The CMS Expert http://www.cms-expert.com The World of Open Source Content Management, and more. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:19:23 +0000 en hourly 1 Absolute Floating Menu http://www.cms-expert.com/2012/02/23/absolute-floating-menu-2/ http://www.cms-expert.com/2012/02/23/absolute-floating-menu-2/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:19:23 +0000 CMS Expert http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/modules-panel/15318 | From Joomla! Extensions Directory - Recently Updated |

Absolute Floating MenuCatch visitors' attention with menu or other valuable content in animated floating div box. Integrates with Joomla module and templating system to move other module(s) following user scrolling. Can be centered or can have distance from any window border specified. Ideal for: - Important menus - Shopping carts - Call to actions buttons - Contact information The following modes are supported: - Free-floating (not restricted to specific area, can overlap other page elements) - Confined (restricted to a specific area such as left or right module position) Furthermore: - Javascript code not dependent upon any framework, so there will be no conflicts with MooTools and/or jQuery; - Debug mode to make configuring easier Special handling for templates: - Artisteer - Joomlashine - YOOtheme (Warp-based) Many other templates have been verified to work.

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A Webinar Presented by Zeon Solutions and Magento


Generating Revenue through Advanced Site Search and Navigation

Drive eCommerce results like you’ve never seen before with advanced search and navigation capabilities.

In this webinar, Zeon Solutions, a Magento Gold Solution Partner, will demonstrate the many ways that advanced site search can work to improve navigation and in-turn deliver greater ROI for your Magento eCommerce website.

Zeon Solutions has teamed up with search and business intelligence leader, Endeca, to provide small to mid-size Magento retailers a SaaS version of the Endeca InFront platform, used by so many of the world’s biggest brands.

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

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User Article ManagerThe User Article Manager (UAM) gives users the ability to create, edit and publish items from a list of articles displayed in the front end of a Joomla! Installation. The project has been forked from the popular Frontend User Article List (FUAL) extension written for Joomla! 1.5 by Felipe Quinto Busanello (the details of which can be found at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/news-production/content-submission/8656. Translations provided by: Français - Marc Bénita, Michel Cercueil Deutsch - Jojo Murer Español - Marcos J. Diep Italiano - Luca Ratti (frontend) Русский язык - Vladimir, JanRUmoN Team Nederlands - Daniel van Keulen Dansk - Jakob Dalsgaard (frontend) Język Polski - Leszek Boroch My sincere thanks to all who have helped out! ------------------------------------------------ Release v0.15 is now available Pending and expired articles now identified Bug fixed so users can optionally view other authors' articles (use with caution) Ability to choose between 1.5 or 1.7 style icons in display Danish translation (frontend) - thanks to Jakob Dalsgaard Polish translation - thanks to Leszek Boroch Release v0.14 is now available Bug fixed allowing non-Editors to create new articles (thanks to Ben). Option added to show/hide author aliases. --------------------------------------------------------------- Further release history can be found on the website ------------------------------------------------ Briefly: in Joomla! 1.5 Authors were able to create and edit their own articles (in any category); Editors could, in addition, edit articles created by other users; and, finally, Publishers were the only users who could publish or unpublish articles. From version 1.6, article categories can grant a mixture of ‘Edit Own’, ‘Edit’ or ‘Edit State’ permissions to the defined user groups. A user may have ‘Edit Own’ permissions for some categories and full ‘Edit’ permissions for others. ‘Edit State’ can be distributed to yet a third combination of user groups and categories. The full range is decided by the site administrator when setting up categories and user groups; readers should refer to the Joomla! documentation for the full details. The UAM aims, for any given user, to collect the editable articles and present them in a straight-forward list. The list can be filtered by category, author, published status and title. The user can edit, copy, publish/unpublish and trash articles depending on the backend permissions and configuration options

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Sliding Image LinksThis plugin or module allow to insert the very nice ImageMenu script developed by Samuel Birch. This script use Mootools for show images that slide when the cursor is over there. The image is also a link.

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jVoteSystemThe component jVoteSystem allows visitors to participate in surveys on your site. You can distribute as many votes as are available to you, thus you can emphasize on a certain answer. When set in component preferences, users can also create their own answers and help e.g. with the feature development. This program works with AJAX, meaning you don't have to reload the page, and is therefore more user friendly. In addition, administrators can manage the site in the frontend and users can remove their own posts. Also, the IP addresses and cookies are stored, which makes multiple voting difficult without permission. With the additional plugin (included in the package) you can also insert the poll into your posts. Language packs for German and English are included. Since the version 1.01, users can write comments on answers and the administrators can insert polls with a editor button. Ultimately, a very useful survey component with a user friendly, simple design. Now with JoomFish and JomSocial support!

