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Akeeba CMS Update for Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 08 March 2014 08 March 2014
The Akeeba Team recently released Akeeba CMS Update, an extension that improves the Joomla! update experience. Its main features include improved reliability across web hosts, update notifications by email, automatic updates via cron, and a backup-before-update feature.
If it gets good feedback and there's interest, it could potentially get submitted for inclusion in the Joomla core. The Akeeba Team are also the authors of the current Joomla built-in core updater, which I thought is reliable already, but I guess they wanted to take it to the next level. Kudos to them.
With that in mind, here's a preview of Akeeba CMS Update Alpha.
Web Design Failure as Part of the Learning Process
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 04 March 2014 04 March 2014
No web designer is perfect, and failure is often an essential part of the creative process. You can have the biggest budget in the world for a site, but sometimes things go horribly wrong. Instead of stressing yourself out over a web design that simply doesn't work, do a postmortem and determine how the design went wrong, and what you can do in the future to avoid similar problems.
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5 Tips to Create a High Power Joomla Call to Action
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 March 2014 03 March 2014
The Inbound Marketing methodology delivers incredible return on relatively simple tactics. At it's core, Inbound gets it's greatest power from just 7 basic functions: social media, SEO, content, calls to action, landing pages, forms, and automation.
One of the least glamourized and most important of these tactics is the call to action, which is the essential step in converting a site visitor to a lead and customer.
On Joomla sites, Calls to Action are often a custom HTML module that prompts a user to click through to a landing page. Once on that landing page, the user can learn more about an offer, fill out a form, and become a valuable lead for your business.
If you're not quite a CTA pro, these tips will help you create Joomla Calls to Action that get the job done:
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How to use Social Buttons on your site?
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 27 February 2014 27 February 2014
Once you've constructed your well-designed, responsive website, your users need to be able to spread the word about what they find there. Providing social media buttons is the basic method of encouraging people to share your content with their social media networks, and it's important to understand the best practices for posting these buttons. Here is an overview of social media buttons, to help you get started:
What came first: the Chicken, the Egg or the Buyer Persona?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 February 2014 26 February 2014
So you're beginning to put together a killer inbound marketing campaign. What are the first questions you start asking yourself? Is it about the goals of the campaign, the nitty gritty details, the budget, the deadline?
While those questions all need to be answered, the best place to begin is asking yourself who do you want this killer inbound marketing campaign to reach? You can create amazing content all day, every day, but if you don't know who you want to be seeing and reading it, the battle could already be lost. By targeting everyone, you could essentially be reaching no one. No bueno. Therefore I give you, the buyer persona in inbound marketing.
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Facts and Figures of Marketing Automation [Infographic]
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 February 2014 24 February 2014
Interested in the world of marketing automation?
This awesome infographic from Capgemini Consulting has some pretty eye-opening figures about how much marketers are investing in Inbound, what it's accomplishing, and more!
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Important Webdesign Trends we've Noticed
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 24 February 2014 24 February 2014
The web industry moves so fast that it's no surprise that the web design trends change every year. If you are wondering what this year will bring when it comes to web design and development, it's time to learn some of the top predictions. You'll find that you have already noticed a few of them in use!
No More Stock Photography
Many people see stock photography as cheesy or even spammy, so it's no surprise that no one wants to look at it anymore. If you want people to take your websites seriously, say no to stock photography. Of course, that doesn't mean you should forego images altogether.
Customizing Kunena BBCode buttons
- Written by joedson silva joedson silva
- Published: 23 February 2014 23 February 2014
Joomla!'s template override mechanism offers wonderful flexibility with relative ease. If you've ever done this, you know it's a simple matter of copying a core file into the right directory under your template's html directory.
Kunena is no exception although with a slight twist. For example, if you want to do your own thing for the reply/edit page, you would copy the file
A Winning Strategy Behind Joomla Landing Page Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 February 2014 20 February 2014
It's probably one of the most delicate points of the conversion process, yet many marketers give it the least amount of thought: The Landing Page Conversion Form. Believe it or not, there is a rhyme and reason for how to develop your Joomla landing page forms for the most success.
Let's take some time to break down the strategy of what makes a good Joomla landing page form and how we can develop yours for maximum success.
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Voyage - A fresh adventure for digital navigation
- Written by Oscar Rodas Oscar Rodas
- Published: 20 February 2014 20 February 2014
A new Responsive Joomla 3.2 Template
Voyage is glamorous and flexible responsive Joomla Template. The fresh design will lend itself to an adventurous and intrepid travel, corporate or personal website.
Warm and Vivid Color Look
What would life be without colors? Colors are what bring joy and happiness to our every day activies. Colors permit our imagination and feelings to converge into a marvelous sensation. Sensations mixing warm and vivid colors in Voyage will make your clients feel the freshness in a digital navigation.
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