Yep, you are right, FlashMint has gone mad and instead of rising up the prices we are actually lowering them. From now on the price on every osCommerce template from FlashMint diverse collection is twice lower! This means that FlashMint osCommerce designs are the cheapest eCommerce templates you can find. And this is not a short-term offer, the price on our osCommerce skins is to be that low forever!
So, if you plan to launch an online store it is about high time to start choosing a template that will suit your ecommerce business best.

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You have for sure seen FlashMint Professional Joomla templates that comprise awesome designs with the highest quality.
Joomla! is an extremely convenient CMS platform that allows you creating beautiful websites that are very easy and comfortable in maintenance. As well as another Content Management System - WordPress, Joomla! is an open source, this means that it is being constantly developed and innovated, there is a great number of add-ons and extensions to improve your Joomla website. Well, below is the list of the useful Joomla extensions for almost every possible purpose from administration to social networking and image galleries.

Administration and security

JoomlaCloner
What is a first thing you should think about when launching a website? Well, backup of course. This is a very useful and handy component that allows you to “clone” your Joomla installation and move it on any location over the Internet.

Joomlapack
Another backup & restore tool that makes it very easy to backup your website even if you are new to Joomla! and web presence.

RSFinder!
This handy extension gives you a quick access to anything on your Joomla website by creating hot keys at your keyboard.

jSecure Authentication
Don’t give the hackers an easy access to your insights, this small Joomla! module will help you.

Photos and Images

Phoca Gallery
This nice Joomla! component is an image gallery with a slideshow. Give your visitors a comfortable image gallery

Simple Image Gallery
An easy way to add images to your Joomla! articles.

Expose Flash Gallery
This is a great extension, it allows you to create an awesome Flash based gallery with your images and pictures.

Social Networking

Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin
This great plugin adds small to all the the major social media bookmarking applications to the bottom of your articles.

Twitter Module
Twitter is one of the most powerful social websites nowadays. This little plugin allows you to display tweets from the account you identify, giving you an opportunity to encourage Twitter followers.

Twitter Plugin
This plugin makes a tweet each time you have a new article posted, thus letting know your Twitter followers that you have an update at your Joomla website.

Sociable Plugin
A very convenient tool that inserts small social media bookmarking and sharing links at the end of each of your articles.

Misc

JCE Content Editor
More feature rich content editor than your built-in Joomla editor, giving you complete control over your content.

jForm
Very easy, intuitive tool to add simple forms to your website.

JoomlaComment
If you want to get feedback from your visitors and readers than you need to allow them comment on your articles. This nice plugin will do the task.

What Joomla extensions you find to be the most useful while updating your websites?

You for sure noticed the quality and creativity of the pictures embodied in your website templates from FlashMint. If you ever wondered where is this incredible clip art taken from than here’s the answer - one of the stock photos providers we use is Photos To Go. And we had just renewed our long term agreement with them, thus wait for more creative web templates from FlashMint built with the ingenious help of PhotosToGo.com

If you’ve been looking for qualitative clip art for your website design then we recommend to check them out.

Photos To Go is a rich stock image library that offers thousands of qualitative royalty free images for immediate download. Finding a perfect image at Photos To Go is extremely easy, these people work without cease to bring this comfort to you. There are three membership plans available- for 3, 6 and 12 months, every plan allows up to 30 downloads per day. All the photos presented at the collection are taken only by the professional photographers and selected carefully to suit any of your demands on the quality of the pictures.

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FlashMint, leader in Flash industry, is deservedly given that name. Flash Designs is what we do best. But our main priority is you, we are here to bring you the most convenient solutions, thus if you are interested in Flash and you share our passion to everything Flash, than this post will gladden you, because here we’ve gathered the most interesting links on Awards-winning Flash designs that inspire, as well as Flash tutorials to help you embody your inspiration, plus Flash related websites every Flash developer should know. Thus, enjoy!

Best Flash animation site - The best Flash design is picked here every week. You can submit your own work and see if people appraise it. The site itself is full of inspirational ideas.

Best Web Gallery - This awesome gallery showcases the most inspirational CSS and Flash designs. A truly captivating resource.

The Favorite website awards - Be careful when browsing this website, you can stuck there for ages. It is the most infusive resource featuring the most creative Flash designs out there.

Flash in the Pan  - This design awards website showcases the best Flash designs and Flash websites out there. You can submit your own Flash works and win prizes as well.

CWA - Here are the world’s Top Flash websites awarded. Great resource for inspiration.

Daymare town - This is an awesome example of how Flash can be used. Truly amazing Flash game you may find inspiring.

I bet you’ve found some inspiration at the websites above and now you want to make something like that yourself. Well, here are some useful Flash tutorials for you:

Flash CS4 Tutorial - Learn the basics if you are new to Flash. This tutorial will introduce you to the the Flash CS4 workspace and tools and basic techniques of creating Flash animation.

Creating Flash banner - This nice tutorial will teach you how to create your own beautiful Flash banner.

Very Advanced Business Flash Menu - This is a great tutorial that will teach you not only how to design a nice menu for your website but also such useful things like how to animate it and apply action script code on it and many more.

The tech labs - Awesome website featuring the great number of interesting and useful tutorials.

Beginning and advanced flash tutorials - Here you will find a very good list of tutorials both for beginners and experienced Flash developers.

And finally - couple of links every Flash developer might find interesting:

Flash magazine- A great resource of information on Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Swift3D, SVG and everything related to them.

The Flash blog - Great weblog on everything Flash featuring news and tons of useful information.

If you have other links to add to the list, please post them in your comments.

As you may have guessed from the title this post is going to finally sum up the MacBook Giveaway we’ve been hosting among our customers. Well, just to remind you, the simple conditions were as follows: buying any website template from FlashMint collection and telling us the reason why you bought this particular web template you get a chance to win an awesome prize. There were three prizes: the first winner gets a brand new MacBook Air, the second place takes a $300 coupon for template customization from CustomizationService.com and the third one gets 1 year of free web hosting from our partner Happy@Net. The winners are chosen by the random number generator. The contest was running during a month from April 2 till May 2.

Well, it’s time to get to the main point of this post - to finally name the winners. Thus, the first prize the brand new MacBook Air goes to . . .

Mitchell LeBlanc !  (Go on and congratulate the lucky guy! )

Mitchel has chosen PhotoStudio Papervision 3D XML flash Template for his girlfriend (comment #13 ). Check out what an awesome portfolio she’s got now: Vanessa Paxton Photography

The second prize goes to Marc (comment #7). Marc purchased Charity XML flash template. Hope your mission in Africa goes well, feel free to use your $300 coupon to make any modifications to your website template.
And the year of free hosting from Happy@Net goes to Samuel who’s bought Photo video portfolio XML flash template (comment #3).

All the winners are emailed with the details about their prizes and how to get them.

Thank you everyone who took part in our contest, it’s a pleasure to have you all as our customers. More great contests from FlashMint are coming soon.

P.S.: Mitchell, we have just sent you an email asking to provide your mailing address which we can use to send you the prize.