How to Use Live Chat to Increase Your Sales and Grow Your Community
for Joomla Powered Websites Only!
Before we get down to the business how to part, let us first get you familiar with the live chat component that will accomplish the above task.
Chat Factory is a powerful Ajax based live chat extension for Joomla (1.5 and 1.6) that will integrate Facebook Gmail like chat into Joomla Websites. Think of it like having an instant messenger only for your website.
Partial features list:Online and Offline messagesMessage HistoryAvatar managementCommunity Builder integrationChat application is available on every page of your website without having to enable a special moduleChangeable User statusPossibility of staying invisibleallowing users to chat REGARDLESS of the page they are on.Friends list and Blocked users listGuests can Chat with registered users (option to set it off)Community Builder IntegrationPossibility of running advertisements in the Chat window and through advertisement messagesusers can enable/disable the chat systemand many more ... After you install Chat Factory on your website, here are the ways you can put it to use: Increase Your Sales using it As a Live Help Support Tool.
A website without live support is like an empty brick and motor store
(with no one to guide you. With Chat Factory, you can interact with your
website visitors through a real time chat communication providing a
higher level customer and sales support. Doing this not only improves
upfront sales and customer satisfaction but also increases referral rate
and improves brand image (thus affecting the overall bottom line of
your business).With the above said, think about this How much is such a software worth to my business? Im sure you will discover that overtime, its worth 50 to 100 times more than what you are invest to grab the software.Ready to Implement?Like
most other Joomla extensions, installing and configuring Chat Factory
is very simple and in most cases the whole process takes less than
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(all-thefactory-products/chat-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html) On the back-end the chat extension for Joomla has the following main features:emoticons management: administrators can add as many emoticons as they wantadvertisements managementIM ads: on login or on specific intervalallowed groups: select the groups that are allowed to chatCommunity Builder integration (enable/disable)set refresh interval of user list, new messages and new friendship requests to reduce server loadspam protection: set the maximum number of messages users can send per minute.Requirements: Joomla 1.5.xDemo-Server:http://chatfactory.thefactory.ro/index.php (http://chatfactory.thefactory.ro/index.php)
What is Deluxe Blog Factory (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html)?Deluxe Blog Factory is an user friendly, webmaster friendly blogging extension for Joomla 1.5, with a native and fresh MVC codebase. Full of features, it is a well thought alternative to Wordpress blogging, allowing you to use Joomla versatility and well known blogging conventions - like RSS Syndication, Bookmarking Sites (like Digg, Twitter, Facebook, etc). Featuring a Web 2.0 Dashboard with draggable panes and all-in-reach controls, your blogging experience is truly comfortable and in a luxuriant environment.With its integrated commenting and following system, Deluxe Blog Factory does not need additional extensions in order to function at full potential. No need to get support from 2 different extension providers that keep pointing fingers at each others program. (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html) User Avatars, Pingbacks, TinyMCE extensions, Youtube and per user settable Media Upload capacities add to the Extension an amazing set of features and possibilities. What do you get with Deluxe Blog Factory (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html)? A well designed and user friendly Dashboard where you can see the most important information and have access to the most important functions.SEF URLs - native Joomla 1.5 router. Well formed URLs that help your website to gain more relevance.Per user Media Management; users can upload Media files up to a certain Quota (admin settable). Your website users will have the possibility to upload images and media from the frontend without overcrowding your hosting.Multi-Blogger: You can allow all users to create blogs, or just specific user groups. Import Blog Posts into Joomla content. Now the gap between the blogs you host and the content of your site will be bridged.Avatars: users can upload their own avatar or use their community builder avatar.Fully customizable template based on smarty tags; there is NO php knowledge needed at all.Backend Blog administration: you can edit or unpublish any blog entry or any comment from the administrative backend.Follow and be followed by other users.customizable eMail notifications for the significant events in your site (new post, new comment, reported post, etc).Customizable bookmark sites (digg, facebook, twitter, etc).CAPTCHA for comments.Tag Clouds. Tag filtering, tagging search.a lot of free modules to get on your site.Integrated Search Plugin.Deluxe Blog Factory comes also toghether with seven modules: Random Blogs mod, Tag Cloud mod, Latest posts mod, Top Active blogs mod, Top Rated blogs mod, Top Rated posts mod, Search mod. Check NOW, what bloggers need and Deluxe Blog (all-thefactory-products/deluxe-blog-factory/detailed-product-flyer.html) provides: Frontpage with all posts listed, paged and sorted.Individual per blog listings - every user gets his own blog front page.Possibility to import Blog posts into regular joomla content sections and categories.A lot of Bookmarking sites to choose from and an easy way to add new ones.RSS feeds and syndication.Pings and Tags, pingback and bookmarking.SEF urls.Avatars with Community Builder integration.Templating System / Easy to change templates.Built in Commenting system.Built in Media uploader with per user Disk Quota.How to use the DEMO site (http://deluxeblog.thefactory.ro/) of Deluxe Blog Factory? You can use the login buttons on the left in order to login into the site as different users and test the features of this extension. You can approve comments, leave comments, add posts, and even login into the administrative backend to see all the management features.
