The Techjoomla Blog

A website is more than just an online address for your brand or business. In today’s digital age, it is the key anchor to your growth, including your marketing strategies and credibility. Since it is the place to generate business leads, drive conversions and increase customer count, you need to give it more time and constantly work on it to drive more traffic. While many businesses rely heavily on SEO strategies for this, it alone is not enough to increase the (digital) footfall. 

That said, here are some simple tactics that can help you grow your site visits and membership:

We are happy to bring you yet another release of our Joomla Learning Management System(Joomla LMS). With Shika 1.3.18, we have enhanced the existing reporting feature with the introduction of the course category report.

We have also fixed over 60 minor bugs in this release!

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We are happy to release a new update for our Joomla event booking system, JTicketing v2.5.1. This is primarily a bug-fix release for the issues reported by our subscribers. We have also done some hygiene improvements in this release. 

Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading to the latest version.

It is recommended you upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible to ensure you are on a secure version. 

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Read on for the complete changelog.

Communities are extremely valuable tools for marketers. 

So much so that 77% of companies believe that an online community significantly improves brand exposure, awareness, and credibility!

The catch though is that the community sites should be fun and engaging for the target audience. Sample this - increasing engagement through communities can result in up to a 25% increase in revenue. Easier said than done; there are several steps that you need to take into consideration for building a highly engaged online community. 

JoomlaDay Australia will take place from 3 August 2019 to 4 August 2019 in Brisbane, Australia at the State Library of Queensland. The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library in the state of Queensland. 

No marketing campaign is complete without having an effective landing page. The aim of the page is to attract the visitors’ attention and make them take the desired call-to-action. And marketers know this all too well. 

48% of marketers build a new landing page for each marketing campaign. Also, companies with 10 to 15 landing pages increase leads by 55% whereas companies with 40 or more landing pages get 12X more leads than those with five or less!

It’s Tuesday and we are happy to present you with a maintenance update for Shika, our Learning Management System for Joomla. Shika 1.3.17 mainly addresses bug fixes reported by some of our clients. This release also brings readiness for the soon to be released JLike 3.0. We recommend you to read the release notes before upgrading to the latest version. Read on for the detailed changelog.

We are very excited to announce the release of JTicketing 2.5. This release is like an iceberg with 90% of the changes being under the hood. For developers, the codebase has been moved to a consistent factory pattern and we have begun deprecating all the legacy helpers. This will mean a more standardized and manageable codebase as well as faster future releases! 

For integrators & site builder subscribers, we have introduced some powerful features that have been requested by several of you. With online payments, the checkout experience is crucial for success. In this release, the checkout experience is completely revamped in a bid to make it quick and compact. We have taken a mobile-first approach in the checkout so the entire purchase process works great in mobile as well as desktop.

In addition to this, a much-requested feature - the ability for the site admin to choose if they want to include fees in ticket prices or charge them on top has been introduced.  (Thanks Shane Cox for Sponsoring this feature!)

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Read the release notes before upgrading to the latest version. Read on for the details and for the detailed changelog. 

We are happy to release Shika 1.3.16 with a minor improvement by adding labels to the rating type questions. Besides this, we have also fixed many bugs in this release.

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We are happy to release Shika 1.3.15 with lots of new features. This is our second release in a span of 15 days. We would like to thank our Shika subscribers for their constant feedback that has accelerated this release. Some of the Key highlights in this release are - mandatory questions for exercise/feedback, subscription plan specific coupons and new UI improvements for checkout, TOC, and invoice views.

Read on for more details and the detailed changelog 

As we continue to make com_api the platform of choice to add REST API support to Joomla, we added an interesting feature that makes it very easy to add Social Login to Mobile Apps based on Joomla.

JFBConnect from SourceCoast is one of the easiest to use social login tools. When a recent project called for a seamless social login across web and mobile we had to enhance com_api to natively allow JFBConnect as one of the ways to perform the login.

We are happy that we have yet another feature packed Shika release getting released today! Key highlights are - Paid course report, Tag-based course display, Image field support for the quiz, exercise, and feedback lesson types.

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Read on for the complete details of the fantastic features that await you in this upgrade! 

We have released a new update for our Joomla multi-vendor shopping cart. Quick2Cart 2.9.17 is a bug fix release that addresses many bugs reported by our subscribers.

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So, you have a fundraising strategy to raise money for a cause or an innovative idea. The next step is to market the idea, communicate your value, raise awareness, and draw support. To make your fundraising campaign successful, you should be able to connect with your audience, reward them for taking a favorable action, and make it easy for them to take action (and share it) – in short, make the campaign memorable.

There are several eCommerce platforms that sell multiple products. Some of these are well-known (Amazon anyone?), while others are obscure. Irrespective of the size and scale of these sites, customers or online shoppers have one primary expectation. And that is to have an effortless checkout process.

Pay-per-click advertising is one of the most popular and effective tools for marketers. These ads allow marketers to precisely target their audience, create brand awareness, and interact with their consumers. The best part is that this is also one of the most cost-effective ways of advertising for brands.

With numerous social media platforms supporting advertising, it is no surprise that several brands and businesses, and even individuals are making a beeline for getting the word out there.

We have released Email Beautifier v2.1.1 which contains fixes for the bugs reported by some of our subscribers. Please check the changelog given below.

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We are happy to bring you a new update for JTicketing, v2.4.2. We have fixed many bugs in this release. This is primarily a maintenance release to ensure all extensions using 'Techjoomla common library code' function smoothly on the same site. If you are using our other extensions like JGive or Quick2cart or Shika along with JTicketing on the same site, please ensure you upgrade all of these to make those work together.

Please read the release notes carefully before upgrading to the latest version.

It is recommended you upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible to ensure you are on a secure version.

Research suggests that for 48% of events, ticket sales compose 60 to 100% of the revenue!

Therefore, the importance of providing a hassle-free and seamless ticket booking experience cannot be reinforced enough.

Ticket windows for booking events are passé. Nowadays, people are logging online and carrying out a booking for various events – be it a professional conference or a music concert, online is the way to go for them.

This month’s Joomla User Group-London Meetup will be held on 21 May 2019 at the London South Bank University. Ashwin and Parth - Co-Founders of Techjoomla will be speaking at this event about  "Joomla Backends and JS Frontends".

If you are in London, do plan to attend the session and learn how you can leverage Joomla as a Backend to provide APIs and create abstracted JavaScript frontends with Angular.  As frontends move towards JavaScript we expect more and more projects to take this approach going forward.

They will also discuss how the Techjoomla extensions are used in a wide variety of domains like crowdfunding, e-learning, advertising, and ticketing.