Joomla v3

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 >

If you’ve been following along in our tutorials series on creating Joomla 3.0 templates, you would have seen in our last tutorial after changing site templates that the template does not look very nice at all (see screenshot to the right). The reason the template looks a mess is because the CSS file that we Read More >

Welcome to another article in our tutorial series on creating a Joomla 3.0 template. In our last tutorial, we showed you how to install the Joomla 3.0 template that we are in the middle of creating. Installing a template does not immediately activate it, and so we will show how to change your Joomla 3.1 Read More >

In this tutorial, Installing a Joomla 3.0 template, we will be installing a Joomla 3 template that you’ve created yourself or downloaded from the internet. Installation steps for a Joomla 3.0 Template Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard. In the top menu, hover over Extensions and then click Extension Manager. Under the Upload Package Read More >

At this point in our building a Joomla 3.0 template tutorial series, we are ready to zip / compress our template files and get it ready for installation on a Joomla 3.0 website. This is a very simple process to do, and in this article we will walk you through the steps. So far, this Read More >

The last thing we need to do before we can install the Joomla 3.0 template that we are creating is to create a templateDetails.xml file. This file holds various details about the template, such as who wrote it and when. It can also contain configuration settings for the template that the user can modify, such Read More >