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I have been considering making a BIG change on how our customer support works. The idea came to me during my last visit to Stackideas.com - the best Joomla extension provider in the community (at least it is in my book). The support forum just blew me away with the Flattr button located at the bottom of each answer. When I found the answer to my problem, I could “thank” the author with Flattr. This allows them to later exchange this donation for real cash $$$. If you do not how Flattr works, jump over to the Flattr page website to get an insight.

Over the last few weeks, I have spent a lot of my time digging deeper into Flattr. I strongly believe it is the perfect system for our JoomlArt community along with our current private ticket system (using Kayako) and open support system on our forum (running Vbulletin)

Say hello to JA Magz - the awesome October Responsive Joomla template for News & Magazine on both Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3. Here are the 4 reasons why JA Magz is the bomb:

1. Supports over 41 languages (Bing translation)
2. JA Magz is extremely customization friendly
3. Fully responsive, supports EasyBlog and RTL language layout
4. Enhance productive collaboration and content sharing

Building a Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3 multilingual site can be tricky, we encountered difficulties while trying to setup multi-language demo site to demonstrate our RTL language layouts for our latest templates. We developed a internal tool to overcome the problems we faced and we thought why not add more options and release the extension as FREE for the benefit of the Joomla! community.

If you could recall our old JoomlArt site, we used to have a complicated demo system for everything but Joomla extensions. We never had a dedicated demo site for our Joomla extensions, and guys normally had to go through info page or templates demo in order to see how the extensions function.

We did take time to work on this and guess what: a whole new and complete site only for extensions demo is out. The Extensions Demo site serves as a showcase for 25 Joomla Extensions Club extensions for Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3, including modules, plugins and components.

Some of you may already be familiar with our heavy and complex Document system in Forums for both Joomla and Magento. Frankly speaking, Forums is not a good place to read userguide and documentation. Userguides and documents were put as forum threads and posts and in which we have received complaints from our users that they could not find documentation anywhere or it’s hard to view and follow. Understand the issues, we have started working on our new documentation site, along with new live site development.

After 2-month of effort, we are glad to introduce the all new Documentation site with a complete makeover in term of design and structure.

Our September responsive Magento theme JM Monsieur reflects the he-man points: decisive and frank. To express the masculine feeling, we use lots of white space with black lines and blocks. Classy yet dusty, resourceful yet straightforward, JM Monsieur is surely a great choice for anyone who is in search for a responsive Magento theme to win gentlemen's attention.

We’re kicking off this fall with the awesome responsive Joomla template: JA Muzic for both Joomla 3 & Joomla 2.5 version, a great pick for Entertainment, Music and Digital Media Joomla template.

Magento extension JM Basetheme is our ambition to deliver one of the best tools for Magento geeks to customize our Magento themes.

For just a little look back, there was a time we got stuck with default colors like Black, White, Blue, Red and so on. You wished for a touch out-of-default? Our Magento team did offer a CSS file in which you could modify the codes yourself, provided that you had time to kill and experience about CSS.

It was not convenient at all, so it came the launch of JM Basetheme - a powerful tool in which you could personalize sites with our Magento themes at ease. Here comes livelier shades of colors - Emerald, Maroon, Ghostwhite, Turquoise, LavenderBlush, whatever in just some clicks!

After 2 consecutive months of constantly experimenting, re-designing and optimizing the entire JoomlArt.com, we can finally call it DONE (or at least close to what we would like it to be). And for that, we just want to officially:

WELCOME TO OUR NEW HOME!

The old vs. the new home

Our August responsive Magento theme JM Crafts is full with the romance of autumn, a perfect fit for any handmade accessories of crafts shop. This must be the perfect Magento theme for those who wish to impress their shoppers with the artistic and vivid feeling!

Technically, JM Crafts is fully armed with Magento extensions. Here comes the list: JM Slideshow for homepage product slideshow, JM Basetheme for smoother color customization, eye-catching category header including titles and graphics with JM Masshead and not to forget JM QuickView to serve the viewers at most convenience! Along that JM Crafts presents refreshing ideas for every traditional module.

