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Joomla Photogallery Themes


people prefer joomla for making their web portals or blogs due to its powerfull feauters, today we have collected best Joomla photo gallery templates available on the web.

1- Photoshot (65$)

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2- Kite Photography (69$)

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3- JV Irrit (15$)

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4- Perfecto (55$)

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5- Aluma Photography (69$)

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6- YouStudio

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7- YouPhoto

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8- Grid

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9- Photography

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10- Cool Photo

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Ultimate Collection of Best WordPress Alternatives


No doubt WordPress is very powerful and most widely used content management system many blogs and websites are rely on wordpress. But many people think that it has limitations at some point. So keeping in mind today I have collected list of wordpress alternatives you can try using next projects. I think some of them are better than wordpress. Enjoy!

1- Drupal

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2- Tumblr

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3- Joomla

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4- Frog CMS

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5- Bb2 Evolution

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6- Habari

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7- Get Simple CMS

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8- TextPattern

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9- Cushy CMS

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10- Expression Engine

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11- Life Type

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12- Movable Type

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13- Flat Press

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14- Serendipity

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15- Contao

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16- Silverstripe

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17- Nucleus CMS

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18- LiveJournal

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19- Croogo

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20- Concrete 5

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21- Blogger

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22- Symphony-CMS

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23- Egg Blog

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24- vbulletin

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25- Radiant CMS

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26- Melody

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27- Posterous

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Top 10 Fresh Joomla Extensions


Joomla is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world. It is used in over 30 million sites. Joomla Extensions Directory contains more than 4,000 Extensions in it. But finding best one is not an easy task. Today i collected Top 10 fresh joomla extensions for you, You can download these extensions From their websites.

1- Stalker

Stalker is very Fantastic extension. It is Fast and easy to setup. Links to your social networking pages with ease and opens them in a new tab too.

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2- Expose Flash Gallery

Expose Flash gallery is capable Joomla extension for displaying your images. Expose is a Flash-based tool which allows you to create eye-catching slide shows of your pictures on the web.

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3- News Show

News Show is a content display Extension that allows you to display Articles in a wide variety of formats. The Extensions makes it easy to display multiple items on one page in a variety of formats.

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4- Extended Menu

This Joomla module extends the functionality of the main menu module. In addition its code is completly redesigned which should make it easier to extend/modify. It is compatible in joomla 1.0. , 1.5. or higher.

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5- Sobi2

Sobi2 is Content Construction and Directory Component for Joomla.

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6- Virtuemart

Virtuemart With its fully-featured eCommerce engine, VirtueMart is perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your Business to new Heights. Despite being Open Source Software it powers large Online Shops providing the Performance, Usability and Security you expect from professional Software.

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7- Acajoom

Acajoom is the most powerful newsletter component for Joomla. It has been designed with ease of use and robustness in mind.

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8- Community Builder

This Joomla extension is a must for any type of social network, yet has uses beyond that purpose. Nothing comes close to the amount of features this one provides. There are some setup steps involved, so it does take some time to get setup.

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9- Extplorer

With Joomla extplorer you can browse directories & files, Edit, Copy, Move and Delete files/directories. You can also search, upload and download files.

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10- JCE – WYSIWYG Editor

An award-winning, configurable WYSIWYG editor for Joomla based on Moxiecode’s TinyMCE. It includes advanced Image/Media, File and Link handling, plugin support, and an Administration interface for editor configuration.

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20+ free Joomla Extensions


Joomla Extensions Directory contains more than 4,000 Extensions in it. But finding perfect and non commercial extensions from it is really very tough job to do, But i have done it for you. Today i collected 20+ free joomla extensions You can download these extensions From their websites.

1- RSFinder!

RSFinder! really makes your life easier when managing your Joomla! Website. As an administrator, you often spend a lot of precious time browsing through the Joomla! menu in search of your articles, your menu items and so on.

