StackIdeas

This is the fourth edition Joomladay organized by the Joomla folks of New England. To be held in the state of Vermont, the second least populous state of America, this one-day event will turn this peaceful place abuzz with talks, networking and the exchanging of new ideas amongst the Joomla users there.

Read more after the jump.

In the spirit of giving, we are proud to announce that we are sponsoring the upcoming Sydney JoomlaDay 2011 to be held this weekend (in a couple of days!). It gives us a sense of enjoyment to be able to contribute to the worldwide Joomla community particularly users in Australia.

It is also a good feeling to be able to give every participants of Sydney JoomlaDay a free copy of our Lean Mean Forum Machine for Joomla, EasyDiscuss. Yeah, participants will be given a little printed coupon to redeem their copy of EasyDiscuss. In the coupon also is a 50% discount for EasyBlog, our popular Joomla blog component, that you could use it to purchase.

If you had experienced an outage while accessing our website lately, it was because we were in the midst of moving to the new servers. We wanted to do this for the longest time but the recent workload got us all caught up with datelines.

And if you noticed, the site should load faster than usual now and we hope this migration effort is worthy of our investment.

Because this is a new server, there may be some technical issues that you may experience and when you're at it, please shout out to us on any weird stuff to support@stackideas.com immediately.

Meanwhile, feel free to download the beta version of the all-new EasyBlog 3.0 and let us know your thoughts. We shall be releasing the final version very very soon.

For smart users like you, we'd like to invite you to grab a copy of EasyBlog before the new price starts as soon as EasyBlog 3.0 is released.

As Joomla users, we all love a little extra when we part with our money. That little extra could be in monetary terms or getting more value at a minimum price. Either one, we all adore promotions and special deals because it makes us happy and perhaps, motivated to carry on doing the things we passionate about.

In the world of Joomla, you will get special deals from specific Joomla developers here and there. I must admit, we at StackIdeas are one of them giving away special promotions when we feel like it, be it direct from us or with a partner. A partner of ours TechJoomla has recently came up with a brilliant way for Joomla users to be smarter shoppers.

We'd like to congratulate the winners of the recently concluded Joomla!Day giveaways in the Netherlands!

We sponsored 10 copies of EasyBlog to the 6th Dutch Joomla!Dagen held at Kaap Doorn, Netherlands. Our Joomla! blog component was given away randomly by the Organizers to these lucky 10 participants of the Joomla!Dagen.

Here are the names of the lucky people:

1. - Xandra Dick-Tinkelenberg
2. - Wim Strik
   - Roland Dalmulder
   - Milly Uylenbroek
   - Niqui Seuntjens
   - Peter van Westen
   - Charles van Poucke
   - Kees de Goeijer
   - Maarten Kroon
   - Gert Braakman

Each winner will enjoy 12 months worth of technical support and software updates worth $59.

We may not be physically there but sponsoring made us felt that this event was well worth it. Look at the accompanying video, seemed like a lot of fun!

Once again, Gefeliciteerd to all the winners!

We are so excited to show you some of our satisfied users who already adopted our blog component for Joomla! EasyBlog in their Joomla! websites.

There are thousands of sites already using EasyBlog but in this page, we are showcasing some of them and we will continue to update this page with more success stories.

More stuff after the jump.

It is still a new year and we're starting it with an awesome new component for all of you Joomla! users. Let me present to you EASYDISCUSS!

EasyDiscuss is a social collaboration tool that works for Joomla! website especially in gathering user-generated content on a specific topic. The component provides a centralized community-driven area for ideas, information, resources, and feedback that are valuable in making important decisions, or creating results.

Online marketing expert Jon Neubauer has been a Wordpress man in the things he do for his clients. However, it didn't last long until he found out that Wordpress '..became too clumsy, too hard to manage efficiently and logically.' so being an ambitious IT person, he tried Joomla! as the CMS basis in building websites for his clients. The rest, was history.

In his blog post, he tells us which CMS is better, highlighting it with only 3 reason that Joomla! is the winner.

Read his story HERE.

We wanted to put a word of congratulations in his comment box but seems like the reCaptcha plugin wasn't responding... probably he needs a better blogging engine?

Lately there has been some technical glitches happened at our merchnat provider Plimus and this had caused many of our registered users having problems in getting the component.We would like to apologize for this error and Plimus is working on solving this problem as I blog.

In normal scenario, any purchases made from our Products page will trigger an email notification that the order is received and confirmed to the user. The user then clicks on the link inside the email leading them to our Downloads page to download the component installer.

We encourage all users to report to us immediately if you are affected. So how do you know you are affected? If you dont receive the email notification AFTER 1 day, send us a report to support @stackideas.com and we will send you the installer.

In the report, please include the following:

1. Your order reference number
2. Your full name
3. Your email address

We will use the above details to verify your order manually and send you the component directly.

We hope to get the system restored very soon. Thank you for your kind patience.

We started StackIdeas not too long ago but have already received lots of love and support from all our Joomla! users around the world. The people in the Joomla! user group, both new and experienced have showed their endless support in our products and in return of that, we give our best to attend to inquiries and problems they face.

In today's blog, we're happy to tell everyone that StackIdeas.com has been awarded and recommended as a Best Web Tool provider by WebHostingSearch.com and these are the words of recognition directly from them:

"StackIdeas.com has been awarded and recommended as a top rated web tool and development provider by Web Hosting Search who provide some of the best webhosting reviews on the internet."

EasyBlog has been the Joomla! blogging component that have been well received by our users and I think because of the ease setting up and running a blog in the Joomla! environment that had us garner this award. This is our first award in less than a year of operation!

We would like to express heartfelt appreciation to the folks at WebHostingSearch.com for trusting in our products and having faith in the services that we offer. And to all our users and customers, we couldn't be more proud to give our thanks to of you!