Clarion, the February 2012 template release, is a subtle theme, primed for business use or as a platform for extensive individual customization. Built on the Gantry Framework, Clarion has a range of powerful, flexible and intuitive features and functions. The administrative interface offers a user friendly control panel for intricately customizing the template layouts.

We've just released version 1.2 of AdminPraise 3 for Joomla 1.7. This release fixes some bugs and incompatibilities with Rockettheme Gantry, K2, Frontpage Slideshow and SSL. These were highly requested fixes so we're extremely glad to get this release out to our users. This release also includes a new UI feature: sticky toolbar. Continue reading to learn more and see the changelog. New...

Visage, the December 2011 template release, is a contemporary blending of stunning, refined visuals, combined with a polished and powerful undertone, providing a unique look that is flexible and intuitive to use. The foundational Gantry Framework creates a core rich with features, such as the 960 Grid System, per menu item configuration, amongst many others. Visage has integrated styled support for several RocketTheme Extensions, providing them with a consistent and stunning appearance. Included are: RokGallery (Component/Module), RokTabs and RokContentRotator.

Visage, the December 2011 template release, is a contemporary blending of stunning, refined visuals, combined with a polished and powerful undertone, providing a unique look that is flexible and intuitive to use. The foundational Gantry Framework creates a core rich with features, such as the 960 Grid System, per menu item configuration, amongst many others. Visage has integrated styled...

AceACL is a flexible and powerful Joomla Access Control component with an easy-to-use user interface that provides the ability to set all front-end and back-end permisions from one page and to assign any user to multiple groups. AceACL is an advanced Joomla ACL manager that offers you to set User Based Permissions, create unlimited groups and manage all rules for your Joomla site so it makes it easier to work with the Joomla ACL system. With AceACL you will obtaign a more advanced Joomla Access Control in Joomla 1.5 than what offers the core Joomla 1.7 ACL. AceACL can be installed or remove without changing the core files or database tables of Joomla (hack-free solution). Key Features: - Set all permissions from one page - Create unlimited user groups - Set user based permissions - Assign users to multiple groups - Create custom rules manually - Set permisions quickly using widgets - Import existing Joomla Access Levels - Supports all 3rd party components http://www.joomace.net/downloads/aceacl/extensions Other Features: - Easy integration with payment systems - Flexible permissions hierarchy - Global Rules that can be used by components - Guest & Super Admin groups "Some" of the well-known components supported natively: AceSearch, AcePolls, AceSEF, Kunena, Ninjaboard, jDownloads, DOCman, EasyBlog, K2, FLEXIcontent, EventList, ZOO, hwdVideoShare, SOBI2, Tienda, hwdVideoShare, Advanced Module Manager and more http://bit.ly/t0SUss Feel free to try AceACL, we firmly believe that it'll be the "Ace" you were looking for! Changelog: http://www.joomace.net/joomla-extensions/aceacl/changelog

AceACL is a flexible and powerful Joomla Access Control component with an easy-to-use user interface that provides the ability to set all front-end and back-end permisions from one page. AceACL is an advanced Joomla ACL manager that offers you to manage all rules for your Joomla site so it makes it easier to work with the Joomla ACL system. With AceACL you will obtaign a more advanced Joomla Access Control in Joomla 1.5 than what offers the core Joomla 1.7 ACL. AceACL can be installed or remove without changing the core files or database tables of Joomla (hack-free solution). Key Features: - Set all permissions from one page - Manage rules - Hack-free Joomla ACL solution - Set permisions quickly using widgets - Import existing Joomla Access Levels - Supports all 3rd party components http://www.joomace.net/downloads/aceacl/extensions Other Features: - Easy integration with payment systems - Flexible permissions hierarchy - Global Rules that can be used by components - Guest & Super Admin groups "Some" of the well-known components supported natively: AceSearch, AcePolls, AceSEF, Kunena, Ninjaboard, jDownloads, DOCman, EasyBlog, K2, FLEXIcontent, EventList, ZOO, hwdVideoShare, SOBI2, Tienda, hwdVideoShare, Advanced Module Manager and more http://bit.ly/t0SUss Feel free to try AceACL, we firmly believe that it'll be the "Ace" you were looking for! Changelog: http://www.joomace.net/joomla-extensions/aceacl/changelog

