A Free Visual CSS Guide to Joomla 1.0.X. This guide was a Free Add-on to the Joomla Template Kit 2.0.

I have post it publicly  for all to view and learn from please note it's not perfect. I'm sure it could use some improvements we will add them over time.

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Red Evolution have launched one on one Joomla End User training delivered using Skype in real time. This isn't a web based tutorial it's a three hour session with a real Joomla expert.

phil-taylor.com are pleased to announce the dates and details of its first ever UK Joomla! Developers Course. The course will be held over a weekend, the Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September 2006 near Tewkesbury UK (M5 Motorway, Junction 9).

The cost including overnight accomodation, lunches, and endless tea and COFFEE will only be GBP£199.99 (+vat if applicable by law) per delegate. (Make sure you bring a laptop! Then you can take full advantage of the sessions that will be hands on!!).

Joomla! core team member Andrew Eddie has resigned from the project.  Andrew, who has been project leader and a long-time contributor, recently announced his intentions to the team.

Project lead developer Johan Janssens said he wanted to recognise Andrew for his leadership, mentoring and commitment to the project during its Mambo and Joomla! days.

The dutch company Bandhosting launches its Joomla! community site: Joomla-addons.org. Owner of the company is Adam van Dongen, known to the Joomla! community as Websmurf.

The Bulgarian Joomla! Community is the largest CMS community in this East European country - which is joining the European Community in less than six months.

The interest in Joomla! is rapidly growing up, so the concerns have arisen about the imminent transitional problems on the way from windows-1251 to UTF-8 based sites, especially with the rise of Joomla 1.5.

DutchJoomla.org's core translator Sander Vancanneyt wrote a preview about the upcoming Joomla! 1.5. Besides a preview of lot's of great new features and the new looks of the backend, the Dutch users will be exited to see that the backend now is fully translated and ready for the (bèta) release of  Joomla! 1.5

Core team member Mitch Pirtle has hit the virtual newstands in a big way as the cover story author of this month's International PHP Magazine.

Mitch was invited to put pen to paper about forthcoming Joomla! technologies and proved a more than worthy scribe, as evidenced by landing the front page.  He manages to encapsulate a lot of technical terms into a very good read for Joomla! users of all levels of expertise.

The VirtueMartDays 2006 will be the first meeting of its kind in the Joomla! world. Although VirtueMart is just a small part of a CMS, it has brought MANY people to work with Joomla!

All VirtueMart store owners, users, developers and webmasters are invited to join us at the meeting in the Parkhotel Blub in Berlin, Germany on July, 15 and 16 (Saturday and Sunday).