If you haven’t seen the JoomlArt 2010 Recap post here on the blog, we covered alot of what JoomlArt Template Club did during the past year, but also touched on a few things we have planned for 2011. The JoomlArt Community continues to grow at a frantic pace, and we are working hard to make your experience at JoomlArt even better. Here’s some of what’s in store in the coming weeks.

Welcome Drupal 7

Tomorrow JAN 7th there will be a big Drupal 7 Release party, held on every place around the globe, in big cities and in small villages. Meetings with over 100+ enthusiasts but also little groups of 10 guys are coming together. The list of attendees may vary. But not the euphoria of an open-minded ("open-source") community of Drupal developers, themers and users to receive Drupal 7.

Joomla! 1.6 is being released today as General Availability, or in other words, Joomla 1.6.0. This is a huge milestone for the Joomla project, and JoomlArt would like to thank the entire Joomla Community for making this happen.

It has taken a lot of work, dedication, planning and execution from a lot of great minds to bring the world’s best Free and Open Source Content Management System to us, but it’s finally here!

As you may have seen, Joomla 1.6.0 Stable was released yesterday, and JoomlArt wants to make sure you have the Joomla 1.6 Components, Modules and Plugins you need to build your site using the latest Joomla release. JoomlArt has already released 22 Extensions for the Joomla 1.6.0 release, and we’re working hard to get even more extensions updated to 1.6.0. in the coming days!

The energy and excitement from the JoomlArt Community on the Joomla 1.6.0 release this week has been amazing!

JoomlArt is proud to announce 3 new contests for the JoomlArt Community Members! We’ve had some success in the past with our JoomlArt Site of the Month Contest, and our new Reloaded version promises to be bigger and better than ever with something for everyone!

JoomlArt is excited to announce our second round of Joomla 1.6 Templates on the JoomlArt T3v2 Framework. You will find 3 new templates, including JA Teline IV, JA Cloris and JA Rave in this batch of releases. Thanks for all the great feedback so far! Look for more releases next week.

JoomlArt is excited to announce third round of Joomla 1.6 Templates based on the JoomlArt T3 V2 Framework. JA Purity II ^free, Teline III and JA Ores comprises this release. Thanks for all the great feedback so far, userguides for these newly released templates will be released in their resective forum in the coming week.

We are now rolling out our 4th shipment of Templates for Joomla 1.6, based on the JoomlArt T3 V2 Framework. JA Rasite , JA Lime and JA Events comprises this release.

There has been a lot of confusion around Joomla 1.6 recently. After 3 years of heavy coding this major upgrade has been finally released in early 2011. Right now many users are wondering what 3rd party support for J1.6 will look like in the next months. Does it make any sense to start a website in J1.6 at the moment? How long should I wait until making any movements for my clients?