The Joomlashack Blog
Admincredible, An Exciting New Service!
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 29 May 2012 29 May 2012
Frontend Article Management for Joomla Users
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 May 2012 25 May 2012
Last week we were talking with a Joomlashack customer who wanted to have a lot of colleagues contribute to their company's Joomla site.
We asked, "Do you want your Joomla site contributors to access your administrator area?" The answer was "No!"
The customer wanted contributors to manage all of their articles from the frontend of their site. The Shack Article Manager extension is a great way to make that happen.
Here's how Shack Article Manager works:
Creating a Mega Menu in Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 21 May 2012 21 May 2012
As websites add more information, Mega Menus are increasingly popular with designers.
Mega Menus are dropdown menus that allow for the inclusion of content as well as links.
In the example on the right you see not only links to various cars, but also a photo.
New Joomla Template Release, Formula
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 15 May 2012 15 May 2012
Formula Joomla Template is a Recipe for Success
Give your website a healthy start by using the right Joomla Template - - the right Formula. Joomlashack's Formula was built using the reliable Wright Framework. It comes with 6 cool colors each in light and dark versions and with some cool CSS3 animations.
Formula, your Clean and Minimalist Canvas
Doohickeys, doodahs, and gizmos are all nice and well when you want them, but sometimes you need a nice, well diagramed and clean space to communicate an idea properly and without distractions. Formula will not get in the way of your master plan. It provides the developer with an almost perfect, pure, and minimalist canvas. It can be molded and designed to fit a great selection of themes.
Content Versioning for Joomla 2.5
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 13 May 2012 13 May 2012
Do you have several people all contributing and editing articles to your Joomla site? Do those people sometimes make mistakes? Are you the one messing things up sometimes? We all do it. Simple Content Versioning is the solution.
Fabrik: Create a Custom Joomla User List
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 May 2012 08 May 2012
This is another of our series of tutorials on Fabrik. Now, instead of using Fabrik to collect information, we're going to use it to display information.
In this tutorial we're going to do two things:
- Create a list of your Joomla users.
- Search that list in advanced ways.
Shack Slides Joomla Extension Updated
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 03 May 2012 03 May 2012
Shackslides... it now dices and slices
We are as excited about our new updated version of Shackslides as the host of an infomercial is about his Ginsu knives. This practical and reliable slideshow module has been used already in thousands of sites. It's one of our best selling products - - one being bought with almost every template we sell. What I'm getting at is that it was already a great product and now it's even better.
The Future of Joomla's UI
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 03 May 2012 03 May 2012
I'd like to take the opportunity to let our readers know of a current open conversation about the future of Joomla's User Interface, or UI as it's commonly referred to, and invite everyone to share their input should they wish to.
Some of you may already know of Kyle Ledbetter's work over the last few months to bring modern standardization to the Joomla admin interface, an effort that many of us are very grateful he began. For a peek, take a look at the screenshot above - yes, that's a possible Joomla admin interface!
Due largely in part to Kyle's efforts to incorporate the popular X / Twitter Bootstrap framework for use in standardizing the UI and presenting a set of tools for developers, Joomla's Production Leadership Team (PLT) has asked of the larger community what their desires and preferences for the adoption of an underlying framework be.
I invite you to read what Kyle has written in a summary of his overall goeals, and to head over to the JUI forum discussion to share your input.
An Introduction to Fabrik
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 April 2012 24 April 2012
There are nearly 30 options for creating Joomla forms. Fabrik is probably the most powerful of them all.
Rather than simply create forms, Fabrik allows you to create real applications. You can collect data and then feed that data into charts, maps, calendars and more.
However, although Fabrik is powerful and flexible, it can also be complicated to use. In this tutorial, we're going to give you a gentle introduction to Fabrik, and we'll show you how to set up your first form.
Avalon Joomla Template Updated to Wright and Joomla 2.5
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 24 April 2012 24 April 2012
Avalon Joomla Template updated to Joomla 2.5
We're excited to announce that one of our most popular templates, AvalonPro, is now Joomla 2.5-compatible and on our Wright Framework -- which makes customizing your Avalon template even easier than before!
Read more: Avalon Joomla Template Updated to Wright and Joomla 2.5