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Update: We've developed a new basetheme from the ground up for Magento 2. Check it out in the live demo of UB MegaMall theme here

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!

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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 versus the new home

The old vs. the new home

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Update: Crafts is now available for Magento 2. Check it out in the live demo here

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Note : Responsive Magento theme JM Hawkstore is now Magento 1.8 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!

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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!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Note : Responsive Magento theme JM Sporty is now Magento 1.8 compatible!

Neat and strong, elegant and fashionable, these words may cross your mind when you first see our latest Magento responsive theme JM Sporty. The spotlight of this theme is our new extension – JM Color Swatch that gives the viewers a clearer visualization of the product in other available size and color. In this theme, we also support the Off-canvas navigation which gives better display layout for your store on mobile devices and tablet.

Besides, there is a list of not to miss out Magento extensions which we support in this sporty theme: JM Slideshow, JM Basetheme, JM Mega Menu, Product slider and so on.

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JM Flannel - one of our best responsive Magento themes, released early this year has won many hearts. We reached out to JM Flannel members asking for permission to highlight their sites for the showcase and here are some of the Magento stores using JM Flannel. It is interesting to note that though JM Flannel demo is themed around camera store but members have easily adapted it for their products ranging from sportswear to electronics / laptop stores.

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Congratulations on choosing to use Joomla for your website Content Management System (CMS). Currently Joomla 2.5 is the current Long Term Support (LTS) version, and Joomla 3.1 is the current Short Term Support (STS) version. After Joomla 3.1, there will be Joomla 3.2, then follow the next Long Term Support version Joomla 3.5 due for release in March 2014.

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Note : Responsive Magento theme JM Lingerie is now Magento 1.8 compatible!

JM Lingerie - responsive Magento theme for Magento lingerie store is the latest addition to our ever growing portfolio of responsive Magento themes. If you look closely, its not just a theme, it is feature packed and one should be able to get it up and running in no time. One of the important thing that we have been focusing is that the Magento store theme should be responsive, that means the Magento extensions used in the theme should support responsive layouts too. Well, JM Lingerie fits the bill perfectly. Another great feature is its JM Basetheme color customizer, which allows users to customize the theme colors easily, without having to hack the code. We have also upgraded Magento Category List extension for this theme. For more details on all our new Magento responsive extensions, check out our earlier blog post new Magento extensions.

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