For Zoo Component, today we excited to announce that Yt Mega Zoo Items II has been released. This module can be used on a news online site, an e-commerce site, a social news site or a private site. With 4 eye-catching themes and many useful features, Yt Mega Zoo Items II can be the best choice for your site. Using Yt Mega Zoo Items II, you can show many categories with tooltip for brief description or information of article like as: comments, read times, date-times... With 4 nice themes of design, you can easy to change the way to show articles follow your idea. Please to refer main features of Yt Mega Zoo Items II MAIN FEATURES: + Support for Joomla 1.5 + Support all browsers (IE7+, FireFox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) + Support for showing featured article + Support hover effect on link of item title to show tooltip + Allow to change width of module + Allow to change max length of titles, descriptions + Allow to use/remove HTML code + Allow to add link for titles/images + Allow to custom URL + Allow to set open link with: New Window/Same Window/Popup + Allow to turn on/turn off article's hits, number of comments, created date + Support many modes for resizing image + You can change width/height of small and large thumbnails + You can change color for title or description of articles + You can change color of thumbnail background + Support caching

Shape 5 have released the November theme and if you're a not for profit, you might like this, as the work is done for you and if it isn't, it is super easy to make the changes. It is packed with module positions, comes with the Vertex Framework, a few module suffixes and lots of extensions as well as styling for a number of others inclucing K2 and Tienda. The thing to look out for though are the extensions, they are what make this theme the theme it is and the value you are now getting from all of the theme providers.

Today we are excited to announce that ZOO 2.5 is stable now! As always a big thank you to all of our BETA testers! ZOO 2.5 is now available to the public for free. The new release is about integrating ZOO with our upcoming Widgetkit and a much improved item ordering: Make sure to read about its new Features in our previous blog post. Important Upgrade Information We have spent some time to improve the upgrade path, so upgrading should be easier. Please make sure to backup prior to the upgrade. Keep in mind that once you've upgraded, you won't be able to downgrade again without a backup. As stated above, the ZOOtools will be removed by this update. Please also make sure to install the latest Widgetkit version. Where applicable the Video element will be converted to the new Media element by this update. Grab your own copy of ZOO 2.5 and take it for a spin.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 42: • Roadmap Meeting Recap• FAQs About the Recent Updates• Introducing Zen Grid Framework 2• Excellent Joomla 1.7 Extensions Native: Round 1• Product Version View - A convenient tool for compare Joomla templates• K2 v2.5.1 (maintenance release) now available    

As mentioned in our previous blog post, we’re doing some house cleaning to clarify our business offerings. This blog post tells you about the first steps we took a few months back; going GPL and creating a new online home for the Morph template framework. In the beginning of 2009, you could download the Morph [...]Source: The Joomla template framework Morph is now GPL and free on Prothemer

Yep, that’s right! There are some sweet changes coming up here, and part of it is to “clean our house to clarify business”. So, after extensive discussion among the team, we have decided to discontinue our old “pre-Morph” templates. Keep on reading and you’ll see why we’re doing this, and how you can get your [...]Source: Our traditional Joomla templates are officially discontinued on Prothemer

We haven't seen one for a while but we now have a new gamer theme for Joomla released by Shape 5 and it comes built on the Vertex platform. If you're looking for a theme with loads of module positions, and module variations, quite a few themes and extensions as well as coming optimised for search engines and styling for quite a few Joomla extensions, then this could be the theme for you. Check out the full feature list below.

Tachyon, the October 2011 release, is the perfect template for social networking, with its elegant design and structure, in conjunction with styled integrated for popular social plugin BuddyPress. The theme also features the new Gantry BuddyPress plugin, which adds support for the BuddyPress to all Gantry powered themes, and also debuts the new Splicemenu menu option, a dynamic dropline navigation system powered by Mootools; as well as the standard array of features.

S5 Vertex Template Framework. (http://www.shape5.com/joomla/framework/vertex_framework.html) Be sure to check out the demo page to see it in action!

The Momentum (J1.5/1.7) template has been updated to version 1.1 which fixes an error with rokgallery during the Gantry feature's check.

