The Joomlashack Blog
Shacklides: reborn, renewed and reimagined in 2015
- Written by Oscar Rodas Oscar Rodas
- Published: 08 February 2015 08 February 2015
Shack Slides v3: Renewed, Reborn, Reimagined
The Shack Slides you and over 10,000 others grew to love is back with great new features and responsiveness. Its traditional ease of use and lightness returns. Check our our demo here.
What's new in Shack Slides?
Still priced at just $18, Shack Slides will enhance your site and its images with essential cool new features:
- Amazing CSS3 Effects
- Flexible layout
- Compatible with mobile devices
- Responsive Ready
- Touch Ready
- Incoming text effects
- Awesome navigation styles
You can easily customize the way it appears. The amount of effects, combined with the flexibility of color and opacity you can use, and the customization of navigation objects as well, will let you do almost anything in your slideshow. All of this features will help you create a more visual impact of your site.
It works on Joomla 2.5, 3.X and supports K2, and Joomla content (so long as these extensions work in the Joomla version).
Read more: Shacklides: reborn, renewed and reimagined in 2015
OSDownloads Now Has Email Validation for Downloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2015 06 February 2015
We have just released OSDownloads 1.3 with several great new features.
The most important new feature in OSDownloads Pro is email validation. Now you can email download links to users. This makes sure that they enter a valid email address.
If someone does enter valid email address, you can automatically add them to your MailChimp list.
On the other hand, if they enter a fake email address or don't click the link, they won't be added to MailChimp.
You can also disable this feature for logged-in users (because they have probably already confirmed their email address).
Read more: OSDownloads Now Has Email Validation for Downloads
OSYouTube Has Improved Autoplay and a Smart Autolinker
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2015 06 February 2015
The best YouTube video embedder just received two new features that will give you more control and flexibility. We have improved the autoplay capabilities and added a smart autolinker
YouTube already supports autoplay and it is great, but we've found a way to add further improvements so you can control how and when a video will autoplay.
We've also resolved a limitation with links to YouTube. Previous versions of OSYouTube would automatically convert all YouTube URLs into videos, but now you have the option to leave the link as it is.
Read more: OSYouTube Has Improved Autoplay and a Smart Autolinker
Easily Tweak Your Digital Marketing Strategy To Remain Ahead Of Your Competitors
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2015 06 February 2015
Digital world moves at a very fast pace. When Facebook was growing at a breakneck speed, Instagram burst on to the world stage and people found a new way to share photos.
Similarly, when instagram was gobbled up by Facebook, Snapchat came on the scene and quickly gathered more than 100 million users.
Who knew, the world needs another messaging app when WhatsApp was launched in 2009.
Read more: Easily Tweak Your Digital Marketing Strategy To Remain Ahead Of Your Competitors
Do You Want Inbound Leads? Here Is What You Must Do
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 February 2015 05 February 2015
Inbound marketing is a revolutionary way to market a business.
The best part about inbound marketing is that it's effects can be exponential.
The more time and energy spent on marketing should be considered money spent. If you want more inbound leads (who doesn't?) - this is what you must do.
Read more: Do You Want Inbound Leads? Here Is What You Must Do
4 Social Marketing Trends For 2015 For Your Joomla Website
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 February 2015 03 February 2015
Lots of Joomal website owners wish they would have had a crystal ball to help them keep up with social marketing trends at the beginning of 2014.
Nobody can go back and repeat last year, but it will be helpful to prepare for this year. Consider these social marketing trends for 2015:
Read more: 4 Social Marketing Trends For 2015 For Your Joomla Website
What Exactly Is Inbound Marketing?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 January 2015 27 January 2015
Inbound marketing, in its simplest form is promoting a company and/or business through a variety of forms of content marketing including but not limited to; blogs, podcasts, videos, eBooks, white papers, eNewsletters, SEO, and social media.
On the other side of the spectrum there is outbound marketing. Strategies that are considered outbound marketing are various forms of marketing through buying attention. These forms include but are not limited to; flyers, billboards, TV advertisements and cold calling.
With inbound marketing, the objective is to reel in customers with constant quality content. The idea is to earn prospects as your customers instead of "buying" them.
OSpam-a-not: Our New Joomla Spam-Fighting Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 January 2015 23 January 2015
We're Knights of the Round Table,
We dance when ere we're able,
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot,
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
--Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Last year at OSTraining.com, we started using an unobtrusive technique on some of our web forms in an attempt to stop the flood of spambots submitting junk on those forms. It worked better than we could have hoped and we've been talking about turning it into a Joomla! plugin ever since.
With apologies to Monty Python we are calling it OSpam-a-not.
Read more: OSpam-a-not: Our New Joomla Spam-Fighting Extension
New sorting options and mail sync highlighted in jInbound 2.0.9
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 23 January 2015 23 January 2015
Today we released a new version 2.0.9 of jInbound, the first of many for 2015.
This version introduces support for syncing leads with MailChimp, the popular Email service provider. A dedicated plugin has been released for this purpose.
In addition, we've added some really useful filters to the Lead Manager.
Read more: New sorting options and mail sync highlighted in jInbound 2.0.9
Sync leads with Mailchimp plugin
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 23 January 2015 23 January 2015
We are excited today to announce that the leads you capture through jInbound can now be synced to your MailChimp account.
Once you install the MailChimp plugin for jInbound, you will see a new tab in your Campaign parameters.
As you can see in the screenshot, you can select the mailing list(s) and groups/segments to which new jInbound leads will be added.