The AcyMailing extension for Joomla 1.7 and 2.5 is an excellent newsletter option if you choose use Joomla, instead of a mailing service, to handle your mailing lists. I have tried other newsletter extensions for Joomla, but I especially like AcyMailing because it’s very easy to use. Within a few minutes, I was able to understand how to use it. Many of these tools are very complex. With AcyMailing, it’s very intuitive.
ECWID shopping cart is a fast and easy way to get a great Joomla shopping cart on your website. And it’s FREE!
Chronoforms released version 4 for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.7, and it’s a great upgrade. With a new interface and an amazing form-building wizard, this is the most powerful version of Chronoforms so far.
GCalendar for Joomla is a great extension for displaying a Google calendar on a Joomla page or in a module position. Of course, if you have Joomla configured to allow iFrames, you can easily inset the Google Calendar iFrame code, but this method does not allow you to configure the calendar colors: you’re stuck with the Google blue outline of the calendar.
It’s finally here: the JCE Content Editor for Joomla 1.5 – 1.7. And it was worth the wait. First of all, you can now upgrade to Joomla 1.6 or 1.7 and have the JCE content editor. But this upgrade is more than a port to the new Joomla. It’s a great improvement over the previous version of JCE.
Problem: I have a Joomla website that uses AllVideosReloaded (AVR) to display YouTube Videos. Works fine in all browsers except Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, you can’t see the videos.
Solution: I use the Joomla plugin JCH_Optimize to speed up the loading of the website. Unfortunately, the compression of the AVR javascripts prevents the video from displaying in Internet Explorer. This is the fault of Internet Explorer. To fix the problem, I configured JCH_Optimize to NOT compress the following AVR scripts:
JCE Content Editor for Joomla just released a maintenance update, Version 1.5.7.12. This is a maintenance release to fix a few issues: spell checker and preview. Also, TinyMCE was updated to 3.4.2. Click here to download the JCE Content Editor for Joomla.
If you’ve tried to use the jQuery library with Joomla, you’ve most likely found a conflict with Mootools library, the default Joomla javascript library. The free JBLibrary Plugin by Joomlabamboo allows you to use both libraries without conflict. What’s more, it has a beautiful Scroll to Top function built in that adds a Scroll to Top button in the bottom right corner of the browser screen: when you click it, the pages scrolls smoothly to the top. You can configure it with a light or dark color. Simple and beautiful. Get it!
Search Engine Optimization is very important on any website. Joomla comes with very good search engine optimization tools right out of the box, but sometimes you need more.
Akeeba Backup makes it easy to backup your Joomla website. If your site gets hacked or corrupted, having a complete backup makes it easy to restore your website. Without a backup, you might be forced to completely rebuild your website if it gets hacked.
Click here for details on how to backup your Joomla website using Akeeba Backup.
