First of all we want to thank all of you guys! We had a great time at the Joomla World Conference 2012. It was really exciting to meet you all and get to know the people using Joomla and our products... and of course to take great pictures with you for our photo competition!

The Power of ZOO

The JWC offered a lot of really interesting talks and keynotes on a variety of topics for developers, designers and the whole community. We were especially excited about one of them. As many of you already know the ZOOlanders attended the conference as well and gave a talk on The Power of ZOO. So the YOOtheme team did not miss out on this opportunity to listen to Daniele's great talk. Read more about it in their JWC review blog post.

San Francisco

The Joomla World Conference '12 in San Jose was not the only stop for the YOOtheme team. Being in California we had to go to San Francisco, of course. And it was totally worth it! Cable Cars, Lombard Street, Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, Muir Woods or China Town, we tried to visit everything we could manage in the time we had. Besides all the cool sightseeing stuff we also had the great opportunity to celebrate Thanksgiving and see how everybody is going crazy on the Black Friday, including ourselves ;)

Photo Competition

It was great to meet so many people and take a photo with them. We really enjoyed talking to you and sharing some beers later. We received so many cool pictures and it was hard to pick the 10 lucky winners. All winners will be notified by mail today that they have won a Joomla theme developer membership.

A big thanks again to all of you participating in our photo competition at the conference. Enjoy the winning pictures.

If you're going to San Francisco... ♪

...you're gonna meet some gentle people there. If you're going to San Francisco... ♪ Ok, that's not quite correct. Probably it should be more like: If you're going to San Jose, you're gonna meet the YOOtheme team! That's right, the whole YOOtheme crew is going to the upcoming Joomla World Conference 2012 from 16th - 18th November in San Jose. For us and all of you also attending the conference this will be a great opportunity to meet up, drink some beer and just have a good time together. And if that isn't enough of fun, we are also giving away free memberships!

Catch the team and win a membership!

We give away 10 Developer memberships for free! All you need to do is to take a picture with one of us and email it to info@yootheme.com. That's it! In case you don't know who we are, just take a look at our team page. We will pick the 10 lucky winners after the trip and each one gets a Developer Joomla theme club membership for free. We're excited to meet some of you guys and looking forward to have a great time at the conference.

Update: Take a look at the competition winners and read the JWC review.

Welcome our brand new MiCasa theme! Its plain modern style is complimented by pastel and muted colors as well as rounded box shapes. MiCasa will be perfect for all of you running a website associated with home and (life)style or fashion but it easily works for many other sites as well.

As a prominent eye catcher, we have integrated the front page slideshow for your teaser pictures, enhanced with the popular rotate effect from our latest Widgetkit version. The second custom Widgetkit style we created for MiCasa is the elegant semi-transparent slideset with smooth CSS hover effects. And of course, we also added a matching set of social icons that come in a box style with rounded corners.

Now, on to the variations: MiCasa offers you a range of 8 different styles as well as 8 beautiful backgrounds and 12 fonts to be freely combined with 3 secondary colors. Too many choices? Well, we’ve also included a selection of predefined profiles using the different styles, colors and fonts which you can select from in the theme administration. And just in case you were wondering - MiCasa also fully responsive and built on the latest version of our fast and slick Warp Theme Framework.

• Available for Joomla and WordPress
• Provides a fully responsive layout
• 8 style variations available
• Choose from 8 colors, 3 secondary colors and 10 fonts
• 4 module style combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
• Custom Widgetkit styles for slideshow and slideset
• Flexible theme and column widths
• All Warp framework features are available

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Two weeks ago, on 27 September 2012, Joomla 3.0 was released. It's the next major version of the Joomla CMS and comes with some great features we are really excited about. Finally Joomla ships with jQuery included, now that's pure awesomeness! We've been following the development closely and in the last couple of weeks worked on the integration of our themes and extensions.

Today we are glad to announce that Warp 6, Widgetkit and ZOO are Joomla 3.0 ready! Thanks to our Warp framework this means our 19 latest themes are immediately available for Joomla 3.0. The same goes for our popular Joomla extensions: Widgetkit 1.3 and ZOO 3.0! The Warp UI fits nicely in the Joomla administration. The release of Joomla 3.0 has also officially ended the Joomla 1.5 support. So we've dropped support for Joomla 1.5 in the latest Widgetkit 1.3 and ZOO 3.0 accordingly.

Everyone who wants to try out our Joomla 3.0 themes today, just grab a copy of Joomla 3.0 and head over to our Warp themes, Widgetkit or ZOO downloads. Enjoy!

Here they are! Today as promised we released the hosting icon set we used in our new Sync theme. It will be very useful if you have a hosting, cloud or other website business. It matches perfectly with our previously released tools icon set.

The new hosting icons include a storage device, a rack, a helmet, a fire extinguisher and different clouds. They can be applied to many different contexts, for example your IT and software projects.

