Joomla PNG-lite icons are a direct swap for Joomla Core PNG icons, the icons appear the same in every possible way including quality. These images were compressed based off the Template optimization guide I wrote that can be applied to just about any template to make them significantly smaller. They also work with any front end template and will not compromise security in any way. This method can also be applied to even Admin templates.

Read more for more information on Joomla PNG-Lite and the download link.

What does this modify?
The following directories are modified
joomlaroot/administrator/images/
joomlaroot/administrator/templates/system/images
joomlaroot/administrator/templates/khepri/
joomlaroot/administrator/templates/khepri/images/
joomlaroot/templates/system/images/

Data & Bandwith Savings

You save an substantial amount of bandwidth and speed, by using this direct file swap enhancement. From administrator/images/ you save a whopping 58.00 kb, from administrator/templates/ you save 43.25 kb. And last, but certainly not least, especially for those with high traffic sites 2.25 kb from templates/.

Reducing 2.25kb of data may not seem like, but to a user downloading it on 56k dial up it is a decent amount. And for broadband users it will shave off a fraction of the load time, it all ads up though. Also don’t forget template/system files are loaded EVERY TIME someone visits your site for the first time. Lets say you had a high traffic site maybe 100,000 visits a month, with the simple templates/system/images folder modification alone you could save 225.00 mb of traffic every month! Not to mention the fact that search engines like sites that are smaller, quicker, and load faster.

For the back end the savings are even better, you save 100kb of data from every new visit. Not only that your navigation between pages will be much quicker.

Installation

This is by far the easiest optimization enhancement for Joomla 1.5 install. Simply unpack the zip file and drop it in to your root Joomla directory via ftp, overwriting all of the images it asks you to replace.

You may need to clear your browser cache to notice any improvements. While the improvements may be small, they are improvements at the cost of about 2 minutes of your time. You need to use the default admin template to notice any differences in the back end.

Download: Joomla PNG-lite Joomla 1.5 Plugin (4418)

Joomla PNG-Lite icons are a direct swap for Joomla 1.0 core png icons, the icons appear the same in every possible way including quality. They are  however significantly smaller! These images were compressed using the same methods that I explain in the Template optimization guide I wrote that can be applied to just about any template to make them significantly smaller.

Read more for more information on PNG-Lite and download links:

What does this modify?
The following directories are modified
joomlaroot/administrator/images/
joomlaroot/administrator/templates/system/images
joomlaroot/administrator/templates/khepri/
joomlaroot/administrator/templates/khepri/images/
joomlaroot/templates/system/images/

Bandwith and Load Time Savings

You save an substantial amount of bandwidth and speed, by using this direct file swap enhancement. Joomla 1.0.x PNG lite reduces a total of 72.8 kb of file size. Your navigation between pages in the admin panel will be much quicker, especially for users with slower internet connections.

Installation:

This is by far the easiest optimization enhancement for Joomla to install. Simply unpackage the zip file and drop it in to your root Joomla directory via ftp, then overwrite all of the old images with the new ones by clicking overwrite in your ftp client.

You may need to clear your browser cache to notice any improvements. While the improvements may be small, they are improvements at the cost of about 2 minutes of your time. You need to use the default admin template to notice any differences in the back end.

Download: Joomla PNG-Lite Joomla 1.0 Plugin (298)

To use this plugin you must install and publish the Metascoreplugin to your site. Following that you can install and publish the Metascorebutton plugin. After installing and publishing it a Metascorebutton will appear below your text editor; enabling you to quickly and easily insert the Metascoreplugins code into your content. This is a great little time saver.

Read more for more information and the download url.

This button inserts the following code into your content.

{metascore url=http://www.metacritic.com/pasterestofurlhere/}

You can simply paste the metacritic.com url over the current one starting with http://, or just the second half of it(after .com/)

This button works with ANY editor; TinyMCE,JCK,FCK,etc.

The demo page(Gigahertz) displays the original plugin and how the end result will look, not how the button works or looks from the editing perspective.

Download: Metascore Button Joomla 1.5 Plugin (574)

Rok My Button requires RokBox. You can find RokBox and its download/usage information here at rocketwerx.com. Read More for more information and download link.

The four included plugin buttons are:
my audio
my remotesite
my remotethumb
my thumbnail
my video

This pack requires to be unzipped first and then uploaded one button at a time. The reason I did this was to allow users to only upload what they need.

Download: Rok my Button pack Joomla 1.5 (2679)