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Our packages are 100% guaranteed or your money back, but seeing how they are free to begin with there's not much we can do but just guarantee that they will work. Laughing Joomla Packages offers other premium and professional services to its customers who just don't have the time to do all of this themselves. If you want more out of your package please contact us at JoomlaPackages.com and we'll develop your Joomla system for you.

Joomla Packages Core 1.5

Our Core Package is built off of the latest version of Joomla, using its 1.5 framework (opposed to 1.0). We've made some edits to the core of the system to make it cleaner and more user friendly. As this package matures you'll find more of these edits throughout the package as we are always trying to improve on our last version (but truthfully it is hard to improve on Joomla as it is already such a great system).

Administrator Header

The first thing you might notice is the Administrative interface upgrade. We felt that the normal black header bar was much to dominant and pulled the eye away from the important menu navigation. It may sound stupid, but the eye is a tricky thing, the web industry is focused on the eye and where it goes on a page and so are we. Hence, the new white gel header. If it doesn't help the eye, well, then it's just dang pretty.

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Component Menu

One of the most bothersome things about the Joomla Administrator interface is that it is perfectly organized at the top level navigation, content is separated from menus and components, etc, but once you drill down into the component submenu it is a free for all. We have many clients who like to install components to try out but never remove the ones they don't use because after a while things just get so cluttered in the Components submenu that they forget what they installed and they don't want to delete the package components or worse yet Standard Joomla components. Worry no longer, finally, a new organized Components menu system, with Standard Joomla and Joomla Packages separated. Anything you install will show up normal, directly under Components, give it a whirl.

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Control Panel and Quick Buttons

While we would like to go on about the features of our packages, we know you want to get started, so we'll just talk about one last feature, Quick Buttons. Our custom quick buttons are a feature of the "Custom Quick Icons" component which you can freely edit yourself. We added four really important informational access point buttons across the top, getting started video tour, a link to Joomla Packages faqs, a link to Joomla Learning Clinics, and a link to Package Updates, all of which will open in your administrator, no new windows, no page reload, just a little Ajax. We also kept some important Standard Joomla access buttons, new articles, frontpage manager, media manager, and user manager. Finally we added, four buttons to essential tasks such as backing up the system, module management, SEF management, and RSS newsfeed managment.

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Core 1.5 Extension Offerings

So what exactly is under the hood?

Components

Item Type 1 About extra 2
AvReloaded C Access and Configure the All Video's Plugin P, M
Banners S Access and Configure Standard Joomla Banners M
Custom QuickIcons C Access and Configure Control Panel buttons M
JCE C Access and Configure the JCE editor settings P
JoomlaPack C Backup your system completely
Newsfeeds S Add RSS to your system M
Polls S Access and Configure Standard Joomla Polls M
QuickFAQ C A full featured FAQ's
sh404sef C Search Engine Friendly URL's are essential for SEO M
Weblinks S Access and Configure Standard Joomla links
Xmap C Create both an html and xml site map for readers and google
  • 1 Type refers to either part of the Joomla Packages Core system (C) or the Standard Joomla system (S).
  • 2 Extra refers to associated extensions, Plugins (P) or Modules (M)

Modules

Item Type 1 About
AllVideos Reloaded C All Video's Plugin Module
Newsflash S Display Newsflash articles (small quick blurbs)
Custom QuickIcons C Custom Icons within the Administator
Editor Switcher C Switch editors freely in the Administrator, a productivity tool
Archived Content S Display a List of archived content
Poll S Display Polls
Banner S Display Banners
Random Image S Displays a Random Image from the selected image directory
Breadcrumbs S Displays where the user is at in your site, where they came from, (home / page 2 / page 3)
Custom HTML S Add HTML to any part of your site
Search S Add a Search from to an area of your site.
Sections S Show all your Content Sections in a list
Footer S Display the footer
Statistics S Display Article statistics
Latest News S Latest Articles from as specific section / category
Syndicate S Spread your content to the rest of the world with RSS
Login S A login module for standard user login
Who's Online S Who's online members and guests
Menu S Creates a Menu, use with Standard Joomla Menu system
Wrapper S Add a wrapper, which is an iframe to a module position, great for gadgets
Most Read Content S Shows the most read articles in a list
  • 1 Type refers to either part of the Joomla Packages Core system (C) or the Standard Joomla system (S)

Plugins

Item Type 1 About
GMail, OpenID, Joomla, & LDAP Authentication

S Access various API's to authenticate users
TinyMCE 2.1, XStandard Lite, & none

S Standard Joomla WYSIWYG editors
AllVideos Reloaded

C Add any video from anywhere right in your content
Code Highlighter (GeSHi)

S Show your code examples with real style
Email Cloaking

S Mask your email addresses with javascript so that spam bots can see, but your readers can.
Load Modules

S load a module position from within an Article
Google Maps

C Access Google maps from within your content, many customization options
Editor - JCE 1.5.1

C A Fully Features and Popular Content Editor
Editor - JoomlaFCK

C Another Popular Content Editor
Buttons SC AllVideos Reloaded, Image, Pagebreak, Readmore buttons in the editor view for easy access plugin commands
Search Plugins S Categories, Newsfeeds, Sections, Contacts, Content, Weblinks
sh404SEF C Internal SEF tool
XML-RPC S Joomla API and Blogger

  • 1 Type refers to either part of the Joomla Packages Core system (C) or the Standard Joomla system (S).