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2- Advanced Tools for 1.5

Advanced Tools is a set of Tools for Joomla! 1.5 designed to make your life easier. It includes time savers like the Update Manager, that allows you to update your site easily, Library and Package Managers to handle installation of libraries and large multipart extensions.

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3- Joomla Comment System

Joomla Comment system is a free extention of Joomla Some features of this extension are, Increase members and visitors participation in your website, Gain valuable feedback on each of your article, Increase visitor’s trust, Having comments in your content shows the world how other people value your content, Google loves new and updated content. Let your visitor to do that for you

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4- JS Jobs

JS Jobs allows you to run your own, unique jobs classifieds service where you or employer can advertise their jobs and jobseekers can upload their Resumes.JS Jobs available in five themes.

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5- JoomlaFCK Editor

The JoomlaCK (formal know as the JoomlaFCK) is a super lightweight, powerful and feature rich WYSIWYG editor for Joomla!™. It comes equipped with a gorgeous GUI (Graphical User Interface) and offers a sophisticated set of tools.

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6- Page Peel Banner

Page Peel Banner is a Candy Joomla Ads System based on a wonderful Pageear Script

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7- iWebCal for Joomla

A port of iWebCal for Joomla is now available. This component takes an .ics file from iCal or any other application generating vCalendar files and displays them on your website. You can also publish your calendars from Google Calendar.

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8- WoodyChat

Display nice chat icon in your website for yahoo messenger with status (online or offline )for your id , and lets people contact you.

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9- Add To Blog Code

Simple-to-use module, that generates code which user can copy and paste into his or her blog. It gets header of the article opened and first 250 characters of introtext, and then adds link to readon the full article. Customisable name of the link and module’s header. It only works in full article view mode.

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10- JDiagnostic

JDiagnostic is a system that provides small tests for getting up and running with ease. It features items like an IP address/range checker, configuration wizard for LDAP and Active Directory, tests for Single Signon and User Sources as well as a handy param dumper.

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11- Easy Blog

If you need a much more powerful and user-friendly blogging tool, EasyBlog is your answer. EasyBlog comes with built-in Twitter integration, Ajax-based commenting system, reCAPTCHA integrations, and many more features

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12- Store Locator

Place a Store Locator on your Joomla website using the power of Google Maps. Allow your visitors to search for nearby locations and see them visually on a Map. You have the ability to specify unlimited Store Locations easily in the Joomla Administration.

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13- Simple Spotlight

Simple spotlight is a jQuery image rotator with navigation. You can have up to 10 images with links. You can turn off the navigation and choose between several effects for transition.

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14- JoomlaBug

JoomlaBug is a component which allows you to track several issues related to your software or parts of your website. It allows you to record the user feature requests too.

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15- Phoca Photo Gallery

The Phoca Component provides an image gallery that also includes slideshow functionality. The Extension provides a large number of options for controlling the catalog categories and the images they contain. Images can be displayed using a variety of techniques, including light boxes, slideshows or standard page views. The gallery supports images and videos and is search engine friendly.

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16- MediaLibrary Search plugin

MediaLibrary Search is a plugin that allows searching media from MediaLibrary directly through the general Joomla site search.

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17- Easy Twitter Status Module for Joomla

Easy Twitter Status the easiest FREE solution for displaying Twitter Status in Joomla 1.5.x. Using Easy twitter Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free to use over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.This free module allow anyone has Adsense account to display adsense ads on their Joomla site.

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18- Google Adsense Module for Joomla 1.5.x

Google Adsence module Allows you to run one or more Google AdSense units on your pages. This simple Extension provides control over all key variables plus the ability to block an unlimited number of IPs and to use alternative messages when ads are not displayed. This is a Free Extension.

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19- Donimedia Flash Calendar

Donimedia Flash Calendar is that module From which, you can display a flash calendar on your Joomla! 1.5 website .

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20- AJAX Recommend by foobla

The foobla AJAX Recommend is a Joomla 1.5 Native module, this AJAX module provide fully recommend feature on Joomla site within a module – this can does what a component can does.

