To celebrate all the updates and the future ahead, we’re giving you 15-20% off on all memberships for the next few days! :)

Remember, download and support is for members only – register or extend your membership while the special is still active!

Use the voucher IWANTMORPH
for 15% discount on Copper, Bronze, Silver and Gold memberships

Use the voucher ILOVEMORPH
for 20% discount on Platinum membership.

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New to Morph? Now is the time to catch up and take your Joomla website to a new level! Learn about what you can do with the Configurator component for Morph

These interviews show that you can expect very exciting times ahead – lets just say: Morph goes Nooku and GPL.

Listen to the interviews, read the review and you’ll understand what we mean!

Template Frameworks: Favoured Friend of Joomla Ecommerce Sites?

Really funny and incredibly informative interview by Bob Bloom and Dianne Henning with Chris and Stian from our team.

You get the lowdown on our plans for Prothemer, how Morph works and where the development is going, plus what Nooku is and how you will benefit from Morph using the Nooku framework.

Listen to the interview now

Joomla! Magazine – Template Tools Part Two

“Two years and hundreds of improvements have gone into the development of the Morph toolset. It is so functional that it is sometimes referred to as the Swiss Army Knife of Joomla! Template development.”

This is a review and comparison of the Morph toolset on joomla.org. It’s the second article in a series of evaluations of Joomla templates and frameworks.

Read the review and listen to the interview:
Template tools – Joomla! Magazine (choose the Prothemer tab)

Joomla Templates Series – User Experience Design (UX)

We blogged about this interview before it was broadcasted, so take a quick look at this blog post for more info.

Listen to the interview here

iTunes podcast fan?

If you also love listening to podcasts via iTunes, you’ll be happy to know that you can subscribe to the podcasts from both JoomStew and SouthLaSalleMEDIA.

In your iTunes, go to Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast… and paste these url’s into the popup window:

• http://www.blogtalkradio.com/southlasalle.rss
• http://www.joomstew.com/?feed=podcast&format=mp3

Thank you Alice, Neri, Dianne, Robert and Bob – you’re creating awesomely fun and informative stuff for the Joomla! community!

Do you have tips about great podcasts about Joomla!, web development, design, seo or other relevant topic? Let us know about them in the comments below!

New to Morph?
Now is the time to catch up and take your Joomla website to a new level! Read about what you can do with the Configurator component for Morph

How to upgrade your Morph powered site: To ensure you are able to keep your Morph powered site updated with all the latest features and refinements, we have made the upgrade process quick and easy: See How to upgrade your Morph powered site for more info.

Morph template updated to v1.15

The Morph template is where most of the the heavy lifting is done. Think of it as the engine of a car, while the themelet (otherwise referred to as “child themes”) are the sexy body work. The Morph template can be installed via Configurator’s installer (which you see right after you have installed the component) or the standard Joomla installer.

Changelog:

• Patched jQuery().load() function to fix the lightbox conflict with Mootools.
• Fixed the conflict with the Mootools 1.2 upgrade plugin, causing issues with Kunena and other extensions.

Download the new version of Morph here

Configurator component updated to v1.13

Configurator is one of Morph’s methods of control. Plainly put it is a Joomla! component and is used to manage most aspects of Morph. You can customize everything from your sites logo, colors, performance options, blocks and more.

Changelog:

• Fixed the Getting Started dialog, loading the full admin, instead of the dialog contents.
• Fixed the issue with language files not being moved to the languages folder when installed via Configurators installer.

Download the new version of Configurator here

For help and support, please visit our forum.

We are on a rrroll! Another round of updates are now available for you to download. This time we also included an update of the dark base themelet Liquorice.

Below you will find the changelogs and a few things coming up in the next versions.

How to upgrade your Morph powered site: To ensure you are able to keep your Morph powered site updated with all the latest features and refinements, we have made the upgrade process quick and easy: See How to upgrade your Morph powered site for more info.

Morph template updated to v1.14

The Morph template is where most of the the heavy lifting is done. Think of it as the engine of a car, while the themelet (otherwise referred to as “child themes”) are the sexy body work. The Morph template can be installed via Configurator’s installer (which you see right after you have installed the component) or the standard Joomla installer.

