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This free module allows you to add in a few clicks a flexible header into your website. Not only a responsive menu, but a full header, ie. a logo and its baseline too.
Via the administration panel it's so easy to customize it: you can choose to place the menu on the top or at the bottom, to the left or right of the header, menu and header can both be vertically or horizontally aligned. That's as you want!
All CSS needed to handle this is managed by the module: you do not need to struggle with inline-blocks and vertical alignments!
And of course, with Twitter Bootstrap, the responsive menu collpases when needed for an optimized display on smaller devices.
Version: 1.0 Last Update: 19/12/2013 Joomla: Demo: demo.joomlamino.com Type: free download
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Visit us! is a module that displays a styled Google Map to locate your business (store, office, restaurant,...and the nearest parkings): the visitor is geolocated and directions are proposed. Distance and travel time are displayed, as the travel steps. Even better, the visitor on the way to your business can refresh manually or automatically it's location (and the directions) so never to be lost.
Also add that, with the Visit us! business locator, you display your contact information and opening hours for each marker!
On a mobile, location and directions on the map can be refreshed after every visitor's move! Visitor can also launch its favorite turn-by-turn GPS navigation application.
Version: 2.1.0 Last Update: 06/05/2014 Joomla: Demo: demo.joomlamino.com[3]
This module (a plugin will be released very soon) allows you to quickly and easily display beautiful styled maps, tailored to the style of your Joomla! website.
Do you know MapBox*[5] ? This platform is build on the famous Leaflet library[6], an Open-Source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps that has all the features needed for online maps and that works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms.
Styled maps with Leaflet & MapBox is very easy to use. Just create your free account on mapbox.com[7] and start to create your map: choose the map type, set your customized colors, define your markers on the map, grab your ID and you are now ready to integrate your new styled map in your Joomla website!
Version: 1.0 Last Update: 11/11/2013 Joomla: Demo: demo.joomlamino.com[8]
Opening Hours is a field application for SobiPro. It allows you to display opening hours (business hours) of SobiPro entries, annual closing dates, and an 'open' or 'closed' board indicating the next opening or closing time.
By adding a new field to your SobiPro entry form, the application allows the owner or administrator of a Sobipro entry to enter annual closing dates and opening hours for each days of a week in a very convenient and quick way.
And last but not least, Opening Hours applications allows to search for entries that are opened 'Now', 'Today' or 'Monday', 'December 24', 'Sunday evening',...
Version: 1.1 Last Update: 12/03/2014 Joomla: SobiPro: 1.0 & 1.1 Demo: demo.joomlamino.com
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Read more https://www.joomlamino.com/
JSN Megazine is an attractive and charming Joomla template with a responsive layout dedicated to your news and magazine websites. Its unique design delivers radiant colors and unmistakable arrangement equipped with knockout features that make it a beloved Joomla template. Whether you are an owner of a magazine website or another type of website, JSN Megazine is a must-have in your collection.
Let's take a look at some highlights of JSN Megazine below!
What could be better than this totally fresh JSN Megazine? JSN Megazine plus its extended styles of course! This template was crafted with extended styles for more than seven Joomla extensions including five from DJ-Extensions[2] and two other popular extensions, which are K2 and Kunena.
If you need a classified ads extension for your Joomla, DJ-Classifieds accomplishes the task in the easiest way you can imagine. Additionally, DJ-MegaMenu is an advanced menu system for that allows you to set each menu item as you want with rich media and animations while DJ-Tabs displays content in tabs or accordion layout. The two free extensions DJ-Suggesters Light and DJ-LikeBox also enhance your site a lot.
You can choose to buy JSN Megazine and get a 20% discount for buying all products from DJ-Extensions (if you are our paid customers, please check the discount code in your Customer Area at Partners Discount). Or you can buy the Magazine Bundle which includes a 1-year subscription to JSN Megazine and all of the above extensions with a 30% discount directly from our website by clicking the button below.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us here[4] or leave the comment below.
Often times we get asked about ‘why’ does Rochen only use a ticket based support system? To understand that, it’s important to step back and take a quick look behind the scenes as to what happens in a typical support transaction.
Rochen looks in detail at every step of our operation, in order to make sure we are giving and adding value to our customers.
A typical day on the Rochen support desk, may find one of our highly skilled support personnel fielding 5 to 10 customer tickets within a very, very short period of time. They may need to take time research a problem, or in some cases escalate that issue to second or third level support.
By using our ticketing system we can quickly and easily capture details and route tickets appropriately to meet our customers needs.
Reasonably, with Rochen’s large customer base in order to meet a telephone support system we would need to triple our staff. Now combine that with the random nature of technical support issues, we would often find we have too much staff or not enough. Either way this is a situation that is not good for our customers.
