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Ultimately we have reached the last part of this “responsive web design tools” series. Previously, we have discussed about a lot about the essential and important tools that almost every designer needs to make their responsive web design process successful.
We have presented before you a lot of responsive grid systems and frameworks, JavaScript and jQuery tools, wireframing and sketching tools and also some essential testing and preview tools. In this last part, we would continue our discussion on the Testing and Preview tools that we had started in the previous part.
Before ending this series, we would present some special tools in the bonus section. I hope all the tools that we have mentioned in this series will prove to help you a lot in your design project by saving a lot of precious time and increase productivity.
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Respondr, is a very simple yet a very helpful website for testing responsive web designs. With a clean design and UI, Repondr can be used to test responsiveness of any website with ease by selecting the preset devices like iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc.
One of the best, most advanced and flexible tool for testing responsive websites where you can define custom viewport sizes by simply dragging the sliders.
Now this tool works in a bit different way as a bookmarklet. You can click on the button and can enter the URL of choice and can test websites in seconds.
It is a simple and elegant looking tool which does its work perfectly, just the way it was meant to be done. Simply enter the URL and hit the GO button.
Another simple responsive web design testing tool with which you can use to check your design’s responsiveness in seconds.
JetStrap is a visual interface building tool for the Bootstrap framework which gives a way for the designers to quickly create designs by dragging and dropping UI components into the canvas.
MQTest is a nifty tool created by Viljami Salminen, which keeps track and tells you about the media queries that your browser have responded to.
Icomon is an awesome webtool which lets you create and deploy high-resolution icon fonts for retina and high-resolution displays.
ForeSight.js detects the devices display size and resolution and also checks its network connectivity to decide whether to load a high-resolution image or not.
A really simple yet powerful tool to create beautiful, pixel-perfect responsive websites without even touching a line of code, thanks to its amazing drag-and-drop builder.
Finally, we have come to end of this series. We have tried to cover almost all sections of tools that you may need for your responsive web design project. We recommend you to bookmark the pages of this series so that you can refer to them later and find the tools of your choice with ease.
I hope this series have proved to be resourceful to you, and if so then it would be great if you can share it with your friends via various social networking sites you use. Share knowledge with the world, help others and let others help you.
Read more https://www.corephp.com/blog/ultimate-responsive-web-design-tools-designers-part-v/
Today we are proud to announce the immediate availability of JCal Pro® 3.2.11 (build 3667), which is fully compatible with Joomla! 2.5 and 3.2!
This is a maintenance and feature release.
This release includes fixes for various reported issues.
Most notably this release introduces several enhancements in the date filters, and fixes for the editor buttons in Joomla 3 and registation export file.
Changelog Updates:
[chg] Defensive coding in module/plugin controller methods
[bug] Locations module infinte loop with no locations
[chg] Changed "Next x units" filters to start from today
[bug] Editor buttons in Joomla! 3.x
[bug] Registration row duplication in CSV export (#28)
.... plus numerous additional fixes, changes and features.
The full JCal Pro® changelog[1] for JCal Pro® is also available.
Read more https://anything-digital.com/jcal-pro/news/releases/jcal-pro-3_2_11_3667-released.html
Wednesday, 16 April 2014 14:15
A new version of Sourcerer has been released.
16-Apr-2014 : v4.3.3
+ Added translations: id-ID
^ Cleaned up some code
# Fixed issue with html structure issues when tags are directly inside html 5 elements
# Fixed issue with some missing language strings in some occasions
# [J3.3] Fixed some Joomla 3.3 incompatibility issues
Read more https://www.nonumber.nl/news/releases/888-sourcerer-v4-3-3-released
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.
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