The ever popular www.joomlatutorials.com [ LINK ] has been updated to now include both Joomla 1.0.x as well as the new Joomla 1.5 animated tutorials. As well as the animated tutorials, we also have a number of downloadable pdf manuals that we link to. Be sure to use and recommend our site to all new Joomla users. It's an invaluable resource that will save you time and headaches, especially as it takes care of all the Joomla basics. Visit now: www.joomlatutorials.com [ LINK ]

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Joomlatools would like to announce the immediate availability of DOCman v1.4.0RC2.Recently, a CSRF vulnerability was discovered in DOCman. An attacker can have the same access permissions as the administrator. In the right circumstances, this can be exploited to change data or obtain shell access. All 1.3.x versions, as well as 1.4.0BETA2 and 1.4.0RC1 are vulnerable. Therefore it is recommended to all users to upgrade to thenew v1.4.0RC2.Please visit http://blog.joomlatools.org/2008/02/docman-security-announcement.html [ LINK ] to read the full announcement.

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Following the success of it’s February event, Learn Joomla! announces that it will be running a monthly beginners training course on Joomla for the remainder of 2008.The next 1 day training course will be held in central London on Monday March 17th, 2008, and monthly thereafter.The course features the new Joomla! 1.5, and is one of the first training courses covering Joomla 1.5, since the stable version was released in January 2008. Participants are encouraged to bring along their latest website project to work with and receive hands on support and help in the workshop section. The course is aimed at Joomla! beginners who are developing their first website with this CMS, or or who have had a site built for them and want to know how it works and how to keep it up to date.The venue is The Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London, a few minutes walk from Tottenham Court Road in the West End. Nearest Tube Tottenham Court Road.More details, and a booking form at www.learnjoomla.co.uk

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Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th 2008, the annual Dutch Joomladays (Joomladagen) will be organized in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The main theme of this Dutch (but also internationally orientated) conference is Building Bridges . Friday is a Business day, and Saturday is a Community day.

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Bulletproof Templates welcomes Joomla! users old and new to a wide selection of beautifully designed professional, fully functional Joomla! 1.5 web-site templates. All JTemplates are guaranteed to work on Windows or Mac platforms using poplar, modern browsers. We are confident they will handle any modern browser without breaking: after all, they are BulletproofTemplates.

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Time has come for the spanish Joomla community to have its first<a href= http://www.joomladay.es >Joomla!Day</a>. This event will take place on April in Madrid, 19th of April at the University Carlos III’s - Leganés campus .Asin other Joomladays, the organisation expects to gather more than ahundred collaborators and enthusiasts in a day for sharing experiens,ideas and plans for the future, while gathering some funds for tproject as well.The organisation calls for companies andorganisations willing to link their names to this event to collaboratein its organisation. It has therefore established this <a href= http://www.joomladay.es/colaboran/we-love-non-spanish-sponsors-too.html >sponsorshipplan</a> specifically tailored for non spanish entities.The event has national scope, limited room andattendance will be charged (20€ + food), so the profile of the attendees will surely be the one of people tightly envolved to the project. A great place to announce your company’s services

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Wanting to squeeze more out of Joomla! 1.5? If you’re aweb-professional needing more out of this world famous CMS — a pro-useror a developer — a two day seminar [ LINK ] is being held in beautiful Lucerne,Switzerland [ LINK ] , on March 15 and 16, 2008.Joomla! 1.5 is packedwith incredible power and flexibility; far beyond the old 1.0 series. With a killer API it provides the opportunity to be more productive inany commercial setting and competes with the ‘big boys’.Want to: get productive with Joomla! 1.5? develop killer Joomla! 1.5 extensions using the new Joomla! framework? design Joomla! 1.5 templates using the new override system? migrate you current Joomla! 1.0 site to 1.5?If you answered yes to any of these questions then you don’t want to miss out on the Swiss Joomla! 1.5 Bootcamp on March 15 and 16, 2008 . We will get you up and running with Joomla! 1.5 in no time.The keynote speaker is Joomlatools’ own Johan Janssens. Johan is leaddeveloper of Joomla! and the principal architect of the new Joomla!Framework. Who better to teach you the ins and outs of Joomla! 1.5.Also speaking are Sören Eberhardt, lead developer of Virtuemart, Joomla’s most successful e-commerce extension, and Mathias Verraes, lead developer of DOCman, a very successful document management system for Joomla! 1.5

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A new solution for online bill payment and invoice management has arrived… DT Billing. With DT Billing, you can create and manage your client invoices and give your clients the ability to login to your website and pay their bills with Authorize.net or PayPal. You create an invoice including item details, shipping, sales tax, payment terms, etc and assign it to a user with a set due date. You can also configure late fees. Community Builder integration is included so you can select a user and have their information auto-populate your invoices.

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Joomlatemplatestyle.com [ LINK ] Has released a new free Joomla [ LINK ] Template for the the month of January. The free template is called Thefilth. It is a grunge rock style template for your new band or promotional website. You can download the Joomla Template Here [ LINK ] You can view a demo of Thefilth Here [ LINK ]

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Siteground designers have created one of the largest collection of free for download templates for the Joomla 1.5 software. By now, the company has released over 25 Joomla 1.5 templates and is adding new themes every week to guarantee a great diversity to its visitors and clients. Together with the free Joomla 1.0.x themes the number of SiteGround Joomla templates reaches 100! To review the Joomla template gallery, please, visit this link: http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hosting/joomla-templates.htm [ LINK ]

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