We recently discovered that one of our web-servers was misconfigured and was not sending emails from the "contact form" to our mail system. This went unnoticed for several weeks because the other web-servers were configured properly, and we were getting the majority of mail that was sent. However, this means that some email was not sent properly, and only now have we received them en-masse.

If you contacted us and did not receive a reply, hopefully you were able to reach us either via one of our other web-servers, directly via email, Facebook, or Twitter etc. to resolve your issue.

This issue is now resolved and all emails should be reaching us promptly. If you tried to contact us but never received a reply, please try to contact us again and we will try to resolve your question or issue to the best of our ability

We are terribly sorry that this happened, and apologize profusely for not returning your email in a timely fashion.

Sincerely,

Andy Miller
CEO / Founder
RocketTheme, LLC

We have been internally discussing the possibility of hosting a RocketTheme User/Developer Conference. The idea is that we would organize and host a 1 or 2 day conference in a that we could use to cover a variety of topics.

To start with we will probably focus on Joomla as it's the most popular CMS among our members.

• Customizing Existing Club Template - How to take an existing design and modify it completely for your clients
• Design-to-Template - Workshop on how to take a custom design to finished Joomla template (multiple part full day workshop covering all aspects of the process)
• Cross-Browser Testing and Gotchas - How to debug and fix browser bugs and issues
• Gantry Framework Tutorial - The ins-and-outs of the Gantry Framework including how to implement and extend it
• RocketTheme Extensions - How to use, modify, and implement a wide-variety of functionality with our array of extensions
• MooTools Development - Core concepts, differences compared to other JS frameworks, developing cool mootools based scripts, how to upgrade scripts from version 1.11 to 1.3
• Advanced Q&A - Ask the team anything!

If you have any ideas for a session that would be beneficial to a large portion of users, please reply to this thread with your concepts.

What we are interested in is how many people would be interested in attending a conference like this? We are not certain on any exact details (location, price, schedule) at this point, but if we get a decent amount of interest we may proceed with planning and development of this idea.

If this idea is successful and popular, we could have multiple of similar events in a variety of locations.

Please provide us your best 'honest' answer to if you would be likely to attend an event. Please answer without regard to location at this point. We're trying to gauge the validity of the 'idea' not specifically an event in a certain locale.

Voting is open to all past and current club members on our forum, so please vote now!

Happy holidays from all of us here at RocketTheme. We are currently running a 15% off promotionthat is good for all new club signups, renewals, upgrades etc. Basically the whole kit-and-caboodle! This promotion will be good up until January 1st 2011, so please take advantage of it while it's available. Once it's gone, it's gone and we don't plan on having any more promotions for some time after this.

If you want to stay on top of all the special promotions, coupons, and deals we have going at RocketTheme, you might want to subscribe to our new mailing list. This new "opt-in" mailing list is going to be the best and fastest way to find about deals and savings here at RocketTheme. Please take a second and sign up today to stay in the loop.

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We're now offering our largest discount to date. A full 25% OFF every club signup, renewal and upgrade. This is a limited time promotion and will run during the Thanksgiving weekend. It's limited to 200 uses, so please take advantage of it while it's available!

September 1st marks the 5th birthday of Joomla. As a member of the founding core team that split from Mambo back in 2005 this is a very special day for me. It doesn't seem possible that 5 years have passed already as they have simply flown by. Over the past 5 years RocketTheme has grown from a one-man operation into a thriving team and a huge community of passionate and enthusiastic developers and designers. I'm really proud of how Joomla has grown from a humble CMS with a nearly unpronounceable name that had a boggling 9 hits in Google, to one of the most popular opensource CMS's around.

In honor of Joomla's special day and as a thank you to the Joomla community that have made Joomla what it is today, we're offering a 15% coupon on all our club memberships for the month of September.

RocketTheme continues to grow and branch out from our traditional Joomla roots into new areas such as phpBB3, WordPress and our upcoming Drupal Theme club. We've also been extensively developing our GPL Gantry Framework project for Joomla and this has been a huge success. We are deep in development on a WordPress version too, and we'll be bringing Gantry to other platforms in time. Sometimes you have to mix things up, and today we are announcing a entirely new and exciting direction for RocketTheme, we are pleased to announce the formation of RocketTheme Racing.

I am going to be doing a talk about the Gantry framework during CMS Expo which is being held May 3rd, 4th, and 5th in Evanston, Illinois. I intend to give a high-level overview but also get into the real guts of the framework to show how creating a Joomla template is easier than ever if you build them on Gantry. I'll also cover how to use the configuration to create some stunning layout control that has never before been achievable with Joomla. After that, I will get into the meat of the framework to show how you can modify, customize, and extend the core functionality to push the boundaries even further.

RocketTheme is proud to announce our first ever promo code! Just in time for the holiday season we've made a 15% OFF discount available to all new club signups and upgrades, and it's good until December 31st 2009. If you have been thinking about upgrading to Developer, or perhaps another club membership such as WordPress or phpBB3, now's the time to do it! To take advantage of the discount, enter the following promo code during the checkout process:

rokxmas2009

The code is good for any of our RocketTheme clubs as long as it's a new signup or an upgrade, renewals are not covered. Enjoy!

2009 has been a very busy year for RocketTheme. At the start of the year we introduced our new RocketTheme version 2.0 site which was a complicated process to say the least. With that launch we also unveiled our phpBB3 Style Club that now contains nearly 30 fantastic styles for phpBB3. In June we launched our Extensions Club that provides access to some really unique extensions for a small membership fee. We also made this club complimentary for our existing Joomla template club members. This month we introduce our new WordPress Theme Club into the RocketTheme family.