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It's December already guys and Christmas is approaching. Have you had your site prepared for the big season yet? Let us give you hand on this. We are offering a Free Christmas logo decoration service to all our users.

Guys, Thanksgiving is almost here, and the shopping craze is following up with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Woo hoo!!!

That’s it: this is the holiday of thankfulness, the time to express thanks to those you love. We appreciate all your supports throughout this crazy year and this HUGE discount deals are all about YOU.

This year we have a calendar sale, and making sure we don't miss anyone or any packages. If you have been saving up all years, this is the time to spend LESS for MORE.

What’s up guys!

Since the release of Joomla 3.2 stable version earlier this month, we have been working extra hours to update our Joomla templates and extensions to be compatible with it.

Starting off the first batch of the Joomla 3.2 update series, we are eager to announce the first 10 Joomla extensions & 14 Responsive Joomla templates make it to the top list.

The latest Magento 1.8 version has been released, which also brings us the issue of upgrades to enjoy the benefits the new version brings. To make it simpler we have come up with a simple infographic highlighting the benefits of upgrading to the all new Magento 1.8.

Dear all JoomlArt lovers, we are delighted to introduce our Responsive Joomla template for Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3 of this month – JA Obelisk. A perfect template for Movies and Entertainment Joomla sites.

Dear Magento geeks, responsive Magento theme JM Bookshop is our very first theme dedicated for online bookstores. JM Bookshop theme is compatible with both Magento 1.7 and the latest Magento 1.8 version too.

At the first glance, our JM Bookshop presents the trending flat design with a professional block layout. To dig out more, the theme is armed with 9 Magento extensions including Mega Menu, JM Basetheme, JM Slideshow 2, JM Masshead, JM Product Slider, JM Tabs, JM Product, JM Quickview and especially JM Product Deal. Not to mention this Magento theme is fully responsive and features Off-canvas navigation.

Browse through the features of our latest magento theme JM Bookshopand you would want to launch a bookstore of your own.

This October, our responsive Magento theme JM Gamestore is a big hit. Designed in a dark tone of color, with bold typography and cutting-edge blocks, JM Gamestore is dedicated for online games e-stores. The theme is packed with Mega Menu, Off-canvas layout, responsive design and many more handy Magento extensions.

What make it so special? Firstly, this Magento theme features a complete Halloween skin which promises to rock your site on this Halloween event. Secondly, the theme holds a variety of our innovative style and design in which we apply for the first time in this theme JM Gamestore.

Let’s get a closer look at this big fist theme of the year!

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!

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.

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!

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.