Looking towards the poor voting rates for the Site of the Month Competition. It has been decided to discontinue the Competition until further announcement.

Read the full entry at http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35770

Complete announcement is on Forum!

With announcement of New Issues / Bug Management System, we are now also looking for active members who can spare their time and help us in bug collection and issues resolutions.

JA Bug Squad

A. Preview :

• A New Group of JA volunteers to help populating the JA Bug Report System.
• Bug Squad Members (volunteers), would also be responsible for replication of the reported issue and confirming the bug reports.
• Once resolved by devs they would confirm the fix and update the forum threads for the same.
• Free access to related resources will be provided to Selected Members.

 JA forums have been modified to provide easy creation of support tickets. Step by step screenshot based guide is provided in the forums, please go through the same and make maximum use of it.  The forum post is at http://www.joomlart.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36809

Time to Say Goodbye to to 2009 and we are thankful to all our kind JA Members for their faith in us. As a token of gratitude and appreciation, we are extending our design skills to provide free Christmas Logo editing service for all websites using JA templates.  That's what we did last Christmas, we initiated Free Logo Editing Service. It was a very satisfying event and based on its success, we have now added this event to our Annual Events. So, go on and read below and get your logo edited. Read the complete post Here.

Get up to 60% OFF on JA or JM Developer membership, plus all the JA products get flat 20% off. Read more about the sale in our Forum.

Dear Members,
Step towards in reaffirming our commitment to the Quality and Support, We proudly announce flat 7 days No Questions Asked Refund Policy on all JA standard products (except the highly discount bundle: Ultimate Developer) and Services including Enterprise Extensions. So if you are interested in trying out any JA product, feel free to buy it out and if not happy, ask for refund.

1T3 Framework to be the Solid Core for JA Templates

• Currently T3 framework is Mobile Ready, supports RTL Natively, Multi Layouts capabilities, CSS Sprites and Mega menu support [guide].
• More features will be added to T3 Framework and refinement of the features would be an ongoing process.
• Improvised Mega Menu implementation coming up. It can't be easier than this (for now)....

2 JA Drupal Template club is here

• With Drupal 7 on the horizon, JoomlArt is set to add Drupal templates into its portfolio and JA Drupal Template Club is coming up in 2010, backed by JA world class quality and support.
• As a tradition JD Purity will be the first one to roll out, worth waiting for.

Part I - Upcoming Product Versioning and Packaging workflow.

Introduction:

As mentioned in the Top 10 of 2010. We are all set to introduce enhanced product download and upgrade system for our users. JA Update System comprises of New Versioning and Packaging system, Update component for Joomla, to update JA Products right from the Joomla Back-end and complete overhaul of JA product management. The overview is divided into two parts. Have fun reading it.

Eight months of development has gone into this system and currently the new system is under test phase and we are pleased with its performance so far. However, It will still take some time for it be pronounced as Stable and to be put into action.

This is to announce that keeping in view and in respect of the Open Source Matters ( OSM ) Trademark Policies & Guidelines governing the Joomla CMS, we have decided to update the Terms of Service and Licensing info, pertaining to all Joomla related products, w.e.f 01/04/2010, all the PHP code of  JoomlArt's Joomla Products (Templates (JATC) and Extensions (JAEC) ), would be governed by GNU/GPLv2 GPL version 2.0 license. We had been preparing for this for quite some time and thats why T3 Framework was released as GNU/GPL and all the latest releases of JA JobBoard and JA Voice are open-source, we took off the ion-cube from these enterprise extensions in December 2009 releases. Now, its time to extend the licensing to other Joomla products. However, to avoid off-shelf rip-offs and re-distribution at large, only the PHP files would be covered by GPL license, the images / CSS / JS elements etc, would remain under Proprietary License of JA, and their usage restricted by Terms of Services governing the JATC / JAEC Club membership and subscription privileges. The above said notices will be updated on JA main site on 01/04/2010.

Dear Members,
As mentioned in the Top 10 for 2010 announcement and Its Overview, its time to release the preview as the systems have reached the beta stages and is under intense testing. Its a unique and never seen before system in Joomla! Sphere and i am sure, i have not seen anything like this before. Its a concept which was developed last year and after these 5-6 months of development, it has taken the shape.