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:
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.
