"I must say that the Joomlashack University and your quick replies are FANTASTIC.

I am so glad I found you guys, as it has been great working with you and the University movies are so easy to follow.

No need to pay some local website builder $5000.00 to build me a website!
 
Parrish Macleod - Joomlashack University Student
"First, I would like to say that I really, really enjoy your online tutorials on JU. I am a rookie web master for my company's website, sorinroyercooper.com, and I can't tell you how helpful your tutorials have been to me. They are informative, helpful, and very easy to follow. They have saved me countless hours trying to read through books and they have saved my company a lot of money. Not to mention they have also saved me a lot of aggravation.

Thank you!
 
Matt Loy - Joomlashack University Student
"Thank you very much. Money well spent"

I've gone through most of the ShackU videos and I'm truly happy. What a Great job. Please keep up the high standards.

I watched a ShackU video, "Creating a blog with K2" by Forest Linden. I just want to say, "excellent job Forest!!". It's very rarely that I can find a video where everything is done just about perfect. Visually the videos are clear and look great even when expanded to full screen. You speak clearly. You stay on topic. It's obvious you guys/gals at JoomlaShack put time into making sure these videos meet some kind of quality standard before publication. Either that or your just a very multi-talented individual Forest...

I use Camtasia to make how-to videos for retirees learning to use computers for the first time. It's not an easy task to get right. I think I spend almost 45mins of editing for every 5-10mins of video I make. That's why I'm impressed with the work done at ShackU.

Thank you!
Joshua Banks "
 
Joshua Banks - Joomlashack University Student
"I have purchased four books related to Joomla, spent countless hours on the internet and Joomlashack University is by far the best use of my time and money. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
 
Karen Carter - Joomlashack University Student

" It took little prompting for me to write a testimonial to Joomlashack for it's great range of products. I am a web designer/developer and run a fast-growing web design studio in Sydney, Australia - Webline Design Studio. We were going through a re-brand and I found Joomlashack's designs. The site is http://www.webline.com.au My business partner was also impressed with the quality of the designs, so we purchased Aqualine Noir - which to this day, is my favourite of all the designs. It provided a great framework for us to implement and project that we are a quality design studio. Not only is it a bug-free template, it works 100% on ALL browser platforms, and we are constantly getting comments on how great our site looks. It also fitted really well with our natural design style, and because a very simple task to incorporate our pages into it. I'd like to extend our thanks for creating great products, and look forward to more as they come! "

 
Webline Design Studio

" Barrie North - your "blank template" tutorial set me on the road to embracing Joomla. What started out as an exploration for my church has become a position of being completely sold on Joomla.

I am impressed with your knowledge and want to thank you for giving me the tool I needed to start my own foray into the Joomla realm. We are building our site right now and finding Joomla so easy to manage at so many levels."

 

" I have tested and tried many Joomla templates for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes, including those from Joomlashack competitors. Within months of implementing their template for my small business, my site ranking in the major search engines including Google greatly improved. Comparatively my website and domain was very young, but I was able to get to page 1 on google based on some very competitive keywords anyway. I have been building websites since the 90s, but the quality of the Joomlashack templates just blow me away. Not only do they look nice, from a coding and SEO perspective they are simply the best and cleanest you can find. Also the advise given on the Joomlashack forum in regards to SEO, has been a major contribution to my results. "

 
Nicole Schneider
" Joomlashack provides great products + service. Their Joomla template designs not only look great -- but more importantly, they perform well with valid code and a source ordered content structure. Terrific for search engines -- and terrific for people.
Thanks Joomlashack! "
 

"Dear Joomla!Shack guys, You rule. thank you so much for coming up with a solution for sending bulk email with Joomla. I have a Joomla site with yanc as my email system and have not been able to send email as yanc is sooooo buggy and just doesn't work. It was programmed in by the guy who developed my site, but he is long gone. Here's the thing. I am so excited to try icontact with your joomla fix. Our visitors range from industry movers and shakers to tons and tons of soap opera fans. I look forward to hearing from you and thanks again."

 
  - Linda Marshall-Smith, Soapdom, Inc.

"Thanks Joomlashack for the great templates but even more for the wonderful tutorials. I made this site using the JS Education template and the free manual and I now have a much better understanding of how a Joomla site should be put together. I have bought the lightfast template pack so that i can rebuild my first sorry attempt on my own website and also shift the two other club sites I made with a html editor to Joomla. I did not like Joomla before I used your resources but I love it now. Thankyou"

 
"I just wanted to take a moment and let you know how impressed I am with the Joomla Manual.  It answers a lot of questions I had in an easy to understand format, which is very helpful.
I especially liked the way you laid out the book, making it easy to skim through and find the information I wanted very quickly.  Your idea of having a "The Least You Need to Know" section in each chapter was something I haven't seen before, but a really good idea that only added to the value. "
 
ó Bruce Kaufmann
" I appreciate your services very much. Although a veteran internet developer, I started building websites in 1997, I am new to Joomla and it is rapidly changing my life. I am a one man organization building websites and I used to do a lot of custom design for my website projects. Joomla has changed that.
My product to market timespan has decreased enormously by using Joomla! Your site has helped me a lot in learning to understand how Joomla works ! "
 
— Paul Bakker
" I very much enjoy your site (s) and your work around the Joomla CMS and thank you for all this!
Hope you will continue this work! "
 
— Jorgen Aschim
" You asked us to drop you a note if this is too much information. On the contrary... what a great newsletter, lots of "news you can use" instead of all marketing fluff. Yet you still managed to compel people to click onto your site, which I haven't visited in a while. Great job! I wish all newsletters were this informative. Nice friendly tone, too. "
 
— Site Hook Creative Services
" Thanks for the email. Your emails are always worth reading which is more than I can say for most emails I get these days. "
 
— James Friesen

" It is not often that I read through newsletters like these completely. But I almost always do with yours. It is like a second source of Joomla information (the first being joomla.org, of course). "

 
" Thanks for this update. You website has proven to not only be a wealth of information but on top of key issues.
Keep up the great work! "
 
ó Dan Connaghan, TheBigBrain.ca
" I got a dev-pack with 3 licenses of the lightfast-template. I really love this template and I'm playing around with it a lot. Is it possible that I upgrade to a dev-pack with 6 licenses? "
 
— Patrick Nell

"You helped me to delve into Joomla, learn it, and in less than one month create a site on my own to which I'm very grateful!  I love Joomla! It is so intuitive. I'm so impressed and grateful to the supportive/sharing community where you have played such a huge part. I've referred to your tutorials and site many times. Huge Thanks!"

 
" Thanks so much for the reply, certainly a good guide... this forum is a blessing! "
 
— Andres Calvoj

" I have been using Joomla for a little over a year now and finally decided to purchase a commercial template.. After seeing the Aqualine Reloaded template I knew it was for me. After spending a couple nights installing, configuring, and customizing the template I am very pleased with the quality of the template. It looks great out of the box and I was able to easily customize it for my personal preferences. Discovering Joomla was amazing and now with Joomlashack I am simply stoked! Thanks! "

 
Jerid Johnson

" Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you!  Amazing!"

 
 
" Thanks for your help and have a good night. What a great support place this is. "
 
— BKaufmann

" Gotta say though, I'm loving this template - especially its ease of customisation and standards-compliance. Quite awesome indeed!

Also, the high level of J!S user support is top-notch. "
 
" This is a fantastic template, and with all the help available here, even the newest of knuckleheads like me can get it to work. "
 
— Steve Nelson
" Thank you for solving my #1 and only problem with this template.  I now have everything I want with this template.  Thanks guys. "
 
— ErrolLew

" Joomlashack has the most visually appealing Joomla templates on the market. They started a full installation including customization on Saturday and it was completely finished before the weekend was over! I'm up and running on a gorgeous new website and there are no glitches whatsoever! They are the Joomla experts, period. "

 

" It is my pleasure to have you working on this project and I must say this is an excellent experience. Very seldom I had come across such efficient work and speedy delivery. I'm looking forward to passing more work to you in future. Keep up the good work! "

 
" The Simplicity template is superbly put together and what impressed me even more was the amount of support material that came with it. I'm exceptionally pleased with the template, the fantastic support and guidance. Thanks! "
 
