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Joomla Flash Uploader - Uploading was never easier

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:14:39 +0100

The Joomla Flash Uploader is the Joomla component of the TWG Flash Uploader. You now have the possibility to upload files to your web server the easiest way possible. You simply select the files you want to upload and thats it. No upload HTML form anymore where you have to upload each file individually. You only need Flash 8 or higher installed to use this component.

Rss2Content - Rss Feeds as Joomla content items

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:44:14 +0100

If you are looking simple way to add new/fresh content to your Joomla website, without having to write a new article everyday, then Rss2Content Joomla Component is the solution for you! Rss2Content allows you to automatically collect RSS feed content items and have each item inserted as an Joomla article in the section and category you define. The content of the article will vary based on the specific feed you select. Key Rss2Content benefits: Increase website traffic on your website Website content plays a very important role in keeping visitors on a web site. Regularly updating or modifying your Website's content gives you an edge over the competition. Rss2Content will bring you fresh content which will help you increase website traffic. Increase revenue with advertising programs Rss2Content has ability to implement advertising code under the each item that collects from entered Rss Feed/s. Auto Update (Cron Task) With Cron Task, you can setup Rss2Content component to auto update Joomla website on given time interval. That way you can bring fresh content to your joomla website, without even login to admin back-end. Requirements: Joomla 1.5.x, PHP 5+, MYSQL 4+, Linux

Conversion Splash plugin for Joomla 1.5 - Convert Your Visitors

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:33:24 +0100

What is the primary goal of your website? Want to increase your sales by 40%? Want to double your conversion rates? Want to grow your mailing list by 800%? Want more signups to your Joomla website? Here's the deal. People are LEAVING your website. That's to be expected, right? But here's what sucks... They're leaving WITHOUT TAKING ACTION! You work so hard to market your website to get the visitors to show up, so why not try everything possible to get them converted into a customer, registered member, a mailing list subscriber? Did you ever wish that you could have a second chance at making a sale? The Conversion Splash plugin for Joomla 1.5 will give you that SECOND CHANCE! Here's how it works and it is SO SIMPLE! This tiny, yet powerful little plugin script allows you to gain a second chance to convert your website visitors. 1. You get a visitor to your site. 2. That visitor reads some content and looses interest. 3. That potential customer closes the browser window to leave your site. 4. When that happens the potential customer gets a popup window with your custom text in it asking them to click the OK button. 5. Then the potential customer is redirected to your upsell page where you get a second chance to convert that visitor into a customer, registered member, mailing list subscriber, or all three. Turn Your Exit Traffic into Pure Cold Hard CASH View our demo site to see how it works!

Free extension for admin quick icons & keyboard shortcuts updated: Art Admin Shortcuts

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:13:42 +0100

We are glad to announce that Art Admin Shortcuts has been updated to version 1.1.0. This version includes new features: * Ability to go to any component, admin menu item (like Install/Uninstall, Module Manager, Plugin Manager, etc.), external pages or execute JavaScript functions on icon click or keyboard shortcut * You can add any JavaScript code to be executed on keyboard shortcut. This adds ability to add shortcuts/quick icons for actions like Apply, Save, Close, Preview... * Can use standard component/admin menu item icon or custom icon Tired of browsing through Joomla! admin menu? Ever wanted to assign Alt+S keyboard shortcut to Save the article? Then Art Admin Shortcuts free extension is for you.

TMEdit 1.2 released under GPL

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:14:56 +0100

The Team of XHTMLSuite.com is happy to announce the immediate availability of TMEdit 1.2, one of the most popular free HTML editors for Joomla!. But wait, there's more ground breaking news! TMEdit goes GPL! Yes, you read it right, we have released the new version of TMEdit under the GNU/GPL. This is an important step for us as well as for you as end users. What's new in version 1.2? This release mainly is a maintenance release that brings fixes for known problems some new features and improvements. One of the most significant features is compatibility with Safari browsers. See this non-exhaustive changelog for the most important changes: ------------------- 1.2 Released - [25-Jun-2009 11:00 CET +1] ------------------- ! Changed license to GNU/GPL v2.0 + Added Safari browser support ! Improved undo/redo functionality - Removed redundantly loaded scripts + Improved loading sequence ! Updated help file # Fixed IE context menu bug # Fixed icon path in file manager ! Converted html and script files to UTF-8 charset + Set loading charset for scripts to UTF-8 + Added character encoding meta tags to html popups - Removed popupwin.js as it was deprecated # Fixed a bug in language file of context menu plugin - Reverted back to English as current main language ! Adjusted editor size - Removed deprecated functions in core file + Added namespaced array for scripts + Added load event manager to handle window.onload - Removed deprecated/proprietary defer attribute ! Updated CSS ! Rebrushed look of editor # Fixed display of context menu ! Updated some icons - Removed unnecessary/deprecated files from installer ! Cleaned up installer XML manifest Visit http://www.xhtmlsuite.com to download your copy of TMEdit 1.2 now.

