Great news. According to plan, Joomla 1.7 has been released today, you can get it on Joomla.org. Major enhancements in the new version include: the ability to define custom search presets, better protection against form manipulation through automatic validation, language specific font settings, and more. Upgrading is painless and takes you only ONE CLICK.

JoomlArt has a few openings for Joomla-experienced  to provide support in our Forums and Support Ticket System in full time and part time capacity.  If you are experienced with Joomla, and particularly with JoomlArt's templates and extensions, and have spare time on your hands, then this is an outstanding opportunity to join JoomlArt’s superstar moderators who help serve JoomlArt’s growing 200K+ community.

Today we are trying out something interesting. We switch on Facebook comment for the few next posts to be used parallel to our in-house comment system and want to get a feel of how users react on this move.

We all thank you!

[INFOGRAPHIC] JoomlArt monthly operation stats

Our JA community has grown further and we would like to share with you some interesting facts and figures about the team and what we do to add value for our users. In the next post we will make a cool animated introduction of our awesome mods who really makes experiencing JoomlArt community a whole different for everybody.

I was surprised. It was really unbelievable. Thanks a lot to JoomlArt, for the great gift on Christmas

-- Gev Balyan

This Christmas we are offering flat 40 % OFF across all memberships and renewals, also featuring exciting deals from our partners.

So the new year is here and we are really excited about lots of things we'd love to make happen in 2012. However, before we share our coming goals, let's look back at what we achieved in the now gone year 2011.

Roadmap for updating our Joomla 1.7 products to Joomla 2.5

Preliminary testing reports have revealed some minor issues with our templates and extensions when used with Joomla 2.5. The power of JAT3 will make upgrade tasks easier and faster. However, we still do not release anything without routine testing / checks. No hasty releases will be done just to be first to the post. Customer satisfaction is our ultimate goal.

Joomla 2.5 has been released a few weeks ago and we have updated 25 Joomla templates (for JATC) to version 2.5. Including 30 extensions (16 plugins, 13 modules, 1 component). During the Joomla 2.5 update progress we fixed 421 issues (bugs, errors etc.) all within 1 week.