What do you get with Deluxe Blog Factory?

• A well designed and user friendly Dashboard where you can see the most important information and have access to the most important functions.
• SEF URLs - native Joomla 1.5 router. Well formed URLs that help your website to gain more relevance.
• Per user Media Management; users can upload Media files up to a certain Quota (admin settable). Your website users will have the possibility to upload images and media from the frontend without overcrowding your hosting.
• Multi-Blogger: You can allow all users to create blogs, or just specific user groups.
• Import Blog Posts into Joomla content. Now the gap between the blogs you host and the content of your site will be bridged.
• Avatars: users can upload their own avatar or use their community builder avatar.
• Fully customizable template based on smarty tags; there is NO php knowledge needed at all.
• Backend Blog administration: you can edit or unpublish any blog entry or any comment from the administrative backend.
• Follow and be followed by other users.
• customizable eMail notifications for the significant events in your site (new post, new comment, reported post, etc).
• Customizable bookmark sites (digg, facebook, twitter, etc).
• CAPTCHA for comments.
• Tag Clouds. Tag filtering, tagging search.
• a lot of free modules to get on your site.
• Integrated Search Plugin.
• Deluxe Blog Factory comes also toghether with seven modules: Random Blogs mod, Tag Cloud mod, Latest posts mod, Top Active blogs mod, Top Rated blogs mod, Top Rated posts mod, Search mod.

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The Space Rocket Joomla 1.5 template by ThemZa is suitable for setting up a scientific outer space exploration website where students and scholars involved in astronomy, cosmology, aeronautics, astronautics, astrophysics, astrobiology, aerodynamics, avionics, astrometry, orbital and celestial mechanics, spacecraft propulsion engineering, etc. could share their discoveries and breakthroughs. The template offers 3 color schemes (red, blue, green) and 3 image logo variations (a globe, a telescope, a space shuttle). Its layout consists of a main content area and two sidebars, topped by a full width cosmic style banner area depicting the receding Earth as a rocket leaves its atmosphere and reaches outer space, and a JavaScript-based drop-down menu bar for quick ‘flights’ between the inner pages of your aerospace research dedicated website. A predefined site-wide bottom area with classified links is also included.

Explore the galaxy of layout customization options supported by the Joomla content management software and offered by the Space Rocket template in particular by watching the short (3:11 min.) video tutorial, available in YouTube and ThemZa HD formats.

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide, a new book that will help newbies to get started with Joomla! and quickly go beyond the basics. Written by Eric Tiggeler, an experienced Joomla! tutorial writer as well as the author of a Dutch Joomla! Manual, this beginner's guide will help readers build and maintain impressive user-friendly websites with Joomla! 1.5.

Joomla! is an award-winning open-source Content Management System, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It is written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system to store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available.

Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide is a practical book that gives readers a head start in using Joomla! 1.5. Readers will learn to build dynamic, interactive websites that are easy to expand, customize, and maintain without having to learn web languages such as HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It also explains how attractive home pages can be designed with clear and easy navigation using menus, submenus, and text hyperlinks.

Through this book, readers will learn to make full use of templates to make their website look attractive by tweaking the CSS, customizing templates and using custom logos, fonts, and colors. It will also help developers engage website visitors and turn them into active users by enabling them to register, add content, and leave comments. In addition to this, the book will teach users to increase their site's visibility on search engines by applying highly effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques.

Developers who wish to build and maintain their website using Joomla! 1.5 as well as newbie’s to the subject will find this book a beneficial and interesting read. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-beginners-guide/book.