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Mastering newsletters with modules Newsletter and Newsletter Popup
A good way to increase your site's traffic and inform your site's visitors about new content are the newsletters. Modules Newsletter and Newsletter Popup are 2 e-mail marketing solutions you should take a look. Both are free and can be downloaded from elxis.net. Lately module Newsletter updated to version 2.0 which generates automatically beautiful HTML newsletters and provides you an advanced administration interface which is easy to use. On the other hand module Newsletter Popup is an eye-catching app for accepting new registrations for your newsletter. In this article we will focus on some features of these modules and provide you a few tips.
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A mini forum component for Elxis available for free download
At last, after a long time Elxis has a forum extension again. The new component is named Bubbles. You can install it in your Elxis powered site and have an integrated forum solution. Although Bubbles is brand new, it released as version 2.0, and not 1.0 as you may expect. This is because Bubbles 1.x was an old Elxis 2009.x series component. Bubbles 2.x is a brand new, modern application written from scratch especially for the Elxis 5.x platform. You can use it as a forum, as a FAQ tool, to provide support, as a communication gateway between your site members and visitors and for any other purpose you may find it useful.
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Add custom CSS rules and javascript without modifying any file.
Since version 5.2 Elxis allows you to modify most extensions' CSS and javascript files directly from within the administration panel with the help of a powerful code editor from CodeMirror. However modifying extensions' files is something we don't recommend as after an update you will lose your changes. So, what we did is to introduce the user config files. You can add your custom CSS rules, or your javascript code, in these files and anything you put there will be preserved after an update.
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A absolutely free shopping cart with cool features
Open Shop is a full featured shopping cart released totally for free. The shopping cart software handles both tangible and immaterial products, like services and downloadable software, and has many payment and shipping methods built-in while other "free" systems sell separately the payment methods. In version 3.0 Open Shop became even more powerful and the front-end section has an improved layout and functionality. Let's see what's new in version 3.0 in details.
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Easily update Elxis 5.0 to 5.1 without update patches
Elxis since version 5.1 supports automatic updates directly from the administration console with just 1 click. In this article we will show you how, with a trick, can use this feature on Elxis 5.0 sites and easily update to Elxis 5.1 without having to download and apply patches. More
Latest changes, additions and new features in Open Shop v2.4
Open Shop v2.4 has integrated support for payments with Viva Wallet. With Viva Wallet POS and Card you can accept payments in your physical or online store and enjoy 0% acceptance fees! Moreover Open Shop introduces scheduled notifications for payments on specific date, recurring or not. The automatic notifications feature is a great help for professionals who charge their customers per month or per year (for example for web hosting providers).
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We proudly present you the fifth generation of Elxis CMS.
Waiting is over. Elxis 5.0 is here and available for download. The new version is a total modernization of Elxis CMS. We designed a user interface which makes working with Elxis easier and faster. Moreover the administration interface became fully compatible to mobile devices and tablets. Elxis 5.0 uses HTML5, CSS3 and pure javascript without external libraries such as jQuery. Almost all pages, including forms and exit pages were redesigned. The result is a beautiful, lightweight CMS which we believe is impossible not to fall in love with.
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An automated tool to migrate from WordPress to Elxis.
Elxis Importer, a new free component, makes possible the import of data from various sources into Elxis CMS. Elxis Importer comes with WordPress to Elxis extension built in. Extensions for other CMSs will follow. If you have a WordPress site and you want to switch to Elxis CMS you can now do it easily and free with Elxis Importer (similar tools for other CMSs are commercial).
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A free ecommerce solution to sell physical or digital goods and services online.
Open Shop is provided for free as a component for Elxis CMS. Just one click and you have a full featured shopping cart installed in your Elxis powered site. Lately, Ioannis Sannos, the developer of Open Shop, released version 2.0 of the software. The new version brings a bunch of new features and a total re-design of the shop layout. The interface is elegant and friendly to mobile devices and tablets. You can sell both physical and digital or immaterial products online. Digital products can be download-able (software, documents, etc) which customers will get automatically after a successful payment. Open Shop can be used as a products catalog (no prices shown), as a demo shop (no payments/orders) and as a normal shop. Moreover since version 2 you can hide prices for individual products by using the Call for price feature. Call For Price navigates customer to contact shop administrator and ask for a price offer for a specific product instead of placing the product into cart.
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Minimize the need for icons usage with font fontawesome.
Elxis since version Elxis 4.5 Typhon has pre-installed the Font Awesome font. Font Awesome is a pictographic font which you can use to display icons as unicode characters, so no need of icons on your CSS any more! And even better, Font Awesome doesn't require javascript.
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