The past month has been a big one for our e-commerce website developers, as we have released three new templates made just for them. Fresa, Mercado and SimpleShop Remix are all available for you to check out and use for your projects, but in case you need a little more incentive to give them a shot, we're cutting off 40% of their cost!

All three of them work with Tienda and Virtuemart to provide quick ecommerce solutions. On top of that, Fresa and Mercado also work with K2 (our favorite CMS-within-a-CMS). Simply use the coupon code "COMMERCE" from this page and you'll get 40% off of all three.

Need a quick refresher on what these three templates can be used for? Here you go:

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?

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?

This is our second article on building a mobile friendly Joomla website using two of our releases, the Template By Browser Plugin and MobilePraise Template. You can read Part 1, an introduction to why and how you can building mobile friendly Joomla websites for iPhone, Android, Palm and other mobile browsers here.

In this article I go over some tips on how to customize the MobilePraise Joomla template to be even more mobile friendly than the default configuration allows.

Making The Template Yours

When you finally have your copy of the MobilePraise template installed on your website (and the Template By Browser plugin is enabled and configured to display the template on mobile devices), you'll want to do a few things to completely own the structure of the template and make it unique to your website's purpose.

The mobile web has been a big topic of conversation for people over the last year. Everyone wants their Joomla site optimized for the iPhone, Android and other mobile devices and operating systems. New smartphones are being released every few hours, it seems, and people are quickly finding the need to build mobile friendly websites. Unfortunately, building a mobile website using Joomla has been difficult, at best. So we've decided to make it simpler.

You've already been introduced to the Mobile Template and the Template By Browser Plugin that we released a few days ago. But have you seen how easy it is to build a mobile friendly site with them? Over the next couple of days I'm going to be sharing some tips with you on converting your own website to becoming more mobile compatible using our MobilePraise Template, the Template By Browser Plugin, and , of course, the Joomla! Content Management System.

When you need a website that communicates who you are, what you do and where you can be found online, you need too use our new Starlite Joomla Template to get you started. This template is out of this world, and once you start using it you'll feel pretty lucky, indeed.

With Starlite, we took two of our past design ideas and put them together; transparent content areas for quickly modifying the entire feel of the site with a custom background image, and social media icons placed where your visitors can see them and fixed so they can access them quickly.

Why is a custom feel so important?

The Joomla Community has been hard at work making structural changes over the last few weeks, and the latest (and fastest) addition is the Joomla Ideas Forum. While there isn't too much activity going on yet (it's still very new), we believe this is going to be a great way to bring hundreds of excellent ideas from Joomla users to one place, and to actually get them done!

When you need a website that sends a powerful message to visitors, you need Amped to get you started in the right direction. Our latest Joomla template is unique with its bold approach and strong styling, but it will be perfect for those that want to give it a try. In some ways, it is exactly opposite of our latest template, Pigment, which drew upon the soft look of water colors and teachings of Bob Ross to make it a unique contender in the Joomla community.

As the sun comes out and the birds start singing, we decided to make the web our painter's canvas with a work of art we call Pigment; the first template released for the month of April, and the first water color template for Joomla (correct us if we're wrong).

Not only is this theme obviously different than other themes on the market, we believe that the unique look fits a niche that is not often considered by template clubs. For artists, galleries, students, bloggers and people that just want a different looking website, Pigment will work great for you.

It should come as no surprise that we love K2. What with several of our latest templates developed with K2 in mind, you should already be getting used to this excellent extension for managing your Joomla Content. Our love for it continues though, with a new template designed to make creating a Joomla Magazine site quick and easy. Mag, our latest creation, is a template that we believe will fit perfectly into your magazine website needs, but it's not just because it looks good, either.

No, when we were building this template we had a few key points in mind: