Joomla Templates.

Start selling your own Joomla templates and extensions today!

CMS Market (www.cmsmarket.com) has officially opened its doors to Authors! We've previously used CMS Market solely to sell our own individual items, but now if you have a template or extension, you can add it to our directory and get immediate exposure!

Our team has recently expanded into Apple iPhone app development.  Our first approved app has just hit the app store, iWhoopie Cushion!  For $0.99, you can have a little light-hearted fun over the holiday break.  Does this mean that we may also be developing iPhone apps for a certain CMS? We'll see in 2009

More on iWhoopie

App Store Link

If you haven't noticed the image on every page of our site , we're giving a 25% discount to all new members for the rest of December!  During checkout, just enter the coupon jollyfellow for the discount.  Why is this such an awesome deal?  In the past 10 months, we've release 16 templates and 11 extensions, and we're not slowing down, so you're sure to get your money's worth!

Here's a couple more juicy reasons:

• JomSocial template next week! If you haven't heard yet, JomSocial was recently released and has had astronomical sales. JomSocial is the latest and certainly greatest social networking solution for Joomla! JoomlaPraise was contacted directly and asked to create a Joomla template and JomSocial theme. We answered the call and will be the 1st Joomla! template club to release a template for JomSocial! Our template will come out next week, get ready for it!
  
• JomSocial Discount for Members! To celebrate the launch of our JomSocial template next week, JoomlaPraise subscribers will get an exclusive (and significant) discount for the purchase of a JomSocial license!

We've just release ProjectPraise, a template make specifically (but not only) for ProjectFork!  JoomlaPraise members also get a companion theme for ProjectFork, which has all the styles of ProjectPraise, and also takes on any overrides you make to your template, such as heading and tab colors.  This means that you can publish ProjectFork to your frontend and customize as easy (or easier) than an online project management solution like Basecamp or Zoho Projects, but you have total control!

In ProjectPraise, we introduce a new feature called Frontend Template Parameters Interface (or Frontend Params).  When you're logged into your public site as super admin, you'll see a tab that reads "Customize your template". Click on this and you have instant access to all the template params you'd see in the backend, and much more!  First off, for any input that is a color override, we've added a slick color picker tool (though you can still copy and paste a hex color).  We've added an image upload interface to overwrite any image in the template, whether it's the logo, bullet, info, warning, quotes, etc.  Then there's the integrated Banner Manager in which you can upload an image and pick which page it will be displayed as a banner.  You can choose to use your favorite banner module as well. We also give you the option to switch all corners from straight to rounded.

You might also notice that we're using all the tableless template overrides created in our last template, Division.  This is a trend that will continue.  As we develop new features, we'll carry them forward into future templates, making our members' lives easier and easier.

Read more about ProjectPraise here and watch some videos on the features

Goggles is inspired by the applications for the world's most popular search engine.  For our members that use AdminPraise, Goggles uses styles that perfectly complement the corresponding admin theme.  Upgrade your ProjectFork installation to use this slick, soothing new style.  Goggles also uses ProjectFork's override system and totally changed the layout of the calendar to that of a traditional calendar layout!

Goggles is available only at our new cms marketplace, CMS Market.  CMS Market is a avenue for those who use any cms and have a product to sell (or distribute), and either have no website or want to market their product elsewhere.  CMS Market's author program is current in a closed beta, but you can request an invite here!  You may have noticed that we've recently added a "Buy now at CMS Market" to all of our member templates and extensions, this allows new customers to choose whether they'd like to purchase a membership for $75 (which is still an awesome deal), or just purchase one item.

Here's some shots:

We've just released the latest version of our Joomla Administrator Template, AdminPraise.   This release includes 2 major feature additions along with several smaller updated and bugfixes.  The 2 new features are:
1. Component Quicklaunch - Inspired by the App Launch in Mac OSX, the top navigation now has a link to will open a launcher with icon links to all the components you have installed.
[Video Preview]

2. Custom Quick Icon Integration - CQI, which has just been released for Joomla 1.5, is an Administrator Component/Module that allows you to upload custom icons and add then to your cpanel quick icons.  When installed, CQI will automatically become the 1st Accordion Dropdown in the AdminPraise cpanel and mini-cpanel.  Why is this so great?  You can now fully customize your AdminPraise quick icons on all pages of your admin site to quickly link to all your favorite pages.
[Video Preview]

You can now also completely turn off the left/right columns so they don't even load, rather than just collapsing them.  This results in quicker load times.
[Video Preview]

Members, if you haven't tested AdminPraise yet, now's the time.  We're now using it on all of our own sites and can't imagine Joomla development without it. 
[Download]

If you could take a peak under the JoomlaPraise hood, you'd see that the engine is running on all cylinders.  It's been 8 months since our February launch, and we have progressed from the "little template club that could" into a club that's making fairly successful attempts at changing the Joomla! experience.  We've released 14 solid templates, one of which (AdminPraise) can hardly be called a template, as it's changing the way Joomla! sites are administered.  We've also released 8 extensions, which range in scope from PraiseUrl, a simple but extremely useful module that reveals Joomla! system urls, to ProjectFork, which in all fairness existed before our club, but has been rebuilt from the ground, up while under the JoomlaPraise roof.

Ok, enough back-patting :)  So where to next?  Fall is going to be extremely exciting for JoomlaPraise!

First up, let's talk about ProjectFork.  We'll be releasing a beta this month (before we get bombarded with emails, we don't have a release date yet ;).  We recently made the move to eat our own dogfood and start using PF to manage all of our internal projects.  This was pretty painful at first, but has helped us guide the project in a very productive direction.  I can say that at this point, PF is actually helping our team stay on top of everything and it is a pleasure to use.  The most recent features we've added that aren't publicly available are:

• Milestone ordering: extremely useful in prioritizing
• Task Quicklinks: links to quickly Edit, Finish, or Comment on a task
• Progress Dropdown: dropdown box to quickly change progress percentage of a task
• Milestone Percentage: a percentage of completion calculated from a milestone's tasks completion
• Email Notification: configurable email notifications for new and modified tasks
• Calendar Dates: now project and task dates show on the calendar
• Discussion Board: messages are pivotal for project management, now teams can have discussions in a central location

Next up, we have AdminPraise, which is quickly becoming our most popular template/extension (it's not fair to simply call this a template).  AdminPraise started as an attempt to optimize the Joomla admin site on an iPhone and has transformed into a movement to make the entire Joomla administrative experience more streamlined.  Here's the latest great features we're working on:

• CQI Integration: While the AdminPraise cpanel and mini-cpanel icons are extremely helpful, they're not customizable.  To alleviate this, we've connected with the developers of CQI (Custom Quick Icons), an admin component/module combo that replaces the standard cpanel icons.  When installed, CQI will automatically show up in a sliding div in the AdminPraise cpanel and mini-cpanel, allowing for custom icons and ALL admin pages.
• Component Quicklaunch:  With all the navigation options of AdminPraise, the one core feature we miss is the component dropdown.  Rather than simply incorporate this feature, we've decided to one-up it.  AdminPraise will have a link which will use mootools to open a grid of all installed components, with larger logo links, rather than just text links.
• Turn Off Left/Right Columns: With all these new navigation options, a user may wish to completely turn off the left or right column, rather than simply collapsing them, which will result in quicker load times since the necessary JavaScript won't load.

• Here's a preview of the AdminPraise cpanel with CQI integration (and the left column turned off):

• Top/Right/Bottom/Left Nav:  Place the navigation wherever it fits best for your needs
• Slide Direction:  Choose whether your content slides in from the top, right, bottom or left
• Fade Transition: Choose whether you content slides or fades

Let's talk templates, since after all, we are a template club.  We're currently developing a duo of Tableless Templates which will use the most html template overrides we've ever used to allow for a tableless Joomla site.  For those who've followed JoomlaPraise since our 1.5 Template Contest entry, we actually developed a tableless version of our template way back then, and we're reintroducing these overrides to all of our future templates.

Lastly, we've received a ton of requests to purchase our templates individually. We're developing something to facilitate this, and a whole lot more :) More on that soon, stay tuned!

We've just released our latest FREE Joomla Template named PraiseCorp!  As with our other free templates, we strived to deliver a clean design that's extremely customizable and flexible.  By adding our PraiseSlides module, which is also free, you get a dynamite corporate presence!

We've also posted our latest designs which are up for member vote to select which design will be used to create our next member template: