Trijnie form websitestekoop.com has updated her nice tdwblackbluer template today, the updated file can be found at her folder of the templates download section

  www.websitestekoop.com

Released today a new template by coffeerings.co.uk called Sunset, very light (22 KB only) and bright template, the template is good for sites with not more than 800 pixels in hieght, see it live at the demo (coffeerings_sunset)

  www.coffeerings.co.uk

The latest and last release of Mambo Open source 4.5 stable 1.0.3 is out. The highlights for this release among many bug fixes are:

- Support for commercial WYSIWYG editors has been added
- Remember Me support
- Performance enhancements
- RTE (Richtext Editor) included in source code

A full list of bug fix can be found here which includes the latest security exploit. This will be the last release before 4.6

You can download it from sf.net or www.mamboportal.com file base

For websites that uses SEF (search engine friendly URL) option in Mambo Open Source 4.5 (all version), it's advised that you update your includes/sef.php file as soon as possible to prevent any security preach.

attached below is a copy of the e-mail that was sent out by the development team to address this issue, click on "Read more" to continue...

Released today 5 new CSS based templates in one package (ytw_instantloadpack)by YTW for learning purposes, the templates feature a plain layout (no images included) for those who are interested in learning how to use CSS to build a template instead of using tables, the included layout are:

- 1 column
- 1 column overflow
- 2 columns left sidebar
- 2 columns right sidebar
- 3 column left & right sidebars

The templates can be used as a starting point for creating a CSS based templates but remeber to give the proper credit to the author when using his templates, This package was released under the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" licence

Make sure to check out inknoise.com (link below), they have a really nice tool to automatically create CSS layout; all you have to do is to enter the template's dimensions and you can choose form 4 different layouts, it’s fantastic

Credits:

  www.yatienesweb.info
  Inknoise CSS layoutomatic

Added to the download section today a new template by Philipp Kartusch called pk_flower, the template feature a nice module header and a nice flower image in the template header. see it live at the Demo.

  www.kartusch.net

Released today a new template by Pixelsoul called Grey_Mambo

The template is mainly grey with a nice header and left side menu background, the Photoshop editable PSD file is also available from the PSD files download section, see it live at the demo.

  www.pixelsoul.nl

Listed below are some quick tips to speed up you Mambo site:

1- Enable GZIP compression: login to your admin backend interface>> from “site" drop down menu click on "Global Configuration" >> Click on the server tab >> change "GZIP Page Compression" option to yes

2- Remove any unused CSS classes from your csstemplate_css.css file to reduce its size, you can use "Web Developer Toolbar" extension available for Mozilla Firefox 0.8 browsers to see the current used classes for each page, but make sure you don't remove classes for the frontend admin section.

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Released today to the download section a new template by itura.net, called Mundu, the template feature a nice header with some african wild life pictures, see it live at the templates demo.

  www.itura.net