Essential Joomla Extensions

Artio JoomSEF – Artio.cz

This extension will rewrite your Joomla! URLs into a more human friendly form, which at the same time enhances its SEO value. A multi-language interface    support is included, and updates can be made online easily. It also offers API for adding SEF functionality for other 3^rd party Joomla! Modules easily. This is a great plug-in for Joomla! Users who wish to make their

Sites more prominent in the search engines.

Download Here:

http://www.artio.cz/en/downloads/joomla-extensions/

AllVideosPlugin - Joomlaworks.gr

The AllVideos Plugin gives you the ability to easily embed online streaming videos/audios within your webpage as well as have your own videos/audios uploaded on your server. No HTML is required at all and all you have to do is to place tags within our content where you want the videos or audios to appear. There are two ways you can use the AllVideosPlugin. If you want to save on your bandwidth, simply upload your videos to a Youtube.com and then embed the video onto your own webpage with the plugin. An alternative will be upload the

video itself to your website, after which you can stream the audios/videos via simple tags. One common complaint is that only 10 videos are allowed per page for this plugin. As long as that is not a problem, the AllVideosPlugin is very useful for all your videos/audios streaming needs.

Download Here:

http://www.joomlaworks.gr/

Jombackup - Jomres.net

Jombackup is an extension used for performing daily mysql backups and emailing them to an address of your choice. You can use the cron jobs function to enable daily backups Joomla! mySQL data. This is a must-have extension to saveguard all your precious data in your databases. It is easy to install as well, and works like a charm.

Download Here:

http://www.jomres.net/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=72&Itemid=7

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Phil-A-Form - Phil-taylor.com

Phil-A-Form allows you to generate dynamic forms in Joomla!, without sophisticated programming knowledge. Results can be emailed to anyone, or saved in a database. Phil-AForm was the worlds FIRST EVER mambo/Joomla! Form Generator, and is extremely beginnerfriendly as well. Solid and reliable, a great extension if you need forms on your site.

Download Here:

http://www.phil-taylor.com/Joomla/Components/Phil-A-Form/

VirtueMart - Virtuemart.org

VirtueMart is the leading Online-Shop solution for Joomla! (more than 1.5 Million downloads so far). You can download, use and modify it without any restrictions, for free, just like Joomla!. VirtueMart is not a stand-alone script, but a Plug-in and requires the PHP Content Management System Joomla!. Multiple translations can be readily found in the included

Language pack.

Download Here:

http://www.virtuemart.org/

AdSense Module (ClickSafe - Special Edition) - Joomlaspan.com

This extension is simple solution for implementing Google AdSense ads in Joomla!. As they are, Adsense ads are supposed to be easy to insert by themselves, but this extension provides other useful functionalities like blocking certain IP numbers from seeing Google ads. This helps prevent click fraud as you cannot accidentally click on your own ads. It also has chameleon codes that can make the ad colors automatically change with each page load, as determined

by you.

Download Here:

http://www.joomlaspan.com/joomla-downloads/Download/-JoomlaspanModules/GoogleAdSenseRelatedModules/

How to build joomla templates

Step 1:

Create  a  folder into the templates folder.This folder name must be the template name.


Step 2:

Create a folder named "style" for stylesheet,

Create a folder named "javascript" for javascript,

Create a folder named "images" for images,

Create a folder named "html" for components,

Create a file index.php into you template folder. After that copy and paste the following lines.

<?php
/**
* @copyright    Copyright (C) 2005 - 2008 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
* @license        GNU/GPL, see LICENSE.php
* Joomla! is free software. This version may have been modified pursuant
* to the GNU General Public License, and as distributed it includes or
* is derivative of works licensed under the GNU General Public License or
* other free or open source software licenses.
* See COPYRIGHT.php for copyright notices and details.
*/

defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
$url = clone(JURI::getInstance());
?>

Step 3: Copy and paste the follwing lines

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?'.'>'; ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" dir="<?php echo $this->direction; ?>" >
<head>
<jdoc:include />
<link href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template;?>/css/[your css].css" rel="stylesheet" />
if any javascript file is needed, write the following lines
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template;?>/javascript/[your script].js"></script></head>
<body>

Step 4: For displaying primary links paste thi following codes into the appropriate <Div>

<jdoc:include type="modules" style="" />

Step 5:

For displaying your site content write the following code within appropriate <Div>

<jdoc:include type="component" />

Step 6:
Colse all the opened html tag.