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May.19.2012

Our templates use Lazy Load to speed up images loading

[SmartAddons.com] After some researching, our Joomla! templates acquired new ability. This time is to smoothly and seamlessly (and more...) handle a bulk of images, with support of Lazy Load library!

This ability helps Websites with enabling them to load images one by one within the current viewport not all the page. For remaining images if existing, this delays them before transferred to the actual loading process. So our visitors can be delivered Websites fast, view images when and where they want, not waiting long time to load all material of the Web. Our example here.

A. What is Lazy Load?

Lazy Load is a plugin for jQuery library. This is writtten in Javascript and must be used along with jQuery. Using Lazy Load on long web pages containing many large images makes the page load faster. Browser will be in ready state after loading visible images. In some cases it can also help to reduce server load.

B. Why using this?

There are many advantages from using this script:

May.16.2012

Media Queries for Responsive Web: What, When and How

[SmartAddons.com] In latest trends of Web industry over the world, noticed that the over prominence of Web Responsive Design (WRD).

SmA team reviewed WRD terms and from the bulk of definitions, we listed the most common and most important terms in the last post. With the high concern to this, emerging a new term, it is Media Queries. When thinking about MEDIA QUERIES, maybe you have realized that this has been used for a variety of purposes before, but this time it is necessary mostly for WRD.

And this post is about Media Queries: what you need to know.

May.09.2012

VirtueMart 1.2 released, enable old VM shopping-cart into Joomla 2.5

[SmartAddons.com] As we follow up the newest updates from the Projects relating to our products like Joomla, Magento, K2, VirtueMart, Zoo... we realized that many customers are still using some old versions and still not-update-able to the latest version of those Projects.

One of those products is VirtueMart (VM), the most important component in the world of "making benefit".

There are many reasons for that trend, such as: their old VM have been heavily modded, so they cannot easily turn to the newest version without changing many codes in the core. Remember that the new VirtueMart 2.0 is a new code base with some brand-new functions. Updating to this version will make you several benefit, but the most important is the compatibility with Joomla! 2.5!

April.27.2012

Joomla Responsive design: Theory and Application

[SmartAddons.com] As we said in the last post about Magento and HTML5, considering using mobile devices as a rising trend all over the world is an important factor in creating new Websites. With HTML5 enabled, users now can experience new Websites with various devices; and new devices mean that your traffic, your sales, your profit... will be increasing as well!

April.19.2012

K2mart v2 now compatible with Joomla! 2.5 and Virtuemart 2.x

[SmartAddons.com] This time is the news for those are operating and managing a SHOPPING cart by using Joomla 2.5 and VirtueMart v2. Just consider using K2mart as your middleman to e-commerce success. It now supports Joomla 2.5 already!

WHY?

Past: Virtuemart powers your website's e-shop. Updates are painful, styling is a nightmare.

Now: K2 for your catalog and K2mart to import and syncronize your Virtuemart products into K2.

April.18.2012

Joomla 3.0 with Twitter Bootstrap and Responsive design

[SmartAddons.com] Next 5 months will come a new Joomla version with innovative features. It is compatible with all major browsers, can be transformed to the layout according to your devices and many more.

Joomla! team introduced some famous features in the last day, in which both the visitor and administrator areas are being redesigned from top-to-bottomso. We are here to get some notifications from that.

April.17.2012

New Virtuemart 2.0.6 has been released, more security, 18 new languages

[SmartAddons.com] An exciting news for all those concerning to Localization of VirtueMart has come. With the new release from the VM team, this 2.0.6 release now can enable the access to your Shop over the world with batch of languages provided!

This release has 3 things to remember, that is:

April.12.2012

[Preview] SJ Education - An Academical Joomla education Template coming out

[SmartAddons.com] A brand-new Joomla Template designed specially for non-profit and EDUCATIONAL organizations has become real with our VERY great effort during almost a month long! This is the time to make this your Website template, and we are sure that you can extend your influence on your visitors and partners more dominantly at the time!

The name: SJ Education - Joomla! Template

Support: Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 2.5 fully compatible!

