Simple Image Gallery Pro version 3 and a new design approach for our components
Written by Fotis EvangelouWe've always put user friendlyness and ease of use above all when building our extensions. At least up to what's possible for any type of extension. Simple Image Gallery Pro was great (and still is) as a plugin that allows you to zip a bunch of files and quickly transform them to an image gallery grid. It's no wonder why the free version is one of the most popular extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory for many years now. People hate to use tools that take more time to deal with than the actual content they're producing. If it takes you more time to upload a gallery than shooting the actual pictures, then there's a problem. And unfortunately, many gallery components in the Joomla!sphere simply fail to deliver what they promise.
SocialConnect - a new Joomla! extension for better social reach & user engagement
Written by Fotis EvangelouIt's part of our "masterplan" to redefine what we consider basic functionality for any Joomla! site. It started with K2 and now it's moving deeper into more specialized areas. SocialConnect is an extension that -as with all things made by JoomlaWorks- came out from a real need. And it was tested extensively for more than a year on the K2 Community, before being publicly released.
Resizing the disk space on Ubuntu Server VMs running on VMware ESXi 5
Written by Fotis EvangelouWhen we choose to have VPS servers (aka virtual machines or VMs for short) instead of dedicated servers, we usually opt for VMware's free ESXi 5 and install Ubuntu Server as the OS for the VPSs we create on top of ESXi 5. It may not be as friendly as some VPS providers like Amazon, Rackspace etc. but you got more control and it's on YOUR hardware (pretty important actually!)...
Now, when you build a VPS on VMware, you start with say 40GBs of hard disk space. You install the OS, setup the server, move the sites on this new server and you're on. But what happens when there's no more room on the server for your site or sites and you need to add more disk space?
How to create a zip file of all Google Web Fonts on a Mac
Written by Fotis EvangelouIf you got a Mac (or Linux box) the process is quite easy. And here it goes...
Joomla! forks you may have never heard of
Written by Fotis EvangelouI bet you never know those existed. Some are still active, some are dead. Check them out...
And in case you don't know where this all started, check Mambo.
Cloud.com, recently acquired by Citrix for $250m is running on Joomla! & K2
Written by Fotis EvangelouI'm proud for 2 reasons. First of all, K2 is used by one more big company. And it's not just any company. Citrix/Cloud.com are top at what they do. Secondly, it's because Cloud.com just got acquired by Citrix for a whopping $250 million deal.
It's probably the first ever acquisition deal we've ever heard of that magnitude that one way or another involves Joomla! in. And not just that, K2 is at the heart of Cloud.com :)
Check out their site: http://cloud.com
"Getting serious" with Google Analytics event tracking - know your users' behavior
Written by Fotis EvangelouA couple of months ago I stumbled upon a website in which the source code included some funky tracking events of Google Analytics (GA) inside the site's links... To be honest, I didn't know at that point Google Analytics could be extended like that, so I dug deeper to learn more.
If you're not an SEO expert using buzzwords like ROI, SEM, CPR etc., you're probably using GA for browsing page views, visitor count, browser percentages etc. Turns out, GA offers at a "basic level" the option to track unique events on your website, e.g. a click on a link or a file download. Which makes statistics viewing way more interesting...
More than 600 hundred people came past the doors of Danaos in Athens, the weekend of 28 and 29 May, 2011.
Thanks to all the visitors, the speakers and the #jd11gr sponsors for making JoomlaDay Greece 2011 (the first ever JoomlaDay in Greece!) such a successful event!
See you all in JoomlaDay Greece 2012!
F*ck you, pay me - a must see for professionals in web design
Written by Fotis Evangelou
2 days, 30 presentations, great foreign and domestic speakers such as Johan Janssens (Nooku), Alex Kempkens (JoomFish), Max Milbers (Virtuemart), Nick Dionysopoulos and many more (inc. yours truly) in a unique Joomla! event!