— Philip Roy, NZMac.com
" We decided earlier this year to move our website to a CMS based system. After deciding on Joomla we needed a really good template. Joomlashack are without a doubt No 1 for templates, we settled on the Elevation template which we found easy to set up and looks great. There is also a very lively and well supported forum where if you do run in to problems or wish to tweak it for that extra special look, members are only to happy to help. An excellent site keep up the good work! "
 
— Paul Hacker, British Traditional Karate Association
" Wow, after a year of working with Joomla and absorbing all I can about layout, CSS techniques and playing with free templates, Joomla Shack has opened up a whole new vision on what a Joomla site should look and perform like. If you want a professional looking Joomla site, hands down you MUST use Joomla Shack! "
 
— Cheryl Allin, Real Estate Virtual Assistant

" Hey guys. Love the templates, keep up the good work! In my opinion there is nothing else out there that comes close to competing with the Joomlashack templates. "

 
" I would rate myself an "Intermediate" Joomla user. Someone who has a good understanding of it....but someone who is certainly not a code creator...and certainly not someone with the skills to develop an awesome template, especially a CSS compliant one. I recently made the decision to migrate an integrated phpBB forum on my Joomla site to the SMF forum system and as fate would have it, at the same time, I spotted the Simplicity template at JoomlaShack....and wanted it! Taking the site off-line to perform the forum transfer, I extended that 'down time' by around 36 hours. Thatís all it took to get most of the site migrated thanks firstly to Joomlaís template system, but mostly to the template itself, the instructions and ease of use. The Simplicity template is superbly put together and what impressed me even more was the amount of support material that came with it...backed by exceptionally prompt responses to questions in the JoomlaShack forum. Not only were detailed instructions provided on how to use the template, but a complete tutorial on how to alter the template also. Itís nice to see an approach (to what is a commercial product) that recognises a need for flexibility in user requirements. CSS compliance, fluid design and a great look to my site were all things Iíve been working on for ages, but something that was always going to be a laborious ëwork in progressí. The Simplicity template has allowed me to immediately address many of the issues Iíve been working on for quite some time. Iím exceptionally pleased with the template, the fantastic support and guidance...but mostly, I'm just really happy with my own Joomla site and how great it looks! Thanks Joomlashack! "
 
— Philip Roy, NZMac.com
" After several months of using Joomla!Shack products I must say that I am an Xtremely Satisfied Customer. Their products, support and screencasts are so very useful to my business that I would be seriously handicapped without them. Kudos to the entire team! "
 
— Allen Quinn, QEIUS

" After a serious let down from another web designer I decided to buy a Joomlashack template and conduct some modifications myself. I became aware of the customization service and sent in my specification for the tweaks I required and received a clear estimate for the work. Once payment had been made I was contacted by the Joomlashack consultant who, after clarifying a couple of points with me, set to work without delay. The template work was completed on schedule and to my exact specification. A couple of minor revision requests were accommodated within the agreed budget and I was given a prompt and cheerful helping hand with an issue which arose when the template was applied to my site. When compared to the time it would have taken me to customize the template (and the likely results of my own efforts :-)) the amount I paid Joomlashack for this work represents superb value. Recommended! "

 
" We bought Simplicity template for Asiaing.com five months ago. I should say: Great templates. It's awesome. "
 
— Asia Lu, Asiaing.com
" I love the templates from Joomlashack. They produce clean, appealing templates that really stand out. "
 
— G Segall, PSBS, Inc.
" I have JoomlaShack on my short list of the very best resources for Joomla. It's a great place to turn to when you are needing assistance to optimizing a Joomla setup. "
 
— Stormy Knight, Netporium LLC

" The website portion of my freelance business has really grown for small business customers. When I realized CMS was the way to go, I found Joomla. Using a template made sense to me, time is money. The Joomlashack templates were terrific! I've tried other templates online, and realized quickly that JoomlaShack offers the most flexible module positions and extensions built standard into their templates. Don't be fooled by the competition! I've tried Smooth Portal, Simple Pro and Elevation so far, and been incredibly pleased. These templates are very easy to edit and will quickly take on a professional, customized look with some graphic editing. JoomlaShack absolutely offers the best templates for your time and money. "

