Newest Joomla! Tutorials From iTeachMe

Displaying international characters in your articles

Admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:49:42 -0500

If you are trying to use non-English characters in your text, such as Greek, and the characters are display as your database table's fields'

SEF (Search Engine Friendly) URLs

Admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:06:26 -0600

Joomla's SEF feature will change the links on your website to something that is "human-readable". Instead of a link like www.mydomain.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=27, the link might be

Migrate from 1.0 to 1.5

Admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:47:30 -0600

Important Notes before beginning the migration:

These instructions assume your current site is the latest version of Joomla 1.0, which is 1.0.15.
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System Cache Plugin

Admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:48:00 -0600

Caching can make your website pages load faster. Joomla has caching for pages, views and modules.

Page caching

Joomla's System Cache Plugin will save a page the

Media Settings

Admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:15:55 -0600

1. Open the Global Configuration: Site -> Global Configuration, or use the QuickIcon on the main control panel.

Media Manager

Admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:04:02 -0600

1. Open the Media Manager from either: (1) Site -> Media Manager; or (2) the Media Manager quickicon.

Menu Manager

Admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:17:27 -0600

In the Menu Manager you can set up and configure the navigation menu(s) for your site. The navigation menu contains links to pages in your

Create a Full-Site Installation Package

Admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:03:09 -0600

If you have developed a template or component for Joomla, you can provide your customers with a custom Joomla installation package that includes your demo

Publish a Menu

Admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:57:42 -0600

The navigation menus from the Menu Manager are published on the website as a module.

1. Open the Module Manager (Extensions -> Module Manager).

Menu Item Type: Overview

Admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:46:29 -0600

When creating a new menu item, the first screen is the Select Menu Item Type. There are four main types of menu items:

Split Menu System

Admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:39:27 -0600

1. Menus with Sublevel links can be displayed in various ways. In these examples, there is a parent menu item called "Joomla! Overview", which has

Use a different template on some pages

Admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:47 -0600

The template can be changed for specific pages of the site:

1. Go to the Template Manager: Extensions -> Template Manager.
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Publish a Module

Admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:34:32 -0600

1. From your Joomla Control Panel, go to the Module Manager: Extensions -> Module Manager.

Install a new template

Admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:58:41 -0600

1. Download a template. For this example, we will use RocketTheme's free template, AfterBurner. This template is one of the best free templates available. It

Change the favicon

Admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:09:49 -0600

1.If you do not already have your new favicon.ico file you can create one at http://www.favicon.cc:

a. If you have