Page loading times on your website are important for a number of reasons. Not only can slow pages frustrate visitors and cost you conversions, but the search engines also take an interest in your page loading times, meaning slow-loading pages can affect your SEO. If you have a website running on Joomla, one option you might want to consider to improve your page loading times is to deploy a Content Delivery Network (CDN).

What is a CDN?

A CDN consists of a number of optimized servers located all over the world. These servers work together to distribute content, which includes downloadable objects, JavaScript files, applications and more. The basic principle is that when someone visits your website, their data comes from the server that is located nearest to them, significantly increasingly page load times wherever they are located in the world.

Why Use One?

There are a number of reasons why using a CDN for your Joomla website is a good idea. Faster page load times is the main reason to invest in a good CDN. When customers visit a website that performs badly and the pages take a long time to load, at best they will hit the back button and head to one of your competitors’ websites; at worse you could damage the reputation of your brand.

Very often that we heard complaint from users about how difficult it was to do simple tasks in Joomla! such as changing module positions, hiding an article's title or relocating the menu items. Therefore, we decided to take a deep research at how people were using Joomla and the possibility of the solution that would satisfy most Joomla! users. As a result, JSN PowerAdmin was born.

JSN PowerAdmin was built with one single goal in mind: to make Joomla easy and joyful to use. What we wanted to do was to contribute to a wonderful Joomla CMS and expressed our vision about the Joomla administration interface.

Immediately, JSN PowerAdmin had rocked the Joomla! community with because it was dead-easy to use and had incredible functions. Look at the infographic below to see what JSN PowerAdmin brings to the users and how the users love JSN PowerAdmin. (Click on the image for the full size)

We've just released JSN ImageShow version 4.5.1 and want to introduce you some new updates in this blog.

JSN ImageShow version 4.5.1 updates

• Full compatible with Joomla 3.0.x
• New theme Carousel - a responsive theme
• Add more options to select thumbnail size in Flickr source
• Add a simple editor to image's description

Full compatible with Joomla 3.0

We are happy to announce that JSN ImageShow is fully compatible with Joomla 3.0.x. Now you can use JSN ImageShow in both Joomla 2.5.x and Joomla 3.0.x.

JSN ImageShow is ready for Joomla 3.0

JSN ImageShow version 4.4.1 has been released with a lot of new enhancements; did you get this news? If you have updated yours and can see the new things, you might be looking at our blog to help you understand more about this new version, I guess!

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New Highlight Features

• A new JavaScript skin for ThemeClassic
• Responsive layout
• Other enhancements (Added JSN Framework, change in Facebook mechanism, etc.)

JavaScript skin for ThemeClassic – more options for mobiles

JavaScript and Flash are 2 new themes for Theme Classic

This feature is applied to the Theme Classic of JSN ImageShow. As before, Theme Classic used Flash skin, so it does not display your images well on mobile devices. Because of this we have developed this theme by applying 1 more skin using JavaScript. This new skin provides you with similar transition effects to the Flash skin; however, there are fewer options.

Please note that, besides Theme Classic with a JavaScript skin, you can display your image gallery well on mobile devices with Theme Slider and Theme Grid.

To get your website running well on an iPhone or iPad, both the templates and the extensions should support these mobile devices. FYI, JSN templates are optimized for mobiles and JSN ImageShow is too. I am going to show how nice JSN ImageShow looks on the iPhone and iPad.