Announcing the release of a new ZOO Addon, dubbed, Super Submit for ZOO. Super Submit for ZOO, will easily break up your ZOO Submission view onto manageable stages. Your Clients, Authors, Editors and anyone making submissions on using ZOO will appreciate not having to scroll down long submission forms. They will be able to easily and smoothly move betwen the sections until they are satisfied and then hit the submit button on the last step.

The plugin breaks down your Submission pages sections into Steps and offers smooth pagination from section to section.

The plugin also offers a built in Info Box for you to provide some instruction or guidance to people making submissions on your site.

The Submit button is hidden until the last stage of the submission form is reached.

The plugin makes use of language files for some text, like the info in the Info Box, Previous and Next buttons and for the word Step. A CSS file is included to allow you to make customisations and style the Step section if you need to.

Usage is very straight forward, Install, Enable and add your language files ( if needed ). No other intertaction is required from you.

Watch this space for more news.

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Note that this is a Joomla plugin and will be available for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0 currently and supports ZOO 3.0.X currently.

Announcing the Super Sticky plugin for Joomla! . Super Sticky will allow you make a Div sticky so that the specified div scrolls with the page as the visitor scrolls down the page.

The idea for the plugin was from a Feature Request. Many sites require having to make a menu or certain position in your template scroll as the visitor scrolls. If you have such a need, this is a slick solution for you.

Note that this is a Joomla plugin and available for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0 currently.

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Announcing the PRO version of, Super Shots for ZOO . Super Shots will allow you or your Content Submitters to enter a site URL that will be converted to a Screen Shot /  Thumbshot of the Target Website. The Screenshot will also link to the target website. The images will be framed by 4 selectable corder styles. More styles will be added in time .

You can select a default width for the thumshots that will apply globally or you can override this width per ZOO Item .

The image on the left is created with Super Shots. All that you have to do is add a Link and then define a width for the screenshot. The thumbnails are generated and updated dynamically. Once generated the Images are simply Awesome !

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Super Shots make use of the Free WordPress API to Generate Screenshots.

As you may already know, the EU Cookie Law comes into effect on the 26th May 2012 , while there are many intepretaions of the new Cookie law as so far as implementation and enforcement goes , what is clear is that Site Visitors have to explicitly agree to accept Cookies. Cookie Monster for Joomla is a System Plugin that makes implementing these Notifications a breeze and offers a less intrusive solution for you. Developers can also tap into the plugin to make their scripts compliant, just ask me how . See the Demo

You can read more about the new EU Cookie Law here and here .The Plugin is in the form of a Joomla System plugin and will be released shortly, if you have any Question or Queries,  please ask in the Support Centre . Note that will be a Commercial Subscription Package at an affordable $12.99 for 3 months or $24.99 for 12 months, install and use on unlimited Joomla Installations, and released as per License and Terms .

Remember that this is a jQuery based Cookie Acceptance solution and available for Joomla 3.0, 2.5 and Joomla 1.5 . If you have Cookie generating jQuery scripts, check the Docs for how to let CookieMonster handle them for you . Please feeel free to ask if you asre unsure about anything .

Lets take a look at what the Cookie Monster for Joomla offers ...

Announcing another ZOO Element - Super Tweets For ZOO. Super Tweets makes use of the latest Twitter API and allows you to show Twitter Streams in your ZOO Items. In addition, there is also the possibility to show a TweetBox so your site visitors can Tweet your ZOO items without leaving your site.

You can set a Global twitter Query for all your Items and then also have each Item use a Unique Twitter Query if you choose to, eg: Each Business Item in your Directory can have a Unique Tweet Stream related to that Business. The element is supported in all ZOO Apps .

Your Visitors can follow others, mark Tweets as Favourites, Reply to tweets and check out Twitter Profiles all without leaving your site. All links open in a new Window so you retain your sites traffic. Have a look at the Demo Below and check out all the Possible Tweet Queries you can make .

Announcing our Latest ZOO Element . Super QR Codes for ZOO . QR codes need to introduction so I will get on with describing the Functions of this Element. This ZOO Element will generate automatically and on the Fly, QR Codes for your ZOO Items.

All that is required from you, is to install and then Assign the Element to your ZOO App and App Template Views ( Full and/or Teaser ) . You have the Option of having the Element being assigned Globally to all exisiting Items or you can Enable the Element on a per Item basis.

It is also possible to choose between 2 different border styles for the generated QR Codes and you also have the choice of selecting the width and height for the QR codes . How is that for freedom ?

You can see a Demo on the very Blog .

This Element was born out of a suggestion by a valued HerdBoy subscriber @ Drcobar .