Joomulus with Japanese Character Support – Kana
Joomulus is updated! The flash Tag cloud for Joomla now includes improved styling! More languages! Full details and download link below the Japanese character demo.
If you LOVE Joomulus please show your appreciation by using the social bookmarking links at the bottom of this post. Or you can go ahead and DIGG right now! Or add it to your delicious bookmarks!
Updates include:
The mouse pointer displays as a hand when hovering over tags – as you would expect for a hyperlink.
X and Y scaling is fixed – you can get an elongated spread of tags by adjusting this value as seen in our Joomulus Demo.
Language/character sets included in this module are as follows:
- English/Basic Latin
- Greek/English
- Japanese – Kana
- Bulgarian/Russian/Serbian/English – Cyrillic Base
- Portuguese/Polish/English – Latin Extended Base
We plan to release Turkish, Chinese and a number of others very soon – time did not allow for this release – leave your comments and suggestions below.
JoomalBear Newsletter November 26th – Web Based Version
This newsletter in brief:
A FREE Christmas Joomla Template – Animated Falling Snow!
TransBear updated – New dropdown menu and transparency fix
Welcome to Little Bear who is doing an awesome job in the forums
Premium Member Badges
A new service we are offering – SlideshowPro+Director and Joomla Installation
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Free Christmas Joomla Template – Our Christmas gift to you.
We’re very proud of this little number – a lovely animated snow effect for your Christmas website promotions.
Check the demo: http://artificialchristmastrees.me/
Read about it on the blog: http://blog.joomlabear.com/free-joomla-christmas-template-falling-snow/
Enjoy!
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TransBear Updated
The template now features built in Son of SuckerFish dropdown menus, and we have integrated Drew McLellan’s Transparency Fix for IE6. Note you must add a module class suffix of _sf to the menu you publish in postion Top-Nav – this activates the CSS that drives the dropdown menus.
It’s a very good read that covers everything you need to know about making your own Joomla 1.5 Template from scratch, and should suit people of all skill levels.
Read about the updates here: http://blog.joomlabear.com/transparent-joomla-template-transbear-updated/
If you are a previous Premium Member of Joomlabear and wish to upgrade your TransBear just drop us an email and we’ll sort you out.
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Welcome Little Bear
Supporting people who use our templates is a big task – and it was getting too much for BigBear alone – BigBear also had the flu, and when natural disaster like this strikes it’s even harder to keep up. So we brought in an old friend to help out and she has been doing a fabulous job helping people out in the forums. Welcome Little Bear! If you have a burning question – or something that was missed while BigBear was sick then please post again.
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Premium Member Badges
We’ve made some changes and Premium Members now have a special badge that displays beside their profile – as seen here:
Forum administrators are also notified of Premimum Members posts immediately.
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A new service we are offering installing SlideshowPro and Director
We have built quite a few sites in recent months with Joomla and SlideShowPro/Director. The results have been really good and our clients have been exceedingly happy.
One example that showcases Video with SlideShowPro is http://mickcoote.com/clips.html
Another excellent example is http://filmscouts.co.nz – a site that recently received a raft of traffic from stumbleupon – over 35,000 visits last month. We like to think it had somethign to do with the JoomlaBear designed template and Slideshow installation.
We have also added a SlideShowPro installation to http://transbear.joomlabear.com as a demo.
Having the power of Joomla’s content management combined with SlideShowPro’s image gallery management provides a solution we think is hard to beat.
If you are needing a gallery/CMS solution for your next project we invite you to make use of a very limited offer we are trialing – We will setup your Joomla and SlideShowPro Director website for a one time fee of $347 – this does not include content – but includes the Joomla installation, essential extensions for SEO and advanced WYSIWYG editror, SlideshowPro and Director installed, Your logo/branding placed, A template from our collection and 6 months of downloads and forum support from JoomlaBear.
We are limiting this to 10 setups initially so if you think this is for your next site you need to get in quick!
http://joomlabear.com/Subscription/membership.html#ssp-install
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Lastly, If you’ve created a website you’re proud of with a JoomlaBear template then send us an email and let us know, we’ll get you up on the wall of fame! If you’ve emailed us before and we have not put you up yet then please send us a reminder! We currently receive over 100 emails per day on a variety of topics, and it’s tricky keeping track of them all sometimes…
Kind regards,
Big Bear
Transparent Joomla Template – TransBear Updated!
TransBear – Our very popular Transparent Joomla Template has been updated. Check out the demo site at http://transbear.joomlabear.com
The template now features built in Son of SuckerFish dropdown menus, and we have integrated Drew McLellan’s Transparency Fix for IE6 and below.
We have also added a SlideShowPro Installation to the demo site. NOTE This is not included with the template as it is a commercial product and needs to be purchased seperately – However we are offering a new Joomla and SlideshowPro setup service, where we set up your Joomla website with SlideshowPro and the Director Image manager.
To download or upgrade TransBear please visit the TransBear – Transparent Joomla Template page.
Some things you should note are as follows – The transparency fix requires an image named x.gif be placed in your site root directory. We have included this in the template installer – but it is not possible to install this into the Joomla root via the template installer- the file named x.gif will be in your site template root directory after installation and you should move this to the site root so that the transparency fix works correctly for IE6 and below.
Additionally for the drop-down menus to function you need to apply a module class suffix of _sf to your menu module and publish in top-nav position. As shown in the screenshot below:
Free Joomla Christmas Template – Falling Snow
Below is a screen shot of our Christmas gift to you, a free Joomla Christmas Template that includes animated falling snow created with Flash. The template has been tested in IE6 and above – and there is a transparency fix built in for the older browsers. It works perfectly in all modern browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Check out the demo site which features Artificial Christmas Trees displayed with the K2 content construction kit.
Leave us a comment if you like it – and leave a comment with a link if you use it for your Christmas web promotions.
For more information, and to download, visit the Joomla Christmas template page on the main site.
Joomla SEF – An Amazing Support Story
I’ve just written the statement below as a review on extensions.joomla.org, but thought I would also post this here because I’m so impressed with the support I just received, the quality of the extension, and I want the JoomlaBear community to know about it.
I also want to give you all a heads-up about what I consider to be the new heavy-weight Joomla SEF extension that you should consider using over the other big names in SEF URL’s.
I’m switching to AceSEF because it’ faster and the support is amazing – It’s the type of support we give out at JoomlaBear, a willingness to get in and sort things out for our users. And this type of support is rare.
Below is my review of AceSEF:
I just had the best support experience I have ever had with anything related to Joomla. I contacted JoomACE via live chat to ask a couple of pre-sales questions – mainly to find out if AceSEF would be able to handle everything I needed for a Joomla/K2 installation.
A polite and courteous individual helped me through all my questions via Live Chat – and very promptly too.
So I went ahead and setup AceSEF and found that a feature I had wanted for SEF and K2 was not working the way I wanted – Please note, not a fault with AceSEF but a special requirement for my site – a URL format that would not be typical for most users (I’m pedantic about these things 
So I got back on the live chat with JoomACE and within minutes their developers were logging into my Joomla installation and adding a new feature to the extension! AMAZING SERVICE!
I can’t recommend this extension highly enough – I’ve used sh404SEF on over 100 Joomla sites that I have built in the past 3 years – But I’m switching to AceSEF – It appears to run faster, and the support… need I say anymore?
Final note – I’ve spent days testing various SEF extensions and hacking the sh404SEF extension for K2 – nothing worked properly – AceSEF solved all my K2 SEF issues out of the box and is the BEST option if you are using K2 and Joomla – in my opinion.
Give it a whirl.
Note: I paid $19 for the professional version of AceSEF that allows me to remove the attribution link – but you can get the same full featured SEF extension for FREE if you don’t mind your pages showing a link back to the AceSEF site. If in doubt try the free version, you won’t be disappointed. sh404SEF is now a paid extension too and the only free option is the Joomla core SEF. Joomla’s built in SEF is fine if you are not doing anything fancy with your Joomla site but if you want to run a component like a shopping cart or forum then you will want Search Engine Friendly URL’s for these as well.
AceSEF Control Panel Screenshot
