Afterburner is the latest free theme from RocketTheme, an all new completely FREE GPL template. Afterburner was designed from the ground up to be the world’s fastest Joomla template while at the same time offering great features, maximum flexibility and ease of customization.

SEO optimized, source-ordered, table-less layout, with a fully collapsable 3 column layout with custom width configurability - and all is free. Afterburner provides 8 styles both in light and dark variation, with detailed information on how to easily customize and create your own.

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The second UK Joomla! Day is set to take place over Friday, 13th and Saturday, 14th March 2009, at the Oakwood House Conference Centre, Maidstone, Kent. This is a community event and accordingly is not split into separate business and community days

For the very latest details be sure to check out http://joomladay.org.uk as often as possible.

JFusion is a new universal integration framework for Joomla 1.5. It’s a “universal bridge” that can synchronize user accounts, user sessions and even visually integrate many different applications into Joomla. This is done by extending the Joomla 1.5 user authentication framework without any core hacks. Now you can turn your Joomla installation into a powerful portal system that manages your user base across all your online applications. JFusion is just another example on why Joomla is the future of Content Management Systems.

More details here.

JoomlaWeb has released a new free Joomla 1.5 template - JW Clean Pro - a non-image template tested with the latest major browsers.

Features:

• Tableless layout
• Fast
• Suckerfish menu
• Fixed width, fluid width, custom width
• Joomla 1.5.x compatible
• 15 module position
• Cutom font size
• tested with IE 6 , IE 7.0,Firefox 2,Opera 9.02

Joomlashack anounced the release of a new free template. Jamba is native for both Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5 versions.

The Jamba template comes with a lot of the features you’ll find in professional Joomla! templates such as 5 theme styles, integrated typography styles, 4 module colors in 9 module positions and more.

You can see a live demo here and download it here.