Extensions: Already many, and will be INCREASING upon your requests!

Here are some demo screenshots from our data that has been leaked few hours ago!

April.09.2012

Hacking into VirtueMart resolved with VM 2.0.4 release

[SmartAddons.com] Hackers are trying to penetrate more online stores than ever! VirtueMart from the past always is a good choice for operating online shopping activities with Joomla Websites. Certainly, it is in hackers' eyesight, too!

Last day, VM team has released a new patch for VirtueMart that can improve the online store's security that are using VM as platform. The reason is that a few days ago, a bug has been detected through which hacker can get sensitive information on the stores.

April.04.2012

Joomla websites want a secure hosting and profitable domain?

[SmartAddons.com] Where do you host your Joomla websites right now? This blog article helps you choose right Joomla hosting (maybe for other purposes such as Magento websites?) and a domain for a long-time stability. Covered here is common information, not for special needs; and maybe right in most times, not all!

Hosting and domain now is a integral part of successful websites. It makes customers remember your company and get you profit in the near future if you want! Yes, that's because a memorable name put an awareness into your brand-name. Besides, a good host helps you maintain all flows of information out and in the website seamlessly.
Out there, there are many providers for this stuff; take a big effort to achieve some great thing with just several articles or promotions ... but hereafter, information maybe help you:

April.03.2012

3 methods to update OR migrate your Joomla websites to 2.5.4

[SmartAddons.com] In the last day, a new patch for Joomla! CMS has been released. Thanks to the Joomla! Bug Quad and Joomla! Security Strike Team, this updating bring us much more safety and convenience than before.

March.30.2012

[News] Joomla! 1.5.26, we updated for your security

[SmartAddons.com] In the last day, Joomla has been upgraded to a new version with security patches.

This update is for Joomla 1.5 and this code of this time is 1.5.26 ("senu takaa ama busani" in Indonesian language). This time, Joomla Project also announces the immediate availability for current Joomla version.

March.22.2012

Top 5 Joomla templates for News portal and corporate websites {direct download link}

[SmartAddons.com] Voting now if you see some interesting things from these templates and their demo websites. Following is the list of the most popular templates focusing on News service.

1. SkyExtend

Download link here

March.21.2012

7 best features of Joomla 2.5 that professionals must care

[SmartAddons.com] With the new features added to Joomla 2.5, I think that every customers of us will not hesitate to update the current Joomla website to this version (if not yet). All updating to this version from Joomla.org can be downloaded freely here.

The list of new features can be long, it took us some times to upgrade all extensions and create some new templates that are fully compatible with Joomla 2.5. Although the effort is great, the result are great too, see our Joomla works for more details.

Here are the Top important features from Joomla 2.5:

1. Ajax Search function

Searching is now based on ajax and natural language.

March.21.2012

Quickstart Package for Joomla Templates - How to Install it?

What's a quickstart package? Why is it included in the template installation package? Yes, this post will help you understand more this powerful package which can help you make a complete online store that looks exactly our demo site.

March.21.2012

Sj templates help many restaurants and businesses start-up

[SmartAddons.com] Proudly as a template creator for over dozens of restaurants and businesses, Smartaddons.com always ensures the high-innovative and full-features templates delivered to our customers.

With over 5 years of experiences doing E-commerce online, particularly in website products like Joomla templates, Joomla extensions, Magento extensions, we experienced many difficult requests from customers. Doing e-commerce online requires not only your knowledge of products or services but also the knowledge about the Internet. The infrastructure of your business includes many things like email, domain, hosting..., but without the good Website, it's maybe a big failure!

We helped them...

March.21.2012

Web-based Joomla free template framework - YT Framework, a new choice?

[SmartAddons.com] One framework, many benefit! With YT Framework for Joomla templates, Joomla template creation is in the easiest method ever. We got many ideas based on our framework, and so can you.

Especially for developers with no free time and no deeply designing knowledge, your own website templates from beginning to advanced level will be completed in a few minutes. We called it YT Framework - a web template Joomla! framework. It is available to download right now.