WebHostingClue.com, an industry leading web hosting review and rating site, today announces the winners of 2012 Best Joomla hosting, in which Hostgator is named to the top spot in this annual award.

As said by WebHostingClue.com’s editor team, this award was granted based on the review of the factors like Joomla compatibility, customer support team’s skills on Joomla, affordability and customer feedbacks.

As a powerful and easy-to-use open source application, Joomla now is powering 2.7 percent of the web sites for individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations. It’s supported by a community with over 200,000 contributors, where people can find hundreds of free plug-ins and themes to create a beautiful site.

Even though people could easily find a web hosting solution to meet the basic requirement from Joomla, only featured-rich web servers could enable all the power of Joomla and run it smoothly.

The winners of this year’s Best Hosting for Joomla are Hostgator, Bluehost and InmotionHosting. All of them offer 100% Joomla compatible hosting in their world-class data centers. Their customer supports are all second to none.

Want to know more about the detail of this award, please refer to http://www.webhostingclue.com/best-joomla-hosting.

Today PageLines announced the launch of PageLines 2.0 web design platform at the LeWeb tech conference in Paris, France. PageLines 2.0 is the next version of the popular drag & drop web design framework built on top of WordPress.

Alongside PageLines 2.0, will launch the PageLines Store, an “app store” for web design. The Store will allow anyone on PageLines to quickly download and install new professional sections, plug-ins and themes built for PageLines. It’s a development team in a box with the power of drag & drop web design.

PageLines software has been downloaded over 400,000 times from wordpress.org and over 16,000 people are already Pro members of PageLines community.

Drag & Drop Web Design without Limits

The 2.0 framework includes more than 50 new features; improved drag & drop design, full page-by-page section control, responsive design, dynamic color handling and core sections for feature sliders, image carousels, highlight sections and so much more. With the addition of the PageLines Store users can take their sites so much further.
The Store is a marketplace for drag-and-drop web design (think of it like an “app store” for drag-and-drop sections, plugins and themes). The Store gives users the ability to buy new sections, plug-ins and themes for their site directly from the admin interface, when they need it. All with the flexibility of drag & drop web design.
Andrew Powers, founder of PageLines says, “We have seen people build great stuff on PageLines but we realized they are stuck with what we gave them. We looked at the best ideas and realized that PageLines would need to do for web sites, what Apple did for mobile devices.”
How the Store can Help Developers?
For developers, the PageLines Store offers them the opportunity to gain exposure to the entire PageLines community. Developers build their own products, set the price and collect 70% of every sale they make. Over 100 developers have already signed up to develop for the store and 25 products have been built in three weeks.

Building a Developer Community

Leading up to launch PageLines announced a competition dubbed “LeContest” to reward the pioneering developers in the Store.

The top three developers to build products for the store won the chance to join PageLines at the LeWeb Tech conference in Paris, and launch their Store products.
Kyle Stewart, VP of Operations at PageLines said, “LeContest was a chance to connect deeper with the growing community of developers around PageLines. We hosted workshops, ran Skype chats, spent late nights building new developer videos, anything we could do to engage the new community. PageLines is providing the tools, features and community to create an ecosystem for designers, developers and people who need their own professional website.”

Pricing

The new framework will be sold via the PageLines website. The cost for the Professional Edition will be $197 allowing users to build sites on any domain that they personally own. The Developer Edition, will be available for $397 and comes without the PageLines logo, provides vector graphics, will include integrations for Mediawiki and Vanilla forum software and allows user to build an unlimited number of sites.

One of the key aspects of launching a website is making sure it functions correctly across all the different browsers. TestingBot.com makes cross browser testing easy and fast by using cloud computing.

With this new test service, TestingBot provides easy access to a multiple of browsers and browser versions. A website developer creates one single test which can then be verified on all the major browsers for verification. By using this service, website owners can avoid introducing bugs and they make sure their product functions correctly.

The industry standard for browser testing, Selenium, is the technology being used at TestingBot. Website owners can quickly compose a Selenium test with simple commands and run it on TestingBot’s grid infrastructure. An example of a test would be to verify if the flow of registering a new account functions correctly.

