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?

Finally we got it out! Surely you have noticed from the homepage that we have changed the design several days ago. Thanks to the design team for their creative effort to improve accessibility for visitors. This is a major design refinement since our Joomla site update from June 2010.

We are happy to roll out JA Edenite as last of the upgraded template for Joomla 1.6, based on the JoomlArt T3 V2 Framework. July will see regular Joomla 1.6 template being released. August onwards, we shall have templates for Joomla 1.7 and all Joomla 1.6 templates will be taken up for upgrade to Joomla 1.7 and once completed, we shall resume the upgrade of older templates to Joomla 1.7.

Recently JoomlArt has been recommended by webhostingsearch.com as BEST WEB TEMPLATE provider to their community (listed under Web Tools directory).

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