NorthlakeDesign.com is expanding to a new website: Alledia.com.After several years as Northlake Design, they're aiming to take the Joomla brand to a wider audience. In order to reach that goal, the company has had a "People-Friendly" makeover.

How time flies ... Joomla! is one year old today.  With more than 2.5 million downloads, over 50 thousand members and fast approaching half a million posts — Joomla! has much to celebrate.  The one most telling factor in all this is the monthly data transfer is currently hovering at around 1.8 terrabytes.  To put this into perspective, we reported data usage of one terrabyte in May.  Astounding growth.

Joomla! 1.0.11 [ Sunbird ] is now available as of Monday 28th August 2006 24:00 UTC for download here. and is being designated a Critical Security Release.

All existing Joomla! users MUST UPGRADE to this version, due to several High Level vulnerabilities that affect ALL Previous versions of Joomla! 

A new book focusing on Joomla! is now available for immediate delivery.

The book, entitled ‘Building a website using a CMS in 90 minutes'  is published through Management Books 2000 Ltd is aimed at individuals and companies that are new to CMS and need help and advice understanding the benefits of a CMS (over a static HTML site, perhaps currently designed in-house) and how to implement such a system.

Joomla! 1.0.11 Stable will be released in the next 24 hours.

This release will be categorized as a Highly Recommended Upgrade, therefore site managers should prepare their sites for an upgrade to 1.0.11

The exact details of fixes undertaken, will be outlined in the official Press Information that will accompany the release of 1.0.11

JoomlaJunkie , the latest in Joomla template providers goes live today. Boasting many features and suprises to come, such as commercial template giveaways, loads of free templates and much more.

Joomla Junkie's primary aim is to bring more color to the Joomla Community!

Globo Digital is proud to announce a new edition of the Support Center Component Help desk lineup, Support Center Express Edition.

Express Edition is designed for companies who would not utilise the more complex setup options offered by other editions, for example ability of grouping client users under separate client companies.

Joomla! is becoming popular in Albania.

There has been a a great increase in Albanian related websites powered by Joomla!, so today a new community support site was started with Joomla! related news, a support forum and soon will have online tutorials - of this in Albanian.

The Portuguese Joomla! Community has release a full 1.0.10 Joomla! translated pack.

This pack is fully tested and working, and includes frontend and backend in Portugal Portuguese language. 

PT users can see more details here including demo images, and discuss or comment this release here.