After plenty of tweaks and refinements, we’re now very happy to announce the release of our latest themelet – minima! This is a retro style themelet for the Morph template framework for Joomla. View the demo If this is your first time hearing about Morph template framework for Joomla, visit the dedicated website all about [...]Source: New themelet relase: minima on Prothemer

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 37: • Sneak a Peek• New multilanguage status module• Joomla, the not so FREE CMS• My 50th Birthday Wishes for the Joomla Community• [SOLVED] Gantry for WordPress Updater Issue• Hiding Joomla modules on mobile devices• A responsive skeleton Joomla Template• Supercharge your Joomla web site relevant search results• Don't be a stranger - improve your SEO with HTML5 link types• Fixing our trademark processes and policies

I started using the Vertex framework last month and I have to tell you, I like it. It is very intuitive, super quick to pick up and you have bags of options. So when this theme came out, I was interested and it doesn't disappoint. The theme works. If you are running a site with a few categories or sections - a magazine styled site and you're looking for an upgrade, then this could be the one for you.

Do you want to build a Joomla website powered by the Morph template framework, and be 100% sure you’re setting up the base in the best way possible? These two Kickstart Packages ensures your project has a smooth lift-off and easy journey ahead. Kickstart package 1 – Basic If you want to do the development [...]Source: New service: Kickstart your Joomla website development on Prothemer

I'm happy to inform that all of the directory-naming issues are now resolved, and that it's again safe to use the WordPress updater to update your version of the Gantry Plugin. From now on every time we release the new version of the Gantry plugin, it will be added to the WordPress.org plugins directory so everyone can easily stay up-to-date. In order to make the update process easier we've decided to place the Gantry plugin in the WordPress plugins directory, so everybody can easily update it like any other plugin. Unfortunately it didn't go as well as we expected. Because of the naming mistake WordPress isn't replacing the files in the old plugin directory but creates a new one. We're working on fixing that ASAP so everybody can safely and easily update their Gantry. Please DON'T update the gantry framework via the WordPress updater until the naming issue has been resolved. If you already updated your plugin, the solution is to FTP to the wp-content/plugins/ directory and change the directory's name from 'gantry-template-framework' to 'gantry', go back to the Plugins menu in the admin and reactivate the Gantry framework or remove it completely and install the version from the http://gantry-framework.org or the one found in your theme download directory. I'm very sorry about that and hope that we'll be able the sort this out really quickly. Jakub {rokintensedebate}

New version of the Morph framework for Joomla, and the popular Mocha themelet.Source: New versions of Morph and Mocha on Prothemer

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 34: • Six years ago today• Joomla! Rocks on Its 6th Birthday• Get involved with the future roadmap• RokGallery 2.0 has arrived• Drupal 7 Comes to RocketTheme• DOCman 2.0 Preview in Joomladay Germany• Taking screenshots of module parameters in Joomla• Adding fancy box to a Zen Grid Framework template• Our Joomla 1.7 Templates• Does blogging bring you business?• New fees and subscription plans coming on 2 September

