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Menu Pro 4.0.0 update released

Fri, 10 May 2013 05:25:06 +0100

Extstore is glad to announce the immediate availability of Menu Pro 4.0.0. Since the stable release of 3.0.0, it might have seen a lot of changes which have helped to support the users extremely well. We added the great new Mootools Dropdown CSS3 plugin to the latest version. Along with Mootools Dropdown plugin, now you already have 2 default plugins included the Menu Pro module. New Features: � 21 clean and lively preset styles. � Choose the favorite Gradient style: Linear or Glass. � Various options to customize from the basic style by changing the Gradient Start, Gradient End, Hover and Text color. � Flexibility in animation settings. Other plugins such as Mootools Dropdown, Mootools Accordion, jQuery Accordion, Mootools Mega Menu and jQuery Slide Menu still get fully support as well. See demo: http://demo30.extstore.com/modules/index.php/menu-pro/dropdown-css3-menu Or get the new version here: http://extstore.com/joomla/modules/menu-pro

Skyline Nested Accordion for VirtueMart and HikaShop

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:23:15 +0100

If you would like to build a flexible e-Commerce site based on Joomla, Skyline Nested Accordion specified for VirtueMart and HikaShop could be the perfect choice for you. These powerful modules display HikaShop/Virtuemart categories as multilevel accordion menu and number of products within them. The accordion effect is written in native mootools javascript so there�s no javascript conflict when you use them. Moreover, you�re easy to find a product via Skyline Nested Accordion by expanding/collapsing categories and sub-categories. All the options to navigate the accordion menu are fully customizable. Moreover, the module supports up-to-3 themes and custom CSS to help you find the right looking for your site. Other features: � Fully compatible with Joomla 1.7, Joomla 2.5, Joomla 3.0 and later versions. � Show preview image on mouse hover in themes list. � Option to add more than one module in a page. � Right to left language support. � Support unlimited items and categories. � Mouse hover delay control � Change speed of slide. Visit our website to get more info: � VirtueMart: http://extstore.com/joomla/modules/virtuemart-accordion � HikaShop: http://extstore.com/joomla/modules/hikashop-accordion

jAnswers Factory updated to version 4.0.0

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:09:13 +0100

jAnswers Factory provides the perfect Question and Answers Solution for the Joomla CMS integrating features from the well know Yahoo Answers system. Users can ask questions, Community provides answers. Once a question placed, this can be extended (as period) if not answered. A Ranking system for answers is also available. Users can Report offensive text, mark Favorite Questions or use the extended search through the Knowledgebase. jAnswers Factory brings also several charging possibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable business. From this features it worth's mentioning the followings: Pay-per-Question Pay for featured Question Pay-per-Contact Support for beer money payments Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and Moneybookers Native SEF integration (all question links are SEF!) Other noticeable features are the extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email), Community Builder Integration and multi-language site support. On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here a short list: set avatar size set time period for questions block offensive questions/answers manage abuse reports manage payments import/export questions answer manage extended profile user statistics The component comes also with a free 5.000 sample records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). This is not a limitation of the database, it's sample data which can be imported so that the site can start already from 5.000 existing questions with answers. Bigger sample database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Again, this is not a limitation of the database, just sample data which can be imported! Available modules are: Latest Questions Popular Questions Open Questions Random Questions Featured Questions Tag Cloud, etc. Requirements: Joomla 3.0.x Installation: DO NOT USE directly the received downloadlink as a install kit! The file jAnswers_Factory_CHECK_INSIDE_4.0.0.zip contains inside two zip files, who are the actual installation kits: jAnswers_Factory_4.0.0.zip (Install Kit), jAnswers_Factory_sample_data.zip (archive including the sample data).