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Image of the DayThis module displays a new image each day, week, month, year or the same once a week. The content need to be place in a specific folder structure and name in a certain way. Refresh - From the Image Folder: Daily - day/{month number, 1 to 12}/{day number, 1 to 31}.{image type} Weekly - week/{week number, 1 to 52}.{image type} Monthly - month/{month number, 1 to 12}.{image type} Yearly - year/{year, e.g. 2011}.{image type} Weekly Repeat - weekly_repeat/{day, e.g. Mon}.{image type} So a url for a daily image will end up looking like http://yourdomain.tld/media/mod_image_of_the_day/day/11/13.jpg, and if a separator is used http://yourdomain.tld/media/mod_image_of_the_day/separator/day/11/13.jpg The content used on the demo site can be downloaded and used as a reference guide. Feedback is always welcome via the forum.

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Tlak CountdownThe Tlak Countdown provides a basic countdown to an specific date / datetime. The date selected is parsed by PHP providing the amount of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes or seconds left to the event. You might select what to display if years, months, weeks, days, hours , minutes or seconds left to the event. The advanced configuration of this module will allow you to style the module completely to match the style of your site, this is done with CSS directly adding the rules inside the module´s configuration.

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Tlak CalendarThe Tlak Calendar provides a basic calendar to explore dates; it is based in PHP and Ajax. The calendar is released with a set style, it is plain but looks fine however you can style it whichever way you like, you just need to provide the CSS rules to apply to the different parts of the calendar and you will be all set. You can consult the forum in it you will find the Photoshop source for the animated loading gif which you can modify to your own needs, alternatively you can add your own set of animated or non-animated images to the folder images/loading/ within the module's folder. Front end language support: de-DE, el-GR, en-GB, es-ES, et-EE, fr-FR, in-ID, it-IT, nb-NO, nl-NL, pl-PL, pt-BR, pt-PT, ru-RU, sv-SE, tr-TR. Back end and front end full language support: en-GB, es-ES.

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Testing. Testing. Are you there? Good. Now that we’ve got your attention, we want to tell you about the new Magento Test Automation Framework, or TAF for short.

This software package is ideal for running repeated functional tests against a normally installed Magento application. And if you’re a developer or QA specialist, you’re in for a treat. You can quickly develop all kinds of tests for the current Magento version without having to tediously build an automation infrastructure.

Besides running repeated tests, Magento TAF can also be used to create tests and write test automation scripts. Test automation scripts created within the framework can be used for testing most Magento functionality. And we’re constantly updating the Selenium-based framework to cover even more tests and meet users’ broad needs.

In this latest release of the framework, we’ve introduced a robust set of new tests and capabilities:

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1000 Functional Tests

We’ve created a comprehensive Smoke Test Suite that evaluates the full range of functionality of the Magento Community Edition. This suite covers all test cases that are run during Magento nightly builds and tested by our development team. And it’s designed specifically for developers to use and expand upon.
 
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Error Screenshot Capture

Test failure errors happen. And when they do, Magento TAF captures and stores screenshots of any open pages in .png and html formats in the tmp/screenshot folder. If a JavaScript error occurs, the screenshot is captured and stored in the .png format. And Markup errors are captured and stored in the html format. The failed test name contains the class name, test name and a timestamp, this way it’s easy to retrieve the screenshot. And the full path to the screenshot is stored in a log next to the error message so it can be accessed directly.
 
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Unlimited UI Testing

With Magento TAF, you can test as many UI areas as you’d like. This comes in especially handy when testing several store views or stores utilizing different designs. Each store – or store view – can have a unique UI map but operate with the original set of tests. This removes nesting and naming restrictions for UI map folders and allows users to organize them as they wish.

The UI areas can be determined in the local.yml file for each url to be used by Magento TAF. Based on user-defined urls, Magento TAF automatically detects which set of UI maps should be used and loads the relevant descriptors for the current page. With this enhancement, the tester doesn’t have to worry about switching between UI areas within the test body. Users can declare separate UI maps for non-Magento side services specific to their store and write tests in the same way they’re written for Magento services.

See the Installation Guide under “Example of config.yml File” for an example of a UI map area declaration. Please note, before your first run, search for the ‘YOUR CREDENTIALS’ string within the data folder and update that value with your account credentials.

Magento TAF’s newest features help take the task out of testing. And, even though it just came down the product pipeline, it’s already been adopted and put to good use by many developers. In fact, we have to give a virtual fist pump to Kristof Ringleff from Fooman and Nick Jones (punkstar) from Meanbee for all their contributions.

To download the Magento TAF, go to the Magento Test Automation Framework section at the bottom of this page:

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If you’d like to read the complete repository, installation and configuration guidelines, check them out at:

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Blank TemplateThis is what you need to start you own Joomla! 2.5 template. - Full functional Joomla template - Start from scratch with the css reset sheet - Support tablets, phones and even IE6 - Customisable error, offline and print page - Advanced properties (html5, css3, ...)

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