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.

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 register for your site using Community Builder, pick their city from a dropdown box, and then login! Assuming, of course, that you have the Login Redirect for Community Builder Component from CorFun. This new component allows Webmasters to map specific entries in a CB profile field to different URLs. When a user logs in, he or she goes directly to the page you feel is most relevant based on their profile!

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 business, affordable training can really help you get the best out of your Mac investment. Click below for more on the Mac training on offer, and the rates for each type.

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 galleries, and even more. SOBI2 even has a neat plugin available that searches by 'radius' or specified proximity to a selected Postal Code/ZIP Code. Want to create a site that lets people find dental offices (or anything else!) within a user-specified radius of their homes? Then SOBI2 is your solution of choice, especially if you want the power of content management and ease of use that Joomla brings to the table.

Only one little problem, really. SOBI2 has a fantastic search capability that can return excellent results for a user based on location, keyword, etc. But that list will not appear on a map. The individual listings will appear on a map, but the list of search results itself won't. That is, unless you have the Google Mapping for SOBI2 Search Results plugin from CorFun!

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 vast majority of Joomla templates will work with FlyTabs.  Here are some cases in which FlyTabs and your template may not get along.

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 stack of thumbnails on the product details page - which also pop up into lightboxes.

Frankly, it's all a little ho-hum to say the least. Much of what we sell on our CorShops site is actually software, so we don't need the images so much. After all, we can demo the software and that helps sell the sizzle. But most of our development clients sell physical products, and they need to put these in the best possible light. And that light is usually not a 'lightbox,' which is why we created the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme.

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.

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 theme, but since it runs inside Joomla, it works with the template also. That causes a lot of confusion for more novice users, so we would like to help clear that up. New online shop owners need to understand how they unique and look and feel of their sites will be generated.

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. You have members. You need to make money off your membership base. You need to reach them and sell them stuff, or promote your advertisers to them so they pay you more money. How can you do that? That is where three components - Event Mail, Community Builder, and Acajoom come in.