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Event Mail Joins Target Mail with JNews Compatibility

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:32:57 +0100

Event Mail has now been upgraded to work with JNews as well as Acajoom. JNews is the new generation of newsletter software from Joobisoft for the Joomla Content Management System. Event Mail has three functions that are often needed by Webmasters.

Integration for DT Register with Community Builder. Registered attendees for events can be added to CB quickly and easily with all the standard fields moved across in the process.
Integration for Community Builder and either Acajoom or JNeRead More...

SOBI2 and JMaps And What They Can Build!

Nicholas Myrna — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:38:20 +0100

SOBI2 is the premier directory component for Joomla. JMaps takes SOBI2's power and extends it by taking the entries in the directory and putting it on interactive Google maps! This article gives an overview of what SOBI2 can do, and especially what you can build by combining SOBI2 with the JMaps module and plugins from CorFun!

About SOBI2

SOBI2 is a free directory component for the Joomla Content Management system. It is available for download from Sigisu.net by clicking here. Read More...

Inexpensive Image Swap Rollover Menu Delivers a Flash Look Without the Cost

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:59:32 +0100

Image menus are a hot design item, especially for getting attention to your primary products. You have one image to get attention, then when the user puts the mouse on the primary image, the image changes. The rollover image can be a different view of the default image, or it can be a completely different one. The image usually has a link so that it work as a "call to action" to get the user to visit the link.

Rollover menus like this are often done as Flash objects. That is a slick waRead More...

Google Mapping for Joomla and Community Builder

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:22:41 +0100

Community Builder is at the heart of many Joomla sites. Inside CB, sites often have information about birthdays, addresses, kids’ ages, hobbies, locations, and all kinds of other interesting information. For sites that are built around social or professional networking, or even sites for churches and other social groups, being able to find members with something in common in a geographic area can be a great thing.

That’s where CorFun’s JMaps Module comes in. JMaps caRead More...

JMaps – The Next Generation of Mapping for Joomla and SOBI2

Nicholas Myrna — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:59:00 +0100

Joomla is the most popular Content Management System on the Internet. SOBI2 is the most popular (deservedly so) directory component for Joomla. Community Builder is the most popular profile/user management system for Joomla. Bundle all of these things together, and there is only one thing missing – really outstanding Google Mapping!

CorFun was the first (and so far only) developer to offer mapping for SOBI2 search results. In that SOBI2 plugin, we used changes to the vCaRead More...

You Need a Joomla Website - Even a Starter One!

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:39:08 +0100

CorFun launched our Visitme.biz line a few weeks back to cater to small businesses and ministries that need to get into the Joomla space, and then grow their Websites on an ongoing basis. We decided to branch into this level of service because, in a tight economy, many organizations just can't afford a big Web effort all at once. But many can do so over time, which is why getting into a Joomla-powered site is so important.

Let's start with an example to show how critical this is. A reRead More...

Login Redirect for Community Builder Released!

Nicholas Myrna — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100

You have a Website that specializes in local news. You have pages dedicated to various cities, replete with news, advertising, and all kinds of goodies for people who live in that area. You want visitors to your site to make it to their pages and get the best information for them.

How do you route them there in a Joomla environment? Easy - you have them Read More...

Video Services From CorFun

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:05:25 +0100

Video sells! Go to any well-done Website, and you will see product marketing videos, training videos, how-to videos, and many others. Increasingly, businesses of all sizes are learning that seeing is not only believing, but also buying.

To help take your business to the next level, CorFun is proud to offer an affordable array of video services. Click below to find out more.

For more information on any of these services, please use our Contact Us formRead More...

Mac OS X and iLife Training from CorFun

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:47:44 +0100

CorFun is pleased to announce new training offerings for Mac users. Now, Mac enthusiasts can get in-person training (in the Orlando, Florida area) or remote training anywhere in the world from the comfort of their own desk! Macs are simple to use, but are you getting the most out of your OS X?

iLife with its robust applications is also a godsend, but are you really creating the best movies, or the best music? Especially if you are using iLife to create marketing materials for a busineRead More...

Login Redirect Component Now Supports Juga

Sarah Long — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:13:43 +0100

The native login module for Joomla along with custom login modules (such as the one from Community Builder) have long allowed webmasters to specify a single page or URL to show when a user logs in. That is very helpful to route users, for example, to their profiles or to a page of the latest news or a list of the latest offers.

For many sites, that functionality is just fine. Often, however, Webmasters find they need to display a different 'welcome' screen for Registered users, Read More...

Wear Your Faith

Jasper Hendrix — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:50:13 +0100

Believe in Jesus? Then show your faith to the world by wearing it! Jesus said, “Go ye into all the world” (Mark 16:15) and CorFun, a Christian-owned business, is making that easier than ever. On Corshops.com, the eCommerce division of CorFun, you will find a complete selection of ball caps featuriRead More...

Google Mapping for SOBI2 Search Results Version 2.0 Released!

Nicholas Myrna — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:42:39 +0100

SOBI2 is a fantastic directory component for the Joomla CMS. Using the power of SOBI2, a developer (or even a motivated novice) can build a Website that organizes any kind of data from business listings, to recipes, to software downloads, to photo galRead More...

Templates and the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:47:28 +0100

The Flytabs Virtuemart Theme does some really awesome things. In addition to arranging the product data in easy-to-navigate tabs, the theme provides the awesome Zoom Image functionality, image swap, and even an embedded video player.

Flytabs is a Virtuemart Theme. As explained in a different blog post, a Virtuemart Theme only controls the functioning of the shopping cart. Your Joomla website must have a template of some kind in addition to our Virtuemart tabbed theme.

The vastRead More...

A Used Mac is Better Than a New PC

Nicholas Myrna — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:26:17 +0100

A friend of mine asked me why I got a reconditioned Mac for my wife, instead of a new PC that was available from a box store for less money.

"Simple," I said, "I don't have time to play tech support."

Trust me - you can't afford a cheap PC. I design software and buRead More...

Multiple Images in Virtuemart

Nicholas Myrna — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:21:36 +0100

When was the last time that your image presentation in Virtuemart actually wowed a client? Okay, the default image handling isn't too bad. You get a thumbnail, which pops up into a lightbox. If you need multiple images, then you get a sRead More...

Screencasting for Macs and PC - Our Recommendation

Nicholas Myrna — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:21:49 +0100

As a company, CorFun was using Wink to do presentation and training movies. Wink is an open source application that did a decent job, and rendered its output as swf files that played nicely in a browser. However, as soon as we needed audio for training or demo videos, Wink just stopping cutting it.

We are big, big fans of open source, but Wink and audio just don't work well together. Plus, Wink is only really available for Windows. At CorFun, most of us that do training and demo workRead More...

Virtuemart Theme or Virtuemart Template - Which do I need?

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:20:14 +0100

Virtuemart is the best shopping cart solution around for Joomla CMS. Joomla, of course, just happens to be the best content management system around, so the combination of the two is a serious powerhouse. Joomla requires a template to operate. Virtuemart uses a tRead More...

Community Builder User Lists and Targeted Marketing

Nicholas Myrna — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:56:06 +0100

Lots of Joomla-powered Websites find themselves building good-sized member lists. One Christian ministry we work with has over 8,000 registered users scattered around the country. FreeBeerBuddy.com, which lists beer and drink specials all over the United States, has double that number. You run a Joomla site. Read More...