It is good news for all our users. We developed more free plugins for Mighty Analytics. Now free analytic plugins available for Core Joomla Article Manager, Core Joomla User and Community Builder.

Mighty Analytics is your ultimate tool to analyze your website data. It creates flash charts and diagrams using data from your database and shows reports from the frontend.

With the help of new plugins you can:

Show user registration progress based on Joomla core user table.

Show report on last login value.

See how often users return to site.

Show report by hits, section/category relation, by top authors etc., and much more.

Once you try Mighty Analytics it becomes your indispensible assistant in your marketing efforts.

You can download plugins from downloads section.

Since many of our customers find Mighty Analytics very useful and helpful the new version is even more advanced and full-featured. Besides all existing features we added few more improving its functionality.

1. First is the great ability to view analytics reports from the front end
2. The system of adjusting the rights of reports viewing and creation is very flexible now. The level of user access for every report is set by administrator from the backend (registered, editors, admins only and so on). This option allows your users to view your reports. This may be helpful if you sell banners space on your site or want to allow your publishers see how many times their articles were read and more.
3. Next is that reports may be bind to one user or group of users. So for example if you need to see the report about articles created by just one user or by the concrete group of users you just set the required user or group and get the desired report.
4. The new series of reports for Mighty Commerce was developed. This option allows to customize reports in such way that it may be viewed by vendor (to see the level of sales or profits) and by customer or by both.
5. All reports are now may be converted to graphics editor as an image.
6. New report for Mighty Resources.
7. The ability to create different reports with different settings based on just one plugin.

Today we release Alfa version of Mighty Assistant component. It is not merely a new extension. It is a new customer experience. This component is developed to make life of our customers much easier.

Mighty Assistant completely changes the Download Section, Release & Update log and License Manager. This component is a convenient tool allowing to control all downloads and subscriptions, be in the swim of news and updates, to know current version and license state, go through installation process, check System Requirements and much more from one place.

This component is a free extension only for MightyExtensions clients. The only thing that you need to do is just to install it on your website, open Mighty Assistant, synchronize and see what is new.

Joomla! is one of the most popular Content Management Systems all over the world and wins new admirers every     day. Though Joomla! is not the easiest CMS among existent its appeal is under the great functionality it offers for   webmasters. Joomla learning process becomes easy in the modern world due to huge amount of Joomla tutorials. One of such tutorials The Joomla Book - A Users Guide to Joomla 1.5 by Barrie M. North I want to review here.

The first thing that I found very significant is that author was very thorough to describe all the details of Joomla structure and made it easily understandable for even complete newbie in Joomla world.

The Manual starts from the introduction to what is Content Management System and Joomla history. You will also learn from this book all the nuances of Joomla installation process;  Joomla! administration basics; Step by step description of the content organization on your website; Creating menus and navigation; What are Extensions and what potential they give you; How to expand your content and how to get traffic to your website. As addition you will learn how to create a pure CCS template and at last few chapters at the end are devoted to creating concrete sites (school site, restaurant site and blog site).

All the material is supplied with detailed screenshots, quick notes and summaries which you can come back periodically to consult.

In general book is written in easy understandable language with comprehensively explained terminology.
Appendixes at the end of the book will provide you with help sites and forums, Joomla case studies, SEO notes and how to install WAMP.

As a conclusion I want to add that book will be very helpful for novice and medium experienced Joomla users and definitely deserves consideration of those who plan to manage their website on one's own.

Analytic 2.0 is going to be next generation site analysis. It will allow visitors of the sites not only to see publicly available reports but generate private reports. Private report will show analytics only on data posted, viewed, commented, ... by currently loged in user. Something like "Statuses of my tickets in support desk" or "Seller sales" or "Order statuses".

Yes text means a lot, but chart diagrams sometimes may say more about your site then any advertisment. And charts usually not lie unlike text advertising does sometimes :) so visitors can have deeper confidence to your site.

Try yourself here, and tell us what you think?

Touch 1.1.7

Today we released Touch 1.1.7 which is very stable. To be true, Touch is much more then we expected it to be. We tried to create profiling system for b2b ecommerce websites based on our Commerce solution but it turn out to be very powerful social network application with no analogy on today’s market.

Resources 1.5

Next version of Resources we release coming week is 1.4.7. It is a last 1.4 series. So harry up to report all errors if you want them to be fixed there. After 1.4.7 next version will be 1.5.0. We do not plan many new features there, though we prepare some surprises. The main goal of 1.5 is optimization. We will optimize DB, queries, we will implement 2 levels of cache for whole HTML pages and on the query level. We already have scheme where number of queries decreases to 30%. The expected speed growth at least 70%.

Analytics 2.0

New Analytics is just about to be released. It is in testing mode.

The main new feature is: reports are visible on frontend. In fact it is accessible only from frontend. Users can see reports for their own items. Foe example for ecommerce, sellers will be able to see sale reports, or user may see report on popularity of own blog items, or, ... almost whatever you can imagine. I mean the same as it used to be but on frontend and with more features in there.

Beta testers are welcome.