A few months ago, I did a post on 9 awesome free Joomla templates. The post turned out to be one of the most popular posts on this blog.

Now, I've collected another 13 free joomla templates. And they're as awesome as the previous ones ;)

All of these templates are created for Joomla 1.5.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 45.

Brian Teeman wrote an interesting post about a search project aimed at finding out the use of different CMS types in Europe. Guess which system is no. 1?

Fotis Evangelou has written a post on how to redirect your site RSS feed to FeedBurner, Chris Davenport has a post on what will happen with Joomla development post Joomla 1.6, and as usual there are some posts from Joomla.org.

Enjoy the read and have a great week!

In a few months, the next major version of Joomla will be ready for production sites.

The first release candidate for Joomla 1.6 is just around the corner, so a stable release shouldn’t be too far away.

What does it take to move your Joomla site to Joomla 1.6? Read on for some tips :)

Great video by Jen Kramer and friends:

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Today, the Joomla Project announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 14 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 13 release on November 1, the team has fixed approximately 69 issues in the tracker. They have closed an additional 45 tracker issues. At the present time, they have 5 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1.

This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks to everyone involved for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to a stable release of Joomla 1.6!

See the CHANGELOG below for details of what has been changed in this release.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 44.

Brian Teeman asks "Why Joomla", Brian features a guest post by Philip Locke about a migration project from Mambo to Joomla, Matt Lipscomb has a write-up on the community aspect of Joomla, and there is a reminder about feedback for the Joomla.org redesign.

Enjoy your week!

Virtuemart has been the largest ecommerce solution for Joomla for a number of years. However, the component has started to show signs of age.

The way VirtueMart was built is quite different from how Joomla is put together, and a growing number of users are feeling frustrated about the system.

In this post I take a look at the current state of the VirtueMart project (as I see it), and the future ahead of us. Will VirtueMart keep up?

This week, some of my friends and I are going to Denmark. We’re travelling from Oslo by ferry on Wednesday, spending the night on the boat. Thursday is spent in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. Thursday evening will be spent in Helsingør, which is a smaller city a bit north of Copenhagen. On Friday, we'll go back to Copenhagen and stay over until Saturday when we go back to Oslo by plane.

Denmark is a lovely country to spend some relaxing days in. Good food, good beer, nice atmosphere and friendly people. And, most of the time, they understand at least a little bit of what we Norwegians are saying ;)

So why am I telling you this? Well, if you’re a Danish Joomla addict living in Copenhagen, I have a gift for you. It's in celebration of the first Danisk JoomlaDay, and the amazing event they presented.

The first person who contacts me and is able to meet me somewhere centrally located in Copenhagen during Thursday, will get a free Joomla book.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 43.

Joomla 1.5.22 was released last week, JoomlaWorks released a CDN plugin for Joomla, I found a great blog post from nonumber.nl about plugin order, and there are some posts about the growth of Joomla.org and the branding of the Joomla project, to mention some of this week's top stories.

Enjoy the read and have a great week!

In this video Brian Teeman, co-founder of Joomla! and OpenSourceMatters Inc, is explaining WHY JOOMLA.

What is open source, why is Joomla! different and what does the numbers and statistics say about Joomla?

Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 12 release on October 18, the team has fixed approximately 71 issues in the tracker. They have closed an additional 28 tracker issues. At the present time, there are 13 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1.

This progress is directly related to the continued efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks to everyone involved for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to a stable release of Joomla 1.6!

See the CHANGELOG below for details of what has been changed in this release.

Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 42.

This week, the topics of posts are Joomla events, some new templates and some opinions about the Molajo distribution of Joomla 1.6.

Enjoy the read!