Recently announced was the release of the excellent Joomla 3.1. Joomla 3 was the latest major release of the Joomla CMS, with Joomla 3.1 the second minor release in this series. Upgrading from Joomla 3.0 to 3.1 is a one-click upgrade with backward compatibility. If you're running a Joomla 3.0 site, simply use the one-click upgrade to get the new features and the latest bugs fixes for 3.1.

It has become common knowledge that every day the number of mobile devices used to view your site grows. Responsive design gives your site the power to provide an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices from a mobile phone to a desktop computer monitor.

As many of you would know the release of Joomla! 3.0 is just around the corner and with it the introduction of the much talked about Bootstrap interface library, bringing with it great improvements to the Joomla! user experience. Previously with Joomla!, extension interfaces (templates included) tended to be a bit of mixed bag varying greatly from one extension to the next depending on the developers involved. This left users having to relearn the interface with each new extension added to Joomla! and developers having to allow for different interfaces with each extension.

We are pleased to announce a huge update to our template framework. This new framework is a collaboration of months of work by the Joomla51 team, combining some of the most used and asked for features within an easy to use and beautifully styled interface in which you can now quickly customise your template to your own needs and have your site up and running in a matter of minutes.

It has been a long time in coming but we have finally set up our Joomla51 forums. Those familiar with Joomla51 have known we have largely offered support for our templates via email. Although this has worked well for our Joomla51 users in the past, for the sake of the masses we have decided it would be best to offer that support on a forum based format.

Forum based support offers a number of advantages, the most obvious been that your queries may now be answered by a quick search through the forums posts in the chance that you may not be alone with your template query...