This tutorial came from a question in our support forum: "How do I know what the menu links to articles look like?" That's a good question. If you make a new menu link and choose "Articles", you're faced with 8 different types of layout. These…
If you’ve ever worked on an existing website, chances are you’ve run into a directory listing like the following:
Custom HTML modules are a very useful feature in Joomla. You can insert any code you like from articles to photos to code. Here's a video explaining how it's done:
This tutorial will show you how to create tables inside Joomla articles. Because the default Joomla editor doesn't have a table-creation feature, we're going to recommend that you upgrade to Joomla Content Editor. Instructions on how to install it are here.
MVC can be a scary acronym for the uninitiated. It stands for Model-View-Controller and the concepts behind MVC are responsible for the extra flexibility that is now afforded to the designer. While parts of the theory can be rather involved and complicated, the only part…
This is Part 3 of a series of tutorials on Joomla's offline page: Part 1 (Beginner): Take your Joomla site offline Part 2 (Intermediate): Customize your Joomla offline page Part 3 (Advanced): Create a new Joomla offline page
This tutorial will show you how to create a development site in Joomla. You can make changes to your test site and then, when you've tested and are happy with them, automatically push out those changes to your live site. This is professional development behavior,…
It's really useful for writers on a website to be able to easily find and manage their articles. With Joomla, there's no central control panel for writers to do that. Fortunately there's an outstanding, free extension called Frontend User Article List which solves that problem.…
Before you start to build your Joomla site, I recommend you delete all the sample content. Is this a common problem?. A quick search for some of the default text shows over 4 millions sites who have forgotten to remove it. Also commonly indexed are…