Changelog:

• Fixed the issue with the language strings not being translated.
• Added the option to set which block is used for the HoverFocus feature.
• Fixed an issue with the themelets html overrides.

Still to do

• Fix an issue with language file not being moved to the languages folder when installed via Morphs step-by-step installer.

Download the new version of Morph here

Configurator component updated to v1.12

Configurator is one of Morph’s methods of control. Plainly put it is a Joomla! component and is used to manage most aspects of Morph. You can customize everything from your sites logo, colors, performance options, blocks and more.

Changelog:

• Major overhaul on the interface javascript, preparing for full ajaxifying of admin tasks.
• Fixed the saving redirect issue.
• Started work on the Getting Started dialog. Still needs some tweaking though.

Still to do

• Language file not being moved to the languages folder when installed via Morphs step-by-step installer.
• Finish the Getting Started dialog fix.

Download the new version of Configurator here

Liquorice themelet updated to v1.01

Liquorice is the dark base themelet that you can use as the starting point for your own dark themelets, just like the Vanilla themelet for your lighter designs.

Changelog:

• Disabled the preloader plugin by default and updated a few more of the defaults.
• Fixed a few issues with contact form layout.
• Removed the custom.css.php as its no longer needed.

Download the new version of Liquorice here

For help and support, please visit our forum.

Joomla and Mailchimp just wasn’t the perfect couple…until now. A big thank you goes out to the FreakedOut team for making it happen!

Last year, the FreakedOut team created Joomailer, which merged the power of the CampaignMonitor email marketing system with Joomla. This made it possible to manage your website and CampaignMonitor driven email marketing from one admin control panel. Pretty sweet, we thought…but we still had our hearts set only on Mailchimp.

To our surprise, the FreakedOut team recently contacted us and said “We’ve got something you’ll love!”. Working together with MailChimp, FreakedOut have created a new version of Joomailer which integrates with our favorite Chimp. Yay! Best of all, the component is 100% free!

Yes, this blog post is completely dedicated to Mailchimp and Joomailer, and after reading it you might actually change from your current email marketing system to Mailchimp. ;)

“Easy for noobs, strong for Ninjas”

The key for us is: Mailchimp makes email marketing fun. Yes, really! From the funny welcome messages when you’re logged in, to the fact that you have more email marketing features available than you can shake a banana at.

“So how does this Joomla and Mailchimp integration work?” I thought you’d never ask:

STEP 1: get started with a free MailChimp account and create an API key.

STEP 2: head over to “Mailchimp meets Joomla” and sign up.

Sneak peek of Joomailers "Getting Started" screen in Joomla

Features and benefits of Joomailer

Memberships and subscriptions

First of all, you can synchronize your existing site members with the MailChimp member database. When that’s done and dusted,  your new site members can subscribe directly via:

• the standard Joomla registration form,
• Jomsocial, or
• Community Builder

Creating and sending newsletters

Sending out a newsletter with Joomailer is simple:

First, choose your template.

Creating your newsletter and setting up the basics

Then, choose your subscriber list.

Create different lists for your members and send focused campaigns

Finally, select which articles you’d like to include. You can even choose to send just the article intro-text, and automatically include a read-more link back to the article on the site.

A few clicks and you are done. Re-using your existing website content gives you more time to monkey around with other things

That’s it – you’re ready to send!

Your dashboard

From the Joomailer dashboard you can quickly access your campaigns and account details (plus checking out the latest Chimp Chatter).

Reports

When your email campaign has landed in your subscribers inboxes, it’s time to check the stats. Mailchimp truly rocks when it comes to quickly see open rates, click rates, bounces and many other interesting numbers.

Just make sure you don’t spend too much time staring at the numbers without taking action based on them. ;) Continously improve your opening and click rates, for example by using the super easy A/B split testing to see what works or not for your different lists.

Take the first steps towards improving your email marketing!

STEP 1: get started with a free MailChimp account and create an API key.

STEP 2: head over to “Mailchimp meets Joomla” and sign up. Did we mention the Joomailer is 100% free! ;)