Dec
30

Joomla 2.5 – What to expect, & how to upgrade Joomla 1.5 or 1.7

Posted in Joomla by Matt King | 10,092 views | 6 Comments
joomla 2.5.0 beta is out

The Joomla Project announced on December 22 the newest Beta version for our favorite CMS, Joomla 2.5.  This will be the second release since converting over to their new six month release cycle.  In this article I will outline what you can expect from this new version, how to upgrade to it, and why this ...

Dec
29

Social Ad Targeting Is Here!

Joomla Social Ad Targeting with JomSocial & Ad Agency

We get lots of suggestions from our customers for features and Joomla enhancements that they’d like to see. We try to act on those suggestions whenever possible. We’ve now acted on the request that we see most often. We’ve integrated  JomSocial with Ad Agency! This revolutionary version of Ad Agency will help you take your advertising program to ...

Sep
09

The easiest way to get paid subscriptions on your Joomla site!

Posted in iJoomla Extensions, Joomla by Merav Knafo | 6,396 views | No Comments
MediaPass for Joomla!

Ever since the first days of iJoomla, right back when we came out with iJoomla Magazine, people have been asking me if we had a solution to enable paid subscriptions. We didn’t. I’d always hoped that someone else would come up with something and while a few extensions were created over the years to provide ...

Aug
30

How to find the module positions in Joomla 1.7

Posted in Joomla, Tips & Tricks by Merav Knafo | 18,663 views | 12 Comments
Place a link to the site preview with module positions right where the user selects a module position

Knowing where your module positions are located is one of the most fundamental things you need to know when creating a site with Joomla 1.7, however, for some reason it’s not as easy to find as you would think. It was evident in the Joomla 1.7 usability testing I performed a few weeks ago. The ...

Aug
08

The new Joomla versions roadmap

Posted in Joomla by Matt King | 64,286 views | 6 Comments
image showing the new joomla versions info

If you use Joomla you are no doubt confused about the direction that the Joomla versions are taking.  I admit, I work with Joomla daily and it has been confusing for even me to follow.  If you Google "Joomla roadmap" the first result is from 2007, and the rest of the results are just as topical. You won't ...

Jul
29

Ad Agency Usability Testing Report

Posted in iJoomla Extensions, Usability by Merav Knafo | 5,720 views | 7 Comments
iJoomla Ad Agency

iJoomla Ad Agency is always a work in progress and even though we try hard to make it user-friendly, we have received reports that some advertisers have found the front-end confusing. So we decided to do usability testing. As always, it was a very eye-opening experience -- even a mortifying one. When you're doing Web ...

Jul
28

What is new in Joomla 1.7 vs Joomla 1.6?

Posted in Joomla, Security by Matt King | 82,733 views | 10 Comments
new features in joomla 1.7 compared to joomla 1.6

The Joomla team  recently announced Joomla 1.7 is now stable for live sites.  This new version fixes a variety of issues with Joomla 1.6 as well as introduces the ability to upgrade to future versions from within the Administrator panel. No more uploading via FTP, hooray! This marks the first step towards a upgrade system that is similar to ...

Jul
27

Joomla 1.7 Usability Testing Report – Placing a module on the site

Posted in Joomla, Usability by Merav Knafo | 5,718 views | 6 Comments
Joomla

Giles Fabris of DiehardCustomers.com is a good friend, a business coach and a customer service guru. He's also a new Joomla 1.5 user who has been working with the CMS for the past three months. He is a typical Joomla end-user: a business owner, not a developer. I had just one task for him: to ...

Jul
26

Buy iJoomla SEO, get some cool Joomla Extensions from our Partners for FREE!

Posted in iJoomla Extensions by Merav Knafo | 2,570 views | No Comments

FREE EasyBlog software with purchase of iJoomla SEO now through Friday night. Optimize your site AND get free software!

Jul
07

What’s new with iJoomla?

Posted in iJoomla Extensions by Merav Knafo | 79,984 views | 4 Comments
Joomla training software

iJoomla LMS is now Guru In a last minute change before the grand release, we’re giving iJoomla LMS a new name: Guru. Why Guru?  Because everybody is a guru at something. Everyone is an expert at what they do best, and everybody has knowledge that others would love to possess. And they’ll pay for that knowledge. Guru allows ...