For those of you who are developing WordPress templates or you just want to modify existing ones, the following commands sheet should be helpful. Theme Structureheader.php - Header Sectionindex.php - Main Sectionsidebar.php - Sidebar Sectionsingle.php - Post Templatepage.php - Page Templatecomments.php - Comment Templatesearch.php - Search Contentsearchform.php - Search Form Templatearchive.php - Archive Templatefunctions.php - Special Functions404.php - Error Page templatestyle.css - Style Sheet The Loop// Custom HTML and PHP CodeThe Category Based Loop// Custom HTML and PHP Code Theme Definition/*Theme Name: WordpressTheme URI: http://wordpress.org/Description: Factory BlogVersion: 2.0Author: the FactoryAuthor URI: http://www.thefactory.roTags: wordpress, drupal, joomla, cms*/Template Include Tags< ?php get_header(); ?>< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>< ?php get_footer(); ?>< ?php comments_template(); ?>WordPress Template Tags - displays the posts/pages title - displays the content of the post/page - displays the excerpt of the current post/page - displays the time of the current post/page - displays the date of a post or set of post/page - displays the URL for the permalink - displays the category of a post - displays the author of the post - displays the numeric ID of the current post - displays all the pages - displays a tag cloud - displays the categories - displays the calendar - displays a date-based archives list - displays Previous page and Next Page links - displays Newer Posts link - displays previous link - displays the edit link - value for search form - displays the register link - displays the log in/out link - Meta for administrators - time to load the page - displays the custom field1 - display links from Blogroll - displays the built-in calendar - link of the posts commentsBlogInfo Tags - Title of the blog - the character set - the description of the blog - the address of the blog - the RSS URL - the URL of the template - the pingback URL - the URL for the template's CSS file - URL for WordPress installation - Version of the WordPress installation - HTML version of the siteBlogInfo Tagsis_home() - when the user is on the blog home pageis_front_page() - when the user is on the home pageis_single() - when the single post displayedis_sticky() - check if a post is stickyis_page() - when a page is displayedis_category() - when a category is displayedCategory based menu navigation
Love Factory (shop/joomla-components/love-factory-dating-and-matchmaking.html) Joomla Extension through the language files and Joomfish Integration. (shop/joomla-components/love-factory-dating-and-matchmaking.html) The Main Features of the component are:Member Pages with fully configurable fields!Photo Gallery (users can specify the images order)Comment System (page owner can delete any comment on his page or report them to the admin)Messaging System (users can create, send and receive personal messages)Interaction System (sending kisses between user) Rating SystemFriends List (including pending requests; user can set the page status visible only for friends)Ignore List (to avoid spamming or any unwanted contact)Advanced Search (to find friends or matches after certain criteria like gender, age, etc., criteria which are fully configurable by the administrator from the existing page fields.Membership Plans with integrated Payment Gateways: Paypal and Moneybookers (support for one till four membership-level, so that users can upgrade their account in order to receive a higher number of allowed photo and friends. For each level, differentiated prices can be set, depending on the time period. The membership plans feature can be enable or disabled by the administrator.)Smarty-based http://lovefactory.thefactory.ro (http://lovefactory.thefactory.ro/) - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the page. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.