Today we present you the eagerly awaited ZOO 2.5 BETA release. With this release the ZOO got refurbished quite a bit. It revamps elements and jazzes them up with the Widgetkit goodness. That also means that we are saying “good bye” to the ZOOtools, they will be replaced by their Widgetkit equivalents. Furthermore we are discarding the remaining MooTools scripts. Read all about the changes in the following sections. Widgetkit Quite a few elements make use of the Widgetkit features now. The Image element features a fancy spotlight and a new lightbox. The Video element got replaced by the new Media element, that lets you present videos and audio with the power of HTML5. The Gallery element was completely revamped to work similar to the Widgetkit Gallery. Last but not least there is a new Widgetkit element, that lets you choose any Widget to be displayed in your items content. Warp 6 The blog app now features a new template called "Warp6". It fully integrates with any of our Warp6 themes and matches perfectly their overall style. This makes the ZOO look especially neat and styled! Item Ordering A feature that has always been missing was the ability to order items by elements. Well, without further ado, now you can! You want to present your customers with ordered events? You want to order your products by their color or their size? You want to order your movies by their rating? The new release enables you to do lots of cool new stuff. Social Buttons In favor of the new and shiny Social Buttons element, we've kicked the Socialbookmarks element and the Facebook Like element. Now there are three buttons you can choose from. The Tweet button, the Google +1 button and the Facebook Like or Recommend button. Let everyone share your ZOO content! Replacing XML with JSON This one is a bit more techie. We have replaced quite a bit of XML with JSON. The elements e.g. are now stored in JSON. This makes it much easier for others to develop custom elements. It also makes for some speed improvements. In general handling JSON is much easier, than handling XML. Because of this change we've dumped the XML im-/export and replaced it with a JSON im-/export. This made the new comments im-/export rather easy to develop. Important Upgrade Information Please make sure to backup prior to the upgrade. Keep in mind: There is no smooth upgrade path for custom elements. All custom elements will need to be updated or removed prior or after upgrade! As stated above, the ZOOtools will be removed by this update. Please also make sure to install the latest Widgetkit version. Where applicable the Video element will be converted to the new Media element by this update. Because of the changes to the Gallery element, you'll loose your data associated to the Gallery element. What's next? The ZOO 2.5 BETA is exclusively available for members only who purchased the ZOO app bundle. As soon as ZOO 2.5 goes STABLE, it will be released for the public. Members can go straight to the download section in the member area and take ZOO 2.5 BETA for a spin! Be aware that it is a BETA version. It is not intended to be used on a production web site just yet. Please give us your feedback and tell us what you think!

This year the well-known Joomla!Day Germany is taking place in our hometown Hamburg! With over 25 announced talks, a great speaker list and organized by the Mambo e.V., the team who brought you JandBeyond, we are expecting a great event with lots of fun. YOOtheme is already a proud Silver sponsor and we are looking forward attending at this great event. The Joomla!Day is a two day event: The Business Day for web agencies and companies and the Community Day for all Joomla! enthusiasts. Our team will be there on both days and will be available for all kinds of questions. You are welcome to talk with us about our templates, the Warp Theme Framework, the Widgetkit, the ZOO extension or just about Joomla - no matter if you are a newbie or an experienced developer. We are already excited and hope to meet all the guys again from the JUG meetup in Hamburg last month. The Joomla!Day will be on September 2nd and 3rd, each day from 9:00 till 18:00. The location is at OTTO ("find ich gut"), Wandsbeker Str. 3-7, 22172 Hamburg. The ticket fee is very moderate: Business Day 69 EUR and Community Day only 10 EUR! Drinks during the day and lunch are included. You can book your tickets on the Joomla!Day website. C'ya there!

Widgetkit has been around for 6 weeks now and during this time a lot has happened. First we like to thank everyone who tried the Widgetkit betas and has send us feedback. We really appreciate it! Until today we have released 5 betas including bugfixes, optimizations and new widgets. Here are some notable features we've added so far: translations, RTL support, editor support for Joomla's TinyMCE and JCE, caption support for slideshows and HTML5 video playback in the lightbox. With the upcoming release of Joomla 1.7 on 19. July 2011, we've also updated Widgetkit to support the latest 1.7 version as well. This makes Widgetkit work perfectly on Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 and the latest Wordpress 3.2. Here is an overview of all the new widgets we've added since the first beta release: Gallery The gallery widget provides a great way to create an image gallery with multiple images on your website. With the built in directory browser you can easily add or remove image source directories and create your individual gallery in no time. To change the gallery's overall appearance we've added two new styles with BETA5, wall and slider, to current slideshow style. The wall style allows you to create image and polaroid walls with a lightbox and spotlight effect. The slider style puts the images next to each other and shows them fullsize on mouse hover with a sliding effect. Just pick your favorite style and everything else is done automatically in the background for you like image resizing and caching. It has never been that easy to create an awesome looking gallery! Map The map widget let's you create maps with multiple locations and markers. Powered by the latest Google Maps API you can change various settings to create a map which perfectly fits into your website. The new style settings allow you to change overall map colors and adopt your site colors to the map. We promise that you'll love this one! Accordion The accordion widget creates a group of items using a smooth sliding effect when selecting an item to display its content. We added a simple and clean style to make the accordion easily match to a broad range of websites. Media Player We unveiled the media player already in BETA4 which let's you playback video and audio files directly in your website content. Embedding videos is simply done through HTML5 <video /> element which is also widely supported on mobile devices like iPhones, iPads or Android phones and tablets. You also don't need to worry about older browsers, because it has a flash fallback for all who don't support these HTML5 elements. You can even play your .mp3 files by using the new <audio /> element. Great, is'nt it? ZOO Integration Widgetkit and ZOO are now able to communicate! This has been one of the most requested features and we are glad to deliver it to you now. By using a Joomla plugin you can display any ZOO content within our freshly released widgets like accordion, map and slideshow. Make sure to have the latest ZOO version installed as you'll need it to customize the content that is being displayed. The workflow is pretty straight forward and should already be known to you, if you've been using the ZOOtools. There is a new button in the Widgetkit dashboard called "Add new (ZOO)". Upon hitting it, you'll be able to choose what content from ZOO to display. By customizing the layouts of the item types you may assign any element you want to be displayed. So enjoy the power of our fresh widgets paired with the comfort and the flexibility of the ZOO. What's next? We are still not done yet! We will continue with adding new features to Widgetkit and we are also working on new widgets and style variations for existing widgets. If you have not tried it yet, make sure to check it out and send us feedback about how it works for you!

