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Hey Everyone!

Sorry for the lack of communication lately. We wanted to give you a quick update about the exciting new developments coming soon at JoomlaPraise.com.

Many of you saw the announcement we posted on our home page recently about re-launching JoomlaPraise. We’re getting some things in place now and the site is coming along nicely. We are currently working on:

* Creating brand new Joomla 1.7 templates for you
* Updating existing templates to Joomla 1.7

MobilePraise, the JoomlaPraise iPhone template for Joomla, is growing up and moving out into its own digs.

Just as AdminPraise & Projectfork did in the past, MobilePraise has outgrown its JoomlaPraise birthplace. MobilePraise will get its own site, a new name, and a new big brother on the iPad!

Enter: TapTheme Mobile Joomla Templates

For our final template this Ecommerce Month we found ourselves looking back on a previous ecommerce template we did. Simpleshop stuck out like a sore thumb. It supported a cart component called Foxxycart. We felt that there could be vast improvements to what we had already created. So essentially we made a remix of a remix or a re-remix. However you want to call it we feel like it's a vast improvement on a previous design.

SimpleShop Remix is overall better. We included CSS for both Virtuemart and Tienda components. SimpleShop comes with 4 themes to start with along with a built in CSS dropdown menu.

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Fresa is our second effort at producing great ecommerce templates that are easy to use and simplistic in design. This template comes with styles for 3 major components: VirtueMart, Tienda and K2. It's packed with 8 starting themes, 33 flexible module positions, 4 module styles, 4 button styles and 3 Google API fonts.

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We've all heard the phrase a hundred thousand times, 'KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid'. Looking at our templates and extensions, you might think this is the phrase that we live and breathe on a daily basis. We always talk about how our templates are Simple, Clean, Easy to use and Flexible. But why do all of those things matter to us so much?

More importantly; Why should they matter to you?

Mercado is our first major entry into Joomla Ecommerce Templates. This template comes w/unique styles for 3 big components: VirtueMart, Tienda and K2. It's packed with 5 beautiful themes, 34 flexible module positions, 10 ribbon module styles, 10 button styles, and 5 slick ribbon banner styles. A CSS dropdown menu is built-in and our new TiendaSlides module (jQuery Tienda product slider) is included as well, whew! We'll go into more detail with screenshots after the break.

[Product Info] [Demo] [Download Now!] 

Warning: This article begins with a short rant.

Last week I started off with an topic for this article that I really thought was going to be awesome; to find 10 of the best Free Joomla Templates out there and tell you why I think they're awesome. I searched high and low, from BestOfJoomla.com to the Joomla Resources Directory, and you know what? I could hardly even find five to make the list (see after the break for the list).

Obviously, I'm not counting the 8 free Joomla templates that we've built for you over the last few years (we have more free templates for Joomla 1.5 than any other club, dontcha know), but even with cutting our own massive collection out you'd think there would be plenty of other great free templates to choose from, right?

With the 4th beta of Joomla 1.6 just released, many folks are probably wanting to know what it will take to get their Joomla 1.5 template working in Joomla 1.6. As a test, we've migrated our Genesis (free) template to 1.6 and made a few notes.

Rounding out our JomSocial 1.8 template updates is Fanboy, our most recent JomSocial Joomla template. Checkout the updated live Fanboy demo to see it in action.

This is our third and final Joomla template update for JomSocial 1.8. We've also updated CommunityPraise and SocialPraise.

While I've been knocking these JomSocial updates out, Gary's been hard at working on our upcoming Tienda / VirtueMart Template. More on that soon!