Joomla Components and Professional Joomla Templates

Biggie Smalls created a lot of buzz throughout the community on arrival. It led to vast amounts of enquiries regarding details on the creation of Joomla Templates.
Many enquiries were similar to others, So I thought it might be an idea to sum up details as best I can, to a presentation concerning the main features on how to make professional Joomla Templates.

Hey guys! It is been a long time since we released joomlacomment 4.0 beta2. Actually we were planning to skip 4.0 stable since beta2 was doing pretty well (no major bugs etc). But well, nobody is perfect. Recently a security flaw was discovered in all previous versions of JoomlaComment, including beta2. Naturally, a new release had to be made to address this.

The new RC1 release here today has patched the security, and has additional compatibility fixes and tweaks (since beta 2). Now it is the best time to update to the most stable and secure release yet. If you downloaded RC1 from the forums already, you are encouraged to update too as additional fixes have been made.

It is nearly 23 o'clock. After several weeks of hard work the new alpha release is on the way! The backend was completely refactored* and the frontend structure was changed.

Why am I making these changes?

Have you heard of JomTube?

Here is what you can read on the extension's website:

JomTube Video Gallery is the most Powerful Video Extension made for Joomla 1.5x Content Management System (Joomla Video Component) which will allow you to transform your Website into a professional looking Video Gallery with functionality that is similar to YouTube.com. JomTube Video Gallery extension video gallery and has been created specifically for the Joomla 1.5x (MVC) Framework and can not be used without Joomla 1.5x as Jomtube is an extension of Joomla and not a stand alone application.