With the last released versions, the Reverse Auction Factory (shop/joomla-components/reverse-auction-factory.html) solution is consolidating one of its main goals, serving as a freelancing platform. Among other new features, the new version comes with a special new template, which can be also seen on the new updated demoserver (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/) available under http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/ (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/) (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro) Other noticable features are: New feature: Gallery Plugin, Gallery settings in backend.New feature: New Gallery Mootool.New feature: Differentiated Comissions for Powersellers, verified users and regular users.Improved quicker and lighter coding; rbidsVersionCheck replaced with JOOMLA_RV_VERSION.Improved SEF.Fixed several issues including Short Open tags, watch category, tags filter with spaces search when trimmed and display results (twice), search after country and city without CB, quickButton (in J!1.0) finding JOOMLA_RV_VERSION, including file Router.php, CB date format my auctions my watchlist, installer CB plugin Google map, etc.Also for the payments towards the site, Multiple Payment Gateways with integrated payment methods like Paypal and Moneybookers are now availble, with the possibility through API documentation for each webmaster to implement new one.Toghether with the new features, the Reverse Auction Factory Solution (shop/joomla-components/reverse-auction-factory.html) stands for a professional e-commerce platform, providing the possibilty for its users to obtain a good price or a good deal and also last but not least o good income for the webmaster, through the available commissioning systems. (shop/joomla-components/reverse-auction-factory.html) Why use Reverse Auctions? Reverse auctions do assure the lowest price for buyers, discouraging imprudent bidding practices (closed auctions conducted by invitation only) and allowing the fairest live and consistent auctioning system through the Open Bidding System. The two round bidding ensures that the winning bidder is qualified and prescreened complying with federal and certain state procurement laws.Buyers Benefits? Save Money On Every Single PurchaseSave Time without Comparing Store PricesPosting an Order for wanted item is free: No Bids, No Fees. Risk Free!Quick Turnover, Get IMMEDIATE Results. Just start asking for what you want to buy.Reverse auctions eliminate the possibility of corruption (in procurement), etc. (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/) With the Category option is possible to host on your site different areas of interest, transforming your site in a general point of interest for everybody. The pictures are representing just a normal template, provided for free, but since the product is templetized, with the existing Documentation (support/documentation/reverse-auction-factory-tutorial---templating.html) each webmaster can configure the look of the site to comply to his requirements. (http://reverse-auctions.thefactory.ro/)
MediaMall provides is a powerful solution to manage media files online distribution with a built-in Credit System. Using this component the site can easily sell media files online, like for ex. Video Tutorials (including sample files). Using the MediaMall solution users can post their media files on your site. For each media file a number of Credits can be perceived in order to visualize the file. The poster will earn credits, which can be later converted into a payment by the webmaster. Accepted media file formats are:video files (flw, swf, mov and wmf; avi files are also partially supported, but not all codecs are included.)audio files (mp3)archives (zip, rar, gz, bz2, arj, arc, '7z) - used generally for tutorials; if a user is posting video file with a photoshop tutorial, in the archive he can include the sample files. (shop/joomla-components/media-mall.html) In order to purchase the credits easier the system provides a Paypal integration. Clean payments are transformed automatically into credits. If any problems the payments are going into the Payment/canceled Payments, where the administrator can decide further actions. A further income method, if set, can be the pay for Contact. Here a user will pay with credits in order to send a contact email to the author. The administrator can create and manage Categories, set credit related settings and manage credits and views. Another important administrator feature is the management of the author payments. The system also includes user notifications on certain actions. Viewers can use the integrated Rating System to rate and also place comments for any media file. This is allowed for free media files and for commercial media files only after viewing in order to avoid any abuses.Surely the media files can be also posted for free, allowing the view without any credit purchase. The administrator can configure this allowing the view for guest or logged users. Among other features, the component benefits also from Joomfish Integration, offering multilingual support. Demo: The demo-server is available under http://media-mall.thefactory.ro (http://media-mall.thefactory.ro/) - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.
DEMO Server (http://jooanswers.thefactory.ro/) - you can log on the Front end or Admin Back end in order to check all features and settings jAnswers Factory brings also several charging possibilities, so that the webmaster can transform his site to a profitable business. From this features it worth mentioning the followings: Pay-per-Question Pay for featured Question Pay-per-Contact Support for beer money payments Multiple Payment Gateways including Paypal and MoneybookersNative SEF integration (all question links are SEF!) (shop/joomla-components/janswers-joomla-yahoo-answers-clone-script-joomanswers-jooanswers.html) Other noticeable features are the extended User profile (avatar, location, yahoo id, paypal email) and Community Builder Integration.On the back-end side, the solution brings also important features and settings to offer the needed flexibility for the site administrator. Here some of the available features: set avatar size, set time period for questions, block offensive questions/answers, manage abuse reports, manage payments, import/export questions answers, manage extended profile, user statistics, etc.The component comes also with a free 5.000 records database to provide a valuable start-up (due to this the downloadkit is approx. 5 MB). Bigger database packages are available upon request for an additional charge. Some of the available modules are: Latest Questions, Popular Questions, Open Questions, Random Questions, Featured Questions, Tag Cloud, etc.
