Joomla Tutorials

While working with Joomla 2.5 or the older versions - Joomla 1.7 or even 1.6 you may stumble upon bugs, have difficulties accomplishing certain things or just wonder about the exact functionality of a feature. Luckily, Joomla is well documented, very popular among web masters…

Another feature in Joomla 2.5 and the older Joomla 1.7 and even 1.6 is the Redirect Manager. It can be of great help to your site SEO by allowing you to redirect old (invalid) URLs to new working ones. Without a redirection you will get…

Extensions in Joomla 2.5 and the previous versions 1.7 and 1.6 are managed from the Administrator panel, the Extensions button in the top menu. There you find a page with the following tabs:

Joomla can be easily extended and customized just as its previous versions. The same instructions are valid for the previous Joomla 1.7 and 1.6 version too. For those who are not familiar with Joomla extensions we will explain the role of Joomla components, modules, plugins,…

Once you start your web site, you will probably want to allow your visitors to contact you. This way they will be able to provide important feedback to the webmaster. For this purpose you need to set a Contact Us page with an online contact…

In this part of our Joomla tutorial we will learn how to link articles to the web site menus. The tutorial is written for Joomla 2.5 but the same steps should be taken if you are using Joomla 1.7 or even 1.6.

Once you have installed Joomla your first steps in administering the application should be logging in the admin area and creating your first pages. The simplest page in Joomla is called an article and that's where you put content such as text and images. This…

Upgrading Joomla 1.7 to 2.5 is fairly easy. However, we strongly recommend that you make a full backup of your website in case something goes wrong. For more information on that matter check our tutorial on How to Backup your Joomla site.