ToolboxCreations - Professional Joomla! Website Design & Development

It's been a fair while since our last template was released - almost one-and-a-half years since "FivePoint Unity" was thrown into the wild for the Joomla! 1.5 template competition.  Boy that is a long time!

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Here's a small tutorial explaining how to populate a custom form (using ChronoForms) with information from the Joomla! database...you can use this to pull data from any of your installed Joomla! extensions (as long as you know how to find the right information).  It's pretty straightforward and works a treat...

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I recently got a site launched that had a tonne of incoming links all pointing to static HTML pages on the old site.  I had to redirect as many as possible to the new equavalents on the new site running in Joomla!.  Not normally too much of a problem, except this site had an extra complication...

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I'm always commenting on how fast time flies these days, and this month is no exception - I can't believe that we're done with one-twelfth of 2009 already.  January's been unexpectedly busy, with a couple of deadlines set for the end, plus another new site which cropped up and needed to be designed and built before the month was out.

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The Joomla! template club market certainly isn't short of some talent - with top players like RocketTheme, Joomlart and YOOtheme there's plenty to choose from.  NinjaTheme has the backing of several experienced developers from the NinjaForge stable, so promises some exciting features in the future - as well as the fresh set of design styles, we can look forward to integrated themes for NF components, plus support for popular 3rd party add-ons such as MyBlog and VirtueMart.

But most interestingly is the Crowdsourcing idea behind each month's template...

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