JAB12 aftermath and the bright future

Written by Nick A.

We are back from our yearly Joomla fix at JandBeyond 2012 and still recovering from the great presentations and the fantastic discussions with our Joomla peers.

There are many online references to the #jab12 happenings that you can visit to read, see and listen to. Yes, this years event really rocked and rolled (see if you can spot Beat in this one).

While we are waiting for the video production process of all the presentations (currently in progress - thank you Jeremy Wilken) - courtesy of the Joomlapolis Video sponsorship - we have to share two important happenings that make us very excited about the future of Joomla and of Community Builder.

The first very important happening is the decision of Joomla UI (user interface) to use BootStrap as part of its Joomla 3.0 planned release later this year. This is a great opportunity for Joomla and its third-party extensions (that also choose to use Bootstrap) to get a nice, light-weight and clean user interface look.

The CB Team and many other third-party extension teams (e.g., Kunena) have decided to also adopt the Boostrap concept. The unified user interface concept will help Joomla users as they will see a familiar set of interface controls in Joomla and in its extensions. Once again, Community Builder 2.0 will use Bootstrap.

The second exciting happening is the official annoucement of the AHA?WOW! new specification language that will be used in CB 2.0. Five (5) years of internal research have given birth to this bold new development concept already used and thoroughly tested in CBSubs. See the slides and watch Beat's lightning talk video.

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We're off to see the wizards

Written by Nick A.

Beat and Nick will be attending the JandBeyond event this week to get their yearly dose of Joomla!, while Kyle will be holding the fort at Joomlapolis - thanks Kyle!.

If you are attending, make sure you say hello and have a cup of coffee or a beer with them. You can also attend their presentations on Saturday and Sunday and listen to the CB Team lighning talk on Friday.

Courtecy of the Joomlapolis Video Sponsoring all presentation will be recorded. This way the Joomla magic will be able to reach millions of Joomla fans through-out the world!

This year, our Community Builder extension is also on the 2012 J!OSCAR shortlist! This by itself is a great acknowledgement for our community here at Joomlapolis - thank you !

CBSubs 2.0 is here with new powerful features!

Written by Nick A.

The best paid subscriptions membership management solution for Joomla has just reached a new high with the latest CBSubs 2.0 release!

67 new features tipped the scale and instead of releasing as CBSubs 1.3 we decided to jump to version 2.0.

This is also a significant milestone for Community Builder 2.0 which will basically borrow the CBSubs 2.0 internal engine as its own!

CBSubs 2.0 allows you, among the many new features, to:

Automate marketing

Create powerful automated personalized marketing campaigns; increase your sales using the new included CBSubs Mailer plugin.

Sell in multi-currency

Display and sell your products in multiple currencies using new multi-currency selector at order time.

Display promotions

Change displayed price automatically when promotion is valid to visually promote your discount offers.

 

Set permissions

Manage memberships now in frontend. Set Joomla 2.5 ACL permissions for management.

Record payments

Handle off-line payment processes with frontend order creation and payment recording.

Refund on-site

Refund payments directly from administration panel (depends on payment organization)

 

Get new reports

New reports have been added produce eye-catching statistics and graphs of your sales, income and taxes / VAT.

Analyze sales funnel

Use the new Piwik Integration to track and analyze your sales goals and converion rates in realtime.

Set 8 new gateways

8 new payment organizations bring the total supported gateways to 15.

 

Calendar plan prorating and invoice numbering are also included in the long list of 67 new CBSubs 2.0 features.

The complete CBSubs feature-set can make your paid subscriptions membership managemnt business case come alive on any Joomla (2.5, 1.5 or 1.0) with Community Builder (1.8).

CBSubs is ideal for traditional Membership clubs, subscriptions based electronic content sites, magazine and services oriented business cases, electronic goods downloading clubs and supplier-consumer sites.

However, the flexibility and fine-grained parameters available within CBSubs and the powerful integration mechanisms can be used to support virtually any use case imaginable!

Try CBSubs now and take advantage of the fantastic first purchase 30-day no questions asked refund policy.

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New CB Core Fields Ajax plugin released!

Written by Nick A.

Add easy inline editing to Community Builder user profiles and lists with the new CB Core Fields Ajax 1.0 Incubator release.

Simply install this CB plugin on your Joomla 2.5 (or 1.5) CB 1.8 website and then enable front-end profile in-line editing on you existing CB fields.

Your CB moderators can conveniently make inline changes to member data directly from CB user list viewing.

All core CB field types are supported: text, text area, editor, avatar, image, checkbox, multi-select checbox, drop-down, multi-select drop-down, radio, integer, date, email and web-address!

Your Community Builder users will love this quick, easy and fun profile updating method!

Get this amazing new add-on now (Professional or Developer membership is needed).

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