 TechPraise has just been released! Here are
some of the great features of this beautiful
template:
- 6 Themes
- Frontpage Slideshow Template
- Fireboard Styles
- Fb Latest Module Styles
- PraiseSlides Module Styles
- Font Family Selection
- Fluid Layout
- Custom Width
- Switch Sidebar Layout
- Endless Color Possibilities
- Native Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5.x Versions
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 We are extremely pleased to announce the arrival of the JoomlaPraise Menu System: PraiseMenu!
We've been putting in many hours to speed up the release, due to the amount of requests we've had, and we're very excited with the current status of PraiseMenu. Due to limited testing time and lack of styling options, the current status is Alpha, so test thoroughly before using on a production site!
Here are some of the great features of PraiseMenu:
- Include Javascript: Ability to turn off the Mootools Javascript if your template or another extension already uses it.
- Menu Name: Pick any Joomla Menu to use in PraiseMenu.
- Menu Alignment: Here is the core feature of PraiseMenu!
- Top Horizontal: The default traditional javascript dropdown menu
- All Vertical: The traditional vertical popout menu
- All Horizontal: Comparable to a dropline menu, but no extra space needed!
- Single Sub-Menu: This one's cool! Multiple nested submenus all group together in one dropdown! Previously used by Amazon and currently used on Yahoo's Developer site
- Sticky Menu: Ability to leave menu open even when you hover off
- Max Sub-Menus: Ability to limit the amount of sub-menus that drop down or pop out
- Sub-Menu Horizontal Alignment: Drop down items can either be aligned to the item they're dropping out of or the container!
- Enable Sub-Menu Size Effect: Sub-Menu items can animate out and in
- Enable Sub-Menu Fade Effect: Sub-Menu items can fade out and in
- Enable Link Fade Effect: Font can fade in on hover
- Transition Duration: Control the speed of the transition takes
- Timeout Duration: Control how long a menu stays open
Is that enough features? We hope so, but let us know if you can think of anything else!
The next major item we're working on will be the ability to easily change the styles of the menu. For now, if you're a CSS novice you'll be able to easily customize PraiseMenu.
Head on over and check it out!
Comment and let us know if you prefer this updated logo as well! |
 PraiseSlides has recently been updated to incude the following features:
- Auto-Play
- Auto-Play Time: Speed of Auto-Play
- Auto-Play From: Auto-Play from Last Clicked slide or Last Position
- Auto-Play Stop On Click: Ability to stop Auto-Play when clicked
- Navigation Position
- Left: Slide Navigation on Left
- Right Slide Navigation on Right
Head on over to the downloads section and try it out!
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 If you take a look around our site, you may notice some big improvements lately. We've been hard at work making improvements this month. We've recently upgraded servers, installed a secure cert for login, registration, user pages, and checkout, upgraded Dr. Joom from a simple contact form to the interactive NiceTalk component, and setup a totally integrated secure credit card subscription checkout process! Here's a rundown of the biggest benefits:
Credit Cart Payment Option
We still offer PayPal checkout, but this is cumbersome for those who don't have a PayPal account, don't trust PayPal, or for those who live in areas of the world in which PayPal isn't available. Now we have a totally secure, integrated, and painless Credit Card checkout option in which you truly receive INSTANT access to member areas.
Dr. Joom
Dr. Joom is now new & improved! We've installed and customized Azul's awesome NiceTalk component for Joomla 1.5. We were excited to see the release of NiceTalk for 1.5, but had to apply many fixes to get it working with sh404sef (if you'd like to learn more on how we did this, Ask Dr. Joom!). Now users will be able to submit and comment on Dr. Joom questions interactively.
Best of all, Dr. Joom is still offering FREE JOOMLA ADVICE to all!
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I'm very pleased to announce that a new version of SubmitMailer is now available for download.
This new version allows you to edit/translate the email subject and message.
And you can also get notified when someone updates a content item.
This feature is optional and can be turned off at any time. [ Download SubmitMailer 1.2 ]
More to come soon!
- Tobias
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 No, it's not the name of an upcoming template or extension, it's the theme of our personal lives lately. I've just returned from my honeymoon in Europe, and Gary will be getting married later this month and off to his honeymoon in Europe.
