Joomla websites can be slow, especially if you have a lot of extensions installed. Slow page speeds drive customers away from your website. Furthermore, since Google might consider page speed in its ranking, it’s more important than ever to have fast page speeds. JCH Optimize, a plugin for Joomla, is a fast, free, and easy way to speed up your site immediately. (more…)

AlphaRegistration for Joomla improves on the default Joomla Registration Component by adding Re Captcha to the registration process. In addition, it adds a visual, 3-step process and indicator to help eliminate confusion about the verification email sent during the registration process. (more…)

Fact: Google is probably going to add “Page Speed” as one of its many ranking factors. Fact: Joomla websites often get a marginal page speed ranking. Do you need to worry if you have a Joomla Website? (more…)

Filtered News is a Joomla Module that allows you to show article leads in a module position, and it has all of the configuration that is missing from the standard Joomla Module Newsflash and What’s New: multiple display layouts, configurable content elements, text character number limit, include image, and more. (more…)

Kuneri MobileJoomla provides instant conversion of your Joomla website for standard mobile phone platforms like iPhone,  Android, and BlackBerry. (more…)

The 2J News Slider is a great, commercial Joomla News component that creates a slideshow from your articles. If you want an automatic slideshow that shows the article intro and thumbnail for articles in a section or category, this is the tool.

This Joomla News Slider cost $30, but it’s well worth it. 2J News Slider is easy to set up and configure. Just publish the module to a position and point it at a section or category. If you want, the look and feel can be adjusted using the CSS style sheet.

Features:

• random article selection
• configurable article rotation: ordering, creation date, hits, or votes
• show article titles only
• several transition / fade effects to choose from

If you want to add some zing to your home page, this is a great Joomla News component.

Yesterday, I noticed that none of the YouTube videos on my site would play. For example, when I clicked on one of these videos, nothing happended, but there was a message at the bottom of Firefox that said Waiting for gdata.youtube.com…. (more…)

I just spent several hours trying to figure out why the JCal Pro Latest Events Module would not display events, even though there were events to be displayed. (more…)

I finally tried the Joomla file management / FTP component, eXtplorer: it’s awesome and I intend on making it part of my default list of Joomla extensions I install when I build a new Joomla site. (more…)

After a few years of reading about Mosets Tree Directory software component for Joomla, I finally paid $119 and gave it a try. Money well spent. Mosets is easy to set up and use, for the developer AND the client. (more…)