Hello folks,

As you might already know, our T3 Joomla template framework has integrated Bootstrap in full features since the very beginning. And whoops!!! The new version Bootstrap 3.0 has been released a few days back to celebrate Bootstrap 2nd birthday. Bootstrap 3.0 took the team almost 9 months to work on it, and was officially shipped out to the world with tons of new features and changes.

JA Fixel - Joomla Responsive template for business & ecommerce for Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3. Apart from being responsive, the template also supports RTL language layout plus inbuilt style support for EasyBlog and JoomShopping component. JoomShopping was added as requested by our members and we are going bolder with EasyBlog component. JA Fixel is definitely a versatile template, which you can stumble upon for not only business scope, but also for personal blog, digital media focus or fashion trends with the built in style for JoomShopping and EasyBlog.

The latest of our Joomla 2.5 & 3.0 responsive template is JA Beranis. Fully loaded with great features including: RTL language layout support, EasyBlog component support, brand new module - image hotspot, our first ever vertical Mega Menu support and not to mention 5 more complimentary extensions. It also incorporates text and image animation (scrolling down on the home page to see it in action). JA Beranis is hands-down one of the most charismatic Joomla business template in our current collection. Let me give you a short tour of this template.

How is JA Fubix - the Joomla template for news & magazine in RTL language layout style working out for you guys? The weekend is over and while the new week is approaching, RTL version of JA Smashboard - Joomla template for entertainment and the Joomla ecommerce template - JA Hawkstore sure will keep you guys busy. Yup, they are now officially RTL language layout compatible.

JM Hawkstore is one of our first Magento responsive themes inspiring by Street Life style. To blow the hip-hop feel, we use big flat typo with colorful blocks to make sure that your Magento store will stand apart among others. Don’t let JM Hawkstore look fix your prejudice: JM Hawkstore works with fruitful product ranges out of skateboards and sport stuff, along with fabulous impression, JM Hawkstore is armed with a wide range of powerful Magento extensions.

Now let us give you a quick glance on JM Hawkstore’s features!

Following up for RTL language layout support for Joomla 2.5 & 3.1 templates, we have immediately updated 6 templates featuring this outstanding feature including: JA Beranis, JA Argo, JA Mitius, JA Onepage, JA Mero, and JA Brisk. If you haven’t known already, we now support RTL language layout in our T3 framework integrated with Bootstrap at core, it is amazingly easy to use. That means any Joomla templates that are compatible with the latest version of T3 Framework are RTL layout friendly. Woot woot!

Joomla extension search Module - JA K2 Filter at JoomlArt has been around since Joomla 1.5 and still going strong in Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3 version. Apart from its search default functionality, JA K2 Filter has recently updated with 4 outstanding features: Extra field search mode, Dynamic Counter, Filter by rating, and Range slider. What are those features and how to use them?

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in general is a vast subject to cover in a single blog post, optimization requires patience and experience. We will just deal with the basic steps one can take to optimize their Magento stores for better SERP (search engine results page) rankings.

Our Magento themes have gone through lot of changes in terms of design, responsive layouts, features and complimentary extensions. 4-years seems long but time flies when the desire to improve is strong. If you look at our first Magento theme and our latest one, you can appreciate how the user demand and availability of new technologies have impacted our deliveries. Skim through our Magento themes showcase, clearly there is a design evolution here. Back in the days our Magento themes were basic and simple with typical 3-column-layout, and now our themes are sophisticated and lively than ever.

In this blog, we are going to look back at each year and review remarkable designs represented by our picked themes.

Yes! we did it right this time. Our Joomla templates (running T3v3 framework) now supports Right to left (RTL) language layouts. If you all remember we were the first to introduce native RTL support in Joomla templates via our T3v2 framework but it was a cumbersome process and hard work to release and maintain them, we eventually had to pause the RTL support, it was a hard decision then. For quite many months we have been working hard for the development and improvement of our T3 framework for Joomla! 2.5 / 3.0. Addition of Right to left layouts was one of the important feature and I am happy to announce that the feature is now available. RTL support in the latest T3 framework now uses the bootstrap RTL and is amazingly simple to use.