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Most Useful extensions related to designs for the Joomla

Posted by: sanjaykhunt on: August 27, 2009

Many of customers are using Joomla in one way, shape or form to power the Online projects or web sites they run. With that in mind, I thought I would cover some of my favorite most popular extensions related to designs for the Joomla content management system.

Ultimate PNG Fix Plugin (for IE up to version 6.x)
The “Ultimate PNG Fix” Plugin (for IE up to version 6.x) gives you the ability to correct “alpha” transparency for BOTH inline and background 24/32-bit PNG images on Internet Explorer (from version 5 up to version 6.x, versions 7+ support PNG transparency natively). It does that by triggering some optional filters in IE using Javascript and thus achieving alpha transparency.

Tabs & Slides (in content items) Plugin
The “Tabs & Slides In Content Items” Plugin -now in version 2.3- gives you the ability to easily add content tabs and/or content slides within standard Joomla! content items (articles). The “tabs” can emulate a multi-page structure, while the “slides” can emulate an accordion-like structure, inside a single page!

Template Chooser
Template chooser for joomla 1.5. With this module (in combination with the plugin) users can change the template in the frontend.

Features:

  • Display a preview of the templates
  • Save the template choice in a cookie
  • Change the default name of the templates
  • Reset to the default template names
  • Select which templates you want to show

Joomla Lightweight DropDown Menu
This is Joomla Extension product, the lightweight dropdown menu. This Joomla 1.5 module will display your site menus with simple javascript code. you can modify it to display  as  dropdown or horizontal layers. In Module panel, there’s option to change background and border color.

Drop Down Menu Apple style
This is a very neat and cool drop down menu provided by www.dynamicdrive.com.

Unique Features:

  • Support infinite levels of sub menus!
  • Display of submenus is fast and responsive
  • Easily create a drop down menu within a content item or article.
  • Optional “sliding” animation when sub menus are revealed.
  • Complete customization of the menu’s look and feel through css (e.g. foreground/background color, color, padding, margin, fonts, etc.)

Fadeout Dropline Menu
OsJoomla DropLine menu is a fade in effect for sub menu items.

Thickbox+ for Joomla
J!1.5-native multi-plugin to display modal windows for any type of content, like: inline content, images, web pages, image galleries or web galleries (aka web tours).

Joomla Popin Window
The Joomla Popin Window is a plugin which allows you to quickly and easily create a Joomla popin window. The window is like a small popup, however it is not blocked by popup blockers. This plugin is useful to boost ypur newsletter subscriptions, to invite your users to participate in a survey, possibly to popin a window which allows users to play a sample of your music or to quickly attract attention to some new functionality of your site.

Ninja Shadowbox v1.3
The ultimate modal multimedia pop up has finally come to Joomla!

  • Tired of JavaScript conflicts for your lightbox?
  • Want to be able to show images, links, flashfiles, and virtually any type of video using the one extension?
  • Sick of the headache of having to manage a separate media extension, gallery extension, popup extension, iframe extension and wish you could do them all in one?
  • Want to link to articles or media on other sites, without having your visitors run away?

Phoca Gallery with Slideshow
Phoca Gallery is a Joomla! component. It is an image gallery with slideshow. Requirements: * Joomla!1.5 (stable or any later version) * PHP 4.4.1 (or any later version) with GD library (graphics library for thumbnails creation). If you find …

FaboAlbum – Facebook Photos on Joomla!
FaboAlbum allows you to showcase the photographs that you have kept in the Facebook Photos application, without requiring you to store the pictures outside of Facebook. By automatically retrieving your photo albums from Facebook, and allowing you to see…

Phoca Favicon
Phoca Favicon is a Joomla! component. It is a simple component that generates favicon on your Joomla! site. You can change the favicon of your site whenever you like.

Slider Plugin
The Slider Plugin allows you to hide paragraphs in your articles that appear when the title is clicked. This is based on the mootools library slidefx example.

AJAX Soft Fade-In Popup
The AJAX Popup Module places the content of any Content Item with a soft fade-in-effect. Contained AJAX-Statements, for example AJAX-Thick- or Lightbox, will proceed as normal. Since the Popup-code is written into the mainframe, popup blocker can’t detect and stop the Popup.

