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Let’s say this would be the most clean and neat template in our collection. It is a perfect starting point for any Joomla website, from simple to complicated, and for every category including business, personal portfolio, blog, etc.
Like a frame of a great masterpiece, JSN Blank has responsive layout and provides various features and extended styles for K2 and Kunena, allowing you to creatively build a website in your unique way. Have a look at the features below:
JSN Blank is not for sale. It is a template that is exclusive for Template Developer and All In One Developer Package[2] subscriptions.
If you have already paid for these developer packages, just log in to your “Customer Area” and download it today.
Otherwise, you can buy our developer packages subscription to own not only JSN Blank but also all current and future products from JoomlaShine.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us here[4] or leave the comment below.
Read more https://feeds.joomla.org/~r/JoomlaExtensionsUpdated/~3/Sb1ALyows1A/23932
We've been using Mailchimp for our newsletters over the past few years and have been very happy with the features, but not so much the price. We recently switched to Sendy,[1] the self-hosted newsletter suite, and have been extremely happy with the results. So much so that we released the only Sendy integration extension[2] for Joomla.
Sendy[3] is a self-hosted newsletter solution, which means you need to have your own server to host and run it from. However, if you're already a Joomla user, this shouldn't be too unfamiliar territory. Once installed on your server, it has a slick web-interface where you can create different 'brands' (think of companies or products) and then 'lists' which subscribers can be added to for each brand. You can create unlimited brands and lists to suit your needs, whether you want to manage them all, or you want to let different users into your Sendy configuration and manage each individually.
The two main features we took advantage of from Mailchimp were the standard newsletter abilities and autoresponders, both of which Sendy has handled splendidly so far. For the uninitiated, newsletters are the standard fare of sending an email to everyone on a list, generally to announce a product or blog post or whatever.
Autoresponders let you send an email to individual people after a set amount of time from an 'event'. In our case, any users that signup to SourceCoast will get an email 3 days later letting them know that they're 'on our list' and the advantages of our social network integration suite for Joomla[4].
There are other features we used within Mailchimp (groups, Time Warp, etc), and were features we definitely liked but not considered essential for a replacement.
The advantages of hosting it yourself are direct: huge monthly savings. With Mailchimp, we were on a plan that cost us over $200 / month to send as many emails as we wanted. With Sendy, there's a 1 time fee of $59 for the software. All emails are actually sent through the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and cost $1 / 10,000 emails sent. If you are an infrequent email sender and have a decent size list, you could start saving thousands of dollars per year, like we are.
The main case where Mailchimp still seems viable (to us) is if you have a relatively small subscriber list that you send to many, many times per month. Alternatively, you could use their Pay As You Go plans, which are still more expensive then Sendy, but gives you all the features of Mailchimp.
For us, we were simply stuck in a no-mans land: we had a big subscriber list that we wanted to send to about 1x per month. That's the case where Mailchimp simply doesn't have a cost-affordable pricing plan.
I'm not going to say all was roses moving from Mailchimp. Initial setup took just minutes. If you don't have an existing newsletter or subscriber lists, you can have Sendy send it's first email in a few hours. In that case, designing your first newsletter will be the most difficult part.
For us, it took about a week of setup, planning, testing, and migration to get things right. There are a few features we miss, but think we can get around, live without, or implement ourselves in the future (if not included in one of Sendy's free updates). Below are the main setup points.
SES (Simple Email Service) is what actually sends your emails. This is better than any Joomla specific solution as those will generally send email through your server. That not only takes up processing power, but also is prone to lots of issues like your server being blacklisted for mass emails (shared servers especially succumb to this problem since another domain on your site unrelated to you may have already blacklisted your IP). By sending them through Amazon, you have their reliability and checks to make sure you email is delivered with almost 100% confidence.
The SES framework is controlled through Amazons Cloud Control Panel. There's step-by-step instructions with Sendy on how to set this up. I'd never done it before and had things going in about 15 minutes. Fortunately, I already had a Cloud account for Amazon, since we use their storage products and other solutions. If you don't have one, expect this process to take about 30 minutes.
Mailchimp definitely has a slick interface for setting up newsletters. It's very easy to drag and drop, upload photos, and generally get things going. Fortunately, Mailchimp lets you export your newsletters to HTML. WIth that, we were able to copy the code directly into Sendy and edit from there.
If you rely on Mailchimp's drag-and-drop features and generally are lost when looking at HTML, Sendy may take some getting used to. Sendy has a WYSIWYG editor (like Joomla) or HTML view. It's very competant, but you'll need to send a lot of test emails. I'm not sure what the monkeys at Mailchimp do behind the scenes, but it definitely took a few edits to make our styling look right in most mail clients.
As noted above, there are things that we enjoyed about Mailchimp that we no longer can do with Sendy. The biggest feature missing is "Groups". This is a great way to segment users in the same list based on additional criteria. Right now, for the same ability, we're creating separate lists. For example, now we have lists for JFBConnect Subscribers, JFBConnect non-subscribers, and All Users (a list that combines both of the first lists) whereas in Mailchimp, we had one list and just added attributes to each user and could filter on that.
Other features in Mailchimp aren't really missed. We were never "power users" in Mailchimp, so that's not to say their features weren't amazing, it's just that we didn't use them.. and that's one of the reasons the price was too high for us.
In the move from Mailchimp to Sendy, we realized there was no Sendy integration extension for Joomla[5] already available.. so we created one! Our first release, v1.0 is simple, but powerful. We're using it on this site at the bottom of every page, actually. Right now, it has the core features that any newsletter integration should have:
There's also a simple API you can use to add and remove users to a list with just one line of code.
Right now, the integration is simple. We're planning to add more features, and would love to have your feedback. Our Sendy integration is free. We'll be honest, our links to Sendy are affiliate links and that's where (we're hoping) to get a little payback from our work. We need the extension anyways, but we already have the features we need... hopefully our affiliate experiment will work for future development.
So, what are you waiting for:
Read more https://www.sourcecoast.com/blog/announcing-sendy-newsletters-for-joomla
Now, we have reached the fourth part of the series where we discuss about some sketching and wireframing tools which you can use to visualize your website even before creating it.
The first thing that should come to any designer is the idea of the website, but the difficult part is to give a concrete form to that idea residing inside your head. This is where sketching comes into play. But many designers often mistakenly use the works “sketching” and “wireframing” interchangeably. They are quite similar as they are both used to illustrate a particular concept, but there is a small difference between them.
In web design process, sketching always comes before wireframing. In this part of the series, we will also talk about some tools for testing your responsive design.
Before starting to actually design your website, Style Tiles can give you and your clients an idea of how the website is going to look. It also gives you the ability to work in a team and to integrate client feedback and comments too.
It is an experimental tool developed by James Mellers, which lets you visualize how your website will look like in the browsers of various desktops and mobile devices.
It is a paid tool which can allow you to quickly brainstorm, visualize and generate website design ideas.
It is one of the best and most popular solutions for sketch sheet needs where they provide multiple mobile mockups to help you in your responsive web design process.
Interface Sketch is a set of templates for desktop, mobile and tablet devices in PDF format which are free to download and print and visualize website designs.
It consists a set of sketchsheets by ZURB, which contains both responsive and non-responsive design sheets, but if you need you can only download the responsive sketchsheets for your use.
It is a premium sketchbook which comes with 50 pages including perforated pages for sketchboarding and sharing, breakpoint hints, pixel dimensions, linen cover, etc.
Adobe Edge Inspect, is one of the best and most advanced tool to test your web design across multiple devices. It provides a lot of cool features like remote inspection, local URL support, cloud sync, etc.
With a very intuitive name, this simple website can be used to check the responsiveness of any website in minutes.
jResize is a fantastic jQuery tool for responsive testing where you can simply click on the different screen sizes available and the page will automatically resize making your work easier than ever before.
We conclude the fourth part of the “responsive web design tools” series. I hope the wireframing and sketch sheets presented here would be enough for all your design needs. And for the testing and preview part, we have only mentioned three tools here.
But in the next and the last part of the series, we would discuss on many more responsive testing and preview tools. We would also be adding some special bonus tools too, so don’t forget to catch the next and the last part on this series.
Read more https://www.corephp.com/blog/ultimate-responsive-web-design-tools-designers-part-iv/
Welcome back to another article of the PHP Heaven series listing some great PHP scripts to help you build an awesome website within minutes.
Let’s have a look at what we have for you,
Don’t spend countless hours in creating the perfect documentation for your product. Leave all the hard work for this php script.
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Make your website captchas easy for your real human visitors by adding sound playback support.
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A perfect tool to manage all your employees and track their performance easily.
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Create a “Google Instant” like search form for your website and speed up the search process with this handy php script.
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If you have a car rental business then you can use this script to manage all your car reservations easily.
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Let your website users create their own avatars easily with this script.
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Create and host surveys for your website users/visitors easily with this handy tool.
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Create your very own book search engine with advanced capabilities with this awesome script.
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Backups are really important. Let this script take periodic backups for your website automatically.
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Well this is it, the end of the list. We hope that you will find these php scripts helpful for building and awesome website easily[21].
Read more https://www.corephp.com/blog/php-heaven-tools-build-dream-website-part-seven/
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