Social network implementation has become a necessity for successful websites. Joomla!, the popular Open-Source CMS, has some great and affordable ways to bring your site to the social networking level. Let's review how.This article will walk through the beginnings of setting up a social site using Joomla. Some of the end goals and solutions will vary depending on your needs.Joomla! shouldn't just be looked at as a CMS but a framework from which to build your applications and accomplish your dreams. Before you jump in and start lacing together...

Step 1: Set up the Load Module pluginThe first thing you need to do is navigate to the plugin manager in your Joomla! Administrator panel. In Joomla! 1.5, you can access the plugin manager by clicking Extensions->Plugin Manager in theadministrator main menu. In the plugin manager, locate the "Content - Load Moudle" plugin. If you have a lot of plugins, it might help to filter the list to only show content plugins. The filter is in the top right hand corner above the page just above the list of plugins. Under "Select Type", select "content."Once...

Joomla! 1.5.12 Changes were made to the framework PHPMailer class in order to allow secure connections (SSL/TLS) to SMTP servers. Given these changes, Joomla is now able to use services such as Gmail to handle e-mail from the application. If you have access to a Gmail account, consider testing this new functionality.In the Administrator Panel, navigate to Global Configuration > Server and set the following options:* Mailer: SMTP Server* SMTP Security: SSL* SMTP Port: 465* SMTP Authentication: Yes* SMTP Username: Your Gmail username* SMTP Password:...

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Falkner Press – Free Premium Magazine Style Wordpress Theme | Demo: http://54800.com/Make Sure have latest version of Wordpress (2.7 and above)1. Upload the theme folder into wp-content/themes/ directory.2. Go to Your WordPress Dashboard and select Theme.3. Select The Falkner Press theme.4. Upload the Twitter for Wordress and the flickrRSS plugin that are found in plugins folder into the wp-content/plugins directory.5. Activate the plugins.More...

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Dugg Plazza - Digg-like site running on Joomla | Demo: http://demo.templateplazza.net/dugg_plazza/Dugg plazza is a template from template plazza that is dedicated to make a website with joomla where your visitors can share or vote articles that they like, just like in digg.com.This template is completed with tpdugg components, an article sharing social component that is specially designed for dugg plazza. This component has features like: submit...

RT Affinity Joomla Template | Demo: http://demo.rockettheme.com/jul09/Affinity is the July 2009 release from RocketTheme and features extensive third party support for powerful and popular community products, such as JomSocial, K2 and phpBB3. The template's core feature is Sortable Elements, which allows for the movement of modular rows, individual positions and stacks of modules.We also have styled support for various RocketTheme Extensions such...

Who Else Wants An Easy Way To Create Their Joomla Templates WITHOUT All The Hassle?Here's a Complete Solution and you, DON'T need any HTML or PHP experience.What comes with the package?You receive the following:* Complete Windows Application* “How to” Movie* Documentation PackageQuite Simply it takes your graphic images and creates a complete template zip file ready to load into Joomla. It does what it says quickly and cleanly. Technically - It...

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