By taking a phone call our support personnel would be restricted to helping a single customer at a time, and not many. While you may not realize it, you’ve seen this problem in other areas of your life such as calling your bank. Unlike a ticket based system that allows our support technicians to respond to several tickets in the course of a few minutes, telephones restrict them to one problem at a time. The result – decrease in customer’s resolutions solved, longer resolution times and well of course, unhappy customers.
If you think about other industries such as the mortgage industry or credit card industry, when you call their support line, they will put you through a series of gating steps to buffer the time the customer service reps are taking with others. You may be asked to push “1″, then “2″ or be asked what language you want to speak to a rep in. All these are not really designed to help you, they are designed to slow down, or buffer, the incoming calls.
During that situation, you likely have been asked to enter your Credit Card number or account number, only to have the rep ask you for it again. – Why doesn’t the phone call tie that information into the call for the rep?
With a ticket based system we have all your information available to us in a single screen.
Telephone support is costly, time consuming, inefficient and simply doesn’t give our customers, who need help from technical support the same result a written response does.
One aspect of the telephone support model is its inefficiency, due to the support person who may normally be fielding 5 to 8 tickets in a span of 5 to 10 minutes, will be tied up on the phone.
By providing our ticket based support system, it gives the time for the customer to write out their problem. Often times this will yield VITAL information that would be missed, or time consuming to get by phone.
Rochen has an extensive knowledge base, but sometimes you don’t know the problem to search for. That’s where our support staff have the ability to review your problem and provide you the answer either from their own knowledge, or one of our KB articles. However, let’s say you have a reoccurring issue, or perhaps an issue that is not resolved, if we took that phone call, we wouldn’t necessarily have a proper record of the transaction.
Thus when you returned, you might find yourself explaining the problem again. Returning to a different industry, you probably have been on hold 20 minutes with a customer rep in a mortgage, banking, credit card, or other business.
You explain your ‘issue’ to the rep, they determine they can’t help you and will transfer you to a specialist. Often times, you find yourself explaining the problem all over again, no written history of your problem.
By entering your concerns or questions into ticket, we have a historical record of all your transactions.
Who hasn’t thought, if my call is important why is there a 30 minute hold time? It’s really no wonder the hold music is scratchy, horrible and is always something that gets stuck in your head. All the button pushing, music, constant reminder that you’re number 65 in line is because of the fact that phone support cannot provide the response time you need.
At Rochen we pride ourselves on answering questions as quickly as possible and hopefully resolving the issue the first time out.
Using a phone system would likely cause that quick resolution time to go to a “please wait, your call is very important to us” situation.
History of technical issues is vital to any hosting company. At Rochen we take history into consideration into many ways such as training support staff, improving service, better knowledge base articles, new products and services and of course a trend that may indicate a bigger problem is at hand.
However with all that in the ticket history we get the opportunity to know our customers, their issues and needs and at Rochen that’s the most important thing to us, our customers and their needs.
With that, there are a few things that can be done on the customer side to improve the response you get. This is not specific to Rochen, its applicable to any industry that has a technical support desk. By increasing the detail you provide, will result in a faster resolution and a more accurate response from technical support.
Generally any technical support group, at any company faces the dreadful ticket that opens like this:
“My website is broke, please help”
That is essentially a useless ticket, we can take a guess at what is broke but we won’t know. For instance, there are a few things that come to mind when asked that:
You can always help us help you by being as descriptive as possible, and when something is missing, our support personnel are there to guide and help you. If you don’t know, don’t worry! Just explain as best you can and go from there.
Rochen is in the process of updating our video KB tutorials with a fully refreshed set that will include many tools and Content Management system tutorials. Take time to review them and see how they can assist you.
And if you need help, we’re just a ticket away at our my.rochen.com ticket system.
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Tom Canavan is a member of Rochen’s ‘Enterprise Solutions Group’ focused on creating customized and complex hosting solutions.
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Read more https://blog.rochenhost.com/2014/05/hello-why-cant-i-call-you/
LinkedIn has recently updated their application requirements and needs additional information about your site if you are using the authentication features of JFBConnect for Joomla social networking[1]. The JFBConnect - LinkedIn Application setup guide[2] has already been updated with these new settings. However, if you configured your application before the last few weeks, it's likely your Application is incorrect and LinkedIn authentication may break in the future. Please take the time to follow the steps below to verify your LinkedIn Application settings and ensure authentication using JFBConnect will continue to operate smoothly.
The updated requirement is to properly configure your "OAuth 2.0 Redirect URLs" setting. If you've already configured Google+ authentication[3] on your site, this step may be familiar to you. This setting lets LinkedIn know all of the valid URLs that a user can be redirected back to on your site. This enhances security of your application by preventing some attempts at 'hijacking' the authentication request.
