and  advise that our July  template release has been moved towards the end of month instead July 15th. This is only for Month of July. Last few weeks were very busy and demanding that we had to have all hands on deck.

With that  said let me start by saying that this is one of the best moments where I am so proud to be in a presence of YouJoomla Team and can only wish everyone the same experience I have. Shortly I will start calling some names but I also want to say THANK you everyone that has took the time to contribute , test , troubleshoot and complete this project of ours.

So here we go , big big thanks to Mr. Constantin Boiangiu who has took extra time and effort to develop new scripts for our fans and bring in new ideas and functions that make YJSimpleGrid stand out from the crowd.
Beside Javascript , Costa is also very proficient in CSS , PHP MySQL and if you are interested in knowing more about him please visit his website http://www.constantinb.com or his blog http://www.php-help.ro where you can find many useful tutorials and code snippets.

Mr.Silviu Bobicescu who discovered very useful functions that we have used in our cross script development. Silviu is also the man behind YJ Contact us and many of our plugins and modules.

Next on the list is fierce Mr.Andres888 who spent many hours trying to penetrate thick YJSimpleGrid armor and came back with simple words
"It's a really good job from your side. I haven't found any bugs in your framework but I must say that is very user friendly!".

Yes this is the same Mr.Andres that helped us before to secure our code and he has served Joomla! community with discovering security holes in Joomla  extensions.

Huge help also came from  Mrs. Bertha Kvaran and Mr.Jay Burton who spent countless hours testing the framework and reporting back with detail information on GUI experience and bug reports.

Last but not least , Mrs. Sonja Todorovic and Mr.Dan Casky who gave us an insight on their experience with GUI and suggested the current design and information details.

Fouuuu! Now that is a list and I am glad I am the one who is writing it.

Now to YJSimpleGrid. We have collected the most used features, and of course most needed ones and put them in a array of options for you so you can show us the real power of YJSimpleGrid. If you did not
see the introduction news and video please check out the play button below.

 

Instead of complicating the development with multiple "unsure" options , YJSG gives you a very simple word by word explanation and a preview of what you are about to do.

Example , our grids as you see them on your Joomla!  frontpage are minified and ported in to Grid modules template settings so this way you don't have to switch back and forth between admin and frontpage.
You actually see your grid in front of you  and can reference it to  your future joomla template layout .

Each of the grid modules has original module position name above and the default set width that you can adjust how you like. This means freedom for you and us . No more file editing , moving divs , braking
layout  so you could just change your logo width. You set your size hit apply and done.  Lay back and get a tee :).YJSG is here!

We  are aware that certain software  have limits ,but we still pushed the bar and expanded  the default joomla options  like FPNI setting (front page news items  number  of characters) .  When we develop and give
you our joomla template demo  everything looks neat and pretty but we know  that the end user must learn new way of editing and using our software, and this is where the beginners might have trouble.
Was it 2 lines or one to have  all news items look alike? 

Well that is over now , you set the number of character that each front page news item should have and everything is  lined up and clean. Furthermore  we all know that  there are many Javascript libraries but we
are limited to Mootols . It is  most advanced one but only in the eye of beholder. How many times have you fund a  script that works only with Jquery ?

Yes all those nice  little animations that you would love to have but you are not sure if your template will play nice.  Or if you are developer  you know how it is when your customer says " I want this" 
but  you also know that there is no way you could explain why " this" will not work with " that"  well now with YJSG you can have your Jquery running natively  with Mootools 1.12 or
Mootools 1.2.4 ( Joomla 1.5.19 comes with Moootls upgrade plugin ) with no conflicts.We hope that this option will bring  new users to Joomla community and if you are developer new customers.

The last 4 years  we had countless debates what font to use and will it play nice in all browsers . Well , now we   have  collected 35 font styles  that fit perfectly with YJSG. You can use Cufon , Google Fonts API or
15  beautiful CSS font styles that will let you expand your development and bring new ideas.  You can also select only specific elements tag override and this way tell them all to use your new and shiny font style.