Raffle Factory Lottery System - Organize your own tombola.
Raffle Factory (shop/joomla-components/raffle-factory-tombola-extension.html) comes as a new product to provide more power to our eCommerce Extension Suite. A raffle is a competition in which people buy numbered tickets. Originating in southern Italy, it is a popular game in numerous countries and is often held to raise funds for a specific event, charity, or occasion.The raffle involves many people buying tickets for a chance to win a certain prize or prizes. At a set date, the winners are drawn from a bucket containing a copy of every number or a tombola (from Italian: tombola ['to:mbola]). The ticket is then checked against a collection of prizes with numbers attached to them. A raffle also often involves several different possible prizes that can be won and a ticket will simply be drawn from the group at random for each of the prizes one by one. Our Raffle Solution provides allot of the features encountered in the Auction Factory Suite , but this time specialized in the raffle field, with specific settings like: (shop/joomla-components/raffle-factory-tombola-extension.html) Price per ticket. Buyer can purchase several tickets; ticket numbers will be sent to the buyer, for each purchased ticket. Administrator statistics to see the number of purchased tickets per each auction. Payments will be processed with the integrated payment methods, like paypal, moneybookers or with the possibility to integrate new payment gateways using the published API. email notifications for all stages (enable/disable) public statistic to see original total number of available tickets and total number of tickets sold to date. Seller has option to end raffle early before all tickets sold, a winner will be automatically random chosen, notified and displayed in the auction. user can see his purchased tickets (won/selected for top 100/selected for top 10/selected for top 3/lost).The raffle can end automatically with a predefined work flow as follows, where the winner is announced 4 days later after the end of raffle, then displayed in the details and notified. 1st day (change top to random ) 100 participants will be displayed. 2nd day (change top to random ) 10 participants (from 1st day's 100) will be displayed. 3rd day (change top to random ) 3 participants (from 2nd day's 10) will be displayed. 4th day random 1 participant from 3rd day's 3 will be chosen winner and displayed.In case of notary usage, instead of the work flow above, a ticket list can be exported to be used for an outside draw, then the winner ticket number has to be entered in the platform. You can test all functionalities on our demo sever here (http://raffle-factory.thefactory.ro/) In order to provide maximum flexibility to all the administrators, Raffle Factory also uses a template engine. Detailed informations about how to personalize the Raffle Factory Extension can be found here, in the Template Tutorial.
The native MVC Joomla 1.5 component provides an easy voting system, requiring only a single click action for a speedy process. The component can be used to rate different images like landscapes, art, etc. or if the genre mode is enabled, more particular for male and female images. The upload is very easy, allowing also multiple upload. For each picture a sharelink and the number of hits will be visible and if admin enabled the description, comments and tags. To allow the administrator content control on the site, each picture and comment can be reported. You can log into the demo site (http://hotornot.thefactory.ro/) and check out frontend and backend Settings Administrator Settings:Enable/disable voting for guests (unloged users).Enable/disable upload images for guests (unlogged users).Set 1-10 or 1-5 voting scale.Set upload folder, Resize height and width, Thumbnail size, Nr. of uploaded images at once.Enable/disable image description, Description length, Enable/disable require description on upload.Enable/disable tags, Maximum allowed nr. of tags, Enable/disable require tags on upload.Allow comments from: visitors/registred/disabled.Display nr. of images per page, Display last x comments per page (0 for all).Enable/disable genre mode (male, female).Enable/disable email reporting.The component comes also with the following modules:Menu Module including Top Rated, My Pictures, Upload and advanced Search option. TAG Cloud Module.Random Picture.Last Voted. Requirements: Joomla 1.5.x (shop/joomla-components/hot-or-not-joomla-native-extension.html)
It's been eight months since we introduced the legacy support for the Briefcase component. Today, we are proud to announce the release of a new product, compatible with the Joomla 1.5 native mode. Briefcase Facotry is the Joomla Component which is offers any Joomla Site, a very similar functionality as Yahoo Briefcase, but with a multitude of extended features. briefcase Factory 1.5.0 released on March 3, 2009. Redeveloped to be a native Joomla 1.5.x component.New feature: File FTP Upload for Administrator.New feature: Set allowed file types.New feature: Search Mambot for Joomla Search.Several improvements including find user when sharing, AJAX on upload files, etc.
