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.
(Video) Editing Joomla Template Source Files With Fireworks -Transbear example
A quick screen cast video showing how you can edit Joomla! template source files with Adobe Fireworks. This example uses the Transbear source files available for members to download here
Excuse my voice – I’ve had a wicked cold/flu and my mic isn’t that great – but I do think this is a great format for future reference materials/tutorials. Let me know what you think in the comments.
New Notebook Style Joomla Template
Hi All,
We’ve been very busy working on a number of updates to joomlabear.com, and among the good things coming are two new templates.
The first one will be uploaded as a beta later today for members (I will still be tweaking and improving it for a little while).
It’s a notebook style joomla template with a torn edge look, simple and to the point with nice typography.
I’ve created a dedicated demo site for the template and picked a theme of healthy eating recipes as a starting point. I like doing this because starting with a theme for the site makes it a lot easier to find design inspiration for the overall look and feel. The idea is that the template is flexible and you can use the notebook base with any site theme – just use a different feature image( top left) and your own background image.
The demo site is adsense optimized, and you should see good click through rates using this layout with your own projects.
I plan on releasing a number of themes for the notebook look – the first one is good for cooking, restaurant or and food themed Joomla site.
New Joomla Templates Site Live Now – Give Me Feedback
Joomla Templates
This will be a short post as I’m absolutely knackered.
After literally months of work in-between client projects, and probably 160 hours of work I have finally made the new Joomla Bear Joomla Templates site live.
I still have some bugs to iron out and a few things that could do with a bit of a tidy up – but overall I think it’s one of the most interesting and creative sites I’ve ever built.
A bit of a run down on my process and plugins/extensions used will follow in the next few days.
Also the template I built for the new Joomla Template portal lays the groundwork for the next template release 
something for the punters to look forward to.
Leave me your thoughts on the website.
Cheers
2009, Year Of The JoomlaBear
A few quick updates.
I’ve dropped the adsense from the blog feed – It was pretty annoying and I wondered why people would subscribe and then leave again within a few days – I subscribed to my own feed a few days ago and noticed how the format appears to be just a few lines of text and then an annoying ad… I actually had forgotten I’d activated ads for the feed… It sort of just happened while I was playing around with my adsense account before Xmas.
You only get a partial feed at present but I know I can give you guys the full post in your feed reader. If this would this be preferable then leave me a comment saying so.
When I set up this blog initially I raced through the options without thinking to much – but have since found that I absolutely love blogging, and an audience seems to be developing with traffic increasing by the day. So I’m keen now to tailor the site as much as possible to you, my readers.
I’ll also be removing the rest of the adsense from this blog – It just bugs me, and you are all way to clued up to click ads. I’ll be replacing this with a showcase of some of my best template work and upcoming Joomla Templates.
It’s been particularly hectic the past few weeks – My business partner, and much beloved younger brother, has been away. It’s amazing how much work there is to do when there is only one person to do the work of two.
The past couple of weeks I’ve mainly been finishing some enhancements to www.ninjakiwi.com, which was one of my biggest projects last year. NinjaKiwi receives over 100,000 visitors per day, is designed by yours truly, and is proudly running Joomla!
And this brings me to an interesting announcement – JoomlaBear is winding up client work and preparing to focus solely on Joomla Template production. 2009 will see more templates from Big Bear than you can shake a hosting account at.
On our test server a new JoomlaBear is being born that includes a phpBB powered forum, linked to the powerful Joomla user registration process via a wonderful Joomla plugin called JFusion. This allows users to register once on either the phpBB forum, or Joomla’s front end, and the same user account then works for both applications.
And of course I’m using Wordpress here for the blog. So it looks like 2009 will also be the year that JoomlaBear tries to keep his fingers in all the best open source CMS projects And I will certainly be writing more on the Joomla vs. Wordpress debate which I find increasingly interesting, and difficult to answer! As both systems have some obvious strengths, and weaknesses.
If you have thoughts, or requests for topics you would like me to write about, then by all means leave me a comment. My primary skills include 12 years of web development and design with PHP, Flash, HTML and CSS. Joomla, Wordpress, Photoshop & Fireworks are some of my best buddies – we hang out all the time. I have focused a lot of energy on Internet Marketing in recent years and have plenty of SEO stories to tell.
Wishing you all well and look forward to hearing from you.
Big Bear
