Jtop10 is one of our free extensions that displays the 10 most viewed articles for several categories.  We've just updated it so that you can now choose to display the hits per article and also display these hits in awesome CSS bar charts!

... for Google Analytics Tracking. Modern marketing demands a social media presence and there are many companies who do a good job of engaging their customers in conversation on sites such as facebook and twitter.  However, there are times when you may wish to move this conversation to your own site by getting your fans or followers to click on links. 

You can track the number of people who click on your links by using a URL shortener but what happens if you wish to track conversions from these social media campaigns? This question led us to the discovery of an article by Hendry Lee that explains how Google's URL Builder can be used for this exact purpose.  Check it out for the technical details or just follow the instructions below so that you can begin to measure social media marketing effectiveness more accurately today!

Joomla is a great content management system and once you get to know about the structure of components, modules and plugins you can begin to create your own custom extensions.  However, online documentation is pretty sparse when it comes to this part - the most in-depth documentation usually only consists of how to create a 'Hello World' extension.

As a newcomer to the world of Joomla I found this lack of tutorials quite frustrating so I've decided to write my own.  The following instructions explain how to create a module from scratch that includes parameters, a third party library and a Google map chart.  Once finished we will have a module that displays visitor information on a map of the world using data grabbed from Google Analytics.  Hopefully this will shed some light on the topic for some of you.

We have just released a new version of the Excel Uploader for Joomla!.  The new update includes the following changes:
- component is now in MVC form.
- the configuration screen has now been changed