News & Announcements Want to make your website easier to use and more attractive? Often need to publish news with many photos? Need to publish front-page announcements or events? The extension will save you a lot of time. You just upload all your photos taken from camera (no need to scale and rotate images), enter news text and title and click "Save". That's all! The news in short with a small icon will be generated automatically. Price: 6 month updates & support: 19,90 € Log out Buy now Details Gallery Technical data Video News & Announcements Publishing news and announcement will not take much of your time. Just enter title and text, upload photos, copy links from Youtube. All the rest the extension will do for you: news in short with an icon created for list of news and banners, photos will be scaled and rotated if needed and organized as slideshow, video will be shown right on the news page. the news will show in news sliders and banner modules across your website in the way you have set up. Features Select news icons from standard set or upload your own. Icon can be generated automatically from the first photo. Upload photos directly from your camera - no need to scale or rotate them. Add links to Youtube - the video will show right on the news page. Some of the news may show as event in event calendar. Use slider and banners modules to display your news and anouncements. Organize them horizontally or vertically and choose what to display by selecting different banner templates. Set date to start and end publishing to make your announcement appear and go away from the site automatically. How to get and install "News & Announcements" You can get the extension and support for 25€. This includes email support for 1 website and all updates for the next 6 months. You may use the extension on unlimited number of websites even after your subscription expires. Orders are processed manually for now, automatic payments and processing will be added soon. Sorry for inconvenience. Click the "Order" button, fill and send the form. We send you an invoice. After you pay the invoice, you get download link. Languages suported English, Russian. Need your native language? Please contact us. Platforms supported Joomla! 3.x Drupal - call us Wordpress - call us Installation Install the package you have downloaded from our site following the ususal Joomla extension installation procedure. Add new/announcements category or categories: Go to Admin panel->Components->News & Announcements->News - Categories. Add categories you need (i.e. "News", "Banners", "Special news", etc). That's all. Now you can go to front-end to manage your announcements. Configure modules If you wish to display your news or announcements in a module, go to Admin panel->Exetensions->Modules amd configure News & Announcements modules. One module is added automatically on package install, you may edit this one first. If you need more than one, click "New" and select "News & Announcements". Slider module On the module configuration page select "Content type" tab and select content type "Slider" (it's default). Go to "Slider" tab and set slider options: Assosiated menu item - select a menu item to open when a news is clicked. Usually this is a menu with you news list; Select a category - news category to display, the module will display news only from this category; Module height (CSS) - height of the module (CSS style, default value 170px); Module width (CSS) - width of the module (CSS style, default value 'auto'); Icon width - width of news icon (thumbnail) in pixels; Icon height - height of news icon (thumbnail) in pixels; Banners module On the module configuration page select "Content type" tab and select content type "Banners" Go to "Banners" tab and set slider options: Select a category - category of news to be shown in the module; Assosiated menu item - menu item to be opened when a banner is clicked (if it has type "News and banner"); Module height (CSS) - height of the module in CSS style, default value is 150px; Icon width - width of news icon (thumbnail) in pixels; Icon height - height of news icon (thumbnail) in pixels; Show title - show news title; Show icon - show news icon; Show short text - show short news text; Use external link - this option is deprecated; Banners per line - if layout permits, module will try to put this number of banners in a line. Edit news Log in to front-end as administrator or publisher and go to your "News list" page. Click "Add" and fill out the fields. Most of the fields are self-descriptive, but a few need some explanation: "Type". Selecting "News only" will make the news appear only in news list and news slider module, it will NOT appear in the "Banners" module. If you select "Banner only", then the news will appear in news list, slider module and banners module. But clicking it will open the external link (if set). The "New and banner" option just makes the news to appear in the "Banners" module, clicking it will always open the news. "News in short" section may be left blank if you wish the component to generate it. It will take the first image as icon (if available), news title as short title and first lines of the news text as short text. Just click "Submit" to get these fields filled automatically. "External link". This may be a menu item, an article, a product from "HASTWARE Products", a document from "HASTWAR Document Database", or any link to external site. Links to the local site are opened in the same window, external links - in a new window. To select an internal link just start typing it's name, then select from autocomplete list. "Video from YouTube". Just copy a link in format 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<video id>'. The video will be shown on news details page.