Brad Markle

When you build a blog using Joomla, you’ll see a module in your right sidebar named most read posts. The most read posts widget simply shows your posts that have been seen the most by users on the web. By default, there will be a few posts already listed: About your home page Welcome to Read More >

If you’re using Joomla 3.0 to blog, you’ll see a BlogRoll module in your sidebar. This module, commonly called a widget in other programs, allows you to link to other blogs that you either write or enjoy reading. The screenshot to the right shows where the blog roll module is located by default. In this Read More >

If you installed Joomla 3.0 with the blog sample data, you will notice in your sidebar a section labeled older posts. You can see in the screenshot to the right where this feature is shown by default. If you’re familiar with WordPress, this Older Posts feature would be referred to as a widget, in Joomla Read More >

The Joomla 3.0 frontpage article ordering can be configured using various options within the Blog Layout Options. For example, you can control the direction of the ordering, such as across or down. You can also control how they are ordered, such as by date created, date modified, or date published. In this tutorial, we will Read More >

You may have noticed on your Joomla 3.0 frontpage there are links that show below your leading articles and your intro articles. Refer to the screenshot to the right to see these joomla frontpage links that we are referring to:   The number of links that show on your homepage is determined by the following Read More >

By default, the frontpage of Joomla 3.0 shows articles in one column. As you can see in the screenshot to the right, we have 4 articles and they all show in one column on the frontpage in Joomla.   In this tutorial, our goal is to show you how to have more than one column Read More >

The first Blog Layout Option that we will review is the # Leading Articles setting, an option that controls the number of articles on your Joomla 3.0 frontpage: # Leading ArticlesNumber of leading articles to display as full-width at the beginning of the page. This setting, as the description implies, controls how many articles will Read More >

Another option in the Joomla 3.0 Protostar template we will review is the logo setting: LogoUpload a custom logo for the site template. Uploading a custom logo in your Joomla 3.0 hosted website is straight forward, and you can see in the screenshots below how the logo will show in the upper left of your Read More >

As we continue to review the available settings within the Protostar template of your Joomla 3.0 hosting, the next setting we will look at is the Background Colour setting: Background ColourChoose a background colour for static layouts. Default is #F4F6F7 Adjusting the Background Colour setting will do exactly what you expect, adjust the background of Read More >

One of the settings within the Protostar template for Joomla 3.0 is Template Colour: Template Colour Choose an overall colour for the site template. Default is #08C In our testing, when changing the template colour the only noticeable change was the color of the links on the page. The color is set to #08C by Read More >

When writing content on the web, it’s natural to link to other content that you’ve written. If you have two similar articles, linking them to each other helps your readers find potentially more content on your site that they would like to read. This article doesn’t need too much of an introduction, it’s a basic Read More >

In our last tutorial, we gave you a brief introduction about Joomla 3.0 language files. If you remember, there are three basic things involved: Language (such as English or Spanish) Constant (such as COM_CONTENT_WRITTEN_BY) Value (such as Written by or Excrito por)   Can I modify standard text in Joomla? If you refer to the Read More >

Language files are text files in Joomla 3.0 that basically list a set of common words for a specific language. The English language file may define a greeting as Hello, while a Spanish language file would define greeting as Hola. There are many words in your Joomla 3.0 site that are printed using this type Read More >

In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we’ll show you how to add an iframe when writing an article. You can’t simply use the HTML editor and type in your iframe code because Joomla will strip it out for security reasons. Therefore, you need to update your editor’s settings and allow iframes. To use an iframe in Joomla Read More >

In the last tutorial within our building a basic Joomla 3.0 template tutorial series, we showed you how to add style to login form using CSS. You can see in the screenshot to the right how this added a grey background and rounded corner to the login form. You can also see however that the Read More >

As we continue to create a Joomla 3.0 template, the next task we will do is add a bit of style to it. Starting off, we’ll focus on the login form. As you can see to the screenshot to the right, the login form is very bland. There is no background color to it, no Read More >