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As many of you know support for Joomla 2.5 was discontinued at the end of 2014 by the Joomla organization, and all focuses are now on Joomla 3 and beyond. It is time for us Shape5 to say goodbye to Joomla 2.5 as well. Both our January 2015 and February 2015 template releases will still have 2.5 compatible versions, but beginning in March 2015 we will be releasing Joomla 3 products only.

All of our templates built on the Vertex Framework are, and have been for quite some time, compatible with Joomla 3, along with many of our pre-Vertex products. You can review a list of all our products and their compatibility at the following url: Joomla Compatibility Page. Many of the earlier templates that were not built on the Vertex Framework have already been converted to work with Joomla 3, but the remaining ones will not be converted to Joomla 3 due to their age and outdated standards. Our current focus is on Vertex powered templates for easier updates, and maintaining web standards.

Any 2.5 products that we currently have on our site will remain available, and still be supported throughout all of 2015. We do highly encourage anyone setting up a new installation to use Joomla 3 and not Joomla 2.5 though. If you need assistance in upgrading your current Joomla 2.5 installation to Joomla 3, we recommend the tutorial found here. Keep in mind that in most cases the template and any non-default extensions will need to be updated to Joomla 3 compatible versions, due to the introduction of Bootstrap and Jquery in Joomla 3.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Shape5! From now until January 1, 2015 receive 35% off of any new or renewing Developer Memberships, and 25% off of all Basic and Best Value Memberships. Don’t let this sale pass you by! This is one of our largest sales ever, and sales like this don’t come around very often!

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We have recently updated our S5 Media Player plugin to a new 2.1.0 version. This new version fixes several css issues as well as add a default video image feature. This feature allows you to set your own custom image for each video before it is played, and then disappears when the play button is clicked.

Let's kick off the Fall season with big savings from Shape5! From now until November 3, 2014 enjoy 20% off of all memberships from any club. This discount can be used for new and repeat customers. Enjoy!

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We are looking for your feedback on what genre's you are needing for your next project/website. Please select 3 choices from the following poll based on what you would like to see in the future. If you have any unique ideas that are not already on the Poll please select (Other) and post your ideas here.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NFWCF7H

Please note that the genres with the most votes doesn't guarantee the next releases. This just gives us a better idea of what products our customers are looking for or needing for projects moving forward.

We have been working very hard recently at putting the final touches on our new searchable knowledgebase, and we're proud to say it is now available for all members to use!

You can see this new feature here: http://www.shape5.com/documentation/

We have tried to hang out to support for IE7/8 for as long as we could, because we know that are still a few users out there that use these browsers. However, that number is currently less than 1% of the world using these browsers, so it is time for us to say goodbye at Shape5 to IE7/8. IE7 was originally released in 2006, and today in 2014 most users are running at least IE9, most are running IE11. IE7/8 lack many of the CSS3 and HTML5 functions that are needed with modern web design. All products created up to date still support these versions, but support for any new issues will be limited. New products going forward will now only support IE9+.

So, what have we been up to here at Shape5 during 2014? Well, we'd like to give you a sneak peak. First off we are excited to announce we have a new site design on its way! Below are some screenshots of a new site design coming very soon that will be fully responsive:

We are celebrating the summer season with an incredible offer to our members. From now until the end of July 13, 2014 save 10% off of our Basic membership package, 20% off of the Best Value membership package, and 30% off of the Developer membership package. This is one of our largest sales, so please don't let this pass you by.

Discount codes to use at signup:

This sale is now expired. Thank you to everyone who signed up!

Our popular S5 Register module has been updated to version 3.1.0. This version release updates the submission method of the module due to a conflict between our built in captcha and the Joomla reCaptcha plugin, if both were enabled on the same site. They now both work hand in hand with no conflicts.