IE 8 Compatibility
This plugin automatically activate Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View. Visitors who use this browser will see your web site without display problems although it isn’t optimized for Internet Explorer 8.

HTML Purifier
This plugin is based on the HTML Purifier library ( http://htmlpurifier.org/ ), and has been ported to joomla by http://www.joomlashow.it/ staff.
This plugin purifies html code of contents to gain valid XHTML.
It’s just 0.2 version but we want to make a well-working extension, our goal is to make possible a total xhtml 1.0 strict compliance with joomla 1.5.
We need help testing and getting feedback.

css2switch
This Component enables Joomla!-Administrators to assign different stylesheets to any published menu-items. Assigning to an menu-item may be optional automatically handed down to all included Submenu-Items. Languages: English, German, Polish. The newest version 1.4 runs in Joomla 1.5.x native mode and allows to assign individual styles to whole menus (e.g. mainmenu, usermenu, etc.)

pure css tooltip
Mambot/plugin to make pure css tooltips in any editor.

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Most useful and most popular WordPress plugins

Posted by: sanjaykhunt on: August 4, 2009

Here is a great list that I whipped together of some of the most useful and most popular WordPress plugins, wordpress is a awesome blogging software learn more about wordpress.

  1. Akismet

    Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blogs “Comments” admin screen.

  2. All In One SEO

    Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).

  3. Broken Link Checker

    This plugin is will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.

  4. Google XML Sitemaps

    This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.

  5. WordPress.com Stats

    Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks.

  6. Related Posts

    Link to related posts on your blog, which is based on the content of the post.

  7. flickrRSS

    Integrate the photos from a flickr rss feed into your site. Show flickr photos on your website.

  8. WP lightbox 2

    Overlay images on the current page for WordPress. You can turn it on and all images are now working with it.

  9. PXS Mail Form

    Creates a mail form with multipart verification, various messages and an auto redirect on successful send. It is much more easy to contact with website author.

  10. Popularity Contest

    This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity

  11. PollDaddy

    Create and manage PollDaddy polls from within WordPress.

  12. WordPress.com Stats

    You can have simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server by plugging into WordPress.com’s stat system.

  13. Get Recent Comments

    Display the most recent comments or trackbacks with your own formatting in the sidebar.

  14. Gravatars

    Adds a nice looking graphic next to the persons comments.

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Apache subdomain configuration with Virtual Hosts on a local machine

Posted by: sanjaykhunt on: July 24, 2009

Add each domain name to the hosts file used by Windows XP, which is located in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc folder for a default installation(File name is hosts). An example configuration might be (comments on top not included for brevity):
127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 lc.opensource.com # my personal site
127.0.0.1 lc.sunisland.com # my company’s site

Now add the below line at the end of file(httpd.conf) and create the file virtual-hosts.conf where the conf folder is located. (its in the apache2triad/conf)

Include conf/virtual-hosts.conf

Enter the data as below in the file : virtual-hosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot “D:/apache2triad/htdocs”
CustomLog logs/localhost.access.log combined
ErrorLog logs/localhost.error.log

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerName hitesh.opensource.com
DocumentRoot “D:/apache2triad/htdocs/opensource”
CustomLog logs/hitesh.opensource.com.access.log combined
ErrorLog logs/hitesh.opensource.com.error.log

</VirtualHost>

Free Website Template for open Source

Posted by: sanjaykhunt on: July 15, 2009

I have surfing and found some great free website template design. Website templates are pre-designed websites all you need to do is add your own personal content and your ready to jump start your own website. You can customize the website templates any way you like.
You can download any of the free designs on Open Source Design and use them on your website free of charge. Please read Terms of Use before download templates. If you don’t yet have a site but want to start one then I recommend seeking advice from a web hosting and design guide to help you out with the process.

Environment Brand Design

Eco Business Template

Night Shots

TerraFirma

Aquatic CSS Template

ePod CSS Template

Dark Dimension CSS Template

Food Online CSS Template

wfiedler_50

Rational Magic

Supremacy Pack

Mosaic wordpress Template
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Review of popular Open Source shopping cart software

Posted by: sanjaykhunt on: July 11, 2009

Here, I am giving some information for most popular open source, free or affordable shopping cart applications capable to create a online shop.

