Sparks Arts offers a wide variety of extended functions that can be added to your basic Joomla! CMS setup, including Events Calendar, interactive Google maps, local weather forecasts, forum, e-mail newsletter management, e-commerce and more. We have researched through hundreds of available Joomla! extensions to hand-pick the best for your website. Review the complete list to find everything you need...

Events Calendar

JCal Client is a W3C-validated events calendar component with a gorgeous, CSS-based front-end display.

• log-in access for event creation/management
• WYSIWYG editing of event descriptions
• Event scheduling on a 'per-minute' basis
• Latest Events module for event listing, works with recurring and all-day event
• Mini-calendar module for a small calendar to fit in a standard module position
• Administrative event aproval with e-mail notification
• Back-end management/publishing of event categories
• Ranged, recurrent and all-day event support
• Multiple views for calendar including monthly, weekly, daily and category
• Highly customizeable event display
• Integrated search function

Weather Forecasts

Z Weather can display weather information for any U.S.A. location on your web site. Weather data is sourced from the National Weather Service (NWS). Z Weather can display forecasts, current conditions, and hazardous weather alerts for one or more locations.

Other features include:

• Selectable 12 hour (2 icons per day) or 24 hour (1 icon per day) forecast display
• Caching is used to provide fast display of weather data
• Display weather data within any module position on any or all pages
• Flexible display options
• Forecast display options include single day, multiple day and weekend forecasts for one or more locations

Google Maps

GMaps is a Joomla component that enables you to build and manage map data from the backend admistration panels with a user-friendly interface. You can easily create markers, maps and then add those markers to each individual map. The maps can be rendered either within the body of your content using the plugin or through the front-end component.

You also are given the ability to overlay one map over another map without having to retype all of the markers. We call this a "map overlay". This is very helpful when you have defined your maps into logical categories and then want to create a map that combines them.

GMaps includes the following Key Features:

• Database driven map data
• Back-end adminstration pages to build and maintain individual maps
• Ability to define a marker and its attributes (i.e. title, description and image)
• Map specific properties (i.e. height, width, zoom level, zoom type, maptype, etc.)
• Ability to create multiple maps and assign markers to those maps
• Define specific icons per marker (limited list is provided)
• Simple tag definition to include maps inside your content
• No more typing latitude / longitude information on the tag inside your content
• Front-end component that enables the user to list and view all of the available maps defined
• Driving Directions
• Multi-tab pop-up windows

E-Mail Newsletter Management

Acajoom News is a newsletter component designed with ease of use and robustness in mind. Acajoom can handle an unlimited number of newsletters with an unlimited number of subscribers in just few clicks.

Acajoom has a lot of powerful features:

• Handle registered or unregistered subscribers
• Attachment capability
• Email address validation when registering
• Sends test email to admin before whole list
• Ability to Ban emails
• Embedded images option
• Automated unsubscribing link
• Preview newsletter before sending either on the screen or send a test email
• Statistics management (Number of Sent / Opened newsletters, HTML or text only)
• HTML or TEXT only mailings
• No limit on mailing list size In the near future
• First time wizard to help you send your first newsletter successfully
• Copy function for lists and newsletters which can be used to manage newsletter template
• Special front-end user-panel (so users can easily manage the newsletters they are subscribed to)
• Auto-configuration of mailing settings
• Front-end edition of newsletter for Administrators
• Sending mailing report to list owner
• Automatic update
• Personalize newsletter by greeting the reader with their firstname
• Education center to help you write and design effective newsletters
• Imports email list data from any source
• Integrated Subscriber History
• Past newsletters Public Archive
• Backend and Frontend fully multi-language
• Conforms to most ISP restrictions for sending mail
• Integration with Community Builder
• Unlimited lists
• Unlimited newsletters
• Unlimited subscribers
• Supports auto-responders and newsletters scheduling

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