This tutorial will show you how to change or verify the database login to your Joomla site. People will sometimes need to do this if: Their site can't access the database They've been hacked and need to make the site more secure
Normally in a Joomla article, code such as Javascript or PHP will not work. This is for good security reasons. People could do a lot of harm if they were free to use these inside your articles. However, many advanced users need to use such…
This tutorial consists of three videos. They will show you how to take an existing PSD file created in Photoshop and convert it into a Joomla template. They are a sample of the Joomla Template Design class that is available to subscribers.
sh404SEF sometimes creates pages where you don't see the modules that you expect to. The problem is often caused by another feature. Joomla produces lots of URL possibilities for each page and sh404SEF solves that by redirecting all the possibilities to just one URL. This…
Word produces horrible code that makes a mess of almost every web page. I'd definitely recommend that you avoid pasting Word documents directly into Joomla articles. Here's an explanation:
Joomla templates are not rocket science. You can learn how to build and modify them. We can show you how. Interested? Read on ... In order to get started, you'll need to understand the 5 essential building blocks of every Joomla template. In the 5…
When you're building a Joomla template you'll often need to make the design flexible. That means that areas of the site can be shown or hidden on different pages. The solution is to use conditional statements and this tutorial will introduce you to what they…
Sometimes when you're trying to upload extensions to your Joomla site, you'll be faced with error messages like this: "JFolder::create: Could not create directory" or "Warning! Failed to move file." Often this is because your Joomla site doesn't have the correct permissions to upload the…
One of the most frequently asked questions on the Joomla forums is "What is the Itemid and what does it do?". I thought a quick tutorial would be useful because it's important for displaying both modules and templates:
