The main index page gives you an image heavy magazine style layout that is definitely pleasing to the eye.  Each post page also displays the content in an easy to read format too.  You get a drop down navigation across the top of the layout – for your basic website links and the sidebar items also look nice.  Overall, if you are looking for a great new theme to go with your great new website idea – there might not be a better theme around.

Go check out the JournalCrunch preview, or download it directly from the Site5 WordPress themes website.

No Joomla is not a board game, and I can promise you it has nothing to do with Robin Williams.  Joomla is, in fact, one of the most popular CMS (content management systems) out there today.  If you need a website backend that can do a little ‘bit of everything, then Joomla is the script you are looking for.

You can think of it as your building blocks to create an awesome and powerful website.  The core features are:

Content Management – Joomla really makes simple work out of organizing your articles and content you publish.  With the built in tools, users can rate the things you post, comment on them, e-mail them to a friend and more.

User Management – Joomla also allows you to have people register to do more things on your website.  This could be as simple as commenting, or could get as complex as adding more content to the website.  The script is very flexible to meet your needs.

Now you also have search, banners, media, and more than can easily be managed and manipulated to suit your needs too.

Joomla Plugins

If you need more functionality from the script, you can always add extensions to it.  By installing an extension, you can customize Joomla even further by giving it new abilities.  For example, you might need better tools to back up your Joomla powered website.  You could simply find an extension that suits your needs, install it – and then you gain new features that were not built into the script by default.

• Check out the 10 Most Popular Joomla Extensions

Joomla Themes

The look and feel of Joomla is fully customizable too.  By downloading and installing new themes or templates, you can give your Joomla a design that better suits your website.  A simple search for “Joomla themes” on Google will give you an endless supply of themes to choose from too.  If you feel daring enough, you could also write up and design your own theme from scratch too.

Overall, Joomla is yet another great CMS script that will make your life much easier.  No longer do we need to write up webpages, page by page in HTML.  With sophisticated scripts like Joomla, all you need to do is install, write up your content and you are good to go.

Download it and try it yourself at Joomla.org.

Those are two traits I love to look for in web site or template design.

Biruality, which actually means “blue” (first thought was it was some sort of Mortal Kombat finisher) is a lightweight WordPress template with support for 2 columns, widgets, has a fixed width, and is SEO friendly.  Clean, simple and well worth your time – go download Biruality at Clickfire.com.

It seems like they would like to move all of the stuff currently across the top to the side, creating more room for you to view your pages inside of the WordPress admin space, without scrolling up and down.  I like the idea, but I want to do it now – not later.  If you find yourself seeking the same type of WordPress admin interface, give the Fluency Admin plugin for WordPress a shot.

As you can see, the menus are rearranged, main menus down left, sub menus across the top.  If you are using WordPress 2.6 and up, then you should not have any issues getting going with this awesome plugin.  I added this to one of my smaller sites the other day, and love it.  I might have to be adding it to others later on. 

As you can see, this changes the way Gmail looks from top to bottom.  I like the lighter colors and the more “clean” interface myself.  You can pick up the user script for it here:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7646

Also, be sure to stay tuned on the Super Clean Gmail blog, so you get the latest updates on how the project is going, and when it has been updated:

http://gmailsuperclean.wordpress.com/

Is it about time Google did a refresh of Gmail themselves?  I think so…

• Blue Satellite – By: Styve Bolduc (preview)
  
• Metal Zone – By: M Musik (preview)
  

Which one do you like more?  Found them both at PremiumBeat.com, which I am really looking forward to seeing how well working with them will be.  Thus far, for the budget podcaster – they seem to have the cheapest deals for royalty free music.

Also if there is anything you would like to see where that isn’t here already – leave a comment and let me know. I’ll be taking in all the feedback shortly and hopefully once all is said and done will have a finished product that all will enjoy.

It has a classy look, yet still has that new Web 2.0ish feeling to it. I like it.

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Yes, we are saying goodbye to year two and hello to year three with an entire new design on WebHostingShow.com.

If you still see a few new things creeping up, don’t mind me – I am just putting the finishing touches on the layout. I do have to say though that this one is so far my favorite of all the “looks” the Web Hosting Show has had.

So let me know what you think, and if there is anything you would like to see added – please be my guest and suggest. This Web site is as much yours as it is mine, so if you want to see something here please let me know.

Opinions, suggestions, ideas and complaints are always welcome.

Well this is a first for me! After plugging one of my favorite theme sets (and asking for an emerald version to be made) it was nice to see myself added to the “about” section of the theme.

+ Check Out the Cylence Theme – Emerald Variation Firefox Theme for Yourself!