And now let me brag a little :). The admin interface O BOY! The hierarchy of Web 2.0, Joomla , PHP, XML, CSS , JS and options ( Costa, you can rest now ) .  Very simple to navigate, loaded with useful instructions ,
separated in settings groups for easy editing. We did our best to make it very simple but at the same time very powerful and detailed. 

So , all that is left to say for now is , YJSimpleGrid will be out in few days with YouGrids free Joomla Template powered by YJSG. I hope you took few minutes out of you day to read this article and you like
what you see. In few weeks YjSimpleGrid website will be ready and you will be able to find detailed documentation and video tutorials.

Dragan Todorovic is lead developer and founder of YouJoomla.com

for CSS, JS and Image files including PSD's.

If you have few minutes of free time , see our introduction video for first look in to our new development grounds and check out developers blog post for detail insight.

YJSG is loaded with new features and  checks out all points of Joomla! web development including , security , design , coding standards and site speed. From array of features we would like to name a few and give you a short insight in to new joomla template coding standards.

List of YJSimpleGrid Key Features:

• Advanced Joomla Template Manager Admin Panel
• Flexible Layouts
• Over 52 collapsible module positions easily add more
• Automatic module width adjustments in template manager
• Native RTL
• Native Mobile devices support
• Enhanced SEO features to increase your site visibility
• Custom iPhone/iPad/iPod and handheld devices template
• Cross browser support
• Native Cufon and Google Font plus 15 CSS font styles
• Native Jquery Support
• Native Joomla Mootols 1.2.4 System Upgrade support
• Native rounded and square module styles 1 click switch
• 1 imgage PNG transparent rounded corners approach for easy editing
• Component off switch or menu item assignment
• Topmenu off switch or menu item assignment
• 7 default module grids with 5 modules each. Easily add more
• Flexible logo and header size changer
• Upgraded server side compression
• Frontpage news items number of characters control
• Visible RTL switch and Font resizer
• 5 menu styles
• Show page title under menu link
• Custom error and offline pages
• Custom user pages ( com_user )
• Slide to top smothscroll
• XHTML , CSS and JS valid

Security

• High Priority - Core - XSS Vulnerabilities in back end. More information »

Complete upgrade changes and bug fixes information.

All Youjoomla Demo packages are in upgrade process. We will advise once the download files upgrade is finished. In meantime please upgrade to Joomla 1.5.18 Stable Version. Here is more info on how to upgrade your Joomla Installation to latest stable version.

Although there are no security issues fixed in this release, we consider it a security release because a security-related bug has been fixed and because many sites may be upgraded directly from 1.5.15 to 1.5.17.

System

• Fixed problem logging in when Session Handler is set to None (20221)
• Fixed error message when running Joomla! in a PHP version prior to version 5.2 (20219)
• Reverted change to JFolder::makesafe method that introduced a bug (16506)

Statistics for the 1.5.17 release period:

• Joomla 1.5.17 contains:
  • 6 issues fixed in SVN
  • 6 commits
• Tracker activity resulted in a net increase of 4 active issues:
  • 10 new reports
  • 0 closed
  • 6 fixed in SVN
• At the time the 1.5.17 release was packaged, the tracker had 307 active issues:
  • 171 open
  • 105 confirmed
  • 31 pending

Complete upgrade changes and bug fixes information.

All Youjoomla Demo packages are in upgrade process. We will advise once the download files upgrade is finished. In meantime please upgrade to Joomla 1.5.16 Stable Version. Here is more info on how to upgrade your Joomla Installation to latest stable version.

Moderate bugs fix:

Description

The migration script in the Joomla! installer does not check the file type being uploaded. If the installation application is present, an attacker could use it to upload malicious files to a server.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.15 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.16 or later)

Description

If a user entered a URL with a negative query limit or offset, a PHP notice would display revealing information about the system.

