understand the architecture

Always why do they understand the basics? Then work accordingly. Yes! With out Base nothing can be done. Like wise joomla has an Architecture and every programmer should learn the architecture before they start. It is very important!
There are plenty of tutorials and books available for learning joomla. Let me give some of my resource.
http://docs.joomla.org/
http://www.joomlatutorials.com/

Start learning and acquire knowledge! let us rock with joomla.

Seo KeyWord Link Plugin

A essential plugin for your site. It automatically put a hyperlink for the site keywords. It will in turn increase your site rating. So why are you waiting for Use it.
While making a inside page designers can highlight the link in the content Area.

Demo:http://www.inowweb.com/
Extensions: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-&-metadata/9091/details

Content Management Team and design Team make a note of it.

Ramachandran S

Why joomla?

Ok! This post is going to be something different from the other. From the start I have been explaining about the components and modules and other stuff. I thought that you need some break and learn some of the basics of joomla and its story.

At the start there were only static pages. There are no dynamic pages. When I say this you will ask me what a static and dynamic page is. The answer is very simple if content remains the same and does not get changed then it is called static the opposite is dynamic page, it will get changed and even it get user input and work according to it.

We used only Html language, but “Need is the mother of invention”, People want the data to be stored and retrieve it whenever they need it. This need created Database. HTML does not handle database effectively they wanted a solid programming language to solve this. This need pawed way for PHP (Hyper text Pre Processor). It handled both the database and HTML (Data and Layout).

Even though PHP solved the problem some new problem raised, PHP is also called as personal Home Page without knowing that how come I can create my personal page. If I want to create a website I want to hire a PHP and it is quite costly and no guarantee he will do a perfect job. Then How do I manage my site? A very big question but answer is just 6 letters it is “joomla”.

What is joomla? What does it really mean? How does it work? Where do I use? There are many questions like this. Let me explain all of these. Joomla is derived from the word Swahili it means “All together”. It is very simple all you have to do is just turn on and turn off. We as the programmer take all the difficulties to give you a best interface to work with which in turn makes the users life very easy.

Joomla is a package just Download from www.joomla.org and install in a apache environment I would say go for xammp and do the necessary things to start with. In matter of some clicks your site is ready. In order to understand the joomla working one should know what a front end (site) is and a back end (administration) is. What the world sees is the front end, what a site administrator sees is backend.

Joomla as default just a base how does it get into a shape then comes components, modules and plugins. Everything do their job in perfection. Components is a major aspects of the site it will say what are the features does a site possess. Modules are also equally important it can work in both the ways independent of the component and also dependent of the components. Here were the user can just turn the modules on and off. Plugins are the one which can function globally. Many programmers are trying to solve many of the problems through this without affecting the joomla core files.

Let us see more in next post.

S Ramachandran MCA

Rocket Theme Rocks!

I am delighted to see all the Components and Modules from Rocket theme.. Sure this can rise our standards. Take a look of these components and Modules I swear you will be delighted.

Downloads: http://www.rockettheme.com/extensions-downloads/1043-free

Demo: http://demo.rockettheme.com/extensions/?extension=roknewsflash

Please Make use of it we will be happy to work in these kind of modules and components.
Designers Please use these in up coming designs.

Rocket theme Rocks.

Breakdown!

Why? there is a change in the templates. May be this question is simple But i have Lot of reasons to switch, in fact it is very difficult to recreate all the stuff from GA to other gadgets. So let me try to finish it and with hold with all stuff.

Guys! please bear with me, soon Our Blog will be back with all the essential components.

Cutt of operation

Hey programming Guys I found a excellent joomla Plugin for Content section.
it is name is "Cutoff Intro Text". Ok! let me put it in this way,
we are writing a module for testimonials and we have to restrict the number of words in it,
for that we used to write a hassle hack for it what will happen if there is an image added in the content page. There are lot more stuff like that.
How it would be in buttons and clicks if we control this! Yes we have got a plugin which will do all these stuff.

it has the following features
1. Enable or Disable the Cut Operation.
2. Limiting the Characters count
3. Option to Display the first image from the article into the intro text or not.
4. Can Specify Width or Height for the Image
5. Float option for the Image(Left | Right).
6. Padding , Margin and Border Css Styling.

Hope this will solve many a problem.
So please Book mark this.
Extension: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-&-news/frontend-news/8503/details
Demo: http://www.sz4h.com/joomla/

Content Management Team Rocks.

New Style, New Trend Accordion

How will you express a feelings from you... Either you speak out or show in gestures, But there is a better way draw it ans see it will have a shape may be it will look wired but that will speak a lot, like wise a design is some thing self explanatory. We need to use it wisely to show What we think.

I strongly believe now a days people look for good looking site and appreciate it. To make a site look rich what we can Do. try this accordion Effect. I am mesmerized after seeing its effects. I hope you will also like it. check this out

Joomla extension: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/content-&-news/articles-slideshow/8718/details

Demo: http://demo.cmsjunkie.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=4

So We will create a New style Bring a trend with Accordion.

What is RSS in a site?

What is RSS: "Really Simple Syndication" or other wise called as "Rich Site Summary" . How to stay with a site, how to keep updated yourself with a site. No problem when ever there is a update in a site you will be notified. There are Live bookmarks and Email notifications and many more so you can really stay connected. I have also given you a option to stay connected with our site. Please make a email subscription and follow us.

Site visitor!

There are many ways to find your site's Popularity, there is Google analytic to find the sites visitor etc.. but how do other people Know. When you see the blogs there will be counts for the number of followers. But where can we find the visitor in the joomla site. designers Please use this so that it will give a different dimension to a site.

Joomla Extension:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/visitors/2519/details

Demo Page:
http://vinaora.com/joomla/vinaora-visitors-counter.html

Graphs and Charts in joomla

We are trying hard for implementing Graphs and Charts for Joomla. Today all the Problems come to End. Yes Today in joomla directory they have added a chart and Graph component. So it a Responsibility of a Designer and a Programmer to Sit and solve this out, and see how is it working!

Joomla extension: http://www.theartofjoomla.com/extensions/quanta.html

Component Site: http://www.theartofjoomla.com/extensions/quanta.html

Be wizard in Graph and charts.

-Rax