In this tutorial you will learn how to install Joomla 1.6 manually. If you face any difficulties, you can always get a free professional Joomla installation with your Joomla hosting account at SiteGround.com. In order to complete the manual Joomla 1.6 installation, follow the steps listed below: – Step 1. Create a MySQL database from cPanel->MySQL Databases and add a user to it. If you are not using cPanel, you can check the MySQL manual for more [...]

Tachyon, the February 2011 release, is the perfect template for social networking, with its elegant design and structure, in conjunction with styled integrated for popular social extensions, such as JomSocial, Anahita, andCommunity Builder. The theme also features the new RokMiniEvents module, which syncs events with your Google Calendar, or those within JomSocial itself, and also debuts the newSplicemenu menu option, a dynamic dropline navigation system powered by Mootools; as well as the standard array of features. Template Rok Tachyon Features New [...]

Let the Joomla 1.6 games begin! Dear visitors we are proud to announce that YJSimpleGrid Joomla Template Framework has been successfully converted to Joomla 1.6 and your favorite base YJSG template Yougrids , is available for download. All Youjoomla future templates will be released with  Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6 template versions. Pre joomla 1.6 template conversion has started and we hope to finish by end of April 2011. For each Joomla 1.5 to Joomla [...]

Let’s say you create a link to a single article in Joomla 1.5 (called an article layout). Beyond the standard items you could configure with Joomla 1.5, like the title, alias, parent, and so forth, there were some limited parameters you could set for the article: Select your article (required) Under Parameters (Component), you could override global article settings, so you could change whether certain items display or not, such as section name, author name, created [...]

Over the past few months, Kyle and I have been compiling a killer list of Joomla! templating snippets that has the potential to change the way that you approach templating in Joomla!. We had planned to publish this article well before the release of Joomla! 1.6, and to release the 1.6 version of this post to coincide with it going stable … but alas, that is not to be. Given that the Joomla! 1.5 end [...]

Joomla!’s temporary off-line mode is a very handy option to temporarily take your site down while performing maintenance —e.g. updating the Joomla! core or an extension— and is even suggested by the official documentation for the unfortunate time that your site has been compromised. However, is this really off-line, or are there any pitfalls you should be aware of? As you might have guessed from the title, the off-line mode is not so off-line as you would [...]