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I am definitely sort of stuck in the loop of PC windows environment. Although I have looked at changing over to a Mac (who hasn’t): The simple truth is I have been using a PC for so long it would cost a fortune to change over all my programs.  The basic cost of the Mac would pale into insignificance in comparison. When asking myself what I am going to do when I have to replace my present system, I have been looking at the various options and to be honest I cannot make up my mind other than to say whatever I do I will keep my Laptop, which is Windows based as a spare and to get on to Paltalk. I really don’t want …

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What can be better than “free”? Despite its appeal, not many things are free in this world and those that are often come with less than stellar quality routinely attached. However, free and fully fantastic go hand-in-hand with the Joomla templates we’ve chosen for this post. First, a few notes on Joomla. This mammoth content management system has been around since 2005. At its launch, it hit the ground running with no less than 2.5 million downloads in its first year. It hasn’t seemed to look back since. It’s broadly popular appeal is rooted in its easy-to-use design. This is why it’s enjoyed by novice beginners as well as expert developers alike. It’s also extremely flexible, allowing templates to step in and cut your work …

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Joomla is a very popular content management system used by both novice designers and experts alike.  It’s open source management.  In its first year of release it was downloaded 2.5 million times.  It’s been five years since then and the system is still going strong with over 6000 plug-ins in existence available for it.  Designers have had a field day creating lucrative templates for Joomla, which is great for consumers looking for just the right design.  Below we’ve selected several commercial templates to showcase and highlighted some interested features about each. Commercial Templates   Mynxx   The well-known Joomla e-commerce and shopping component, Virtuemart is this template’s best feature.  Virtuemart is integrated on many different levels here, such as a custom theme as well as …

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As the regular readers of this blog have guessed, at Dreamtemplate.com we do like WordPress for our blog pages.  Indeed, WordPress, has taken off and is being constantly improved and modified, more or less all the time.  Should we though, be using Joomla for our blogging pages.  Are they really the same tool, or is there differences we should be considering.    Well there is no doubt that WordPress is easy to use, and easy to pick-up.  You do not need to be a seasoned ICT professional to be able to use it, and around forty minutes is all it takes to train someone who is a novice, to be able to use WordPress effectively.    The general feeling is that WordPress has everything logically …

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