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I have site that I am currently working on by using Joomla (cool product); however my front page is not that appealing. I need a first impression, since that’s what users will be seeing as soon as the log on to the site. I want to take news content from a series of sites and display them on my front page; or, create my own multi content front page with graphics, texts, teaser articles in a box with a little text etc … that sort of thing. I have searched the Joomla Extension page, but came to very little result. If you are familiar with any extension that can spice up the front page, please let me know. many thanks. I highly appreciate the help!!!

I haven’t found any that will pull content from other sites.