What is a shopping cart?

The shopping cart is software that allows you to create an ecommerce website very easily. you can create great-looking e-store, with lots of products and you can start receiving online payments right away. Customers can select multiple products on website and pay with their PayPal account or credit card. The shopping cart software automatically totals the order and shows taxes and shipping rates. it’s very easy to use for both provider and users.

shopping cart Types to Choose

There are many different types of shopping carts available online to use when opening an eCommerce store. You have to Choose the right cart provider as depends on your requirements, budget and the future goals of your eBusiness. There are many merchants who provide hosting and manage your shopping cart and they taken charge a monthly fee to host and manage the shopping cart for you. There are also many shopping carts you can download for free, but you have to install and host it on your server also you have to manage yourself. Some cart providers offer both options.

Below you will see some of the best shopping cart software, which are great in their functionality and easy to use. I am giving offers 24/7 expert technical support for any of the shopping carts listed below.

Magento

Magento is the latest open source eCommerce platform on the web. It offers professional features, flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of the online shop. In Magento you can get an e-business with convenient product and catalog browser options, Marketing Promotions and Tools, Analytics and Reporting, Search Engine Optimization, Site Management, Mobile Commerce, International Support,Payment,Order Management, Customer Accounts and much more. Magento has powerful administration interface, it is completely scalable and backed by good support network.

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Virtuemart Software for Joomla! & Mambo

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment. It offers professional features,Powerful Web-Administration Interface,Manages an unlimited Number of Products and Categories,multiple Images and Files,# Product Attributes & Types for Classification, Secure Sockets Layer (https),Order Management,pre-defined Payment Gateways,flexible Shipping Carriers and Rates Configuration, flexible Tax Models, manage User Accounts, Address Management.

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Volusion’s E-commerce Software Solution

The Volusion shopping cart offers a number of features that are of interest to businesses looking for an “optimized” shopping cart. Volusion not free software. you have to perches software and volusion give you one store with hosting. But you have some, limited FTP access to the store portion of the website. You can however make the homepage HTML instead of ASP and upload your own customized page. Tthay Provide Awsome features for front and admin side. Volusion has several features that are attractive to potential users of the software. It offers search engine friendly and marketable points that are sure to please some businesses in search of an SEO shopping cart. Volution have powerful admin for create your catalog easily with all features of E-commerce.

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osCommerce

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License. osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering over 7,000 registered live shops around the world. It offers professional features, Object oriented backend, multilingual, Automatic web-browser based installation, Template structure implementation, Supports unlimited products and categories, newsletters, Easily backup and restore the database, Multicurrency support , Select what to display, in what order, in the product listing page, Product reviews, Dynamic product attributes relationship, online payment processing, Flexible tax implementation and many more.

I have one reference for Complete osCommerce Solutions. They Provide all solutions related to osCommerce like Template Design, osCommerce Addon installation, osCommerce support, osCommerce Packages, osCommerce Customization, osCommerce Maintenance and many more. Click here for more details.

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Zen cart

Zen cart Ecommerce – putting the dream of online business ownership within reach of anyone! It being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants who have first-hand experience in e-commerce. Zen Cart is the outcome of their continuous mutual work. It is a free and user-friendly shopping cart, and is distributed as an open source software. Zen Cart provides a great variety of important features. It supports multiple payment, shipping and tax options as well as setting up different currencies and languages. The online merchant is able to add unlimited number of products and categorize them. With Zen Cart it is possible to present products with or without prices. If you would like to see how Zen cart works, at SiteGround you get Zen cart pre-installed and activated in less than 15 min.

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X-CART

X-CART is PHP shopping cart software & ecommerce solutions. X-Cart is an e-commerce system that goes a long way in managing your online store effectively and efficiently. The system provides extensive administration area and complete e-commerce solution, like permanent and fast storefront access, high-level server security as well as quick and responsive services that will go a long way in answering all your X-Cart requirements.

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