Our Joomla! Blog: Company News

JXtended Magazine, over its many incarnations, has consistently pushed the limits of what a Joomla site can be. It was first developed in 2006 as a way to bridge the gap between traditional print magazines and the Web's endless potential. It introduced full-depth category trees, multiple categories per article, and also proof-tested the code that would become the Joomla Framework MVC and layout override system.

JXtended Catalog was one of the first truly flexible content systems (typically called CCKs nowadays) available for Joomla 1.5.  It was first developed in 2006 and released for sale in 2007 as one of the first commercial GPL products available for Joomla.  It filled a wide gap in the Joomla extensions market for a directory that supported searchable custom fields, a full depth category tree and also the ability to map items to multiple categories.

JXtended's Louis Landry has been selected as Joomla's Most Valued Person in the Packt 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People awards, and deservedly so.  Louis has contributed to many aspects of the Joomla project and is currently one of the coordinators responsible for overseeing development of the software.

The staff at JXtended wish to congratulate Louis on his well deserved achievement.  Well done!

JXtended is a leading Joomla extension development company run by some of the most recognized and respected people in the community. We are looking for an entry-level support technician to add to our team. As a support technician, you will be responsible for supporting clients as they install, configure, and use our commercial Joomla extensions; creating knowledge-base articles in response to common questions and issues; escalating client issues and concerns as required; and, most importantly, ensuring the highest-levels of customer support and satisfaction possible.

JXtended now has its own page on Facebook and it would be great to show your support by becoming a fan.  If you have a site running any JXtended extensions and you would like show it off, post a link on our wall.

Following from the release of the new JXtended site, the demo site has also been updated and expanded with the latest version of all our commercial products.

The demo site includes complete example installs of three essential extensions for all Joomla Web sites:

• Comments - visitor and user commenting, content rating and social bookmark links;
• Finder - advanced and accurate searching for Joomla Web site; and
• Labels - labels/tags for your content that integrates directly with the administrator article edit page.

Each of these extensions is easy to install and configure in minutes.

For your projects that need a little bit more horsepower, example installs of our content management extensions are also available:

• Catalog - perfect for directory sites; and
• Magazine - to suit sites that mimic printed magazine-style, publication based Web sites.

Administrator access is available to give you a feel for how all these extensions can lift what you can offer on your Joomla Web site.

To find out more, visit the JXtended extensions page.

The changes to our new website go far beyond the asthetic, right to the core of what JXtended is all about. We've made some significant changes to the site's structure, the shopping cart, the support system, and the downloads system, to name a few. We've put together this blog post to help explain some of the important changes in order to help our users get comfortable with the new site as quickly as possible.

In order to meet support growth demands, and increase customer privacy, JXtended will be making changes to the systems by which it supports it's commercial and free extensions.

Over the coming days and weeks, we will be progressively closing the forum.  While initially serving us well in the early stages, the Fireboard based system has been proving more and more unreliable to meet the needs of our customers.  As such, we are making two strategic changes.

The JXtended Team - Rob Schley, Louis Landry and Andrew Eddie - is currently in Australia, having met with the other Joomla Development Coordinators for the first ever Joomla Development Summit - a grueling four days of whiteboard planning and coding.  We are very excited to announce that we are donating a number of JXtended technologies to the Joomla 1.6 source.

Comments

We are donating our Comments extension to Joomla 1.6.  We feel very strongly that this move, along with access control improvements, will put Joomla in better standing with other Content Management Systems.  We will still be releasing and supporting the commercial version for Joomla 1.5 but will be providing an upgrade path to Joomla 1.6.  Comments for Joomla 1.6 will go into the core just prior to the first public beta release.  Choosing JXtended Comments now gives you the smoothest transition into Joomla 1.6.