Micro Deal Auction Factory 2.0.0 update released

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:03:08 +0100

Micro Deal Auction Factory is a scaled down alternative to our flagship extension, Auction Factory. It works by allowing users to sell services or products at a fixed price throughout the website. The fixed price is set by the admin and cannot be changed/increased by the users. The users can however post items in a quantity and buyers can purchase one item at a time. Payment is not done like in an ordinary auction between the buyer and seller, actually, the seller offers his services via the website and all his earnings are kept by the website until he chooses to withdraw the money. The admin is notified whenever a user wants to withdraw an amount. From the backend, the administrator can set a minimum value at which the seller can withdraw his earnings. A commission can be kept by the website if desired, the commission percent is set by the admin. On the �Earnings� page the seller can see exactly the commission he will be charged, the minimum amount he can withdraw and also the currency in which deals are made on the website. Also on the earnings page the user can view his total earnings, total withdrawn and pending withdrawals which the admin has to issue, in a single tab. Two more tabs are available which show his Sold and Bought deals, the email is shown here so that users can get in touch for product delivery. Users can set a finalized deal as Solved after delivery. In short, Micro Deal Auction Factory allows you, as admin, to: Set commission for withdrawals Set a unique price Set currency Set minimum withdraw sum Test your website by using Paypal Sandbox before going live Manage payments with a simple to use user list, and filter users which have requested payments Add any number of categories Publish/unpublish and edit ads Select between different date formats Configure pagination for deals, comments and earnings Set image width and height Send automated notifications for all actions on the website Keep a payment log Easily manage user reports for deal and comments The user frontend experience is also quite intensive for such a small extension. When posting deals the user can upload a picture, set start and end date, set a quantity for the item he is selling and also a description and a title. The deals are posted in categories for easy management and browsing. Also there is a quick search by title module. Besides the comments users can leave on the deal, they can also rate it by using the friendly thumbs up/down system. If a rude deal or comment is posted, other users can report it and the admin will take care of it. Requirements: Joomla 3.0.x GD2 Library installed and enabled.

Raffle Factory now available for Joomla 3.0

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:59:51 +0100

A raffle is a competition in which people buy numbered tickets. Originating in southern Italy, it is a popular game in numerous countries and is often held to raise funds for a specific event, charity, or occasion. The raffle involves many people buying tickets for a chance to win a certain prize or prizes. At a set date, the winners are drawn from a bucket containing a copy of every number or a tombola (from Italian: tombola ['to:mbola]). The ticket is then checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them. Raffle Factory is our solution to online raffles. Organize your own raffles on your website, or allow others to come and post raffles. Tickets can be sold at any price with limited or no costs related to the actual raffling process, compared to real life raffles or lotteries. The tickets can be chosen at random by the script, or the raffler can pick the winning ticket from a list. If chosen manually, no details are shown related to the ticket other than the number until the raffle closes, to prevent fraud. Built from Reverse Auction Factory, Raffle Factory also features the powerful Smarty Template engine and custom fields system. This allows the webmaster to customize the extension to great extent without any actual programming knowledge. The admin can enable or disable a multitude of features, for instance: Choose between Manual and Automatic winner selection Set default values for public/private and published/unpublished fields Enable the approval system Configure Pagination and Listing Countdown displayed on raffles NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) and Attachments Google Maps Guest Messaging can be restricted Messaging can be completely disabled Community Builder Profiling Add or Remove currencies and many more... The Raffler can set a price for each ticket, set a number of available tickets and also a ticket limit for each user. Borrowed from Reverse Auction Factory is the Reserve Price feature, which closes the auction without a winner if the reserve price isn�t met by the expiration date. Pictures can be uploaded and also attachments to provide additional details about the listing. The extension uses a CRON script to close raffles and choose winners, more about this can be found on the administrator page of the extension and our documentation wiki. The extension is a closed action system, meaning details can be seen but very few or no actions are available for the unlogged user. Before buying or listing can be done, the user must fill in a Raffle profile. Requirements: Joomla 3.0.x CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section).

Brand new job recruitment component released: Jobs Factory !

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:28:27 +0100

Jobs Factory is our Joomla solution for a Job Recruitment system which is intended to help companies manage their job offers and help candidates to submit their online applications. As a Platform to Employment, our extension Jobs Factory, allows users to choose from two different groups: Companies (which are the employers) Candidates (which are the job seekers). Companies can add as a recruitment criteria the experience, study level or language known by candidates and also specific information about the job offer itself, like position, job type, category and further details. For Candidates to apply to a job it is as easier as it gets, they will have to fill in the profile including personal information, experience and education; the more details they add the bigger the chances to an acceptance. Afterwards they will have to search for the appropriate job and simply click on a Send Application button. From the backend, the administrator can add an unlimited number of job categories, job types, experience levels and study levels which are helpful for both the companies and candidates since these can be added as a search criteria. For monetary gain, the webmaster can enable payment items to enable the payment for listings, featured jobs or the payment per contact. To help you with the payment process, Jobs Factory comes with multiple Payment Gateways that are available out of the box and also due to the plugin system each webmaster can create further payment gateways in order to integrate them: PayPal Skrill (MoneyBookers) 2Checkout Bankwire Sagepayments.net With Jobs Factory you can enable and manage as an administrator the Location Management feature which will allow you to add Cities and Areas, assigning them to the list of enabled Countries. Having this feature disabled will require users to fill in their City manually. Jobs Factory also comes with several integrations, extending the capabilities of the component. Google Maps integration offers companies the possibly to add the location of the job directly on map by just pinpointing it, allowing users to find it by performing a simple Radius Search. With Radius Search users just have to add a part of the address like a city for example and input the radius for the search. As a candidate, you can watchlist a job you are interested in, making it more accessible, then depending on the backend settings to receive notifications for actions like when the respective job is cancelled, closed or when it will expire. Full of features and with an easy to use interface, it is the best option for a Jobs Recruitment extension for Joomla. Here is a list of the main built-in features that Jobs Factory has to offer: Unlimited custom fields Settable date format Predefined locations Locations Management Google Maps integration which allow users to perform Radius Searches Attachments for both candidates and companies Pay-per-Contact Plugin, Pay-per-Listing Plugin and Featured Plugin Multiple payment gateway Javascript countdown for jobs Tags Job Archive Backup jobs and locations Export jobs and locations in .XLS files Access Control List reCaptcha Mailhide Currency Manager that uses Google Conversion eMail Notifications CB Integration CRON Jobs and many more... Requirements: Joomla 3.0.x CRON service (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation). GD Library installed and enabled.