The steps every Joomla site user with LinkedIn authentication using JFBConnect should take are:
index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin
https://domain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin, https://domain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin, https://www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin, https://www.domain.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=authenticate.callback&provider=linkedin
Please note: That setting should be a comma-separated list and all be on one line without line breaks after each value/comma. It will be hard to read, but that's how LinkedIn's settings work.
We have submitted a question to LinkedIn about a method to make the setting less complex (by not using the query string), but until that's answered, the solution above is the option we'd recommend. Until they enforce this new requirement, it's not possible for us to guarantee everything will work, but we are monitoring the update and will keep you posted of any new information we find.
As always, comments and feedback are welcome!
Read more https://www.sourcecoast.com/blog/linkedin-please-verify-your-application-settings
Our main focus with Magento lies with our bridge with Joomla! (MageBridge) and performance tuning. But over the years, we have developed numerous Magento sites and have bumped into little annoyances - shortcomings in Magento. To solve our own issues, we developed Magento extensions that are often seen as must-haves for any Magento shop. We love to share these essential Magento extensions with you.
When building a Magento site, you will also need to customize the transactional emails that are sent as part of the sales process (invoices, order confirmations, shipment notices). Customizing them requires design skills, but by default, testing these emails is a lenghty job: It requires creating an order for every combination of products you want to preview (so running through the entire checkout), something you definitely do not want to do that often.
Our EmailTester[1] extension is a life-saver: It allows you to quickly preview any email in your browser or email client - complete with live data (order, invoice, customer, product) of your choice. This extension saves you tons of time when customizing emails.
Similar to the EmailTester extension, the CheckoutTester[2] extension solves an issue that would either require a lot of time ... or core hacks. If you want to customize the success-page that is shown to visitors once they have completed the checkout, you will need to create an order, run through the entire checkout - just to see what's at the last page of that process. A refresh will redirect you back to an empty cart. Impossible to use when trying to optimize the checkout.
Forums mention a core hack for this: Simply stop Magento from dropping the session and redirecting back to cart. A core hack, right. Definitely not something you want to do on your live site. Our CheckoutTester[3] extension allows you to preview the success page without core hacks and without lengthy procedures. Simply visit the preview URL and you're done. We personally find it impossible to customize the success-page on a live site without this extension!
Perhaps not something for everybody, but our DeleteAnyOrder[4] extension makes it possible to remove orders from the Magento database, complete with all their dependancies. This is perfect when having a Magento site that is not yet in production, but even better when you are already in production (if your bookkeeper does not object): Say there's an issue with your checkout, and you want to test things yourself by creating test-orders. Once you're done, you're stuck with dummy orders that do nothing except clutter up your system.
Our DeleteAnyOrder[5] extension allows you to remove all order data from the Magento database. Even better: It does so in a very secure way, preventing data corruption. There's even a complete integrity check tool in the backend that allows you to see the current status of your database. A vital tool when troubleshooting checkout failure.
When you are customizing a Magento site, you have become familiar with Magento theming and its override mechanism: You can create a parent theme and child theme, and override XML-layout files, PHTML-templates, CSS-files and images by simply copying the right file to the right folder. But with the email template-files you can't. What? Yes, you can't. The email template-files (located in app/locale/en_US/template/email) can't be copied to your theming folder.
With our EmailOverride[6] extension this shortcoming is solved. Simply install the extension, and override the email files as you wish. A very simple solution for something so fundamental, that every Magento designer bumps into this.
I asked my girlfriend to enter some products in Magento and after she worked for some time, she accidently deleted a product instead of saving it. 10 minutes of editing were gone. So she asked me if I could restore the product. I could not. Because Magento lacks the functionality of a recycle bin. My girlfriend looked at me and said I'd better create one, because a trashcan is something so fundamental that she could not believe it did not exist.
So here it is: The Yireo Trashcan[7] offers a recycle bin for all Magento users who belief that Magento behaves the same way as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and probably most other web applications that deal with content.
Last but not least: The Magento application is notorious for writing logs to Magento database-tables that are rarely used. Most people use external services like Piwik or Google Analytics for logging. Cleaning the Magento database-tables is therefor something that is frequently included in cronjobs. But why is the logging done in the first place? Every Magento request includes about 4 or 5 write queries to the Magento database, which are actually included there for no reason.
The Yireo DisableLog[8] extension allows you to disable the Magento logging entirely. This does not only saves a couple of microseconds from every webrequest (in short: it makes your site a little bit faster), but it also keeps the Magento database from growing out of proportions. We have already heard great comments from users who noticed performance gains thanks to our extension. There's little reason not to install it.
There you are: 6 essential Magento extensions. I hope you like them. If you have any suggestions or questions let us know.
Read more https://www.yireo.com/blog/1676-6-essential-magento-extensions