RedShop is a relative new comer on the Joomla ecommerce scene but it's offerings are genuinely impressive. I had some direct contact with redShop when we built the Shop Ignition Joomla template back in March and I really liked what I saw.

The scale of the extension is incredible and the templating system has a good balance between separating the design from the code, which makes theming the shop a pleasure for the non coder.

The following interview with Ronni from Redcomponent has been on the back burner for a little longer than I would have liked but I hope you will agree that it makes for some good reading.

A few days ago I posted a preview of the icon that I commissioned Parth Mohanraj to make for our Zen Grid framework and today I thought Id post a small interview with Parth so that you can learn more about this amazing designer. If you haven't already checked out his folio its well worth it. Read on for the interview.

Yesterday I released our first Joomla template for the year decade and it was the first design since Vision2 that I have outsourced a template design to another designer. As I mentioned a few weeks ago when I gave the preview of the Avanti theme David is a Melbourne based designer with a wealth of top class designs under his belt and I thought that in order for me (and you) to get to know him a bit better Id ask him a few questions.

This is a repost of an interview I did with Orchida from Dry Icons over a year ago. It was originally posted on my now defunct custom design site so I thought I would repost it here on the renewed Joomlabamboo site. Reading through it I think its still relevant and certainly a worthwhile read if you are looking for free or custom icons.

A few years ago a site I hosted on a shared hosting server was deleted by someone who had gained entry via a hole on an unrelated site on the server. Being fairly new to web development and to Joomla I had no idea of where to start and what to look for. Steve from Alledia recommended Tom as the best in the Joomla security business and after my initial contact with him via skype it was only a matter of hours before my site was back up and running - fully loaded, locked down and ready for action.

 That was a few years ago now, I've said "bye bye" to the server in question and now I thoroughly research servers that I use and tend to get a string of recommendations from people I trust before I commit to them. A lot has changed in the Joomla landscape as well - Joomla 1.0 is in the last few weeks before its official end of life, Joomla 1.5 is in its eleventh iteration and Joomla 1.6 is just around the corner - so I figured that now was a good time to catch up with Tom to get some idea of the challenges that face Joomla users in the present climate as well as some tips on how best to secure your Joomla site.

I recently had the chance to chat with John Coonen, one of the creators of Joomla Expo in Chicago earlier this year. It was a huge success from all reports, and when John mentioned that it was expanding into CMS Expo I was curious to hear more.

This is the continuation of part one of our interview with Daniel from Ninjoomla. In the second part Daniel answers the hard questions like why Joomla? Casts his opinion on the javascript library debate and gives us the low down on his favourite ninjoomla extensions.

We are delighted to be able to bring you this behind the scenes look at one of the most interesting and unique clubs in the Joomla world. Ninjoomla certainly produce some interesting extensions and we are planning on combining forces and presenting some of our templates with the new Tatami template manager for Joomla 1.0 ... so we thought we'd better get to know Ninjoomla a little more. This is part one of the interview ...