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Joomla Tools

Joomla! The worlds most popular open source content management system (CMS)

Joomla Tools for Developers and Users

The decision on how to manage your website’s content can be as stressful as website development itself. For many of our clients, the content management software Joomla is the best solution.  Joomla’s functionality and expandability makes it a simple, straightforward system that has unlimited opportunity for growth.

With well over 5000 available extensions, there isn't much Joomla can't do for you.  These are a few featured tools that we recommend you learn more about:

 

Ignite Gallery for Joomla

Ignite takes much of the hassle out of managing your image galleries while providing you with extensive options.  From single image enlargement to complex lightbox effects, this extension has it all. Here is what we found most helpful about this component:

  • Automated image resizing and cropping. 
  • Front-end gallery management.
  • Multiple sets of new gallery defaults
  • On page slide-shows
  • Elegant lightbox effect
  • Optional comment text ares for each photo
  • Gallery categories
  • Unlimited number of galleries

Seeing is believing...(demo)

   

DocMan for Joomla

If you need to share documents or files and want to control who and how people access them, DocMan may be the solution for you. DocMan is ideal for contractors and developers that work with sub-contractors/vendors. 

The extensive access control system allows you to restrict access to one person, create custom groups rights or allow public access.  With both front-end and back-end management options, this software is both powerful and flexible.

  • Front-end and back-end management options.
  • Anti-leaching system
  • Restrict access to documents to individuals, groups or categories of uses
  • Multiple categories and sub-categories
  • Local and remotely hosted content management.

All this from within a simple to use, easily branded interface.    (Demo)

   

Jumi for Joomla

Simply put, Jumi allows you to put PHP directly in your articles or build custom PHP applications for your Joomla! based website. While there are about 4000 extensions for Joomla, you will occasionally find that none of them will do exactly what you need.  Then you are faced with reprogramming an existing extension of building one of your own.

This is where Jumi can help save you a lot of time.  You do not need to know how to build a Joomla framework extension.  If you know a little PHP, you can program your extension and use Jumi to bridge the gap to Joomla!

   

Joomla Pack

Having a recent backup of your website is very valuable for many reasons.  Data security and disaster recovery are important.  You never know when a former or disgruntled employee or a hacker will try to deface your website. Joomla Pack can help you restore your website in minutes. 

This is also a valuable tool for those clients who want to have development servers to test new extensions or content. This is also a great tool to develop new sites as it will save you hours of work getting your site up and running.

   

RokTwittie for Joomla

 Do you twitter?  If you leverage the power of Twitter.com to help build your business, you will want to look at RokTwittie for your website.  This powerful extension will bring your twitter content into your website making it easier for your clients to find and follow you.

Highly configurable, RokTwittie allows twitter searches, status updates, follower data and much more to be displayed on one or more pages of your website.  (Demo)

   

K2

K2 Extension for Joomla provides solutions to many of the limitations of Joomla's core CMS...

K2 is the popular powerful content manager for Joomla. This Joomla extension provides solutions to many of the limitations of Joomla's core content management system, article manager and menu manager.

If for no other reason, you should install K2 for it's image editor tool.  This web-based image editor allows you to resize, crop and edit your images.  It even has text and layer tools!Blue clients can login and download instructions on its use in our Support Documents area.

Using K2, you can transform your Joomla! website into a news/magazine site with author blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing and more, all this bundled under one package! Since K2 is extensible with additional fields to its base item form, you can easily create category-specific content types, e.g. article, blog post, product page, directory listing.  This is a "must have" tool for any advanced site.

   

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