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How to Create a Menu Item in Joomla Content Management
A menu item determines the layout of articles, which is one of the aspects of Joomla that you have to get used to. Web pages don’t exist physically in Joomla — they’re only items in your database — until [more…]
How to Publish an Uncategorized Article in Joomla CMS
After you create an article and a menu item in Joomla content management system (CMS), the two must be linked together before it will be available to the users of your web site. Uncategorized articles [more…]
How to Create a Category in Joomla Content Management
By organizing your Joomla website into categories, you make your site more user-friendly. By making the site more user-friendly, you may generate more return visits to your website, which makes setting [more…]
How to Create a Nested Category in Joomla Content Management
With Joomla 1.6’s nested category method of site organization, there’s no limit to the number of categories that you can implement on a site. A nested category [more…]
How to Add Articles to Categories in Joomla Content Management
Let’s imagine that you are the Joomla content administrator for SuperDuperMegaCo. The company offers the finest ice cream in three flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and sardine. You need to create new articles [more…]
How to Link Menu Items to Categories in Joomla
For categorized articles in Joomla to be seen by users of your website, you will need to link your Joomla menu items to Joomla categories that contain the articles you want to publish. By connecting the [more…]
How to Use Joomla to Publish and Unpublish Content on Schedule
You may have articles in Joomla that need to appear on your website on a certain schedule. Perhaps you’re promoting a picnic (and need to take down the notice about it when the picnic is over) or a theatrical [more…]
How to Create Submenus in Joomla Content Management System
Joomla’s default implementation with sample data comes with some menu items that you can rename and use as your own. If you want a second-level menu item, you will need to have categories in place with [more…]
How to Change the Order of Articles in List Layout in Joomla
In Joomla, you use the Menu Item Manager to change the article list layout order, because the layout of a page is determined by the menu item that links to that page [more…]
What Are the Category Options in Joomla?
Typically, the Category Options pane in Joomla is where you select the behaviors of categories or subcategories including what category information to show and what category information to hide. Here are [more…]
What Are the Article Options in Joomla?
The items in the Article Options pane in Joomla vary a little bit, depending on the type of layout assigned to the article: Single Article, Category Blog, Category List, and so on. Here are the options [more…]
How to Turn Article Titles into Links in Joomla CMS
When you use Category List layout in the Joomla content management system (CMS), all the article titles in a category are links automatically, but they’re not when you use Category Blog layout. You can [more…]
Joomla CMS: Make Menu Items Visible Only to Logged-in Users
In Joomla, you can restrict menu items only to those users who are logged in (registered). If your website has some content that anyone can see and other content that should be reserved for authorized [more…]
How to Make Articles Open in New Windows in Joomla CMS
If you are the administrator for a website that runs on the Joomla content management system (CMS), you will likely encounter a need to have a new browser window open when a user clicks a certain menu [more…]
How to Hide Author By-lines in Joomla CMS
You may want to clean up your Joomla site’s pages a little. One place to start is the Written by Super User line that appears at the top of every article by default. You can hide this author name, or any [more…]
How to Enable Emoticons in Joomla CMS
Add a touch of emotion to your text in Joomla by using emoticons. First, you first have to enable TinyMCE’s extended feature set in Joomla. Here's how: [more…]
How to Organize Multimedia in Joomla’s Media Manager
On the left-hand side of the Joomla’s Media Manager page, you find a tree of folders that ship with the Joomla default installation: photos, banners, and [more…]
How to Upload a Picture to Joomla’s Media Manager
Content management systems like Joomla exist to help you manage the different kinds of content that appear on your website. Joomla’s Media Manager is designed to help you keep track of all the image, audio [more…]
How to Insert an Image into an Article in Joomla
Image files stored in Joomla’s Media Manager can be displayed in articles. In fact, the same picture can be displayed in more than one article. Remember, in Joomla, the webpage doesn’t exist until the [more…]
How to Format Articles with HTML Tags in Joomla
You can add some pizzazz to an article in the Joomla content management system (CMS) by adding HTML tags while you work with it in the article-editor page. To insert HTML tags with the TinyMCE editor, [more…]
How to Create and Format Tables and Columns in Joomla Articles
Suppose you’re using the Joomla content management system (CMS) to create a school site, and you want to list the top honor-roll students in an article. How about creating a table that lists them like [more…]
How to Create a Table of Contents in Joomla Articles
Joomla lets you break your articles up by adding a table of contents, which is particularly good for longer articles. If you have an article that’s 4,000 words in length, for example, you don’t want to [more…]
How to Edit the Code of a Joomla Template
You can get into a Joomla template’s actual HTML and CSS code via its Customize Template page, which contains Edit HTML and Edit CSS buttons. Click the CSS file you’re interested in working with to view [more…]
Common WebKit Browsers
Every web browser has a browser engine, such as WebKit, at its core. This table lists the most common web browser engines, along with the web browsers that use them. Just three or four browser engines [more…]
WebKit For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Use WebKit to create websites and mobile web apps. WebKit-based browsers, such as Safari and Chrome, are rapidly expanding their audiences and market share. These handy guidelines will help you develop [more…]