The new version of PRO (shop/joomla-components/rssfactory-pro.html) version of RSS Factory:RSS Factory features FREE PRO • Categories Subcategories (unlimited number of levels) • Category Management • Category Description • Category Pathway • Related Categories • Import Feeds to Content • Archive System • Category Tree within one, two, three or four columns • SEF (compatible with Artio JoomSEF) • Session based tracking of already readed news (Feeds will appear “unchecked” if they have already been read) • easy Language Management • automatic unpublishing of erroneous feeds • Tiled View • List View • Tab Titles View • Sliders View • Draggable divs View • configurable display to show in list of feeds the feed name or the source • Pagination available for each RSS source • Date Format Customization • Dynamic Page Titles (SEO) • MetaTags • FavIcons for feeds (pulled from the feedsite or custom uploaded) • Supress function for embedded objects and images • Color customization of Overlib Output • Font Size customization for Overlib Output • replace >> >> with custom words • Preview of Feeds in Category List • customized output styles • several configurable display tweaks • Automatic Refresh of feeds though a pseudo-CRON process and CRON • Refresh of Feeds using AJAX (backend only) • Search Mambot (allows you to search through feeds along with searching through content) • Refferal verification to avoid hotlinking • automatic Install Uninstall of Module and Mambot • Ads Banner management • Back-up utility • Back-up utility including component Settings • automatic Version Check • Public Support (available on Forum) • Extended Support (personal guidance available through our Ticket System) Although it's a major version we are offering this version for FREE to all existing license holders*. To receive the new version just follow the new procedures described in the Customer FAQ . With this again we are offering for FREE a major version of a product, like in the latest cases of Auction Factory, Reverse Auction Factory, Article Factory Manager, etc.** Promotional Orders are excluded from this offer.
(shop/joomla-components/ads-factory-classifieds-extension.html) The Factory proudly presents the new - native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code (no legacy plugin needed) - Joomla Extension Tutorial (support/documentation/ads-factory-tutorial---templating.-configuring-the-display.html). To this, two listing methods are offered: list and grid view mode including a expiry countdown.Ads Factory is fully SEF including dynamic page titles! Automatic metadescription and keywords are integrated in the component to comply with the actual standards. Tags on ads and a tag cloud module is also present to provide a huge SEF improvement. The component offers Categories support including a category module, which can be also used as a filter option. The present Watchlist can be set on existing categories or ads based and includes also email notification. Aside this advanced search and filter options are avaialble for the extension. For each ad a separate location can be entered using the GoogleMaps system. Also the user has the possiblity to upgrade his ad to a featured ad: gold, silver or bronze. The ads can be also saved for later publishing (publish/unpublish; save ads now publish later) or can be date triggered published. A republishing option is avaialble for expired ads; also on expiry a email notification is sent. If not replublished the ads will go to the existing archive system. Ads can de reported to the admin in case of fraudulent behavior. In case that a user wants to ask an ad publisher a certain question, he can use the integrated user messaging system. Please check the demo-server or the product page (shop/joomla-components/ads-factory-classifieds-extension.html) for screenshots. (shop/joomla-components/ads-factory-classifieds-extension.html) A main image and secondary images can be attached to each ad. This will be automatically included in a small image gallery present for each ad. The image gallery is slider based and has also a detailed view option. File attachements can be used also, in order to provide detailed informations. This attachements togheter with the gallery and GoogleMaps are displayed on the detailed view of each ad. GoogleMaps is part of the Community Builder integration and contains the CB My Ads and GoogleMap tab. The administrator has extensive control over all ads. He can easily block certain ads with a single click, set up the picture resize values, etc. If desired he can enter multiple currencies and configure all email notifications. Bulk import with images and file attachemnts is possible and also a very easy export to the excel file format.The webmaster can require (if desired) user payments for:pay per Listing (publishing)pay per Featured (gold, silver, bronze)pay per Contact (publisher details)Paypal is implemented as payment method along to the multiple payment gateway system.What do I get buying this product?The fully functional open source (no encrypting) component, meaning that you are able to perform modifications if needed for your site.Modules: Menu Module, Categories Module (including number of ads and filter funtion), Featured Ads, Random Ads, Popular Ads, Most Valuable Ads, Latest Ads and Tag Clouds Module.Community Builder Plugins: My Ads, GoogleMap Tab.Full SEF integration, easy configurable language file, Categories Support and Template Engine!Requirements: Joomla 1.5.xCRON (a general CRON Tutorial (support/faq/a-simple-cron-tutorial.html) is available in our documentation section).Demo: The demo-server for Ads Factory is available under http://ads-factory.thefactory.ro (http://ads-factory.thefactory.ro/) - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.
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