Whenever website owners make adjustments to their website, they risk the chance of breaking certain features. TestingBot provides a feature where it will test the flow, design or any other aspect at a specific time and interval. If the website does break, TestingBot will alert the owner, saving a potential loss in visitors or revenue.

By using cloud computing, TestingBot can quickly scale up when demand is high. When a website owner decides to test a website on ten different browser versions, TestingBot dynamically allocates a cluster of browsers to test the website.

With its tunnel feature, TestingBot provides website developers the possibility to test a website while it is still in development. The tunnel provides a secure connection between the developer’s staging environment and our test grid.

Mobile Web Pro by Kevin Koop and David Cisneros

Review by Chris Towland, Gadget Editor

Everyone knows that the mobile web use is just growing and growing on a daily basis. Pretty much everyone buying a phone wants the internet capability that the iPhone and Android phones bring to the table. When we then add in the web browsing capabilities of the iPad and other tablets and it’s easy to understand why more and more internet useage is moving from the pc and laptop to mobile platforms.

One area where this change is causing problems is with business websites.  Even though in excess of 67% of smartphone users claim to have used their device to look for a local business’s location info, a very small percentage of business websites look good or are easy to navigate on a mobile phone.

This can of course equate to lost customers for the business! For example, someone looking for a nearby restaurant on their mobile phone finds your website vut can’t move around the site easily to find your address or phone number. They eventually leave your site to find another restaurant whose address they can easily find. Something as simple as this can mean the difference between a profit and a loss for small businesses.

A very cost effective solution to this problem comes in the form of Mobile Web Pro by Kevin Koop and David Cisneros.

At a price of less than $10, Mobile Web Pro provides six professionally designed mobile templates that can be added to any website. The code that comes with the templates means that if someone views your website on a desktop or laptop computer then they see your normal website whereas if they view the same site on their phone then they will see the new mobile version of your site.

This allows you to direct them straight to the information that a mobile user is looking for which is usually address or telephone number. In fact, the mobile templates will even let your visitor simply press a button on your website so that the person can telephone you automatically.

Included in Mobile Web Pro are:

• Six different mobile web templates, each in seven style versions (giving you 42 different looks for your mobile site.)
• The Mobile Detect script that decides if the user is on a mobile device or pc and gives them the correct website.
• Twenty five tutorial videos that will ensure you can quickly get the templates set up and working on your business site.
• A 30 day money back guarantee.

In my view these templates will help anyone to quickly make an effective, professional looking mobile website for their business and all for the price of a few coffees.

I’m unsure as to how long the special pricing will remain but currently it is available at The Warrior Forum.

Site24x7, a leading website and web application monitoring service from Zoho Corp., today released service enhancements that deliver significantly higher levels of actionable insight to website administrators and developers. Service enhancements range from greater insight into the actual experience of a website from a visitor’s perspective to improved insight into web page object performance for a better understanding of how individual components affect website performance. The enhanced features of Site24x7 are available immediately.

“Site24x7 can now monitor page load times versus just response times,” said Gibu K. Mathew, director product management, Site24x7.com. “This gives marketing teams more visibility into how their websites are performing for end users when they roll out new marketing initiatives. The new capabilities will also help developers understand what is slowing down a web page, as they provide performance metrics across the various domains accessed by the page.”

Enhanced Performance Monitoring

Enhancements to the Site24x7 monitoring software include:

• User perspective analysis: Administrators using Site24x7 can now monitor a website from the perspective of a site visitor, enabling them to experience page load and image rendering times as a visitor would. This perspective becomes very valuable to administrators and webmasters as they try to increase conversions or retain visitors on their sites.
• Web page analyzer: Administrators and developers can identify which web page components are slowing down a website and fine tune those components to ensure better performance. The web page analyzer can assess the performance impact of all website components-including HTML, images, CSS and JavaScript.
• Website downtime information: Administrators and developers can now see a screenshot, captured from the point of view of a user, when a web page is not working properly. This screenshot capture illustrates the exact problem causing the disruption and gives webmasters more visibility into a reported downtime.
• Enhanced website URL response time: Administrators and webmasters now have access to in-depth details of page response times, DNS time, and connection time performance. Site24x7 also provides insight on average response times from different monitoring locations across the globe as well as hourly and daily response times. These help administrators and webmasters understand website performance as experienced by users worldwide.

