We’re proud to release Pangea, a new free Joomla! template.  Pangea is a clean and minimalistic template, with strong emphasis on showing your content without distraction. If you want to put the focus on your content, then this may just be the template for you. This template also has additional styling for the wonderful K2 joomla CCK component from joomlaworks.

Feature Summary:

• Choice of 3 layout widths: for 800px, 1024px and 100% fluid width
• 16 Color styles to choose from
• K2 Integration and custom “Blog” layout template
• Animated menu with sub menus
• Accordion effect on modules
• Tested in all modern browsers
• Setup guide

This template comes in various colours and also sports either fixed width or fluid width layouts. Because of its simple nature and only one sidebar, it may not be the template for everyone. It should also be noted that this template has been deliberately designed this way.

This template only has one sidebar and may appear to sport only one module position on the sidebar. You may add as many modules in the sidebar as your site requires, you can even use the accordion effect to minimize modules if you have a lot of them.

Browse around the demo site to see if this template fits your needs or download it and test drive it on your own joomla! site.

Documentation

If you need help in setting up Pangea on your joomla website, we’ve put together a quick guide highlighting installation and configuration of your template: Pangea documentation

Updates

12 Jan. 2010: Version 1.1

• Fixed missing module positions (Thanks to James Griffiths)
• Added color styles to in backend description to make color selection easy (Thanks to Simon from K2Joom)
• Pagination CSS fix

Like this template? Add a reivew or give us a thumbs-up at bestofjoomla.com

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So you’re deciding between Wordpress VS Joomla and are not sure which CMS is right for you? Are you new to the world of Blogs and Content Management systems? Does it all sound a bit daunting and confusing? Then checkout this review by Rudolf Boogerman to help you decide which CMS suits your needs best. Rudolf has done a fantastic job of explaining in very simple and easy to use language (for the non technical users) what the strengths and merits of each system are. There is also a counter argument, or disadvantage of both Joomla and Wordpress, so its a pretty balanced review. If there’s only one article you are going to read before you pick your cms, then this is it!

Personally, since both systems are easy to get up and running very quickly, i would recommend trying both out for yourself to see which one you are most comfortable using. Look out for a comment from Joomla’s core team member Wilco Jansen!

Link to the review on miracletutorials.com

Official Sites:

• Joomla.org (for downloads, documentation, and everything else)
• Wordpress.org (for downloads, documentation, and everything else)

Forums:

Both of these systems have an excellent community of helpful volunteers and competent developers that have made these two of the most exceptional and most widely used pieces of community driven software web software.

• Wordpress forums
• Joomla forums

Demos:

• Joomla has a demo of latest v1.5 available on their demo website.
• Register on wordpress.com and try out wordpress for yourself, or see the opensourcecms section below for a demo of wordpress.

Another handy site for the undecided webmaster-to-be would be Open Source CMS – which provides a short roundup of commonly available Open Source content management systems avaialble as well as a functional working demo of each – so you can experience each system before you invest your time and energy into choosing the right one for your website or blog.

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mozami.net is proud to release a brand new template for Joomla 1.5 available for immediate purchase from the themeforest website. Business 2.0, is a premium, clean, fixed-width, 3 column, corporate business joomla 1.5 native template.

The template is suitable for small or medium businesses starting out with joomla and has a host of friendly and useful features built right in.

Some of the templates features include:

• 2 x horizontal menu variations – moomenu & suckerfish
• Joomla 1.5 native code.
• Collapsible Modules.
• Full width wrapper.
• Some “admin” options to customize behaviour
• Ability to use 1, 2, or 3 column layout.
• Ability to enable / disable the header for homepage and/or subpages.
• 18 module positions available in the template.
• Text resizer.
• Single column frontend editor window.
• Integrated fancy typography styles.
• W3C XHTML Valid.
• W3C CSS Valid.

Demo Time!

Need to have a closer look at the template or interested in getting a copy for yourself? Then click the demo or view the screenshots at themeforest website:

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