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Shape 5 is proud to announce the release of the Shape 5 PhpBB3 Styles Club! PhpBB3 is a free forum php based solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can empower your entire website. No other bulletin board software offers a greater complement of features, while maintaining efficiency and ease of use. Shape 5 now brings it's great asthetics that you have grown to love for Joomla products and has converted them to the phpBB3 platform.

What makes Shape 5 PhpBB3 styles the best? Simple, we offer some of the best designs styles available for this platform in conjunction with the S5 Controls Framework/Block Code! What if you need a forum and a website, but installing a separate forum and a CMS solution might be overkill? Well, the S5 Controls Framework, along with the S5 HTML Block Code bridges this gap by allowing you to enter your own custom html into positions similar to Joomla module positions.

Our August Affiliate Contest has officially come to an end and it's time to announce our three lucky winners! It was a very tight competition but three emerged on top:

1st - bestofjoomla - www.bestofjoomla.com
2nd - webbyjoom - www.webbyplanet.com
3rd - surendranh - www.premium-joomlathemes.com

Thank you not just three affiliates but all who participated!

Want to earn some easy cash? During the month of August we are running a contest for all Shape 5 Affiliates.  You will have a chance to earn one of three prizes depending on how many sales you generate through your site during the month of August.  The sites that produce the most affiliate sales will be rewarded cash prizes!

A new version of Jomsocial is coming out, version 1.8 and only with it Jomsocial gave us a coupon for 30% to our members. The new version will share the same traits as previous versions; Easy to set up, extendable, low learning curve, out of the box functionalities and scalable to any community size. Read more about the new version here:

http://www.jomsocial.com/company/press-release.html

The coupon is available in the downloads area under the elegance download category once you are logged in as a club member.

For many of us Joomla has provided an additional source of income or even a full blown business.  Joomla has enabled designers, developers and business owners to all connect and create some amazing components, templates, etc.  We are happy to notice the support Joomla link on joomla.org and we hope that if any of you have received financial benefit from the project that you give a little back.  The entire Joomla team is comprised of individuals giving of their personal time to keep the project going.  Imagine how much more can be done with Joomla if it actually was fully funded and supported!


http://opensourcematters.org/support-joomla.html

Post and accept bids for FREE!

Need a programmer for your web project? With no hidden costs or fees, the Shape 5 Hire a Coder program is a free service offered to both paid and free members of our site.  Anyone may post their project for free but only members with an active developer membership may bid on projects; this ensures that you are receiving bids from our top notch members!

Developer Members - Here is your chance to bring in new clients. Bidding on projects is totally free to any member with an active developer membership. Be sure to check our site often for new projects.

Why Use Shape 5 Hire a Coder -

To view this new service or to start bidding on or posting projects please visit the following link:

http://www.shape5.com/hire_a_coder/listauctions

Throughout the years that Shape 5 has been creating templates for the Joomla CMS we have come across many sites that we've bookmarked and frequently reference for resources to build our templates with.  We hope the following post will expand your current tool set of sites and boost the quality of the sites you output.

With the release of Jomsocial v1.6.290 there have been several updates to the templating structure from when we originally created our Jomsocial Elegance template.  We have just updated our Jomsocial template to be fully compatible with the newest version 1.6.290.  The template was completely rewritten from scratch based off of the new version.  This update should resolve any problems that were arising with formatting and functionality issues.

 

Recently it has come to our attention that a press release constructed and submitted by a third party SEO company that we have hired was released with false information and to this we owe the Joomla! project and anyone associated with Joomla! an appology! This release stated Shape 5 was affiliated with the Joomla! project and the project was responsible for the creation of our website. This is false, our website was completely constructed by Shape 5.

Shape 5 is an independent company which produces extensions and templates for the Joomla! CMS. Like other companies, it produces software that enhances websites, building on the work of the Joomla! project as its contributors but completely independent of it.

Shape 5 is fully committed to the Joomla! project and we are indebted to Joomla! and it's community for creating this great CMS.

Again, Shape 5 apologizes for this and we have taken measures to make sure this never happens again.

Want to make some extra money working from the comfort of your home? Shape 5 is currently hiring and looking for skilled professionals to join us in 2010. We are looking for a wide range of different skills from people who can program in PHP, Javascript and CSS to those who can create video tutorials, design web sites or even just provide forum support. For a complete list of skills we are looking for and to submit your resume click here.