Usage and Pricing

Site24x7 offers a 15-day free trial, and all services are backed by a 30-day, no-hassle, money-back guarantee. Pricing for the Professional Edition of Site24x7 with Web Page Analyzer capability starts at $4/URL/month. For detailed pricing information or to sign up for a free 15-day trial of Site24x7, visit http://www.site24x7.com/site24x7-pricing.html or email support@site24x7.com.

For more information on Site24x7, please visit http://www.site24x7.com; follow the blog at http://blogs.site24x7.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/Site24x7 and on Twitter at @Site24x7.

Brandon Yanofsky of BlistMarketing.com, an online relationship marketing company specializing in small business website design and small business internet marketing, recently discussed why small businesses must have a website.

In his article, “Why Have a Website For Your Business,” Brandon laid out the three benefits of websites:

1. “People are looking for your product/service online.”

People are now using search engines to find products and services. The only way a small business can appear in the search engine results is if they have a website.

“If you have a website, your potential customers will find your business. If you don’t, they’ll find your competitors.”

2. “People are looking for YOU online.”

In addition to searching for products and services, consumers are also using websites to get in contact with small businesses. If they need a phone number, they won’t look in the Yellow Pages. Instead, they search for the company’s website.

“When [a plumber’s] customer had a leak in their house, they went online looking for his phone number. But because he didn’t have a website, his customer wasn’t able to find his phone number and called his competitor instead.”

3. “It’s the best way to spend your marketing budget.”

Out of all the advertising and marketing methods available to businesses, websites are the most effective and efficient. Compared to other forms of advertising, a website is much cheaper but yields more results.

“One of my clients was spending thousands a month on advertising. When they finally got a website, they stopped running the advertising and still had more clients. They lowered their costs and increased their revenue.”

Small businesses interested in creating a small business website should read Brandon’s other article, “How to Create a Small Business Website.”

InteliWISE, creator of award winning Virtual Agents, has released its plugin for WordPress, one of the global leading CMS systems. These virtual assistants provide 7/24 active assistance to customers through active tracking and instant feedback. Inteliwise Agents improve sales by intercepting abandoning customers and convincing them to finish their purchase. The agent can also actively monitor customer progress through a site and reach out to visitors with offers, questions, or suggestions using an AI intent–based search engine, and active event triggers.

As compared to live chat plugin for WordPress, the InteliWISE Agent can be fully automated and does not require a live representative to assist visitors. Visitors can enter questions in their own words, and the AI software, powered by cutting-edge predictive technology, provides answers quickly and accurately. With the addition of active monitoring and action triggers, the agent can actively interact with customers and improve conversions.

InteliWISE agents are a new customer engagement tool that can play different roles on WordPress sites, including:

• a better Contact Form

It’s an advanced triggering system, to present the Contact form or Signup form to the potential customers at the right moment, to increase conversions

• a Feedback widget

It’s a smart and customizable Feedback tool that is precisely triggered in order to maximize feedback response

• a Lead Generation tool

It boosts sales and reduces bounce rates by detecting users possibly ready to leave the site and grabbing their attention by presenting extra offers

Through the use of triggers, the agent is prompted to make offers of assistance to the site visitors. The agent can also ask the visitor to answer questions, it can collect email addresses, offer coupons, discounts, and more, all based on the actions of the visitor.

It can be installed within minutes on any WordPress web site, blog or online store.
The agent is completely configurable, allowing the control of site placement, and a selection of +100 male or female avatars in the library, ready–to–use. Last, but not least, rich reporting will provide important information on what customers are asking about, in their exact words.

InteliWISE Virtual chat Agent is the first out–of–the-box plug in for the WordPress – leading content management system (CMS) with more than 40 million sites built on it.

DOWNLOAD virtual agent plugin here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/inteliwise-virtual-agent/

Read details on http://inteliwise.com/wordpress

SiteTrail, Inc., a new web based startup that connects users to the latest information and analytics about their favorite websites introduces an enhanced version of their popular website analysis tool.

There are tons of website analytics services around the internet today. All of them face one common issue, they provide biased stats based on data collected from self-branded tools such as web browser based toolbars. This makes it harder for webmasters to comprehend these website statistics beyond simply observing trends. SiteTrail tackles this problem by taking an entirely different approach to reporting site analytics.

