<h3>Joomla Packages</h3>
<p>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. <img src="plugins/editors/jce/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-laughing.gif" alt="Laughing" title="Laughing" border="0" /> 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 <a href="http://joomlapackages.com/contact">JoomlaPackages.com</a> and we'll develop your Joomla system for you.</p>
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<h1>Joomla Packages <em>Core 1.5</em></h1>
<p>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).</p>
<h3>Administrator Header<br /></h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p><img alt="about-1" src="images/stories/getting-started/about-1.png" height="156" width="661" /></p>
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<h3>Component Menu</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p><img alt="about-2" src="images/stories/getting-started/about-2.png" height="326" width="459" /></p>
<h3>Control Panel and Quick Buttons</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p><img alt="about-3" src="images/stories/getting-started/about-3.png" height="321" width="470" /></p>
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<h2>Core 1.5 Extension Offerings</h2>
<p>So what exactly is under the hood?</p>
<h3>Components</h3>
<table style="height: 470px;" width="700">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="sectiontableheader">Item</td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">Type <sup>1</sup></td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">About</td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">extra<sup> 2</sup></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td width="20%">AvReloaded</td>
<td width="10%">C</td>
<td width="60%">Access and Configure the All Video's Plugin</td>
<td width="10%">P, M</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Banners</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Access and Configure Standard Joomla Banners</td>
<td>M</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Custom QuickIcons</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Access and Configure Control Panel buttons</td>
<td>M</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>JCE</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Access and Configure the JCE editor settings</td>
<td>P</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>JoomlaPack</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Backup your system completely</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Newsfeeds</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Add RSS to your system</td>
<td>M</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Polls</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Access and Configure Standard Joomla Polls</td>
<td>M</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>QuickFAQ</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>A full featured FAQ's</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>sh404sef</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Search Engine Friendly URL's are essential for SEO</td>
<td>M</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Weblinks</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Access and Configure Standard Joomla links</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Xmap</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Create both an html and xml site map for readers and google</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ul>
<li><sup>1 </sup>Type refers to either part of the Joomla Packages Core system (C) or the Standard Joomla system (S).</li>
<li><sup>2</sup> Extra refers to associated extensions, Plugins (P) or Modules (M)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Modules</h3>
<table style="height: 470px;" width="700">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="sectiontableheader">Item</td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">Type <sup>1</sup></td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">About</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td width="20%">AllVideos Reloaded<br /></td>
<td width="10%">C</td>
<td width="60%">All Video's Plugin Module<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Newsflash</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Display Newsflash articles (small quick blurbs)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Custom QuickIcons</td>
<td>C</td>
<td><span class="bold">Custom Icons within the Administator<br /></span></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Editor Switcher</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Switch editors freely in the Administrator, a productivity tool</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Archived Content</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Display a List of archived content<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Poll</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Display Polls<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Banner</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Display Banners<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Random Image</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Displays a Random Image from the selected image directory<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Breadcrumbs</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Displays where the user is at in your site, where they came from, (home / page 2 / page 3)<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Custom HTML</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Add HTML to any part of your site<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Search</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Add a Search from to an area of your site.<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Sections</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Show all your Content Sections in a list<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Footer</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Display the footer<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Statistics</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Display Article statistics<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Latest News</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Latest Articles from as specific section / category<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Syndicate</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Spread your content to the rest of the world with RSS<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Login</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>A login module for standard user login</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Who's Online</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Who's online members and guests<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Menu</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Creates a Menu, use with Standard Joomla Menu system<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Wrapper</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Add a wrapper, which is an iframe to a module position, great for gadgets<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Most Read Content</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Shows the most read articles in a list<br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ul>
<li><sup>1 </sup>Type refers to either part of the Joomla Packages Core system (C) or the Standard Joomla system (S)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugins</h3>
<table style="height: 470px;" width="700">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="sectiontableheader">Item</td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">Type <sup>1</sup></td>
<td class="sectiontableheader">About</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td width="20%">GMail, OpenID, Joomla, &amp; LDAP Authentication <br /><br /></td>
<td width="10%">S</td>
<td width="60%">Access various API's to authenticate users<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td><span class="bold">TinyMCE 2.1, </span><span class="bold">XStandard Lite, &amp;</span><span class="bold"> none</span><br /><br /></td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Standard Joomla WYSIWYG editors<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>AllVideos Reloaded<br /><br /></td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Add any video from anywhere right in your content<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Code Highlighter (GeSHi)<br /><br /></td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Show your code examples with real style<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Email Cloaking<br /><br /></td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Mask your email addresses with javascript so that spam bots can see, but your readers can.<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Load Modules<br /><br /></td>
<td>S</td>
<td>load a module position from within an Article<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Google Maps<br /><br /></td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Access Google maps from within your content, many customization options<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Editor - JCE 1.5.1<br /><br /></td>
<td>C</td>
<td>A Fully Features and Popular Content Editor<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Editor - JoomlaFCK<br /><br /></td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Another Popular Content Editor<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Buttons</td>
<td>SC</td>
<td>AllVideos Reloaded, Image, Pagebreak, Readmore buttons in the editor view for easy access plugin commands<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>Search Plugins<br /></td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Categories, Newsfeeds, Sections, <span class="bold">Contacts, </span><span class="bold">Content, </span><span class="bold">Weblinks</span><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>sh404SEF</td>
<td>C</td>
<td>Internal SEF tool</td>
</tr>
<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
<td>XML-RPC</td>
<td>S</td>
<td>Joomla API and Blogger</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<br /> 
<ul>
<li><sup>1 </sup>Type refers to either part of the Joomla Packages Core system (C) or the Standard Joomla system (S).</li>
</ul>
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