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Animation can amaze your visitors and give them a reason to stay for a long while or return back in the future only in a couple of seconds. It enhances your site usability and save your visitors' time. You can easy server your motto of your business.

In our previous tutorial we showed how you can create a one page website, in this tutorial I’ll show how you can make it more interactive with scroll animation. I’ll use a fantastic animation library called WOW.js. 

Favicon stands for favorite icon, is also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, tab icon or bookmark icon. The favicon is an icon adjacent to a URL displayed in a browser’s address bar or subsequent to the site name in a bookmark list. When a visitor adds a website to his bookmarks list, the favicon is appeared before the website link.

Favicon is just an small icon makes your website more memorable and professional. Usually famous websites are known by their Favicon. Your favicon is like a trademark. People associate it with your "brand". If you're working to build brand name recognition, it is a mandatory, It helps its users to easily distinguish your site when it's opened on crowded browser.

FIFA World Cup - The greatest event on the earth is going to be a hot topic over the next few weeks. The whole world has already dipped into Football craze. They don’t want to miss single news of the majestic event.

We know, you guys are early waiting for a template this month and we've been preparing our 50th template to cover this majestic event. Sportz gives your news site a new look and sufficient advertisement space. So, ladies and gentlemen get ready to welcome a template, Sportz .

When you look for a free, responsive, bootstrap-based and popular Joomla template, Zenith always pops up right ahead of you. Zenith has been downloaded over 100K from our site and more from our partner site.

We are really excited to present ZenithII on its first birthday celebration. Exactly a year ago we created Zenith and it was a huge success. Join our mailing list (below) and we’ll send you the gift right into your inbox.

Joomla! 3.3 is going to be released in this month having many of outstanding feature and The Production Leadership Team (PLT) is claiming Joomla 3.3 will be the most stable joomla platform ever! This version aims to “Do more with Joomla” especially with improvements in terms of Security, Conflict reduction, Cloud storage API support, semantic microdata and so on.

In Themexpert HQ, we have already formulated our plan to welcome Joomla 3.3. Have a glance on the plan, we are going to adopt:

Hey guys, is it 27th March ? ohh ! yes, I know there have been many of you eagerly waiting for the template, released in each month. Now it’s time for your relaxation, In this turn, MetroNews cover your needs.

MetroNews is spacious, trendy, sophisticated, flexible and fully responsive Joomla template. This template provides you an awesome way to set out a daily news or magazine website or facelift your existing one . However possibility knows no bound. Metro has many of outstanding features included to embark your web journey with Metro any time.

Our goal at ThemeXpert, this year, is to craft and shape our templates with modernized, updated and trendy technologies. Modernistic technologies are entire outcome of previous experience, research and future-proof solution.To follow this strategy, our whole development processes are under this pace. Our motto is to provide not only enlightened templates, technical support as well.

Our paramount endeavor is to focus on enhancing our services. So, we resolve to discontinue following and providing support from help desk for the templates released in 2010. Because those templates and supported technologies have been outdated, even their updated versions are no longer available or released.

Yeah! It is February, 2014 and we are pleased to release Appy as business, app, social template and so on for Joomla 2.5 and 3.2.x. Based on your request and demand, we have strived to add your desired features in it. Appy – is a stylish, clean and professional template. This template is fast, numerous colored preset, flexible, easy to customize and fully responsive. Hope, Appy can enhance the experience of your using Joomla temple.

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Hi, It is Ahmed Eshaan. I have just been part of ThemeXpert Team as Technical Writer. I have been working as Front End Designer since 2012. I am here to enhance your experience of using ThemeXpert Templates. I am going to post technical and instructional based information of ThemeXpert’s works by positing blogs and video tutorials. If you have any technical problem and technical question to ask to ThemeXpert Team, Just post your problem in our forum. You can also inform me in which part of template do you want to have blogs and video tutorials, Such as template installing problem, template version upgrading problem and so on.

I will provide your problem solving solution as soon as possible. You can also suggest me your desired feature that you want to have in our existing and upcoming templates. I will forward your suggestion to our Developer Team. I am here waiting for your response.

A lot of our users don't like Joomla's default contact form accordion layout and question us how to change it. It's really very easy to change the layout without writing any code! In this tutorial i'll show you how to do this.

Go to Contact component and click the Options button on the top right. You can see an option Display format. Now click the list and it will show 3 options:

I know I know we are late to the party but its well worth it. If you see our product update page you will notice we released this update on Sunday! Yes, we are working over the weekend to make sure everything is updated.

