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Check out the latest promotion for EasyBlog!

We are aware that EasyBlog is easily obtainable from sites other than our own Stackideas.com website. These sites share EasyBlog installers pervasively and many have downloaded them for personal or commercial use.

We have discovered a couple of codes which does not belong to us in these archives and we are not entirely sure that it will cause any malfunction features. As a safety precaution, we always advise users to download directly from our Downloads section only.

Since these codes are not generated by us, support will not be available for users who used these downloaded copies.

In just short 7 months, EasyBlog has received numerous positive reviews about how easy and fast it is to start a blog in Joomla!. Many developers and users found out that EasyBlog offered the right kind of features for both advanced bloggers and the novice ones. We're not blowing our own horn, we invite you to read our reviews in the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

This Thanksgiving, we would like to give thanks to all the wonderful words that came in. We'd like to thank all of you who showed support in the things we do, the Joomla! extensions we create.

To show our appreciation, we are giving away $20 discount when you subscribe to our EasyBlog 12-months technical support. Instead of paying the full $59, you only need to pay $39 for a year's worth of professional support and software updates.

Please use this coupon code to redeem the $20 discount: easythanks

The discount is valid for one week only, starting today till Wednesday, December 1st, 2010.

Get EasyBlog now for only $39 at our online store.
Use coupon code: easythanks

Here's wishing you Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at StackIdeas!

Blogs are like the diary of the future. An electronic log of the important things you want to treasure and yet desire to show the world. It is a recollection of your personal history that is accessible anytime, anywhere you want.

A blog surpasses the benefits of having a new page for a business website. You engage people with blogs because it portrays the human side of online technologies.

Here are the 5 other main reasons to start a blog:

1. Passion - Blog about the things you enjoy doing that you could go on doing without getting bored. When you find excitement in the activities you do, blog about it. Start writing about your hobbies and with your blog, you can help others who may have the same hobby as you. Once you get the hang of it, your blog could turn your hobby into a money making machine!

2. Self expression - Everyone loves a little attention and to feel wanted. The blog is the right avenue toward expressions yourself to the world. However, do not be sad if no one is there to listen to you. Just blog away and pour your feelings out. Who knows, someone from the other side of the world with a kind heart has got the ears that listen.

3. Make more friends - Blogging itself naturally creates more friends and more and more visitors to your blog start to comment on it. You will make lots of friends whom have common interests are you, lives nearby and hence, have a meet up with these new people. However, to make friends, be a friend by responding to your visitors' comments in your blog.

4. Builds business - If you have a business website, starting a blog helps to promote your products and services. The sky is the limit when your business has a blog because you never know your next biggest customer may be reading is from the other side of the world, and potentially give you the sales that you have been looking for.

5. Skills - Blogging is similar to journalism. With journalism, the world is in your hands and with it, you can write about anything that interests you. The more blog you post, the better you are, hence, the more readers you will attract. Blogging regularly makes perfect and it brings in more traffic to your site too.

When you are ready to start a blog, why not get it from the experts?

Joomla! is a great Content Management System for building powerful websites for both business and personal use. With the many extensions, plugins and addons available in the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) we are spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting the RIGHT application to work the way we want it in our website. However, nothing is perfect and thanks to the world of Open Source, developers and experienced users of Joomla! can easily tweak the codes and it's done!

Customers today are tech-savvy and they rely on the World Wide Web to get information and what better way to engage them by giving the kind of information they want via a blog. A blog provides a platform for the informer to push information to the uninformed be it a new product launch, a new member in the family, a n resolved issue or even announcing a special promotion.

If you already have a Joomla! website and decided to take the plunge into the blogosphere, we highly recommend EasyBlog. Because setting up a blog sounds like rocket science but fret not because EasyBlog will make it all as simple as a few clicks of the mouse.

Requirements

Your website should be running on the latest Joomla! version, at least PHP 4.3.2 and the latest MySQL database version. Layout wise, please make sure your website supports at least 700 pixels of width for EasyBlog to look and function well in your website. Once you fulfill the above criterias, you are a step nearer to create your Joomla! blog.

Download EasyBlog

We can assure you of the latest features and constant bug fixes are done in EasyBlog. Professional technical service and direct access to our technical team are also available from as low as $4.99 per month. And for the money you invest, you are ensured of the latest software version and  24/7 e-mail assistance if you are stuck.

Click HERE to download EasyBlog. You will be downloading a zipped file - just leave it the way it is and don't unzip it.

Installation

Like installing any other Joomla! extensions, you have to login to your Adminstrator panel and click on Extentions > Install/Uninstall.

Once you are in, click on the Browse button to search for EasyBlog installer files. The files come zipped when you download from our website and should have the filename i.e. com_easyblog_versionX.X.XX.zip.

If you don't have this file, click HERE to download (subscription to our support is required) Click on Upload File & Install button to install the software.

You will receive a notification that EasyBlog is successfully installed.

That's not all, you will have to tweak some settings in the backend before posting your first blog.

Please stay tuned to this blog for another post on the kind of settings you need to do to start blogging in your Joomla! website.

Whether you are an individual who is passionate in a hobby or a business seeking to connect with your stakeholders, blogging is one of the ideal communications and online marketing tool around. With all that is said about blogs and if you haven’t already got one, why should you?

Halloween too soon? No way! We're sure you guys have starting wrecking your brains on what costume to get and where to shop for it. It's tough, we know, and to  make things easier, we thought of giving you an early Halloween treat!

EasyBlog for Joomla! has been loved by many since its release months ago and to spread the goodness, we are giving you a 40% discount for a limited time only.

We trick you not! It's really an out-of-this-world treat - a huge 40% off the $59 price for a copy of EasyBlog!

No way, José!.. What's the catch?!

Simple. If you haven't got a web hosting that runs on Linux, get it from Lunarpages now. Why Lunarpages? Because we love them and many of our customers recommended them of their excellent service. Their web hosting supports Joomla! CMS, MySQL databases and runs on the latest PHP 5 too - the perfect combo to run EasyBlog smoothly.

They are giving away $15-off of any of their hosting plans. Just head on to our promo page at Lunarpage and check out their range of packages.

Ok, I want it! Where do I start??

You will need to redeem a coupon from us AFTER purchasing a web hosting plan from Lunarpages.Once the purchase is confirmed, send us your username and order reference number from Lunarpages by emailing to andrew@stackideas.com. We will reply you with the coupon code for you to be entitled with the 40% discount for EasyBlog. Missing this final step could cost you $23.60 so don't forget to email us those details above.

Promo ends October 31st, 2010.

Go check out Lunarpages' hosting plans and claim your 40% discount for EasyBlog now!

Here's a sneak preview of a feature in the next build of Easy Blog.

For those of you who must have pictures in their blog post, you will soon be able to do it within your own space. With this new feature, the pictures you uploaded can be viewed and used by you only. Each blogger gets their own space to upload and insert a picture into a blog post.

By default, Joomla! allows you and your users to upload photos into a 'repository', a common folder where all bloggers can view/use each others' pictures.

This feature is not outright for the purpose of enabling images privacy but for users to have an added convenience in managing their uploaded photos. A new tab called 'Images' will reside on the tabs row for easy access, as pictured below.

Here's what it will look like but we're still working on it:

Stay tuned for more Easy Blog goodies. :)