More soon on http://joomladay.gr
Simple Image Gallery Pro version 3 and a new design approach for our components
Written by Fotis EvangelouWe've always put user friendlyness and ease of use above all when building our extensions. At least up to what's possible for any type of extension. Simple Image Gallery Pro was great (and still is) as a plugin that allows you to zip a bunch of files and quickly transform them to an image gallery grid. It's no wonder why the free version is one of the most popular extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory for many years now. People hate to use tools that take more time to deal with than the actual content they're producing. If it takes you more time to upload a gallery than shooting the actual pictures, then there's a problem. And unfortunately, many gallery components in the Joomla!sphere simply fail to deliver what they promise.
SocialConnect - a new Joomla! extension for better social reach & user engagement
Written by Fotis EvangelouIt's part of our "masterplan" to redefine what we consider basic functionality for any Joomla! site. It started with K2 and now it's moving deeper into more specialized areas. SocialConnect is an extension that -as with all things made by JoomlaWorks- came out from a real need. And it was tested extensively for more than a year on the K2 Community, before being publicly released.
Resizing the disk space on Ubuntu Server VMs running on VMware ESXi 5
Written by Fotis EvangelouWhen we choose to have VPS servers (aka virtual machines or VMs for short) instead of dedicated servers, we usually opt for VMware's free ESXi 5 and install Ubuntu Server as the OS for the VPSs we create on top of ESXi 5. It may not be as friendly as some VPS providers like Amazon, Rackspace etc. but you got more control and it's on YOUR hardware (pretty important actually!)...
Now, when you build a VPS on VMware, you start with say 40GBs of hard disk space. You install the OS, setup the server, move the sites on this new server and you're on. But what happens when there's no more room on the server for your site or sites and you need to add more disk space?
How to create a zip file of all Google Web Fonts on a Mac
Written by Fotis EvangelouIf you got a Mac (or Linux box) the process is quite easy. And here it goes...
Joomla! forks you may have never heard of
Written by Fotis EvangelouI bet you never know those existed. Some are still active, some are dead. Check them out...
And in case you don't know where this all started, check Mambo.
Cloud.com, recently acquired by Citrix for $250m is running on Joomla! & K2
Written by Fotis EvangelouI'm proud for 2 reasons. First of all, K2 is used by one more big company. And it's not just any company. Citrix/Cloud.com are top at what they do. Secondly, it's because Cloud.com just got acquired by Citrix for a whopping $250 million deal.
It's probably the first ever acquisition deal we've ever heard of that magnitude that one way or another involves Joomla! in. And not just that, K2 is at the heart of Cloud.com :)
Check out their site: http://cloud.com
"Getting serious" with Google Analytics event tracking - know your users' behavior
Written by Fotis EvangelouA couple of months ago I stumbled upon a website in which the source code included some funky tracking events of Google Analytics (GA) inside the site's links... To be honest, I didn't know at that point Google Analytics could be extended like that, so I dug deeper to learn more.
If you're not an SEO expert using buzzwords like ROI, SEM, CPR etc., you're probably using GA for browsing page views, visitor count, browser percentages etc. Turns out, GA offers at a "basic level" the option to track unique events on your website, e.g. a click on a link or a file download. Which makes statistics viewing way more interesting...
More than 600 hundred people came past the doors of Danaos in Athens, the weekend of 28 and 29 May, 2011.
Thanks to all the visitors, the speakers and the #jd11gr sponsors for making JoomlaDay Greece 2011 (the first ever JoomlaDay in Greece!) such a successful event!
See you all in JoomlaDay Greece 2012!
F*ck you, pay me - a must see for professionals in web design
Written by Fotis Evangelou
2 days, 30 presentations, great foreign and domestic speakers such as Johan Janssens (Nooku), Alex Kempkens (JoomFish), Max Milbers (Virtuemart), Nick Dionysopoulos and many more (inc. yours truly) in a unique Joomla! event!
