JOOMLA EXTENSIONS, PLUGINS, MODULES – EXTEND YOUR JOOMLA WEBSITE
There are three different categories for Joomla Extensions, Plugins, and Modules. For example, Access & Security, Ads, Affiliates, and Authoring.
Others include Content Management, Calendars, Events, e-Commerce, Financial Calculators. Moreover, there are also plugins for Language, Maps, Weather, Marketing, Media, Social Networking, and Chart Generation.
Many extensions work great right out of the box. On the other hand, there might be a need to customize the extension to perform different or enhanced functions.
EXAMPLES OF JOOMLA INTEGRATION
INTRANET EMPLOYEE PORTAL
A company Intranet is a great way to keep employees informed and up to date. For example, companies can post company news, events, updates, and access to HR forms.
SOCIAL NETWORKING MODULES
Joomla provides quick and easy ways to integrate social functions such as ‘Likes, Shares, and Social Widgets.’
VIRTUE MART SHOPPING CART
Virtue Mart is specially made for the Joomla CMS platform. Moreover, it offers many extra features not found in other shopping cart systems. In addition to extra features, Virtue Mart has a minimal coding footprint. In other words, there is no code bloat; therefore, it loads extremely fast.
FEATURED EVENTS AND EVENT REGISTRATION MODULES
Many websites require the capability to offer online registration. For example, it uses include Conferences, Classroom Training, Entertainment Venues, and so on.
PHOTO, GALLERIES, AND DOCUMENT UPLOADS
Most websites require some type of photo display or document uploading. Joomla modules offer many photo gallery effects. For example, Lightbox effects, Scrolling carousels, Advanced sliding effects, and many more.
ADVANCED THIRD-PARTY APPLICATIONS
Joomla offers extended functionality for customizing the Google Maps API. For example, you might require Custom Google Map Pins or Google Map Custom Location Search.
E-COMMERCE MERCHANT GATEWAY PLUGINS
A merchant gateway plugin allows websites to accept credit card payments online. For example, well-known gateway providers include, Intuit, Authorize.net, Square payments, Stripe, First Data, World Pay, and PayPal
USPS, UPS, AND FED-EX SHIPPING JOOMLA MODULES
If you have an eCommerce website, you probably ship or mail your products to customers. Accordingly, Joomla makes it easy to integrate all the major shippers into your website flawlessly.
OTHER JOOMLA READY-MADE MODULE APPLICATIONS
Internal banner advertising management system
Online calendar modules with iCAL export
Internal Blog and Forum Modules
An auto-feed of calendar events
Highly secure administrative login protection
Support for home page scrollers or animation
Jobs or Careers modules for job registration for applicant profile creation and resume CV upload
Pagination feature added to long web pages.
Advanced gallery effects for viewing products
It takes programming skills and know-how to modify Joomla extensions. For this reason, the programmers at VISIONEFX can help you to customize your new or existing Joomla website.
USING JOOMLA IN ADVANCED WAYS
Many businesses have needs and requirements that go beyond what is available in the Joomla core package. However, Joomla’s powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons.
In other words, you can easily extend the power of Joomla to meet any of your advanced needs.
Moreover, since Joomla! is based on PHP and MySQL, you can build powerful applications on an open platform anyone can use, share, and support.
ABOUT VISIONEFX
We are a professional web design company based in Virginia. Accordingly, we understand that highly functional Joomla websites elevate you above the competition. Therefore we work to provide you the very best in Joomla web design.
Most important, we have the in-house programmers who write custom code. In the same way, our agency-level designer’s craft a uniquely creative website branded to your business.
As a result, our web design team takes our work seriously and wants to provide you with the best service anywhere.
VISIONEFX provides services to small to medium businesses throughout the United States.
For example, our services include; custom web design, web development, E-commerce, SEO, and web maintenance services. With this in mind, VISIONEFX will take your e-commerce website and Web Design VA to a whole new level of excellence. Call: (757) 619-6456 or email info@visionefx.net.
