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The recent back to back releases of Joomla 2.5.5 and Joomla 2.5.6 and the internal rush to push a CB 1.8.1 quality release out to the general public reminded me of my AT&T Bell Labs days back in the late 1980's.
It was a period that was inspired by quality metrics and improvement discussions. Phrases like "improve quality by a factor of X in Y years" were common in almost every single presentation or discussion.
In fact we were instructed by our supervisor to make sure we mentioned something about quality in all our talks back then.
I was preparing a talk about a new telecommunications service and how our internal newtwork design tool could support it when I realized that I had not said anything at all about the big Q word. So I prepared an extra single slide to start off my presentation and get the Q stuff over with so I could continue with the real (in my mind back then) important content.
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Our brand new Package Installer page is now open for our paid members and CBSubs purchasers!
There are exactly 101 add-ons available now on Joomlapolis!
This huge number of packages is impressive, but having to download and install each one seperately could appear tedious and daunting.
We have addressed this with the new Package Installer that all paid members can use to custom build their own single package of add-ons.
Depending on your membership and your CBSubs and Template purchases, you can download and install all 101 items (or just the ones you choose) as a single package using this new Package Installer.
These 3 simple steps on the Package Installer page will save you lots of time:
- Select Joomla version (1.5 or 2.5) and individual add-ons starting with Community Builder
- Download your single installable package with everything you selected in it
- Install your downloaded package using your Joomla Extensions menu
That's all there is to it!
The package you download can be used for new installs or for upgrading of existing installations.
You can upgrade your membership now and start building your own single install packages!
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We are back from our yearly Joomla fix at JandBeyond 2012 and still recovering from the great presentations and the fantastic discussions with our Joomla peers.
There are many online references to the #jab12 happenings that you can visit to read, see and listen to. Yes, this years event really rocked and rolled (see if you can spot Beat in this one).
While we are waiting for the video production process of all the presentations (currently in progress - thank you Jeremy Wilken) - courtesy of the Joomlapolis Video sponsorship - we have to share two important happenings that make us very excited about the future of Joomla and of Community Builder.
The first very important happening is the decision of Joomla UI (user interface) to use BootStrap as part of its Joomla 3.0 planned release later this year. This is a great opportunity for Joomla and its third-party extensions (that also choose to use Bootstrap) to get a nice, light-weight and clean user interface look.
The CB Team and many other third-party extension teams (e.g., Kunena) have decided to also adopt the Boostrap concept. The unified user interface concept will help Joomla users as they will see a familiar set of interface controls in Joomla and in its extensions. Once again, Community Builder 2.0 will use Bootstrap.
The second exciting happening is the official annoucement of the AHA?WOW! new specification language that will be used in CB 2.0. Five (5) years of internal research have given birth to this bold new development concept already used and thoroughly tested in CBSubs. See the slides and watch Beat's lightning talk video.
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Beat and Nick will be attending the JandBeyond event this week to get their yearly dose of Joomla!, while Kyle will be holding the fort at Joomlapolis - thanks Kyle!.
If you are attending, make sure you say hello and have a cup of coffee or a beer with them. You can also attend their presentations on Saturday and Sunday and listen to the CB Team lighning talk on Friday.
Courtecy of the Joomlapolis Video Sponsoring all presentation will be recorded. This way the Joomla magic will be able to reach millions of Joomla fans through-out the world!
This year, our Community Builder extension is also on the 2012 J!OSCAR shortlist! This by itself is a great acknowledgement for our community here at Joomlapolis - thank you !
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The best paid subscriptions membership management solution for Joomla has just reached a new high with the latest CBSubs 2.0 release!
67 new features tipped the scale and instead of releasing as CBSubs 1.3 we decided to jump to version 2.0.
This is also a significant milestone for Community Builder 2.0 which will basically borrow the CBSubs 2.0 internal engine as its own!
CBSubs 2.0 allows you, among the many new features, to:
Automate marketing
Create powerful automated personalized marketing campaigns; increase your sales using the new included CBSubs Mailer plugin.
Sell in multi-currency
Display and sell your products in multiple currencies using new multi-currency selector at order time.
Display promotions
Change displayed price automatically when promotion is valid to visually promote your discount offers.
Set permissions
Manage memberships now in frontend. Set Joomla 2.5 ACL permissions for management.
Record payments
Handle off-line payment processes with frontend order creation and payment recording.
Refund on-site
Refund payments directly from administration panel (depends on payment organization)
Get new reports
New reports have been added produce eye-catching statistics and graphs of your sales, income and taxes / VAT.
Analyze sales funnel
Use the new Piwik Integration to track and analyze your sales goals and converion rates in realtime.
Set 8 new gateways
8 new payment organizations bring the total supported gateways to 15.
Calendar plan prorating and invoice numbering are also included in the long list of 67 new CBSubs 2.0 features.
The complete CBSubs feature-set can make your paid subscriptions membership managemnt business case come alive on any Joomla (2.5, 1.5 or 1.0) with Community Builder (1.8).
CBSubs is ideal for traditional Membership clubs, subscriptions based electronic content sites, magazine and services oriented business cases, electronic goods downloading clubs and supplier-consumer sites.
However, the flexibility and fine-grained parameters available within CBSubs and the powerful integration mechanisms can be used to support virtually any use case imaginable!
Try CBSubs now and take advantage of the fantastic first purchase 30-day no questions asked refund policy.
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- J and Beyond 2012 - Simply the best!
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- Joomla 2.5 and life-cycle guide
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- Security scan your websites for a full month for Free!