SIMAnswers - Yahoo! Answers for Joomla

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:27:56 +0100

SIMAnswers is the complete Questions and Answers solution for Joomla. In fact, imagine Yahoo Answers for Joomla! SIMAnswers works in exactly the same way as Yahoo Answers, down the the last detail! Admins can create categories and subcategories, set points and levels for different activities, and administer violation reports. By creating appropriate categories, you can create MUCH more meaningful content to your website. With more questions asked and answers provided, search engines will rank your site much higher (just like Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia, with a ton of user created content). Admins can set points for the following actions: * Starting participation * Choosing best answer * Login/visit per day * Answering a question * Voting on an answer * Selected as best answer * Receive thumbs up on best answer * Asking a question (minus points) * Spam answer removed (minus points) Users can do a TON of things with SIMAnswers. Here's a quick list: * Ask questions * Answer questions * Provide sources for their answers * Select a best answer and rate it * Answer open question, vote undecided questions, or discover resolved questions * Email interesting questions to friends (using OpenInviter technology) * Bookmark questions using social bookmarks (includes Facebook, del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Yahoo MyWeb, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks, Technorati, Reddit) * Retweet on Twitter with a click * Add to their private watchlists * Add a question as interesting/starred * Select a best answer or put their questions to a vote * Extend question expiry by twice the time * Comment on questions * Report violations for questions, answers or comments * Thumb up/down a question or answer, providing better community feedback * Search questions easily, or with an advanced search feature Every user has his own dashboard that displays his statistics, including Total Answers, Best Answers, Open Questions, Voting Questions, Resolved Questions, Activity Summary (points, levels, starred questions etc), and a list of the user's answers, questions, starred questions and watchlist. SIMAnswer is fully integrated with Community Builder and JomSocial, but does not require them to work. [Types of Questions] There are 3 types of questions: Open Questions, Undecided Questions,and Answered Questions. Open Questions Open questions are questions that have not expired. The time before a question expires is 4 days by default, and is configurable by the admin. Anyone is free to provide their answers for open questions. Undecided Questions Undecided questions are questions that are being put to a vote. There are 2 possible scenarios whereby questions are put to a vote: 1. Question expired 2. Asker decided to put it to vote before question expires Once a question is put to a vote, no more new answers can be given. Note that if a question expires before an answer is provided, it will be removed and the points (for asking a question) will be returned to the asker. Answered Questions Answered questions are questions where a best answer has been selected. There are 2 ways to select a best answer: 1. Asker personally selects a best answer 2. A best answer is voted (if the question has been put to vote) After a question has been answered, users will be able to leave comments.

JoomSuite Resources is released under the GNU GPL License

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:00:04 +0100

JoomSuite � Professional Joomla Components developers are happy to announce that one of the best Joomla components JoomSuite Resource is released under the GNU GPL license and is distributed for free. JoomSuite Resource is a unique component that allows to create diverse set of content types within one application. You can create Video, Audio, Trade lead, Property, Business listings, Download, Gallery, Product, Blog posts on your site using just one component and that is not the limit. Joomla! is one of the most powerful and popular CMS in the world. Distributing this great component for free we contribute to Joomla! Community and make it more available for wider range of Joomla! users. To learn more about JoomSuite Resource visit component homepage.

* New Joomla Dating and Matchmaking Extension - Love Factory

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:55:09 +0100

Love Factory is dating and matching Joomla Extension, with fully editable member pages and configurable fields which can be setted by the administrator. Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed. 100% open source allowing you to perform special tweaks for a better site integrations and accourding to personalized needs. Multilanguage support is also offered for the Love Factory Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration. Image The Main Features of the component are: * Member Pages with fully configurable fields! * Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order) * Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin) * Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages) * Interaction System (sending kisses between user) * Rating System * Friends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends) * Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact) * Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criterias like gender, age, etc., criterias which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields. * Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to recieve a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.) * Smarty-based Templating System (can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)

jSeblod CCK, a killer application ?

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:56 +0100

There is a new Joomla application generation... Content Construction Kit component gives you the ability to create your very own custom content types like real estate ad, car ad, recipe, virtuemart product...anything is imaginable ! This CCK is compatible with all Joomla components and extends theses components providing multi-fields functions, like for Virtuemart or Docman. It's thinked to manage many content types, content templates, content fields (items). You can display forms on front and back office. All your forms and contents can be designed and the content fill interface for the end user is very simple, much more than a WYDIWYS editor. It is full integrated to Joomla content manager and other Joomla components. It's a new concept and we hope it enjoy you.

JReviews 2.1 released with exciting new features

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:45:11 +0100

We are very pleased to announce the release of JReviews 2.1 beta. This release is the result of several months of work and includes many brand new features and improvements to existing features. We hope to have a stable version in a few weeks. A few of the highlights: * Improved moderation: There are new moderation menus that allow you to approve, hold or reject pending items and send predefined or custom emails to the submitter. You can also write an admin note for the moderated item. * Criteria ratings can now be optional: The criteria manager interface has been improved and there is a new option for each criterion so you can make it optional. * Listing owners can reply to reviews: Now listing owners can reply to user reviews to defend themselves from a negative review, to thank the user or to simply post a comment to the review. Replies can be moderated. * Review discussions: Users can now start discussions around user reviews with this new mini forum-like functionality. * Multiple editor reviews per listing: It is now possible to allow all of your designated JReviews editors to review the listings. * Claim listings: Let users claim a listing as their own so they keep the information updated. New claimss are put in the moderation queue so you can verify the information and ownership is automatically changed when the claim is approved. * Listing inquiries: We have simplified the process to allow users to contact listing owners. The feature comes with several email options and requires a single line of code to be added in the detail theme file. * Four new menu types: Latest user reviews, latest editor reviews, latest reviews (all) and latest discussion posts. * New slider effect for pagination in modules: The ajax pagination has been taken to a whole new level with this change that adds smooth transitions between pages. * Improved Jomsocial integration: activity feeds and points are now included To read the full release go here: http://www.reviewsforjoomla.com/newsletters/jreviews2.1-released-with-exciting-new-features.html