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Optimize Your Site's Performance
KickApps is in the process of improving performance across the platform to deliver your pages as quickly as possible. As part of that effort, we've put together a number of best practices that you can use to speed up your KickApps-powered pages even more.
Download the KickApps Affiliate Performance Guide and begin optimizing your site today!
Migrating From Ning to KickApps
Recent events have caused a surge of requests from many of you who want to migrate your Ning communities to the KickApps platform. We are pleased to announce that it is absolutely possible, and encourage you to sign up and start customizing your community today! Then drop us a line via Support, and we'll help you migrate everything into your new KickApps community.
New Joomla SSO Plugins Released
Announcing the 1.5.1 BETA 3 release of our Joomla 1.5 Single Sign On plugins. This release fixes issues with account creation, PHP 5 compatibility and session sharing across platforms. Check it out!
New TwickApps Widget in the Gallery
The power of the Wiget Studio seems to be never ending. A new widget has been created to pull all the Twitter posts, from all users, containing the phrase "kickapps" and display them in a widget. Check out the Widget Gallery to see this widget in action.
KickDeveloper Invades San Francisco
Come to the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco to meet the KickApps team! That's right, not only will we be manning booth 1000, we also are exclusive sponsors of the Dev Lounge and have some pretty fun events scheduled, including talks from Drupal, Joomla! and even a vicious RockBand smackdown between the two leading open source content management systems.
WidgeAD™ Gallery & Screencast
A WidgeAD™ is a new generation of banner advertising that is interactive, engaging and shareable. Using Widget technology, WidgeADs™ contain dynamically updated content, keeping them fresh and relevant to viewers, and are a very effective way of driving traffic back to your website. Check out examples in our new Widget Gallery and then head over to the screencast tutorial to make your own.
KickDeveloper seeks Community Manager
KickApps is looking for a full time, NYC-based technical community manager to develop, grow and maintain KickDeveloper.com. Read the full description and learn how to apply here.
Recent Updates
We've added a Recent Updates page to this site. Check this page for updates on the latest features, fixes, and enhancements to the KickApps platform.
Create a Tag Cloud Widget
It's quick and easy with our handy-dandy Tag Cloud Widget Tool. We also explain how to roll your own tag cloud widget with free, open-source RSS parsers. It's all in the tute.
Introducing jQuery
jQuery is a powerful, lightweight JavaScript library that's baked right into your KickApps-powered pages. Check out the tute to find out how you can start adding sophisticated effects to your pages with just a few lines of code!
Learn How To Make Album Pages
KickDev Member Nikkibons has come up with a clever way to create album pages. Check out the tute!
Take a video tour of the Affiliate Center
The Affiliate Center is the heart of the KickApps platform. It’s a powerful web-based tool that gives you full control of every aspect of your community and keeps you in the know about everything going on inside of it. Click here to watch a video tour of the Affiliate Center.