During the holidays things slow down a bit. There aren’t as many phone calls to make or emails to answer. Most people take the time to read a good book or catch a movie. Not Trevor though (the lead developer of ScreenSteps). Free time means time to polish off one of those projects that he has had on the workbench for awhile.

Publish to Blogger and Google Sites

Blogger support has been a big request for awhile so we are happy to announce you can now publish your ScreenSteps lessons to your Blogger blog (Standard and Pro versions). You can also now publish to Google Sites (Pro only).

Here are some lessons that will help get you started:

• Configuring ScreenSteps to Upload to Blogger
• Working with ScreenSteps Desktop and Google Sites

New Joomla Integration Manual

In one of our recent webinars we received another request for Joomla integration. After poking around on the internet for a few minutes we found a nice Joomla plugin that adds support for creating content using one of the methods already supported by ScreenSteps. As a result we have some new lessons that will show you how to easily integrate ScreenSteps with Joomla.

• Integrating ScreenSteps with Joomla

We hope that you enjoy the new export options. You can download the latest version of ScreenSteps here.

During our webinar today on new ScreenSteps 2.7 features (learn more about ScreenSteps), a customer asked about Joomla integration. The question comes up every once in a while and I actually had investigated ScreenSteps and Joomla integration a while back. I remembered that one of our customers was able to get it to work after jumping through a number of hoops.

After the webinar was over Greg and I started discussing Joomla and I decided to look into it again. It turns out there is a great Movable Type plugin for Joomla. Since ScreenSteps uses the Movable Type API to post content to TypePad and Movable Type, the Joomla Movable Type plugin works perfectly with ScreenSteps.

I’ve posted a new manual on Integrating ScreenSteps with Joomla that will walk anyone through the process with Joomla 1.5. You will be publishing visually rich tutorials to Joomla from within ScreenSteps in no time.

I will mention that the ease of creating the manual in ScreenSteps while installing the plugin, and then instantly publishing to ScreenSteps Live brought a smile to my face.