
It is a fixed width,centered template that comes with all source files. It is ideal for communication, marketing or consulting companies.
Demo here
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Written by RvA
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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Renevanasten.net released a new component for the CMS system: Joomla!
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Written by Themesclub.com
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Tuesday, 29 April 2008 |
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Themesclub.com is proud to announce the release of beautiful, elegant and flexible table-less CSS driven template called "Temitope15" for Joomla 1.5.x version. This theme is a great choice if you're looking for a business theme, really flexible and with many features included.
Some of the features are listed here:
 Templates Features:
- 100% CSS based
- Very lightweight and fast loading
- Optimized for search engines
- Joomla 1.5 compatible
- Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and valid CSS
- Collapsible module positions.
- Flexible layout with various module placement positions
- More than 5 module positions available on this template.
- Compatible with FireFox, IE 6 and 7, Opera, Safari and Netscape 8.1.
- Matching Joomla 1.0, and Wordpress Version Available
- light color scheme available
To download your copy today just visit Themesclub.com and download your copy if you are a member of our themes club
Demo the various version here.
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