More soon on http://joomladay.gr
Simple Image Gallery Pro version 3 and a new design approach for our components
Written by Fotis EvangelouWe've always put user friendlyness and ease of use above all when building our extensions. At least up to what's possible for any type of extension. Simple Image Gallery Pro was great (and still is) as a plugin that allows you to zip a bunch of files and quickly transform them to an image gallery grid. It's no wonder why the free version is one of the most popular extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory for many years now. People hate to use tools that take more time to deal with than the actual content they're producing. If it takes you more time to upload a gallery than shooting the actual pictures, then there's a problem. And unfortunately, many gallery components in the Joomla!sphere simply fail to deliver what they promise.
SocialConnect - a new Joomla! extension for better social reach & user engagement
Written by Fotis EvangelouIt's part of our "masterplan" to redefine what we consider basic functionality for any Joomla! site. It started with K2 and now it's moving deeper into more specialized areas. SocialConnect is an extension that -as with all things made by JoomlaWorks- came out from a real need. And it was tested extensively for more than a year on the K2 Community, before being publicly released.
Resizing the disk space on Ubuntu Server VMs running on VMware ESXi 5
Written by Fotis EvangelouWhen we choose to have VPS servers (aka virtual machines or VMs for short) instead of dedicated servers, we usually opt for VMware's free ESXi 5 and install Ubuntu Server as the OS for the VPSs we create on top of ESXi 5. It may not be as friendly as some VPS providers like Amazon, Rackspace etc. but you got more control and it's on YOUR hardware (pretty important actually!)...
Now, when you build a VPS on VMware, you start with say 40GBs of hard disk space. You install the OS, setup the server, move the sites on this new server and you're on. But what happens when there's no more room on the server for your site or sites and you need to add more disk space?
How to create a zip file of all Google Web Fonts on a Mac
Written by Fotis EvangelouIf you got a Mac (or Linux box) the process is quite easy. And here it goes...
Joomla! forks you may have never heard of
Written by Fotis EvangelouI bet you never know those existed. Some are still active, some are dead. Check them out...
And in case you don't know where this all started, check Mambo.
Cloud.com, recently acquired by Citrix for $250m is running on Joomla! & K2
Written by Fotis EvangelouI'm proud for 2 reasons. First of all, K2 is used by one more big company. And it's not just any company. Citrix/Cloud.com are top at what they do. Secondly, it's because Cloud.com just got acquired by Citrix for a whopping $250 million deal.
It's probably the first ever acquisition deal we've ever heard of that magnitude that one way or another involves Joomla! in. And not just that, K2 is at the heart of Cloud.com :)
Check out their site: http://cloud.com
"Getting serious" with Google Analytics event tracking - know your users' behavior
Written by Fotis EvangelouA couple of months ago I stumbled upon a website in which the source code included some funky tracking events of Google Analytics (GA) inside the site's links... To be honest, I didn't know at that point Google Analytics could be extended like that, so I dug deeper to learn more.
If you're not an SEO expert using buzzwords like ROI, SEM, CPR etc., you're probably using GA for browsing page views, visitor count, browser percentages etc. Turns out, GA offers at a "basic level" the option to track unique events on your website, e.g. a click on a link or a file download. Which makes statistics viewing way more interesting...
More than 600 hundred people came past the doors of Danaos in Athens, the weekend of 28 and 29 May, 2011.
Thanks to all the visitors, the speakers and the #jd11gr sponsors for making JoomlaDay Greece 2011 (the first ever JoomlaDay in Greece!) such a successful event!
See you all in JoomlaDay Greece 2012!
F*ck you, pay me - a must see for professionals in web design
Written by Fotis Evangelou
2 days, 30 presentations, great foreign and domestic speakers such as Johan Janssens (Nooku), Alex Kempkens (JoomFish), Max Milbers (Virtuemart), Nick Dionysopoulos and many more (inc. yours truly) in a unique Joomla! event!
More soon on http://joomladay.gr