There have been several posts on the forum asking if the Vivid Content extension has been abandoned.

The Vivid Content administration demo has been upgraded to use Joomla 1.5.6. The Vivid Content extension was successfully installed on Joomla 1.5.6 and seems to be working well.

Vivid Content 2.5.4 has been released and is now available. This release patches several issues and most Styles now support international characters. This update is only recommended for users that require international character support. If you experience problems downloading or installing Vivid Content 2.5.4 please contact support.

Are you in search of Joomla! templates? This is the first part of a series of articles reviewing commercial Joomla! template clubs. In the first part we review three Joomla! tempalate clubs: Joomla Art, Template Plazza, and Joomla Jet.

If you are just starting out with Joomla! it can be overwhelming and at times frustrating. Here are five short beginner tips to help get you started.

The Joomla! User Access Control Level or ACL system manages user permissions associated with user levels. Joomla! contains seven different user and group levels: Registered, Author, Editor, Publisher, Manager, Administrator and Super Administrator.

Vivid Content 2.5.3 has been released and is now available. This release is the first official release for Joomla 1.5 Stable and is packed with new features. This is a recommended upgrade for all Joomla 1.5 users.

An official email sent by HostGator to customers states that, "HostGator will be making PHP 5 part of the standard working environment on all servers, as well as upgrading MySQL from version 4.1 to 5.0."

Joomla! 1.5.1 has been officially released. Joomla! 1.5.1 fixes a major security vulnerability with the XML-RPC Blogger API plugin. The plugin is not enabled by default, but the Joomla! core team recommends that Joomla! 1.5 users upgrade as soon as possible.

After doing a search for Joomla! 1.5 templates, a Site Ground link was one of the top results. For those not familiar, Site Ground is a web host that specializes in Joomla! hosting. They also apparently offer several free Joomla! 1.5 templates as well.

With Vivid Content version 2.5.3 scheduled for release in late February you might be curious about the new features and changes that are planned.

A recent post on the official Joomla! community forum claims that Joomla! 1.5 uses more resources than Joomla! 1.0. Considering the new design and architecture of the Joomla! 1.5 code, the conclusions of the test are quite surprising.

Want to login to Joomla using your Gmail account information? Joomla 1.5 makes this possible. By enabling the "Authentication - GMail" plugin users will be able to access secure parts of your web site using their Gmail username and password.

After reading a recent post on the Joomla.org Forum we were shocked to see that there are numerous opensource Joomla extensions that contain hidden advertising.