I share this information both to share the exciting news with our users and to communicate why you've seen a slow down in activity on the site during the past couple of weeks. Don't worry though, I'm back in action and we have a new team member! Will, a long time programmer joins the team to focus specifically on the Joomla! Extensions side of the house. You'll see activity from Will on the forums very soon as he'll be assisting as a moderator. You'll also be seeing lots of activity with:
- PraiseSlides updates
- PraiseMenu development
- Current template vote winner
- New template vote designs
- Subscription updates
- Dr. Joom updates
Things are going to crank up a notch, stay tuned!
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It's only taken 6 weeks for the maintenance release. It looks like the team is sticking to its goal of "regular, frequest updates". It's also an extremely pleasant surprise to see the team updating the Joomla! documentation wiki.
Helpful links:
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 Construction is underway on our newest JoomlaPraise member extension: PraiseMenu! As you can guess, this will be a menu system either to be used in a JoomlaPraise template or standalone in any Joomla! template.
Currently the planned features are for the ability to easily change between the following menu styles:
- Mootools Dropdown Menu
- Suckerfish Dropdown Menu
- Dropline Menu
- Joomla! Split Menu
As with the default Joomla! menu module, you'll also be able to select from any existing menu to display in PraiseMenu.
Got any features you'd like us to include in PraiseMenu? Please comment on this entry and let us know! We're building this for you! |
Ok, it may seem like we're asking you to vote a lot. Vote for which template you'd like us to make next, vote for which extension you'd like us to make next (coming soon), etc. Now we're asking you to get out there and vote for JoomlaPraise on some other great Joomla! community sites: Vote for the JoomlaPraise.com site on Joomlr.com: 
Vote for our templates over at BestofJoomla.com (registration required): and while you're at it, if you don't mind, vote for our article at Joomocracy.com:
http://joomocracy.com/story.php?title=Join_Joomlas_hottest_new_template_club_for_40 all these votes will help your new favorite Joomla Template and Extension Club! |
 We're just uploaded the latest updates for both the 1.0.x and 1.5.x versions of PraiseSlides! This module is already well-received, though the beta had a few bugs and some features weren't enabled. This release includes the following features (new are bolded):
- Dropdown selection of Section
- Dropdown selection of Category
- Article Count
- Content Order (Order, Title, Date, Hits) - (Ascending or Descending)
- Content Width (pixels or percentage)
- Content Height (pixels or percentage)
- Linked Titles (yes or no)
- Include JavaScript (ability to turn off if you already have Mootools installed)
These features should be plenty to make this a truly valuable module!
If you're a member, head on over and download the update.
If not, what are you waiting for? Save yourself $35 and subscribe today! |
 After giving away 50 Free memberships, we considered our current portfolio of templates and extensions and decided to reduce our unlimited 1 year membership from $75 to $40 for 3 months, while we build our stock of templates! If you've previewed the current templates and next month's templates, which are up for vote on the homepage, you've seen the caliber of our work and understand the HUGE deal we're giving folks. We're going to work overtime and increase our rate of production on templates to 2 templates per month during this term, so if you aren't a member, you'd be wise to head on over to subscription and take advantage of this deal!
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 As we close in on the last of the 1st 50 Free Memberships, we're working on the last major area of the site: Documentation. You'll be seeing a new "Tutorials" link in the top blue bar. There you'll find helpful articles containing tips, tutorials, documentation, and videos training you on all the site templates and extensions, along with some Joomla! best practices.
I'd like to take the opportunity to give thanks to all the members that have helped us fast track the release of this site to the public. You guys (and gals) are the reason we're doing this.
Update 3/3/08: we've got some helpful tutorials up now. Videos coming this week! |
| I'm pleased to announce our 1st Free Joomla! Extension! SubmitMailer is a simple plugin/mambot that will send either the Administrator or defined email address a notification when an article is submitted through the Joomla! Frontend. SubmitMailer works in Joomla! 1.0.x and 1.5.x. View more and download here. |
 After years of dreaming and months of work I am proud to announce: JoomlaPraise Professional Joomla Templates is LIVE! Thank you to our "Soft Launchers" for helping us get ready for our worldwide debut. We hope that our blood, sweat and tears will result in a better Joomla! experience for all!
For the new users who don't know, Joomla! website design and template creation has been our passion, inspiration, and source of income for the pass few years. We've built professional Joomla! templates for many high profile corporate websites and want to bring that level of detail and professionalism to the Joomla! community. To thank the Joomla! community, we're giving away 50 Free JoomlaPraise Club Subscriptions to the 1st 50 that sign up and subscribe. |
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JoomlaPraise has released their 6th Joomla! template "