 
" Hi, I'd just like to say a big thank you to Joomlashack. I developed a my site using a customized version of your Voodoo template YouSayTomayto.com is a design store, so the overall look and feel is very important. I think the end results speak from themselves. I still have to tweak the layout a little, but I'm very happy with your template. Thanks again, "
 
— Mark Scott, YouSayTomayto
" After spending many years (since 1998) developing websites for customers using Microsoft Frontpage I have come to realise that the best solution for my customer's is to empower them with the ability to update their own websites. The trouble was that with most CMS web sites all looked the same and were very boring in design. That is until I found Joomla and Joomlashack. Joomlashack templates have enabled me to create websites that are web standards compliant but easy enough for me to customize to give that unique look. I am now not tied up with fiddly website updates and can concentrate on really helping my clients on more important areas like driving customers to their sites. I have found the Joomlashack forums and community very helpful. Thank you "
 
— Rob McGlinn, Australian Internet Solutions

" I've used a number of Joomla templates and I can say without a doubt that the JoomlaShack templates are the easiest I've worked with. Great documentation, easy to modify and great looking too! You help my clients look good and as a result I do too! Thanks! "

 

" Once again Joomlashack has helped me to complete a website project - and this time the site is my very own. I have collaborated many times with Joomlashack in the past, and I will continue to regard them as the ultimate Joomla Ace Up My Sleeve! I won't try to convince you of what a great CMS program Joomla is - I am sure you already know that. What you should also know is that the team at Joomlashack knows Joomla inside and out, and provides excellent customer support. I would not consider doing an important project without their assistence. If the project is important -- if everything has to go right, then you can rely on Joomlashack to take you all the way to the finish line. In particular I would like to thank Waseem Sadiq for his work on the template. Waseem is quite the CSS master, and a real good guy too! He developed a flexible menu module (JS Flex Login Module) - so that my site can have a non-joomla looking login area - I put mine up in the header and it looks great. He also added persistent submenus, which I don't have a use for right now, but its good to know I can use it at a later date. Waseem is a real good example of the Joomlashack experience - always helpful - always friendly - and always knowledgeable and experienced. I have yet to throw something his way that he can't handle. This is true of the entire Joomlashack team of course - see for yourself! "

 

" I've been designing my own web sites for a while now, but this time around I wanted to focus on the content and not have to worry about being creative about the look and feel of the website. Secondly, I recognized the power of Joomla but didn't want to bother with all the nuances of creating a template. I randomly found JoomlaShack on the web and they make some quality stuff. I had one minor issue with my template which was solved quickly in the forums. I literally had my site up and running withing a few hours I was adding content thanks mostly to Joomla and the quick template install. The bonus module made it worth the $30 completely. Much better than the $80-$120 templates circulating on popular sites. Thanks! "

 
" JoomlaShack Team, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you again for offering such a wonderful product. Your templates are fast, visually appealing, and the code is very well written. As a website designer, and search engine optimizer, I can say that using your templates both saves me time, and keeps my own customers happy. We have achieved top ranks in the SERP's, and receive plenty of compliments on the designs. Keep up the great work, we are looking forward to your new templates! They keep getting better and better. Thanks a bunch "
 
— Paul Gregory, CurrentPage, Inc | 12/14/2006



" I was contracted to build a website for Derek Moran B.A., R.F.P., President of Smarter Financial Planning Ltd., in Kelowna, BC Canada. I knew Derek would require a slick, tight and simple design, but I wanted the power of content management tools found in Joomla. I was reluctant at first, because my specialty is SEO, and I was concerned with a number of limitations common to a lot of CMS sites. Joomlashack offered a solution in the Lightfast 4 template: flexibility, modern design, w3c standards, and SEO - and the ability to add a little bit of 'Flash'. With only a few minor changes and an additional SEO/SEF Component (FREE), success was had! Within 3 days, Google picked up the site, and placed him number 1 for the search of his company name. Within two weeks, every single page had been indexed. Within 1 month, he scored top 20 with his keywords, and within 90 days his traffic was respectable! I am VERY impressed, because all of this occured with Pagerank 0, and virtually no backlinks! It is more proof (to me) that on-page design/SEO are still valued and rewarded by Google, and that Joomlashack takes this stuff seriously! Do not hesitate to rely on JoomlaShack to deliver SEO-ready templates on your pursuit of Top Ten Google results! "
 