Affected Installs

All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.15 are affected.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest Joomla! version (1.5.16 or later)Reported by Security ListContact

Complete upgrade changes and bug fixes information.

All Youjoomla Demo packages are in upgrade process. We will advise once the download files upgrade is finished. In meantime please upgrade to Joomla 1.5.16 Stable Version. Here is more info on how to upgrade your Joomla Installation to latest stable version.

since it is one of the most common ways for intruder to get in or abuse your website.  If you did not know, one of the best ways to protect yourself from XSS is to turn your Joomla! SEF on.

But the problem is that not everyone is using it like they should. So it is up to us developers, to try to protect you before you even think about downloading our products. Bumping heads together has helped and we also joined forces with brilliant Mr. andresg888 who was to our surprise,  very polite and helped us test some common exploits.

Most of them use your in code $_POST and $_GET that are not sanitized to attack you. We have brushed up on our strip_tags() , htmlentities() , htmlspecialchars() and so on , but most of them either strip everything or are not 100% reliable for protection. So we came up with few lines of code that would strip everything from $_POST or $_GET and just return letters, numbers , spaces and  ' . Mr. andress888 was kind enough to test it for us and confirmed protection.

So here it is , 2 lines that can save you from trouble

$_GET = preg_replace("|([^\w\s\'])|i",'',$_GET);
$_POST = preg_replace("|([^\w\s\'])|i",'',$_POST);

Simply add them to your template index.php after the first <?php deceleration and you should be safe. Please remember that every code has weakness and if you find  one in this code snippet, we would like to hear your thoughts or advices.

Best regards

Youjoomla Team

have been updated. If you are using these extensions please download the new versions and reinstall

If you use any of these demo installations the buggy version of YJ Whois is included ,

• H-Connect for Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5
• Youhostit for  Joomla 1.5 

File affected is ,   modules/mod_yj_whois.php.

Visit this forum thread for manual fix.

and help our company reach new goals.

If you like to work on your time , have cheering personality , like to help others and are willing to work in a fun environment we would like to talk to you! If you are interested please send us an email with few words about yourself , possible resume and previous experience.

Available Positions:

Forum Moderators - Part time

PSD to Joomla or Wordpress Coder - Full time / Part time

Forum Moderators job requirements :
 

• Moderate knowledge of our products
• Customer oriented personality
• Advanced English skills  ( other languages a plus )
• Sense of humor
• Multitasking ability

Forum Moderators duties:

• Answer product related questions posted by forum members
• Ability to fast recognize the issue and offer solution
• Move forum posts
• Merge forum posts
• Tag forum posts ( with relevant Joomla! tags)
• Start new threads ( asking interesting questions to bring community up)

PSD to Joomla or Wordpress Coder  job requirements :
 

• Moderate knowledge of our products 
• Efficient in , PHP, CSS , XHTML, MySql , Joomla or Wordpress
• Code by Youjoomla product standards
• Advanced English skills

Compensation we offer :
 

Forum moderators  -   Monthly payout. ( rate will be discussed on contact )

PSD to Joomla or Wordpress Coder  - Payout per delivery. ( rate will be discussed on contact )

themes for WordPress. All our WP themes come with default YJ features like , multiple color styles , multiple menus , installation demo and of course , plugins and widgets for wordpress.

The themes are currently  released as single purchase files for introductory price of $38.00 per theme and include PSD files , theme installation PDF guide, one wordpress theme and full theme demo installation as seen on our wordpress demo pages. Soon  as we reach higher number of released WordPress themes we will consider opening WordPress Themes Club for our new customers.  We hope you like this addition to our website and will start using our new Wordpress themes.

of our demo installs, please download upgrade package for the version you are using , extract the archive  and FTP the extracted files to your server , overriding the existing ones. BACKUP CURRENT INSTALLATION FIRST! Visit our knowledgebase for step by step instructions on how to upgrade your joomla installation.