All hosting icons come in a 32-bit transparency PNG file format and 8 different standard sizes ranging from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. This gives you a total of 48 beautifully handcrafted icons, optimized for each specific size.

Take a look at the new hosting icons and join the icon club!

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Come and check out Sync, our great new responsive theme for October 2012! Sync is perfect for hosting sites and, thanks to its modern and business-like look, also an excellent choice for your corporate website projects.

As a special feature and eye catcher for your homepage, Sync comes with a nicely designed pricing table which adapts perfectly on all your devices and can be easily used anywhere in your content. In addition to this feature, we have included two custom styles for the Widgetkit Slideshow and Slideset which perfectly fit the theme.  And of course, this theme also features a matching set of social icons that are easy to customize as part of our editable Adobe Fireworks Image Source files. With Sync we also present our new upcoming icons set release, so stay tuned.

What about the theme styles? Sync offers you a choice of 8 predefined styles as well as 8 backgrounds, 15 fonts and 6 module styles to be flexibly combined with 4 badges and 6 icons to create a truly unique look for your website. The Sync Theme is based on the latest version of our Warp Framework featuring a responsive layout to make it look great on all mobile devices.

• Available for Joomla and WordPress
• Provides a fully responsive layout
• Choose from 8 colors, 8 backgrounds and 15 fonts
• 6 module styles, combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
• Flexible theme and column widths
• All Warp framework features are available

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Take a bite of our delicious new theme Tasty! Thanks to its extremely versatile design, Tasty is not just a great choice for caterers or restaurant and food shop owners, but for anybody seeking a fresh and clean looking theme.

Our new club theme comes packed with great features. First of all, there’s the unique parallax scroll effect that offers you a cool new way of presenting the teaser images in your header or other horizontally centered module positions. Secondly, we’ve added bonus styles for the Gallery and Slideshow widgets to perfectly match the theme and enhanced them with the new "scale" effect from our latest Widgetkit version. And as a little extra treat, Tasty also features a matching icon set with customizable icons for gastronomy as well as social networks.

But this theme has even more delicacies to offer. You get to choose from an extensive range of 8 style variations, 8 colors, 9 backgrounds and 15 fonts. In addition to this, we have provided 5 different wrapper styles, thus offering you even more combination possibilities for giving your website a truly unique look.

Of course, Tasty is also fully responsive and utilizes the latest features of our fast and slick Warp theme framework. Here’s an overview on all the great features of Tasty:

• Available for Joomla and WordPress
• Provides a fully responsive layout
• Choose from 8 colors, 9 backgrounds and 15 fonts
• 3 module styles, combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
• Smooth CSS parallax scroll effect for your teaser pictures
• Flexible theme and column widths
• All Warp framework features are available

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Do these icons look familiar to you? Then you’ve probably seen them in our new Sphere theme. Since the tool icons worked so well with the clean style in Sphere, we thought that many of you would like to utilize them for their own projects.

After our previous release of the playful space icons we have focused on a more business-like and versatile icon set this time. The new tool icons include a hammer, a wall, an empty and a filled tool box, gears and - naturally - tools. They can be applied in many different contexts, for example in your IT and software projects.

All tool icons come in a 32-bit transparency PNG file format and 8 different standard sizes ranging from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. This gives you a total of 48 beautifully handcrafted icons, optimized for each specific size.

So, roll up your sleeves to get started with our new tool icons and join the icon club!

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Lift your website into higher spheres with our brand new August 2012 club theme release! Sphere comes in a nice and clean style that will be perfect for all app developers among you and serves as a great basis for presenting your software and other products.

What makes Sphere so special? First of all, there is the prominent sidebar which can be flexibly used for displaying your website navigation menu, latest news etc. Secondly, you now have two module positions instead of only one for both innertop and innerbottom in Warp, thus offering you more variety in presenting your content. In addition to this, you may also select from several extra background colors for the innertop and innerbottom modules.

But this theme has even more up its sleeve: choose from 8 style variations, 9 fonts and 4 module styles, combined with 4 different badges and 8 icons. Needless to say that Sphere, as the direct successor of our Nano2 theme, also features a fully responsive layout. The theme is built on our Warp 6.2 framework using the latest responsive technologies like a fluid grid system, fluid images and media as well as CSS media queries and breakpoints.

Want to have all the great features of Sphere at a glance? Here you go:

• Available for Joomla and WordPress
• Provides a fully responsive layout
• Choose from 8 style variations and 9 different fonts
• 4 module style combinable with 4 badges and 8 icons
• Selectable background color for innertop and innerbottom
• Flexible theme and column widths
• All Warp framework features are available

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With the release of the responsive Warp 6.2 version back in June we have taken a major step forward in the development of our popular theme framework. As the community of developers and designers who use Warp for their own custom templates keeps growing and growing, we are now proud to present you a new and comprehensive tutorial Getting started with Warp in German language!