Welcome to JoomlaGizmos.com!

First, let me say you're going to want to register and bookmark this site. Why? Because we have:

• Free Instructional Videos
• Free Joomla Components
• Joomla Tip of the Day (just folow Smart_Joomla on Twitter)
• Great Tips for Joomla and Virtuemart
• Really useful, time-saving, and reasonably priced commercial products
• We will soon have an awesome user forum, too.

We use Joomla professionally in our consulting practice and have decided to deposit our acquired collection of wit, wisdom, gotchas, and bumps in the road right here on this web site. We could have created a wiki for internal use, but where's the fun in that? Membership is free and did I mention that members get a $5 coupon code good towards their next order?

Does that feel like a bribe? I hope so.

Please click here to complete your bribe.

Thanks!

R.W. Lambert, Prez

P.S. Please check out my blog. I get on my high horse sometimes (as my momma used to say), but there's some really good Joomla content in my posts, too.

P.P.S. We write about and for Joomla, the niftiest content management system around. I think it is obvious that we are not associated with Joomla.org or Open Source Matters, Joomla's administrative parent, but we need to say it, anyway: They're great folks, but we are not them.

*Joomla Tip of the Day is a title, not a service level agreement. I expect to do four or five per week, and probably none at all when on vacation.

Our current featured product is our only commercial product, which of course makes it easy to decide what to feature.

Current Featured Product: Snapshot

What Does Snapshot Do? Snapshot is like having a giant undo button for your site!  It captures the state and position of every module on your web site and allows you to restore that state at will. This is a very powerful thing because it makes it much easier and faster to experiment with your site’s layout and functionality. Not only that, you can export your favorite snapshots and import them into other Joomla sites.

To see how Snapshot works check out this video (but forgive Ross's poor imitation of Billy Mays).

Here's a screenshot (click to enlarge):

Price: $17 (new members may use their $5 off coupon code)

Quick Links

For those folks who know what they want:

• Download free components*
  
• Look at our commercial products
  
• Submit a support ticket at our HelpDesk
  
• Read articles about Joomla
  
• Read articles about Virtuemart
• Look over our Joomla Knowledgebase
• Absorb the brilliance shining forth from Ross's Joomla Blog

*requires registration

Q1. Why Should You Join JoomlaGizmos?

A1. Because it is free, you get access to premium content, you will save money via special members-only offers, and you will get a coupon code worth $5 off your first order.

A nerdy rumination... If the benefits are high and the cost of membership approaches zero (we assume you have some cost for your internet connection, but that cost must be divided by all other uses), does the ratio of benefits-to-cost approach infinity?

Q2. Why the hard-sell to join? Are you going to spam me?

God forbid! We are a transparent and fun-loving group, which is why we want you to know that we will save money on marketing and advertising if we create a membership that consists of people who are already interested in our products. That's Marketing 101. We not only pass that savings on to you, but we also continually strive to make our site--and even the occassional email--valuable and fun. We're going to do our darndest to earn the right to have a place in your inbox.

We don't let anyone else mail to our list (see our Privacy Policy), and we only send about one email a week on average. If that gets to be too much, you can unsubscribe at any time and it is immediately effective. There's an unusbscribe link at the bottom of every email.