Google rolled out a new design across many of their services as part of the Google+ launch. The new look presents a sleeker, simplified Google that puts the emphasis on your data and not on the interface. Part of the design's success are the new buttons.

The next LTS release will be Joomla! 1.8 (or perhaps Joomla 2.0 as it will most likely mark a new era in Joomla?) which is supposed to be released at the 10th of january 2012, which is exactly 12 months after the release of Joomla 1.6. This means that if you deploy a website on Joomla! version 1.7 you'll need to keep in mind that after about six months no new security fixes are released. If you're the administrator of many Joomla! sites this can have a big impact. Joomla 1.5 will be supported until april 2012 as it is marked as an LTS release.

With Joomla 1.6, the upgrade process will be built in to the Joomla framework, making incremental upgrades a possibility and streamlining the entire process. The soon to be released Joomla 1.7 update will bring with it quite a few new features, including the ability for most users to benefit from a much easier upgrade process with 'once click updates', security enhancements, batch processing of articles, and more. However, to move from Joomla 1.5 to 1.7 will be more difficult.

jQuery navigation menus is very popular in modern web design because it is very fast and accurate JS library, which helps to simplify different difficult event handling and smooth animation. We’ve gathered up 10 Useful jQuery navigation Menu Tutorials and downloads to ease your jQuery development.