The Joomlashack Blog
Optimizing Joomla Landing Pages for Conversions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 October 2013 29 October 2013
A landing page is probably one of the most important parts of any website. It's the point in the visitor's journey where they make the leap and convert on some sort of offer. However, even though this is such an important piece of your Joomla website, it is often one of the most overlooked sections to make improvements.
In today's blog we are going to look at some of the important best practices and tips for creating high converting Joomla landing pages.
What Is Social Proof? Powerful, Persuasive, and Awesome - That's What!
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 October 2013 28 October 2013
Throughout your experiences creating and managing Joomla websites, you may have encountered the term "Social Proof".
Much buzzed about in marketing circles and quickly making it's way into the web design sphere, social proof is the careful art of guiding people to take actions by providing evidence of other people doing the same.
Let's take a look at an example of social proof at work, and discuss how you can incorporate it into your website and Inbound strategy.
Read more: What Is Social Proof? Powerful, Persuasive, and Awesome - That's What!
Tripod ~ a portfolio showcase Joomla Template
- Written by Oscar Rodas Oscar Rodas
- Published: 27 October 2013 27 October 2013
Tripod a Flat and Gorgeous Photography and Art Showcase
Tripod is a Joomla Template designed for any photographer, artist, creative studio, or marketing agency. Its layout ensures that your landing page starts to promote and showcase your work from the get-go. Tripod makes it is easy for you to configure a single-scrolling page website and gives your site's traffic a native and intuitive way to navigate through your work.
Joomla 3.2: Over 15 New Features Worth Checking Out
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 23 October 2013 23 October 2013
Joomla! 3.2 is set to be released on November 6, the day before the Joomla World Conference
3.2 is going to be one of the most feature-packed releases that Joomla has ever had.
Here is a list of the top 15 new features worth checking out in Joomla 3.2, followed by a description and/or screenshots for each:
Read more: Joomla 3.2: Over 15 New Features Worth Checking Out
Content Marketing on Joomla: Create a Killer Strategy
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 October 2013 22 October 2013
One big challenge facing marketers is developing a successful content marketing strategy for their blogs and content downloads on their Joomla website. However, having a solid content marketing strategy is key to ensure that you're driving the right kinds of people to your site and nurturing them down the funnel.
In today's blog you will learn how to develop a killer content marketing strategy for your Joomla site in order to maximize your contents impact.
Read more: Content Marketing on Joomla: Create a Killer Strategy
How to Come Up With Blog Topics: Untapped and Underrated Resources
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 October 2013 21 October 2013
Video on building a blog with Joomla
According to blogging best practices, we should be publishing at least two blogs per week to stay relevant in search engines and users' minds. That's eight articles per month, or 104 each year.
Coming up with that many blog topics may seem like a hefty task, but don't abandon the blogging ship just yet: I've got a list of resources you can leverage to inspire incredible articles.
Read more: How to Come Up With Blog Topics: Untapped and Underrated Resources
The Anatomy of an Irresistible Content Download
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 October 2013 14 October 2013
Content offers are the bridge between a website visitor and an engaged lead. In order to effectively orchestrate an inbound campaign, you need to create killer content which people are willing to exchange their (basic) personal information to gain access to.
Let's review what separates blah content downloads from exceptional, and discuss how offers of this nature will fast track you to lead nurturing success.
Remove Extra jQuery files in Joomla With ReReplacer
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 13 October 2013 13 October 2013
If you have a Joomla site with many extensions and a sophisticated template, you may find yourself with a common problem: too many Javascript files.
It's not unusual for various templates and extensions to load their own libraries or even two different version of the same library.
The impact of this problem is that either the template or the extension may cease to work properly.
One solution is the jQuery Easy plugin. However, you can also solve this issue with Rereplacer by NoNumber. Both of the solutions will allow you fix duplicate Javascript problems without modifying any code.
Read more: Remove Extra jQuery files in Joomla With ReReplacer
EasySocial - Social Networking for Joomla Released!
- Written by Roxana Kawas Roxana Kawas
- Published: 10 October 2013 10 October 2013
We're very happy for Andrew Rogers, CEO of Stackideas, and his team for the release of EasySocial--now available for download.
According to Andrew, "It was a gruelling task of building the next best social networking extension for Joomla with over 14,000 commits. This is proof of how much dedication we had put in to give you only the best tool..."
Andrew shares some of EasySocial's cool features:
Read more: EasySocial - Social Networking for Joomla Released!
Easily Test Joomla 3 Patches
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 October 2013 08 October 2013
Joomla 3.2 is coming soon. A beta release of 3.2 is due this week and so it's time for developers to start testing.
The Joomla team says that,
"the amount of contributions for this release is amazingly high and we are most likely looking at the largest release of the CMS ever."
To make testing the change much easier, the Joomla team have released a component called "Patch Tester".