Joomla Showroom is looking for a Marketing Manager.

We are looking for someone to help us manage all of our internet marketing tasks.

We are NOT looking for web developers or programmers!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

*Manage and improve social networking and media accounts, posts, and maintenance for our many Twitter, Facebook, and Google +, and Youtube accounts.
*Newsletter mailings
*Content writer for blog posts
*Misc SEO tasks
*Search engine marketing
*Advertisement and literature development
*Work with our partners for cross promotions
*Work with analytics data and reports
*Use Google Analytics to set conversion rates and goals and track each for monthly reports.
*Manage affiliates and our affiliate marketing programs

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

*VERY GOOD ENGLISH WRITING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE A MUST!!! We cannot stress this enough.
*Experience with all forms of digital marketing including mobile, social media, social commerce and display
*Strong analytical capability with experience in forecasting and website analytics
*Must be self-motivated with an ability to take initiative in a challenging, fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritize many tasks across various teams within the organization
*Oversee strategic planning activities and implementation of tactical programs
*Excellent project management skills
*We do a LOT of work with the Joomla CMS. Experience with Joomla is a plus but not entirely needed.
* Strong writing/editing skills, including experience in writing marketing copy and writing for the web
* Familiarity with online marketing channels and tools such as Google Analytics, Google AdWords, SEO/SEM
* Ability to embrace change and wear many hats

If you would like to be a part of a growing company and team please contact us with your resume at
info [@] joomlashowroom.com before February 18th.
Applications sent after this date will not be qualified.

Joomla Showroom would like to give you the opportunity to see why the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

And to prove it, we are offering a 20% Refugee Discount to users of competing products that would like to make the switch to a Joomla Showroom product.

To qualify for this discount simply use the Contact Us form and request your discount. Proof of purchase of competing product is required and product must have been purchased within the past 18 months.

Joomla 2.5 will boast a few new cool features on the top surface of the CMS and some underlying features in the framework (Jplatform) that as a user you may not ever notice or be aware of. There are some very useful and exciting features coming. Below is a list of most of the major features however it is not an exhaustive list.

• The Jplatform version 11.3 has been merged into the Joomla CMS. Lets review some of the Jplatform features that have been added that you most likely would never know about as a general user of the CMS. These benefits will be mostly for third party developers to take advantage of when building new applications on top of the framework and Joomla extensions.
  • JImage Class - The library supports cropping, resizing, rotating and applying several different filters to an image using GD.
  • JGrid Class – This library allows you to dynamically generate valid HTML tables. This will allow developers to extend tables using plugin events for their application.
  • Mootools 1.4 Upgrade – A new version of the Mootools javascript library has been updated which will bring many bug fixes and new features for developers leveraging the Mootools library.
  • Multi Database Support – now the Jplatform contains drivers for the following supported databases
    • Microsoft databases SQLSrv and SQLAzure .
    • Postgresql, Oracle, SQLite and PDO

• User Notes – Now you can enter notes about a particular registered user on your site. The porting of the well-known extension called  “Art of User” by Andrew Eddie has been implemented to the CMS. This has been integrated  to the user manager instead of keeping it as a separate component which is a really nice idea.
• Smart Search – The JXtended Finder component has been added as a core feature. Finder uses a search index and pre-searches your site content. It will dynamically score search results based on the frequency of the search terms and the context of the search.  Finder will prioritize the most relevant results at the top of the list and even suggest alternative search phrases. Custom search filters will also allow users to get the most relevant results when searching within certain sections of a website.
• Mobile Template Support – The Beez core template is now mobile friendly. This template is made to be used as an example when building your own template and now you have everything you need for a mobile template example.
• Update Notification Module – Now there is a new module that shows if your Joomla version requires an update to a new version.
• CAPTCHA Support – now there is a new core plugin that supports the reCAPTCHA services. So now you can more easily add reCAPTCHA support to your contact and registration forms.
• Language Overrides Manager – There is a new manager for administering your language overrides.
• Text Filters – The text filtering functions have been moved to the Global Configuration area. They filter content for black and white listed tags based on your configuration settings and role permissions.
• Site Offline Image – There is a new feature that allows you to change the site offline image with your own custom image more easily.
• Article Images - You can attach an image for the intro text to use in blog and featured layouts. You can also use an image for the full article layout page.
• Article Links – now you can add up to 3 links of reference to an article that will show up in the article layout.
• Menu item parameter "Note" - in Joomla 1.6 the addition of a menu item parameter called "Note" had only a purpose is to display a description of menu items in the items view of com_menus in the backend. Users are now able to output the Note  parameter in the frontend in order to create more elaborate menus with descriptions.
• Option to set Joomla to Site Offline (YES) during installation - Added an option, to the installation procedure, to set Site Offline (YES/NO)

If you would like to test and try out these new features you can download the new Joomla 2.5 "BETA 1" version by clicking here. (TESTING ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION WEBSITES!!!)

We are happy to announce 2 new releases of Event Registration Pro, the Enterprise level event management software for the Joomla CMS.

We have released both Event Registration Pro 1.5.20 and 1.7.2 for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.7.

We encourage all existing customers to update to these latest versions to take advantage of the latest stability and features we have to offer.

Please see below for the complete change logs

Event Registration Pro 1.5.20 and 1.7.2 Change logs