Blog posts about Joomla
Using the Joomla 2.5 administrator interface could not be easier. However, when you look at it the first time you may not know what everything is.
This brief video will show you how to login to the Joomla 2.5 administrator, and then provide you with an overview of what you are looking at after you hit enter :)
...Downloads managers are an easy way to add and track downloads that you want to provide on your website. There are a number of different download managers out there, but for today, we will look at Edocman.
The first way is to login to the front of your website using your login form.
...There may be times when you need to insert a PDF into your Joomla 2.5 article, and if you do not have a downloads manager installed than this can appear to be quite the task. But don’t worry, inserting your PDF’s into your Joomla article is easier than it looks.
If you are using Joomla 1.5 the steps are exactly the same, just your Media Manager location may be different. Just follow these steps to get yourself rolling.
...If you just upgraded to Joomla 2.5 and you are experiencing the following error SQL error, “unknown column ‘cound’”, don’t worry it is an easy fix.
The problem is just a misspelled word, count, in the banners component.
...What is the front-end/back-end of Joomla? I am often asked this question by clients who are new to dynamic websites. When you create a Joomla website you can think of it as creating two websites.
So the situation may have arisen where you need to have your website offline, yet you need your registered users to have access to it. This could be because of beta testing, pre-approval prior to launch, or a host of other reasons. However, you have a problem. By default Joomla does not allow registered users to access a website when it is offline. So here is how you can accomplish this.
One of the most important things that you will do in your Joomla powered website is add new content and thanks to Joomla this process is made extremely simple. Joomla adds content in the form of articles and displays it in the correct category for you so you don’t have to worry about it. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a Joomla Article from the front end in five easy steps.
So here is the question of the hour. How do I publish and unpublish something in Joomla?
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So you have created an article in Joomla and now you want to add an awesome image to keep your visitors visually stimulated. Here we will go through a step by step procedure of inserting an image into Joomla.
So you have a RokBox Photo Gallery, or you want one (Then just Contact Me), and you need to add some images to it. Well adding and removing images is really simple.
What is the frontpage of Joomla and how do you add an article to it? This might seem a little confusing, but here is a quick tutorial to get you started.
The first thing we have to do is understand what the front page of your website is. The front page on a standard Joomla install is your landing page. It's the page that everyone will get to when they type in www.yoursite.com. And with any Joomla website you have the option of adding content to your front page even if it's already located on another page.
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