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Details: Category: News; Published: 14 July 2013; Last Updated: 15 July 2013; Hits: 6869

Joomlapolis and the CB Team have been faithfully contributing to make Joomla better.

During this year's JAB 2013 international conference CB Team member - Beat gave a very inspirational lightning talk presentation titled "Joomla!, Wow!" (starts at 15 min mark) about bringing back the warm and fuzzy feeling to Joomla. The presentation touched upon user interface improvements and overall Joomla user experience.

Last week in Manchester, UK the Joomla User eXperience (JUX) Team held a 2 day code sprint where a team of community members and developers contributed their skills and time to implement user interface improvements for the upcoming Joomla 3.2 release.

Beat was invited and joined the JUX code sprint to work within an elite team of Joomla lovers to code many improvements to the Joomla 3.2 interface and help bring back the Wow! to Joomla!.

The JUX sprint code force initially focused on quick win improvements that will make things less confusing for the new first time Joomla user.

Simple things like not showing language selections in various administrator areas of Joomla if only one language is installed will make things look clean and friendly for both the experienced and brand new Joomla user. This concept of hiding/showing elements and user interface options to keep things clean and less confusing has been extended in other user interface areas.

A series of cool frontend editing improvements have also been added to make Joomla content (article, module, menu) editing easier and more powerful.

Brian Teeman (also a code sprint participant) recorded this 6 minute video with some of the highlights of the JUX improvements we should expect to see in Joomla 3.2.

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Details: Category: News; Published: 02 July 2013; Last Updated: 04 July 2013; Hits: 9418

Our new Flexistrap Joomla GPL responsive template has just been released for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.1 !

Flexistrap is a light-weight, fast loading and cleanly coded responsive Joomla and CB plugin template combination that will give your website a crisp new look.

We have also released new versions of our MyCommunity, Coolness and Funlite templates which are now also responsive and Joomla 2.5/3.1 ready.

So we now have 4 great Joomla responsive GPL templates that can be purchased separately or as a single bundle and you can use them on all your websites without any limitations.

See all the templates in action on our new templates demo site (just select the template you want to apply from the drop-down template chooser module).

As of today all our templates are also available as an extra benefit to our Developer members.

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Details: Category: News; Published: 11 June 2013; Last Updated: 12 June 2013; Hits: 11914

Not one, two or three, but eight social networking sites are supported with the latest CB Connect 5.0 release!

Let your users sign-up and login to your website using credentials from any one of the following social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Windows live, Googe +, Instagram, Foursquare or GitHub.

This is by far the most complete social networking integration solution available for Joomla (1.5, 2.5 and 3.x) / CB (1.9) as it not only supports login and registration using credentials from 8 social networks, but it also lets you:

store social networking profile data in Community Builder fields
place users in Joomla ACL groups based on social network
e.g., users signing up using Instagram can be placed in Registered and special Instagram group
override Community Builder workflow settings
e.g., users signing in using their Foursquare credentials are automatically confirmed not needed moderator approval
redirect new users to page based on social network
e.g., Github credential signups are redirected to a special welcoming page

You can also integrate the following social network specific applications as CB fields on your user profiles:

Facebook social plugins (comments, facepile, like-recommend-send buttons, activity feed and recommendations)
Twitter widgets (tweet and follow buttons)
Google plugins (+1 and share buttons and Google badge)
Linked in plugin (shared button)

CB Connect 5.0 is available to all Professional and Developer members and as of today it is also available to Advanced members replacing the CB Facebook and CB Twitter connect plugins which are now discontinued.

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Details: Category: News; Published: 04 June 2013; Last Updated: 05 June 2013; Hits: 6766

We are just back from a fantastic J and Beyond (JAB13) Joomla conference, with an awesomely positive forward-looking perspective for Joomla!

This is the fourth conference we have attended and sponsored as CB Team members and Joomlapolis, and the experience has been even more positive and stronger than all previous editions combined.

We urge Joomla fans to attend one of these events in the future as it will surely be a fantastic experience.

For those who missed JAB13, and also for those who were there, but didn't find the PHP class to clone themselves, all JAB13 Program presentations have been recorded and 38 are already available for viewing!

There are many very interesting and intriguing talks to view, but as Joomlapolis site members you should definitely not miss our presentations:

As a result of yet another great JandBeyond event, Joomla momentum is moving forward on a number of fronts:

Bug squashing during the JAB13 event was both fun and productive!
Join Bug Squad | See JAB13 Bug Squashing Video
JUX workgroup | See workgroup meeting video at JAB13 | Participate in the Joomla 3.2 UX forum
FOF Workshop for a new framework library to make Joomla extension development easier and backwards compatible

If all this energy and forward thinking mentality holds we anticipate that the future Joomla 3.2 release will include exciting new features and concepts like: