Joomla is a great tool to create database driven web sites and content management systems quickly. Its main appeal lies in the availability of thousands of resources on the web. These resources include free joomla templates, third party components, add-ons and extensions, and joomla tutorials. Most of these resources are free for personal and commercial use. The commercial ones are also very reasonably priced as compared to other CMS products. Following is a list of some of Joomla web sites that offer downloadable resources for Joomla. The list is obviously just a representative of all Joomla web sites.

http://www.joomlatribune.com/

This is a good Joomla resource site offering free templates, articles and tutorials. It has a special news section that displays the latest news in Joomla world.

http://www.joomlajabber.com/

This site has a podcast for Joomla users. This site has some good free templates and extensions. It also has a discussion forum where you can discuss your problems with component developers and other users. There are few interviews of Joomla extension developers.

http://www.joomla-labs.com/

This site offers free templates, daily tips and tricks for Joomla users.

http://dev.joomla.org/

This site is for expert Joomla developers. It runs a Joomla Developer Network that contains Joomla development information and many resources for Joomla users. This site is a must for every serious Joomla programmer.

http://extensions.joomla.org/

This is another great site for serious Joomla developer. It features a Joomla extensions directory containing Joomla components, extensions and plug-ins. There is some documentation available for the components. You should visit this site often.

http://designforjoomla.com/

This site contains both free and commercial components, plug-ins, templates and modules. It has some useful tutorials on Joomla and other resources. This site is home site of eZine and User sync component. Some noteworthy modules are Instant search and Content Listing module and Image Extended Plug-in. You may find some excellent resources on this site that are not available anywhere else.

http://www.ty2u.com/

This site offers a small but excellent collection of Joomla templates and plug-ins.

http://www.joomlatemplates.com/

This is another site that offers Free as well as commercial templates for Joomla developers.

http://www.joomlart.com/

This site boasts a Joomla professional templates club targeted towards Joomla users. You can download the free List Preview component. It also offers some free templates.

http://www.joomla-addons.org/

As the name suggests, this site contains a good collection of open source and commercial components for Joomla developers. Some of them are – EasyFAQ, Easy Guestbook, Blocklit, ODT Indexer, YaNC and many others. Don’t miss this site.

http://www.joomlaco.com/

This site is for Joomla and Mumbo users. It offers some basic tutorials on Joomla and Mumbo, Getting started guides, Free Joomla Components, Free Joomla templates and Free Joomla Modules. It has a Joomla Directory section with various categories.

http://help.joomla.org/

This is Official Joomla help site that contains documentation on Joomla. You can download most of the manuals, Installation guide and developer information as PDF files for offline browsing.

http://www.joomlahut.com/

This is another Joomla site that offers free templates and other resources. It also has a News section for latest news on Joomla.

http://www.exskin.com/

This site contains free Joomla components, modules, templates  and Joomla bots.

http://www.visualclinic.fr/

This site has categories like Yahoo! Web site. It offers various resources on Mumbo and Joomla arranged in a tree structure. It also contains an alphabetical listing of all downloadable resources. Every Joomla user must visit this site often.

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