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Drupal 6 was released today. One of the most exciting new features to me — I only recently learned about — is that the AHAH (Asychronous HTML and HTTP) framework made it into the Drupal core. This means you can create asychronous HTTP request, commonly referred to as AJAX, without writing a single line of JavaScript code.

The new Forms API comes with an #ahah attribute that lets you specify the trigger event, e.g. a mouse click, the callback URL that will be requested after the event occurred and the ID value of the HTML element where the server response will be displayed. Pretty awesome stuff.

About 6 weeks ago I published an article introducing some valuable online resources for free Web designs. In the meantime I came across more sites that offer free templates, themes, skins, or however you want to call them, for download.

Free CSS Templates

All of the resources listed below offer free downloads, browsing and live previews of templates. Some sites feature CSS templates from various designers and offer designers to upload their own templates. Each site is briefly described.

Sectionnav is a module for Joomla 1.0.x that lets you create a navigation menu for the sections of your site. The menu that will be generated consists of three levels: sections, categories, and content items.

Admins can specify the sections to be listed by entering a comma separated list of at least two section IDs in the module configuration. The order of the entered IDs determines the order of the output list. By default all specified sections will be displayed as an unordered list (ul-tag) in the module.

This module displays links to published content items the current user is allowed to view within a section specified via the module's parameter settings. The content items are organized by categories.

For each category in the specified section there is a blogcategory link. Below the category link each content item in this category is linked if the category is active. This module supports search engine friendly URLs. You can display multiple instances of this module on the same page. This is recommended only if the access key feature is turned off, because these keys may be assigned ambiguously.

JAddresses is a Joomla component for managing a directory of addresses similar to yellow pages. It can be used to list addresses of companies, official organizations, and others.

Entries can be added and edited in the back end. It is also possible to add (not edit) entries via the front end, these are unpublished by default. Currently JAddresses supports one level of categories that are managed with the Joomla Category Manager. After at least one JAddresses category has been set up, entries can be added. Required fields are: name, address, city, postcode, country and description.