Not entirely sure why it hasn't appeared on joomla.org, but the sad news is; as of early June I have resigned from the Joomla development team.

Now before any conspiracy theorists decide on the where, the when and more importantly the why  I resigned, I will give you the brief version; Time.  As some may have noticed from the CHANGELOG's, my input into the development and maintenance of Joomla! has been woeful for more months than is in anyway reasonable.

This has been mainly due to work, family and other commitments that I have.  With this in mind, and knowing of the loads of quality developers now in Joomla, I decided that this would be as good a time as any to formally resign from the project.

And that's it!  No disagreements with any of the team members or direction of the project.  Just a simple lack of available time.  I will of course still be maintaining troozers.com and continue producing mambots, modules and components in my own unique timescales plus providing any help that I can to the Joomla! project, which I am still passionate about.

Onwards and upwards :) 

As some of you are aware, the template now gracing troozers.com is a modified "Internet Gazette" template created by those artistic fellows over at Rocket Theme.  To celebrate this, and to also point you in the direction of one of the best Joomla! Template Clubs out there, we have added RocketTheme to our list of Partner Sites.

Click on the banner above, have a browse at their professional templates and join up.  A small annual fee will gain you access to all of their templates - including all of their past ones.  That adds up to a wide choice which you can download, and download again as much as you want.

As you can hopefully see, I have updated the look of troozers.com in preparation for some of the newer, more technical articles.  I am just putting some final spit-and-polish to the "LAMP Installation" article, and ensuring that all the information is correct and geared towards Joomla! 

I have also started talks with some other guys, who wish to help take over some popular components and modules whose development has either stopped or stalled for various reasons.  The fruits of which should be seen soon.

A new banner has been created by JH-Design to display proudly on your site if you want :)

With the new look launched, I have decided to start releasing some of the old templates that I have used on my site before.  Now some of these templates were designed by myself, so don't expect any earth shattering designs or clever CSS work.

However, to kick things off, here is "troozColourful".  This was the template I was running before the one you see now, and was kind of a favourite of mine.  Templated up for me by Jacob Hodara , with a lot of nice bright colours and fun icons for the headers.

It it tickles your fancy, download it from here - as well as the Photoshop file to make any customisations you may feel are necessary.