SiteTrail scours the web in an attempt to find as much information as it possibly can about any given website or domain name. Then it compiles easy to understand reports that are accurate down to the number.

Popular features of the SiteTrail analysis tool include:

• Social Media Analysis: From Twitter followers to Delicious bookmarks, find out how popular a site is in the social media space.
• SEO Analysis: Learn how well a site is optimized for popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.
• Visitor Analysis: Get an estimate of how many people visit a site from popular web analytics services such as Compete and Quantcast.
• Traffic Analysis: Learn about a site’s traffic patterns and how well it ranks on services like Alexa and Compete.
• Revenue Analysis: Determine how much advertisement revenue a site can make at the current economic conditions.
• Content Analysis: Analyze the top keywords a site is using and determine other factors such as it’s average page size.
• Link Analysis: Find out who a site is linking to and how much “link juice” it passes to them.
• Hosting Analysis: Find out a site’s IP address and server location as well as which web hosting company is hosting it.
• Domain Analysis (WHOIS): Monitor a site’s domain name, find out who it’s registered to, when it expires and more.
• Server Analysis: Learn what software a site was built with, how fast it’s web pages load and the programming languages it uses.
• Color Analysis: Get a quick snapshot of the top colors used on a site including respective hex codes and color densities.

Additional features include DNS record analysis, HTTP header analysis and much more. SiteTrail is a “great way to see a quick snapshot of a competitor website,” says Jason Chan, a SiteTrail user.

Magix Website Maker 5 is the perfect solution for all web designers, HTML website owners, Internet agencies, clubs, freelancers and those who are building their first website. Website Maker 5 is a powerful all-around package which includes everything you need to create and manage animated Flash websites.

Without any prior knowledge you can create your personal website. The website is set up online already, so all users need to do is customize it online according to their needs and publish it. The online application enables you to access your website from any computer, anywhere in the world! With the freely usable design archive and the intuitive drag and drop user interface, you can enjoy full design freedom and start using the program right away.

Features:

• Includes a personal top level domain, 5 email accounts and 5000MB of web space for 12 months.
• Flash Widget maker creates animated Flash objects for external HTML websites.
• Create personal and interactive buttons
• Animated web design templates that can be customised to match different websites with just a few clicks.
• No installation – online software optimized for DSL serves as automation and control centre for creating personal websites and managing their content anytime worldwide via the web.
• Interactive photo and video presentation with galleries, lightboxes and media players.
• Multi-project mode for pros – operate website projects at multiple domains.
• Export and integrate media players and entire websites via HTML into other websites. No export to other servers via FTP.

Just a few years ago, website building was a specialised field. Businesses and individuals spent hundreds, even thousands of pounds, for programmers and designers to make websites for their companies, brands or personal interests.

Nowadays, however, anyone can create a website, even their own social network. Web geeks, designers and techies need not apply. With new web-platform maker SocialGO, website making — with social networking capabilities included — can be done from your home computer in a matter of minutes. And with basic plans that start at no cost too.

SocialGO offers more than 50 layouts for users to choose from, including minimalist designs with clean, classic lines to arty selections with intricate graphics and bursts of color. Users can also add on specific themes to their new website — from romance to sports, from cityscapes to video games.

From there, users can customise their sites by not just adding simple point-and-click heads with lists of information, but by also treating their website as a social network. Event calendars, blogs, RSS news feeds and member profiles can be added to make a group or company’s site as interactive and functional as they’d like.

With the Premium plan £16.99 ($24.99), users can also add high-quality video chat and messaging capabilities — a feature that only SocialGO offers. The Premium plan also lets users monetize their site by adding advertising banners through Google AdSense, or by charging a monthly membership fee or a one-time joiner’s fee for entering the social network. You can also make it your own site, with the option to use your own domain and branding. Or upgrade from the premium to the concierge plan, where the team at SocialGO will even build it for you.

And with all our plans, users are in charge of their own security settings when they make a website. SocialGO ensures that all its customers have as much control or as many options as they need to create a site that best fits their goals and desires. Find out how to get started at http://www.socialgo.com today.