Today I'm glad to announce the immediate availability of Xpert Tweets module v1.2 which support Twitter API 1.1. We re-written the module from the ground up and tweaks is speed. We have written an extensive documentation for this module.

Do you know what is a webmaster's biggest nightmare? You're right. It's the hackers. Every now and then, website administrators get to deal with hackers. It's not possible to make your website 100% hack-proof. A small security hole in your entire website's coding can give an experienced hacker access to the backend of your website. And if they manage to crack it down, you may have a hard time figuring out what to do if you didn't have a backup. However, if you do have a backup, you can restore the site. But what's the guarantee that it won't be hacked again? How do you exactly determine which security hole gave the hacker access to your server in the first place?There is one tool that can do the job of finding out what's the security hole and what other weak points there are on your website. The tool is called My Joomla. If you remember, we faced the same Joomla hacked experience a while ago at ThemeXpert. This is the tool that made our website's security stronger and protected. But before we talk about how to audit your website with this tool, let's first look at some of the basic features the site comes with.###Features- My Joomla scans your entire website in just a few moments. You have to first sign up with them and you will be provided with a downloadable extension that you need to upload and install on your Joomla site. The tool then scans for all potentially harmful contents in your website and shows you possible reasons of Joomla hack. - During a Joomla hack, a hacker may leave a backdoor on any of your website's core files so that they can gain access later. My Joomla will instantly scan and recognize those changes in the file that are suspicious.- If you're using too many extensions and your site is very large, you might be wondering which files are untouched and which files are affected. With My Joomla, you can easily revert the core files to their distributed state making sure everything is at their default.- Like I already said, you will never know where the security holes are. My Joomla can look them up for you on you Joomla hacked site and you can make very technical changes in your Joomla quite easily with the tool.- You can also get suggestions for best practices by using this tool and prevent chances of future Joomla hack. For example, if you are using root username to connect the database, you're at risk. The tool My Joomla will suggest you to change that username to something more complex so that hackers can never guess what it is.###What to do after a Joomla site is hackedYou can use the tool to secure and fix hacked website of yours and NOT to backup or restore the content. My Joomla offers two types of auditing. The easiest way is to let them do the job. But if you're a little familiar with Joomla administration interface and how these things work, you can do the audit by yourself. You need to register with a username and add your website before you can audit it. Just so you know, the first audit is totally free of charge. From second audit onwards, however, you will have to pay which is worth the service.So, let's fix and secure your Joomla site for free!###Install and ActivateAfter you add your first website, you'll see a screen idential to the one below. You must click the Generate new connector for the extension to be ready.Within moments, the download button will show up and you can download and install the extension to your Joomla website the usual way.As you can see, you can also use the button on Step 2 go to go the Joomla administration panel on your website directly.Once the plugin has been installed, you'll see a message saying that there isn't anything more you can do from your Joomla administration. You need to go to the first tab and continue with the following.The buttons to test endpoint are self-explanatory. Click accordingly.If connection was established, you will see the word “endpoint” upon clicking the button. Remember to click the right button. If you are using Joomla 1.5.x, use the 1st button. If Joomla 2.5+ is running on your site, use the second button.Now, click the Connection Test button to make sure that the connection has been established. If connection is established, you'll briefly see the success message.You will then be redirected to start audit page. You will have to confirm that you want to start auditing now. The page here will look identical to the one below:As soon as you click the start button, My Joomla will start its magic on your Joomla hacked site. You will see a live screen of what the plugin is doing on the next screen. Be patient, though; this may take a while if you have a very large website.As the audit finishes, you'll see a screen with all the details of audit results. From there, you will be able to view what problem fond on your Joomla hacked site. If it has found any problem, there will be blue button that reads “next steps” next to the configuration name.If you click the next steps button, you'll see all the details of what the problem was and what the tool recommends you to fix the issue of your Joomla hacked site.If you scroll through the audit results, you might be a little bit overwhelmed. The tools developer writes,

Remember, the object is NOT just to get green OK for each item, the aim is to understand more about your site and its integrity at this moment in time. In fact it's impossible to resolve all items in this list as some checks have knock on effects to others.

This Saturday I found some suspicious activities on our server, everyday we monitor a lot of suspicious activities on server but this time we found something special, some file injected to our server root directory. Story just began, I immediately contact to our host and instruct them to deny all incoming connection to our cPanel, WHM, FTP and sFTP.