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21- Random Background

It is Small & Nice Joomla System plugin to set random background for body tag or any HTML tag depend on menu item.

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Top 10 Content Management Systems


There are plenty of options when it comes to picking a content management system for a development project. Depending on how advanced you need the CMS to be, what language it’s built in, and who is going to be using it, it can be a nightmare trying to find the “perfect” CMS for a project.

However, some CMSs have a slight edge over the rest of the competition because of the usability of the software. Some are just easier to install, use and extend, thanks to some thoughtful planning by the lead developers. Here are 10 of the most usable CMSs on the web to use in your next project.

1. WordPress

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What is there left to say about WordPress that hasn’t already been said? The PHP blogging platform is far and away the most popular CMS for blogging, and probably the most popular CMS overall. It’s a great platform for beginners, thanks to their excellent documentation

and super-quick installation wizard. Five minutes to a running CMS is pretty good. Not to mention the fact that the newest versions auto-update the core and plugins from within the backend, without having to download a single file.

For those users not familiar with HTML or other markup language, a WYSIWYG editor is provided straight out of the box. The backend layout is streamlined and intuitive, and a new user should be able to easily find their way around the administration section. Wordpres also comes with built-in image and multimedia uploading support.

For developers, the theming language is fairly simple and straightforward, as well the Plugin API.

The WordPress Community is a faithful and zealous bunch. WordPress probably has the widest base of plugins and themes to choose from. A great part about the WordPress community is the amount of help and documentation online you can find on nearly every aspect of customizing WordPress. If you can dream it, chances are it’s already been done with WordPress and documented somewhere.

2. Drupal

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Drupal is another CMS that has a very large, active community. Instead of focusing on blogging as a platform, Drupal is more of a pure CMS. A plain installation comes with a ton of optional modules that can add lots of interesting features like forums, user blogs, OpenID, profiles and more. It’s trivial to create a site with social features with a simple install of Drupal. In fact, with a few 3rd party modules you can create some interesting site clones with little effort.

One of Drupal’s most popular features is the Taxonomy module, a feature that allows for multiple levels and types of categories for content types.

Drupal also has a very active community powering it, and has excellent support for plugins and other general questions.

3. Joomla!

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Joomla is a very advanced CMS in terms of functionality. That said, getting started with Joomla is fairly easy, thanks to Joomla’s installer. Joomla’s installer is meant to work on common shared hosting packages, and is a very straightforward considering how configurable the software is.

Joomla is very similar to Drupal in that it’s a complete CMS, and might be a bit much for a simple portfolio site. It comes with an attractive administration interface, complete with intuitive drop-down menus and other features. The CMS also has great support for access control protocols like LDAP, OpenID and even Gmail.com.

The Joomla site hosts more than 3,200 extensions, so you know the developer community behind the popular CMS is alive and kicking. Like WordPress, you can add just about any needed functionality with an extension. However, the Joomla theme and extension community relies more on paid plugins and themes, so if you’re looking for customizations, be ready to pay.

4. ExpressionEngine

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ExpressionEngine (EE) is an elegant, flexible CMS solution for any type of project. Designed to be extensible and easy to modify, EE sets itself apart in how clean and intuitive their user administration area is. It takes only a matter of minutes to understand the layout of the backend and to start creating content or modify the look. It’s fantastic for creating websites for less-than-savvy clients that need to use the backend without getting confused.

ExpressionEngine is packed with helpful features like the ability to have multiple sites with one installation of software. For designers, EE has a powerful templating engine that has custom global variables, custom SQL queries and a built in versioning system. Template caching, query caching and tag caching keep the site running quickly too.

One of my favorite features of EE that is the global search and replace functionality. Anyone who’s ever managed a site or blog knows how useful it is to change lots of data without having to manually search and open each page or post to modify it.

