One of the most common functions that users use in the editor of Joomla is inserting a link into an article or a module. Inserting a link into Joomla can be done in just a few sets. Inserting a Link From within the article editor, highlight the text that wish to make linkable, and click the Insert / Edit Link button A pop up window will appear. Type the link URL in this window. Choose [...]

In Joomla 1.6, each button in a menu is called a menu item. To create a new menu item, click Menus from the top menu bar, and rollover the menu you wish to add to from the drop down list, and select Add a new menu item from the popout option that appear next to the menu name. The first thing we need to do is determine what the menu item actual clicks through to. [...]

The latest version of Joomla has made the process of managing your articles even easier, with a much more streamlined logic behind the process of cataloging your articles. Sections are no longer used in Joomla 1.6, instead Categories can be nested within one another to create a more efficient hierarchy of articles and categories. To create a category click on Content button in the top menu, and follow the rollover from Category Manager to Add [...]

Joomla creates the pages of your website dynamically when they are needed. So rather than having lots of complete pages stored on the webserver, Joomla instead creates each page on the fly when needed, by accessing all the content you have stored in your joomla database. This process of building each page of the website dynamically can be sped up quite considerably using the Cache. Without the cache turned on every time someone visits your [...]

Articles make up the content of your website, and can consist of text, images and other media. A page on your website may contain one article or multiple articles. To create a new Article, click Content from the top menu, and then select Article Manager from the drop down menu, and follow the menu through to Add New Article. The following page that appears allows you to type in your new article. Make sure to [...]

Mass mailing your users can server 2 purposes: You might wish to send all the administrators and contributors of your website a message You may wish to send readers who have signed up to your website a message To send a message to users click Users from the top menu and select Mass Mail Users from the drop down menu. Select the group you wish to mail from the following menu. By selecting Mail To [...]

A new handy component and feature of Joomla 1.6 is the ability to easily do page redirects. This really comes in handy when there are 404 errors on your website and you need to redirect the traffic to the correct addresses. The new redirect module will record any broken links or incorrect URL’s typed in from a user, making it extremely easy for you to create an alternate working link (and thus keeping your website [...]

On the right hand side of this page, Parameters and Metadata can be managed. Toggles controlling functions such as displaying the date the article was created, and displaying the authors name can be modified here in the Parameters drop down menu. Enter a description and various keywords into the Metadata Information drop down menu. From the article manager, click the button titled Image situated towards the bottom of the WYSIWYG text editor. A pop-up window [...]

Traditionally in Joomla, featured articles have been articles that appear on the front page of your website. In Joomla 1.6, front page articles have been re-named Featured Articles. This makes much more sense because you may not always want to feature particular articles on the front page. This method gives you much more control on how and where you may feature particular articles. To manage featured articles, click Content and then Featured Articles. The following [...]

The article manager of Joomla 1.6 contains a directory of all the articles on your website. From the article manager screen, you can modify the order of how the articles appear on your website, send articles to the trash, toggle the publication status of articles, and edit the content for each individual article. To manage your articles, click on Content in the top menu bar, then select Article Manager from the drop down menu. The following screen [...]