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discussion on "40 Hand-Picked Themes For Joomla"

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   Reply Roseli A. Bakar 2nd November 2009 at 5:21 pm

   These Joomla themes are pretty impressive !
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     Reply Michael Martin 2nd November 2009 at 8:34 pm

     Glad you like them too Roseli :)
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   Reply Keith Davis 2nd November 2009 at 8:25 pm

   Great sites, but…
   I’m just starting on the road with WordPress, trying to learn another CMS would be too time consuming for me.

   Unless you tell me that Joomla will knock spots off WordPress as a CMS, and it can be learnt in a few hours, but I hope that you won’t say that.

   For a blog or CMS website, it’s WordPress for me.
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     Reply Michael Martin 2nd November 2009 at 8:36 pm

     I can understand that Keith. It’s definitely best to get your head right around one CMS first before confusing it with another!

     And to be honest, I can’t see myself saying Joomla beats WordPress by much any time soon…
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   Reply Keith Davis 2nd November 2009 at 9:03 pm

   Three pieces of good news to celebrate…

   1 You aren’t going to tell me that Joomla is much better than WordPress.

   2 I now have a comment on my newbie blog from Pro Blog Design (thanks Michael and please visit again when I have installed a theme).

   3 The white areas of your post titles are now clickable.

   I can go to bed a happy man.
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     Reply Michael Martin 2nd November 2009 at 9:10 pm

     Haha, Keith, I’m going to be checking back to your blog for more Sharpe references!! :D

     And lol, it seems that everyone is glad to be rid of my old post titles! I guess they really were a nuisance for people!
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   Reply charly 2nd November 2009 at 9:35 pm

   Oh please no Joomla!! This CMS just sucks…
   drop this thing and go with wordpress please!!!

   best,
   C.
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     Reply Michael Martin 4th November 2009 at 12:39 am

     lol – Don’t worry Charly, I’m still “with” WordPress, I promise! :D
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   Reply Joomla Bear 3rd November 2009 at 7:21 am

   Don’t forget our free Joomla Templates.

   Polar Bear, Black Bear and Transparent Bliss are all very popular.

   Cheers

   Big Bear
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   Reply Robomaster 3rd November 2009 at 2:06 pm

   At least for now, wordpress is the future for bloggers. Joomla, put quite bluntly, stinks. Please stick to your excellent content on wordpress and drop any other CMS.

   All who are with me say ‘Aye!’
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     Reply charly 3rd November 2009 at 6:24 pm

     Aye!
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     Reply Michael Martin 4th November 2009 at 12:41 am

     Doesn’t look like Joomla has gone down particularly well. I think you’ll be getting your wish; pure WP! :D
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   Reply Rachelle 3rd November 2009 at 2:37 pm

   None of these themes ‘spoke’ to me. I started out using Mambo, then Joomla and moved UP to WordPress.
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     Reply Michael Martin 4th November 2009 at 12:45 am

     Another vote for WordPress? Can’t say I disagree with any of you. Thanks for letting us know that after trying both, you’d definitely go with WP Rachelle! :)
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   Reply Joomla Bear 3rd November 2009 at 5:03 pm

   It all depends what you want to do.

   I do a lot of work with both Joomla and WordPress – I love WP for its ease of use. Joomla is a little harder to get to grips with initially – but you can go a long way with Joomla if you want to. One of its strengths is user management.

   And both CMS’s have their audience, look at Google Trends.

   Joomla powers the top 8 American university websites – Harvard, Yale, etc. Joomla also powers Linux.com with 180,000+ unique visitors per day. One of the reasons Linux choose Joomla was for the social networking capabilities Joomla has when combined with various extensions.

   But I’m the first to admit WordPress ROCKS for blogging – we use WP for our blog on our website specializing in Joomla templates, we use Joomla for the rest of the site…

   We’re also building an ecommerce website for a client at the moment using Magento. Which also rocks for shopping stuff.

   So I belive the best CMS is not each individuals peronal favorite – but rather the CMS that is best for the task at hand.
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   Reply new jersey personal injury 3rd November 2009 at 7:27 pm

   I like the droppler effect, it looks great!
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     Reply Michael Martin 4th November 2009 at 12:46 am

     lol – I think it has a pretty cool name at least :D
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    Reply Tiago 4th November 2009 at 6:04 am

    You have a spelling mistake in this page ( Afterrburner ).
    BTW – Nice post.
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    Reply Fez Jilani 4th November 2009 at 2:11 pm

    No offense but this was a pretty disappointing post. Not that my opinion matters all that much but I’ll give it anyway. Some of the themes listed are not really good at all. I guess WordPress has more good quality free themes than Joomla, but how about not target a high number like “40″ and remove the shabby looking ones? ;)
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    Reply Robomaster 4th November 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Well wordpress warriors, it seems we have won the battle! ;-)
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      Reply Keith Davis 28th November 2009 at 11:52 am

      I like it… “WordPress Warriors” but maybe we’ve only won a battle, not the war!
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    Reply Sam 23rd November 2009 at 12:48 am

    Well, as JoomalBear pointed out – it is two different things. If you’re only up to easy-and-go blogging, stick to WordPress, though you could use Joomla as well. Since it’s capable of so much more and focussing on community stuff, with a load of (free up to paid) extensions of all kinds, it is more likely to suit bigger needs than WordPress does – as of yet. I have worked with both systems for quite a while now and love both for different reasons, so adding up content here with Joomla-related matters would at least have me as a fan ;).
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    Reply Dzinepress 25th November 2009 at 8:33 am

    excellent hand picked templates.
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    Reply Joomla Design Services 26th November 2009 at 2:13 pm

    Nice templates but are they all Joomla 1.5? I’m a little worried about what will happen when Joomla 1.6 rolls off, so some of my sites with Joomla 1.0 templates will remain this way until Joomla 1.6 is out….!
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    Reply Joe 28th November 2009 at 11:19 am

    Joomla24 (dot) com has some pretty nice templates but are running out of Joomla 1.5…when is Joomla 1.6 coming out?
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    Reply Mobile tracker 11th December 2009 at 5:09 am

    Joomla?

    Let me take a look, I have a Joomla site and I want to make it look nicer, thanks.
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    Reply Bruno 11th December 2009 at 8:18 am

    Hi Mobile Tracker,

    If you need a hand for template customization feel free to PM me, I can turn absolutely anything into Joomla ;)
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    Reply Free x box 360 game 29th March 2010 at 2:21 pm

    The Somnia template is amazing, thanks for the post :D
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    Reply Rajneesh saini 7th April 2010 at 1:21 pm

    I recently developed website in joomla http://sakshipackagingindustry.com/ . I developed this using default template in joomla
    Please review it.
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    Reply dumidesign 3rd May 2010 at 11:11 am

    cool themes , thanks

    Dumidesign
    http://www.dumidesign.com
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    Reply Steve 5th September 2010 at 2:12 am

    Good job. You saved me from hours of searching for these kind of templates

    Toronto Web Developers
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    Reply bag manufacturer 8th October 2010 at 1:47 am

    he following 40 themes are all free to use and show you the starting point you coul
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    Reply Jason Riley 3rd November 2010 at 10:23 pm

    Joomla training courses available at http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/courses/centre+for+continuing+education/information+technology/web+development/joomla based in Sydney, Australia.
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    Reply Jason Riley 3rd January 2011 at 10:58 am

    Joomla training courses and classes available at http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/courses/computer+&+it/web+design/joomla with University of Sydney.
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    Reply Azamat 3rd May 2011 at 5:59 am

    cool themes , thanks
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