The Joomlashack Blog
Getting Started with Shack Toolbox
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 May 2018 23 May 2018
We are happy to announce the release of Shack Toolbox. This is one of the extensions we recently acquired from Perfect Web.
Shack Toolbox will take your Joomla modules to a new level. You can use Shack Toolbox to display Joomla articles, multimedia content, or posts from your social networks.
The extension enables you to use many themes, animations, and visual effects including lightboxes, slideboxes, and popups.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use Shack Toolbox. We'll see how to display your site's Cookie Policy and a Joomla article.
Introduction to jInbound's Smart CTA Module
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 May 2018 23 May 2018
Our inbound marketing component jInbound ships with the Smart CTA module. CTA stands for Call-To-Action.
Set this module to show laser targeted calls to action depending on the visitor status in your jInbound marketing campaigns.
Learn in this post how to display one call to action to a first-time visitor and another - to a new marketing lead.
How to Hide the Course Difficulty in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 May 2018 21 May 2018
One of our OSCampus customers asked how to remove a course difficulty from a course and a pathway frontend pages.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to achieve this with a powerful set-and-forget technique called "template overrides".
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to edit a couple of the OSCampus core files even you know nothing about coding.
How to Add the Font Awesome External Link Icon to Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 May 2018 16 May 2018
Small details in your website design make a big difference for its visitors.
Take care of such details, and your visitors will pay you back with their trust and repeat visits.
One of such important details is the little icon you may have seen placed in some sites, like BBC, before or after a weblink to an external site.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to manually add such helpful icon to external links in your Joomla articles.
Read more: How to Add the Font Awesome External Link Icon to Joomla
How to Set the Joomla Article Title to h1 for Joomlashack Templates
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 May 2018 14 May 2018
One of our customers asked us how to wrap the title of a Joomla article in h1 tags. By default, the tag used for Joomla article titles is h2.
In this blog post, I'll show you how to change the tags used for your article titles, thanks to template overrides.
Read more: How to Set the Joomla Article Title to h1 for Joomlashack Templates
How to Hide the SEF Advance External Link Icon
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 May 2018 11 May 2018
One of our templates customers asked how to hide the SEF Advance external link icon.
Mind you, this icon looks pretty cool. You may even see its variations on some big sites, like BBC.
Our customer, though, seemed to prefer a conventional look for their external links. And we obliged.
In this use case tutorial, you will learn where your external links get this pretty icon from and how to hide it.
Track a jInbound Marketing Goal Completion
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 May 2018 09 May 2018
Inbound Marketing is all about converting a passive visitor to your site into an active lead.
You can easily achieve this goal with our cool jInbound component, even if you have no marketing experience whatsoever.
In this blog post, you will learn how to convert a passive viewer of a jInbound landing page into a lead and the lead - into a goal completed lead.
This will enable you to trace who actually responded to your marketing offer. You then will be able to effectively nurture or further market your new or goal completed leads.
3 New Extensions Are Coming to Joomlashack from Perfect Web
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 May 2018 03 May 2018
Just over two months ago, we announced the acquisition of Perfect Web, another Joomla extension company.
I'm delighted to say that three Perfect Web extensions will be moving to Joomlashack in the next couple of weeks.
As each one is released, we'll publish posts explaining that extension in detail. For now, here's an overview of the three next extensions.
If these new arrivals will be useful for you, save over 60% when you sign up to the Everything Club today! You will get access to these 3 new extensions as well as all our other extensions, templates, and Joomla training.
Read more: 3 New Extensions Are Coming to Joomlashack from Perfect Web
Beginners Guide to Marketing Lead Nurturing Emails [Video]
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 May 2018 03 May 2018
Lead nurturing emails are the best way to automatically direct your marketing leads through your customer funnel.
Learn in this blog post:
- Content best practices for a lead nurturing email.
- Design tips for increasing email open rates and lead engagement.
- Considerations for email scheduling.
Read more: Beginners Guide to Marketing Lead Nurturing Emails [Video]
How to Create Marketing Calls to Action In Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 May 2018 01 May 2018
Create a call-to-action to catch the interest of your site visitors and direct them to a jInbound landing page. There they will express interest in your offer and enter the lead funnel.
In this blog post, you will learn:
- Best design practices for calls-to-action.
- When and where to use calls-to-action on your website.
- How not to create calls-to-action.
Read more: How to Create Marketing Calls to Action In Joomla