Joomla 1.5 Templates Blog

Google Ajax Library - Joomla extension

Joe — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:37:06 +0000

A great way to save bandwidth is to take advantage of Google’s AJAX Libraries API to serve your favorite open-source JavaScript libraries.

For a Joomla user, Joomla import mootools.js automatically. Mootools.js is more than 70KB, If we host the mootools.js in Google, then how much bandwidth it will save?

For example, it will replace
“/media/system/js/mootools.js”
with
“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.11/mootools-yui-compressed.js”

or
“http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.21/mootools-yui-compressed.js”

It depends the version you have set. The mootools version must host on Google’s Ajax libraries.

The Joomla Plugin Google Ajax Library will automatically replace your local ajax libraries with Google’s AJAX libraries.

Support Ajax libraries:

1. Mootools
2. Prototype
3. JQuery
4. YUI
5. SWFObject

Benefits of the using Joomla Plugin: GoogleAjaxLib

* Save bandwidth.
* Speed up your site’s response.
* Service more online users.

V1.1 Use system plugin to give a big short replace.
V1.2 AddSWFObject

You can download this Joomla extension simply following this link.

Ecwid shopping cart extension for Joomla

Joe — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:37:05 +0000

You mau have heard about Ecwid shopping cart extension for Joomla - you can find more information here.There are few advantages to Ecwid comparing to other similar products.It has AJAX supports drag-and-drop. Upgrades are seamless and it requires little to no technical support. Of course it totally free of charge. Ecwid works nice with a fresh Joomla installation. All you need to remember is to disable WYSIWYG/HTML editor before inserting the Ecwid code. This shopping cart has product catalog, Google Checkout, supports paypal and has many more graet features. Hope that you’ll find using this extension useful for you.

The 1,000,000 Download Club

Joe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:52:41 +0000

In light of Joom!Fish’s recent accomplishment of 1,000,000 downloads on JoomlaCode.org, it seems fitting to blog about it.

To date there are 5 projects that have this distinction. As of this writing, they are:

Joomla! (14,964,084 downloads)
JEvents (1,846,222 downloads)
Joomla! Spanish (1,624,758 downloads)
DOCman (1,576,471 downloads)
Joom!Fish multilingual extension (1,010,428 downloads)

From the looks of it, JoomlaPack and Fireboard/Kunena Forum are not too far behind.

Joomla Travel Websites Collection

Joe — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:47:49 +0000

This is a small roundup that consists of few originally designed travel-related website powered by Joomla. We have already published one post about such websites and today is the second part. Travelling is a serious business nowadays and if you run website connected with travel services we believe that you know the growing importance of unique and original design in this sphere. In case if you are looking for some inspiring designs for you travel project we’ve got really stunning Joomla 1.5 Themes in our collection.

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Android Client for Joomla

Joe — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:33:49 +0000

Ok, guys we have some really great news for Android fans and Joomla too. From now on you can manage your Joomla powered website with the help of Android powered device. Joooid is an Android client for the Joomla CMS: it has been created to publish articles with images, galleries and a map indicating the GPS position where the article has been published from. The article manager allows you to browse, publish or trash articles. The developer is currently working on a solution to embed YouTube videos as well. We hope that this client will be very useful for you.

Joomla 1.6 - New Features

Joe — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:33:20 +0000

Actually these are not even news because Joomla 1.6 Alpha 2 was released in October, 2009 but we want to notice that Alpha 2 has some details that are really important for the developers and Joomla users. We all know that Joomla 1.6 will be faster than the previous version. This release has such improvements:

ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast

Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters

Tableless com_content layouts

Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)

Article linker plugin for editors

New frontend template (atomic)

New backend template (bluestork)

New uploader for media manager

Mootools 1.2

Refactored backend

JForm

Nested Categories and category parameters

New views in frontend: categories, category

Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality

PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features => 1.6 will be faster than 1.5

Adding Products to VirtueMart eCommerce Store - Video Tutorial

Joe — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:35:09 +0000

Ecommerce nowadays is getting more popular and Joomla as one of the best CMS can’t stay aside. We as real fans of Joomla 1.5 templates assume that installing Virtuemart to your Joomla powered website can really enliven your business and make your project more profitable.This nice tutorial will help you to set up products at your Virtuemart store. Using this great Ecommerce Joomla extension is a perfect for middle sized stores and we know that you’ll feel all advantages of this software. Take care and stay with Joomla!

Possible New Release Cycle for Joomla!

Joe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:06:12 +0000

As many of you know, version 1.5 was released in January of 2007, almost 2 years ago. That means that it will be over 2 years between versions 1.5 and 1.6. I think most of us would agree that this is too long between versions. But just saying that releases must be more often doesn’t address the underlying issues and challenges.

Fortunately, discussion of how Joomla team can get to a more dynamic release cycle while preserving the stability and reliability that users have come to expect. Anyway to cut a long story short Joomla team is waiting for our feedback in discussing this problem and we hope that all Joomla fans will take chance and help to make Joomla better.

Surprise from TemplateMonster - Free 7-in-1 Joomla Template

Joe — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:49:39 +0000

Yo-ho-ho, guys! Yup dreams come true and today we are so glad to surprise you with this amazing and outstanding event - Release of the Free 7-in-1 Joomla Template from TemplateMonster. To cut a long story short - this template contains customized design themes for all major holidays (including Christmas, St. Valentine’s, St. Patrick’s, 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving). PSD files for all customizations are also included. So this basically means you get 7 Joomla templates in 1 pack - all for free!

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Default Theme

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Christmas theme

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Halloween Theme

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4th of July

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St. Patrick’s

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St. Valentine’s

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Thanksgiving Theme

Feel free to download this free Joomla template and apply it to your website.

QR Code Content plugin for Virtuemart

Joe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:16:27 +0000

Okay, I think that you remember that we’ve already posted about Joomla Vuirtuemart and you know all its advantages. Today we want to inform you that there is one really useful extension. This content plugin shows dynamic QR Codes in Joomla Articles and/or in Virtuemart product descriptions using the slimbox javascript effect. The QR Code contains the url of the page. It uses the Google Chart API. The best shortcut for mobile devices to your site pages! If you want to have it enabled in any other ‘content plugin enabled’ component, make contact with nordmograph.com.