Say hello to Downtown, our latest theme release. Downtown comes with a fresh design and a broad range of easy to combine elements like color schemes, background textures and fonts. This makes it pretty easy to create your own custom style. Additionally Downtown brings you cool features like CSS3 animations, a broad range of module variations with optional ribbons for headlines and a new custom style for the slideshow of our Widgetkit component. Our Widgetkit gets some new features with the latest Beta 4 version. With the new Gallery widget you can easily create a image slideshow. Just select the folders where your images are stored, set a size, pick a style and you are done. The new Media Player lets you embed videos in the new HTML5 way but also adds a flash fallback for unsupported browsers. For all ZOO users we added a plugin which allows you to create Widgetkit slideshows from ZOO items. Available for Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and Wordpress Choose from 8 styles, 5 textures, 7 colors and 8 fonts Custom mobile theme to match the theme design 2 module styles combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons Enriched with CSS3 goodies All Warp framework features are available Joomla! Demo WordPress Demo

We have been internally discussing the possibility of hosting a RocketTheme User/Developer Conference. The idea is that we would organize and host a 1 or 2 day conference in a that we could use to cover a variety of topics. To start with we will probably focus on Joomla as it's the most popular CMS among our members. Topics we are bouncing around include: Customizing Existing Club Template - How to take an existing design and modify it completely for your clients Design-to-Template - Workshop on how to take a custom design to finished Joomla template (multiple part full day workshop covering all aspects of the process) Cross-Browser Testing and Gotchas - How to debug and fix browser bugs and issues Gantry Framework Tutorial - The ins-and-outs of the Gantry Framework including how to implement and extend it RocketTheme Extensions - How to use, modify, and implement a wide-variety of functionality with our array of extensions MooTools Development - Core concepts, differences compared to other JS frameworks, developing cool mootools based scripts, how to upgrade scripts from version 1.11 to 1.3 Advanced Q&A - Ask the team anything! If you have any ideas for a session that would be beneficial to a large portion of users, please reply to this thread with your concepts. What we are interested in is how many people would be interested in attending a conference like this? We are not certain on any exact details (location, price, schedule) at this point, but if we get a decent amount of interest we may proceed with planning and development of this idea. If this idea is successful and popular, we could have multiple of similar events in a variety of locations. Please provide us your best 'honest' answer to if you would be likely to attend an event. Please answer without regard to location at this point. We're trying to gauge the validity of the 'idea' not specifically an event in a certain locale. Voting is open to all past and current club members on our forum, so please vote now! Cheers! {rokintensedebate} {rokstyle} .rt-blog-listing ul li strong {color:#333;} {/rokstyle}

We are pleased to announce the release our first beta of the Gantry Framework for Joomla 1.6. This was a major update and large portions of the admin were re-written to be more usable and also to better integrate with the Joomla 1.6 API. Please download and test this version with your Joomla 1.6 installations and let us know any issues or bugs that you find. You can participate in conversations with the developers via our new Google Groups-based mailing lists.