ExpresssionEngine is quite different than other previously-mentioned CMS in that it’s paid software. The personal license costs $99.95, and the commercial license costs $249.99.

5. TextPattern

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ExpressionEngine (EE) is an elegant, flexible CMS solution for any type of project. Designed to be extensible and easy to modify, EE sets itself apart in how clean and intuitive their user administration area is. It takes only a matter of minutes to understand the layout of the backend and to start creating content or modify the look. It’s fantastic for creating websites for less-than-savvy clients that need to use the backend without getting confused.

ExpressionEngine is packed with helpful features like the ability to have multiple sites with one installation of software. For designers, EE has a powerful templating engine that has custom global variables, custom SQL queries and a built in versioning system. Template caching, query caching and tag caching keep the site running quickly too.

One of my favorite features of EE that is the global search and replace functionality. Anyone who’s ever managed a site or blog knows how useful it is to change lots of data without having to manually search and open each page or post to modify it.

ExpresssionEngine is quite different than other previously-mentioned CMS in that it’s paid software. The personal license costs $99.95, and the commercial license costs $249.99.

6. Radiant CMS

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The content management systems that we’ve listed so far are all PHP programs. PHP is the most popular language for web development, but that doesn’t mean we should overlook other popular web languages like Ruby. Radiant CMS is a fast, minimal CMS that might be compared to Textpattern. Radiant is built on the popular Ruby framework Rails, and the developers behind Radiant have done their best to make the software as simple and elegant as possible, with just the right amount of functionality. Like Textpattern, Radiant doesn’t come with a WYSIWYG editor and relies on Textile markup to create rich HTML. Radiant also has it’s own templating language Radius which is very similar to HTML for intuitive template creation.

7. Cushy CMS

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Cushy CMS is a different type of CMS altogether. Sure, it has all the basic functionality of a regular content management system, but it doesn’t rely on a specific language. In fact, the CMS is a hosted solution. There are no downloads or future upgrades to worry about.

How Cushy works is it takes FTP info and uploads content on to the server, which in turn the developer or the designer can modify the layout, as well as the posting fields in the backend, just by changing the style classes of the styles. Very, very simple.

Cushy CMS is free for anyone, even for professional use. There is an option to upgrade to a pro account to use your own logo and color scheme, as well as other fine-grain customizations in the way Cushy CMS functions.

8. SilverStripe

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SilverStripe is another PHP CMS that behaves much like WordPress, except has many more configurable options and is tailored towards content management, and not blogging. SilverStripe is unique because it was built upon its very own PHP framework Saphire. It also provides its own templating language to help with the design process.

SilverStripe also has some interesting features built in to the base, like content version control and native SEO support. What’s really unique with SilverStripe is that developers and designers can customize the administration area for their clients, if need be. While the development community isn’t as large as other projects there are some modules, themes and widgets to add functionality. Also, you’ll want to modify the theme for each site, as SilverStripe doesn’t provide much in terms of style, to give the designer more freedom.

9. Alfresco

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Alfresco is a JSP is a beefy enterprise content management solution that is surprisingly easy to install. A really useful feature of Alfresco is the ability to drop files into folders and turn them into web documents. Alfresco might be a little bit more work than some of the other CMS and isn’t as beginner-friendly, it certainly is quite usable given the massive power of the system. The administration backend is clean and well-designed.

While Alfresco might not be a great choice for most simple sites, it’s an excellent choice for enterprise needs.

10. TYPOlight

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TYPOlight seems to have the perfect balance of features built into the CMS. In terms of functionality, TYPOlight ranks with Drupal and ExpressionEngine, and even offers some unique bundled modules like newsletters and calendars. Developers can save time with the built-in CSS generator, and there are plenty of resources for learning more about the CMS.

If there is a downside to TYPOlight, it’s that it has so many features and configurable options. Even though the backend is thoughtfully organized, there are still a lot of options to consider. But if you’re wanting to build a site with advanced functionality and little extra programming, TYPOlight could be a great fit.

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