— Kyle Carrington, Web Designer, Smarter Financial Planning Ltd. | 02/01/2007
" I was poking around with Joomla for a month or so, but I could never make up my mind on which FREE template to use. That is when I realized that I am spending hours and hours and hours hunting for something free, when I could just fork over some cash, get a beautfiful template (LUSH), and spend those hours building up my content. You guys have done an amazing job. Anyone who has seen my website has said "wow...very professional". Sure they might be humouring me, but I think they really do love the template. Good job! "
 
— William McEvoy, Cooking With SQL | 02/08/2007

" I cannot say enough about the work done by the team at JoomlaShack. I provided them with a PSD of my new site design and they brought it to life in Joomla. Their attention to detail was noticeable throughout the project and they took a vested interest in delivering the perfect template. My experience could not have been better. Not only was I impressed with the results, but the project management throughout was very professional. At all times, I knew exactly what was happening with the project. Not only did they deliver what I believe is a stunning design, it was also very easy to manage the new template. They provided a guide to using the new template and went above and beyond when I first moved to the new design. I was so pleased with their work, that I had them create templates for my family of sites including http://www.everythingtreo.com and http://www.everythingq.com. The gentlemen at Joomlashack understand design, coding and Joomla. Youíd be hard-pressed to find a team that offers expertise in these areas. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a custom template or looking to convert an existing design to Joomla. "

 
" Joomla!Shack Rocks. I have only positive things to say about the template, install instructions and support. I wish every vendor was like you. Thanks. "
 
— Adiseshan Shankar, ASAP | 02/19/2007
" Just took a look at your new School Demo site. Really liked the look and feel of it, in fact I like the whole concept of a package deal to help schools set up a complete site out of the box. "
 
— Ian Loxton, | 03/08/2007

" After trying a number of templates and providers, we decided on JoomlaShack to be the team that helped propel us to the next level in online gaming communities. Their price is very reasonable for the excellent code I fully understood when I unzipped it. Their Templates are well coordinated and efficient, simple in nature but endless in possibilities. The Frag-Addicts and Fraganoob.com are proud to endorse Joomlashack as THE top provider of Joomla Templates. "
 
— Baset B Jones, The Frag-Addicts | 03/08/2007
" You folks are awesome, thanks for the great templates and tutorials. "
 
— David R. Walker, Charter Consulting Group | 03/14/2007

" As a non-designer who has to teach designers, such is the life of an educator with IT skills! I have very much appreciated using your VooDoo template please see my colour scheme through changing the CSS etc. It still needs some work but joomla is bliss compared to the state I was in with Dreamweaver 22,000+ files menus and submenus and a full site update taking hours and hours if it worked at all. Joomla is ideal for large complex sites with menus and being able to change menus easily without whole folders having to be updated is so much easier. Ok it took time to transfer but is now far easier to manage and update. I also work with moodle VLE (http://moodle.org in case you haven't seen it), MovableType for blogging and Mediawiki though working more with colleagues using pbwiki. Your survey was OK but you should have a look at http://www.ijoomla.com/ The templates and joomla are very much admired by colleagues and students. Keep up the good work even if users can ruin you colour combinations! "

 
" - Joomla shack is the only place we found any real help, and templates that worked - every time. This has saved us thousands of dollars, and hundreds of hours. "
 
— Grace Publishing, Grace Publishing | 04/23/2007

" I just wanted to let you how superior your entire company is. From the great templates to the intensive customer follow up after the purchase, I have been blown away! I have bought many templates from a variety of companies over the years and you far exceed all of them. All my appreciation. Keep up the great work. "

 

" I purchased the Voodoo template for my anniversary gift website. I could not have been more pleased with the look, functionality, support, and ease of personalization of this JoomlaShack template. Do you value your time? Don't spend hours and hours learning how to position elements via CSS, worrying whether or not your template is SEO optimized, etc.--Purchase a JoomlaShack template and move on to more important work! I definately will be using JoomlaShack templates for all my future site development. "