YOOtheme Relaunch

YOOtheme website relaunch with Joomla 1.5

Jan

We got some changes in the new year. Maybe some of you already noticed that we relaunched our YOOtheme website two days ago. At first sight not much has changed but if you take a closer look you will notice that we made some major changes. One necessary step for us was to get rid of the old Joomla 1.0 installation and the SMF forum. In December we already moved our entire forum to phpBB3. So moving to Joomla 1.5 was the next step for us. We migrated our user database and developed our own plugin to synchronize the Joomla 1.5 and phpBB3 users. Also we used our new overrides for Joomla's core output to finally get our site fully tableless.

The second step was to simplify the site's content and add a bunch of nice features: One of our new toys is this shiny new blog (yay!) which will keep you updated on YOOtheme, web design buzz or at times just entertaining stuff. Furthermore we focused on improving every single page, cleaning up the menu structure and optimizing the site usability. That took a lot of work in the last weeks. Now you will have a better user experience browsing our site.

Here is a list of the improvements we made:

New Blog on the frontpage with RSS feed
We use IntenseDebate for comments
Completely new download section
Improved member area with enhanced signup, renewal and upgrade process
… and now we twitter!

Stay up to date and subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on twitter.

For the last couple of months we've been crafting some stuff that will get you prepared for 2009's web design demands. We'll tell you about that soon!

By Sascha | 08 January, 2009

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Kiper

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Congratulations on your new tableless relaunch!
It looks really good and you show how powerful the template overrides of Joomla 1.5 can be.

Keep up the great work!

Kiper

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thiagow

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very cool huh?

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debbie.songster

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Love the new look and all the cool features. Keep up the good work

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bristolsound

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And when can we buy this theme?

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ainul.jamal

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Looking good!

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bristolsound

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I would like to buy this theme!

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Test

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wanderfull

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caritas

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felicidades amigos, realmente felicidades esto es una hermosura de web

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mediaworks.information.technology.srl

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Since it seems that you follow every single step made by RocketTheme, I hope you will also start developing phpBB3 themes like they are already doing, including your previous templates. Actually, this is the real plus for RT.

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- sascha
  
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  Sorry, currently we have no plans for phpBB3 themes...
  
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  - Deniss Karpak
    
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    Sascha, I want also install IntenseDebate on my Joomla 1.5.x site....but I dont know how to do that...?! Someone can help me?? Maybe you have some joomla pack?! ))) Thanks for your great work! Keep going!
    
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mediaworks.information.technology.srl

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...and applying a discount to the renewing members too! You were simply ignoring our previous requests.

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lamanne

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Your site is really great, as well as the stuff you propose !
I definitely like the simple & professionnal appearance of your site !
But I agree with madmaxx : renewing should be cheaper than first membership...

Best wishes from France to all the YooTheme team for this new year !

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johnny.nylund.3

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Can you change your RSS feed "name/title" so yootheme is included? In my RSS reader it only shows "Blog"

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- steffan
  
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  Thanx for the hint, its fixed!
  
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moi

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Heel mooi

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Calle

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Great news

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Nicv

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This is good. I really love what Yootheme Club have been offering - Neat and Tidy and easy to use with great design. In fact, I've been looking forward to them to come out with something more powerful tools such as a Shopping Cart, Forum, and etc - great design and simplicity in use. Keep up the good works!

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drsawbones

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Fun. I'm going to toss in a guess for new v1.2 enabled YOOtemplates that will line up with Joomla! v1.6 release. :P

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Allan

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Hi, I was just wondering why we have to pay +19% tax for Europe. I'm based in the UK and our VAT tax rate is currently only 15%?

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Mad Tomato

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Congratz!... I love this new IntenseDebate.

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