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Corp the New Joomla Template from Joomlashack
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 31 July 2012 31 July 2012
Last week we launched Natural and this week we are proud to announce the launch of another great new Joomla Template. We've been working so hard you could say we are ready to go to the Joomla Olympics. ;)
2nd product launch in the 6-in-6 Challenge
What is the 6-in-6 Challenge? It is one of the ways we push ourselves harder than anyone else in the Joomlasphere. While others are happy launching but one Joomla Template per month, we are going to attempt, again for the second time this year, to launch 6 products in 6 weeks. With great pride, we present you Corp, our newest Joomla Template and what is surely another gold medal.
Snippets - Reusable Content in Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 July 2012 30 July 2012
Here at OSTraining.com we rely on several key extensions. Few are more important to us than Snippets.
We run over 100 classes per year. If a teacher updates their bio, we need to update in dozens of different places on our site. If we update our curriculum, we need to update it in hundreds of places. We use Snippets to make that process much easier.
Snippets allows you to enter content in one central location and then re-use it anywhere on your site.
Projectfork - Project Management for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 23 July 2012 23 July 2012
Update: Projectfork is no more, but if you're really interested in project management in the open source area, check out UpStream, a WordPress project management plugin.
Projectfork is the most popular Joomla project management extension.
In this tutorial, we're going to give you step-by-step directions on how to use Projectfork. We're going to create a project, add milestones to the project, add to-do tasks and do much more.
New 6-in-6 Challenge and a New Joomla Template
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 22 July 2012 22 July 2012
The Summer 6-in-6 Challenge
Most Joomla Template companies launch just one Joomla Template each month, however we dont feel that 12 templates a year is enough. So for the past few years we have made the promise to our clients to launch more than 20 per year. That's almost twice as many as our competitors and we should be happy and proud of that huge acomplishment. However, every once in a while we go a little crazy - - it may be the heat or the humidity, and being the gluttons for punishment we are, we decide to push ourselves even harder and launch 6 new, reliable, and exciting products in as many weeks.
6 New Products: 4 Joomla Templates and 2 Joomla Extensions to be Launched during the next 6 Weeks
If you recall, we failed our last 6-in-6 challenge. The last template we launched in the challenge, the exciting and revolutionary N6, was delayed and we ended up launching our 6 Joomla Templates in a period of 7 weeks. This time we have made the challenge even more complicated because we will be including two Joomla Extensions as part of the 6 products we will launch. Stay tuned during the next 6 weeks as we embark in this difficult undertaking.
What You Need to Know About Joomla 3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 July 2012 16 July 2012
The big news for Joomla is clear: Joomla 3 is now only three months away from launch.
We're going to give a run down of everything you need to know about this new version:
Joomla 3 in a Nutshell
- What's great about Joomla 3? This is the version that will bring Joomla up-to-speed with the mobile revolution that is taking over the web.
- Who is Joomla 3 for? To begin with, it is for developers and early adopters only.
- I am on Joomla 2.5. What do I do? Stay right where you are! Joomla 2.5 is a wonderful version of Joomla and will be supported until 2014.
- Will the upgrade be easy? Yes, the plan is to allow people to upgrade from 2.5 to 3.0 directly from the administrator area of their site. Remember though, you don't need to do that until 2013 or 2014.
Add to Menu - Easily Add Joomla Articles to Menus
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 10 July 2012 10 July 2012
Add to Menu does exactly what it's name says. It allows you to easily add Joomla articles or components to your menus.
With Add to Menu you will get an extra link in the top right of your Administrator to quickly add a menu link.
Here's how to use Add to Menu:
Read more: Add to Menu - Easily Add Joomla Articles to Menus
Add Custom Fields to Virtuemart Products
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 05 July 2012 05 July 2012
Virtuemart is the most popular Joomla shopping cart, but it can also be challenging for beginners.
We have covered Virtuemart several times, including a comprehensive beginner guide.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to make your product information more interesting by using custom fields. This will allow you to add all sorts of specific details to your products, beyond simply the name, price and description.
New SEO Training College at Joomlashack
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 26 June 2012 26 June 2012
Joomlashack's SEO College Launches Today
We've been dilligently building content and we are now proud to announce the launch of our new school: The SEO College at Joomlashack. During the last few years we have taught thousands how to design great and reliable websites using Joomla, now it´s time to learn how to:
1. Get your sites found by search engines and the people you want. So you can:
2. Drive more traffic to your sites. In order to:
3. Increase your sites' conversions.
SEO College Landing Page
Social Pinboard - A Pinterest Clone for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 25 June 2012 25 June 2012
Social Pinboard is an extension that can turn your Joomla site into a Pinterest.com-style social photo sharing site.With Social Pinboard, your users can create collections of images. Users can also browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections, and 'like' photos.
In this tutorial, we're going to explain the installation, review the product, and make some comparisons with Pinterest.
JPrc Cronjobs Provides Cron for Joomla
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
Cron is a feature of many servers but is sometimes unavailable to the user. For example, Godaddy does not give users access to cron.
Using the JPrc Cronjobs extension, we'll show in this tutorial how anyone can use cron on their Joomla site.