DJ-CookieMonster extension

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:51:30 +0100

We present new extension - DJ-CookieMonster plugin - meant for informing site's visitors about the cookie policy. It works with Joomla 3.x, Joomla 2.5.x and Joomla 1.5. The plugin is highly customizable - You can select one of 4 different styles, select where to display message and many more...

Skyline Advanced Poll component

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:40:21 +0100

Skyline Advanced Poll is a flexible Joomla component for poll management and optimization. Accordingly, it provides an operative method to gain all the attentions and collect useful information from your website visitors. Skyline Advanced Poll shows polls in nice animated chart, the result would be updated after each vote. In addition, max choices and time interval totally can be set to customize numbers of poll choices and prevent consecutive votes. With the aim of expanding the appearance range, the component supports to add polls in all Joomla, K2 and Zoo articles with Advanced Poll button. This cool attribute allows users to add the button at the bottom of WYSIWYG editor. After select one poll in the poll list, you can put it at anywhere in the article and edit the poll name if you want. Other features from Skyline Advanced Poll: � Fully compatible with Joomla 1.7, Joomla 2.5 and later versions. � Support unlimited categories and subcategories. � Manage polls by Latest, Last Voted and Top Voted Polls. � Editable answer counts in back-end. Why don�t you visit our demo to get absorbing experience from Skyline Advanced Poll? You are welcome to recommend any new ideas and give feedback on our products. To get further information, visit our website at: http://www.vnskyline.com/skyline-advanced-poll.html

Forcing files to download with Skyline Simple Download

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:18:47 +0100

Right now if you want to set a link of image, PDF or MP3, these files would connect to display in a browser window. But what if you like to save them? Some file-types can be opened in the browser are easy to save (PDFs), but others are more difficult (MP3s) and messy with various steps. It seems that many Joomla management solutions could help, but they are a bit overly complex solution with the idea of a simple link. Therefore, you should try out the Simple Download component to make your works much easier. Once configured, you can create a specialized link which looks the same as any other link but when you click in, the file is downloaded instead of displaying in the browser. It is very useful to share something in lieu of only show-off. Besides, the component also has the ability to not only show a single file but also a file list from a folder in particular directory with the same download function and nice theme. Key Features: � Simple syntax to display single link or a long list of links. � Customizable template for displaying file list. � Encrypt the path to file so the user cannot download unintended items. � Set a �base path� that all downloaded files must be located in the target folder. � Configure the Error Message when a file cannot be found. � Download Log to record download history into the database. � Plugins that generates the appropriate links. � Can hide links from Search Engine. Currently Skyline Simple Download works perfectly with Joomla 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5. All you need to set up is specifying the file extensions that you want to allow, the Base Download Path would require the special files in the directory path and all the other settings are done automatically without efforts. See demo here: http://www.vnskyline.com/demo/index.php/joomla-components/skyline-simple-download You�ve got a question about this product? Feel free to leave a comment or send a request to us: http://vnskyline.com/contacts

RSS Merger plugin for obRSS, 2.1 version released

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:28:09 +0100

Several months ago, a couple of customers whom using obRSS with RSS Merger addon got trouble with merging internal RSS Feeds together, however merging external RSS Feeds was working perfectly. We're now figured out the problem (something regarding DNS issue) and a new version immediately released to the public (2.1 version). In this version, we added a seperated field to select internal RSS Feeds instead of coping pasting them from browser which may get DNS issue. Existing customer can get this updated version from the Download Area from My Account menu or http://foob.la/download.