With Joomla 1.6 release candidate upon us, one of the first new features many Joomla enthusiasts are likely to explore is ACL (access control levels). Like most software, you change settings and see what happens. Whatever you do, be very careful when configuring the Super Admin permission. The Super Admin permission overrides all other permissions in Joomla’s ACL, such that a user with the Super Admin permission can create, edit, delete, change state, and configure anything [...]

When setting up a new Joomla site, you’ll probably want to at the very least change the logo. This tutorial will show you how to do that for the default template. The process should be similar for most other templates To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Go to Extensions. Then go to Template Manager. Click the default template Go to [Edit CSS]. CSS is used by modern websites to control the colors and [...]

Providing alternative language translations for the default Joomla text helps members of a multilingual community find their way around more easily. This tutorial assumes you have already installed at least one language pack. Language packs are installed just like any other extension in Joomla. There are dozens of translations for Joomla on the Joomla extension site in the Languages/ Translations for Joomla category. For details on how to find or install Joomla extensions, watch the accompanying [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be creating a new alias menu item. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Menus” >> “Main menu“ This screen will show an overview of your current menu items. Let’s create a new item We want to create an alias Enter a title for the link You can also change menu the item will be created in, the parent item, [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be creating a new internal menu item. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Menus” >> “Main menu“ This screen will show an overview of your current menu items. Let’s create a new item Select the type of menu item you want to create If you want to create a different type of link, you can change that here Enter [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be creating a new separator menu item. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Menus” >> “Main menu“ This screen will show an overvies of your current menu items. Let’s create a new item We want to create a separator Enter a title for the separator You can also change menu the item will be created in, the parent item [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be using the Joomla Menu Manager. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Menus” >> “Menu Manager“ First let’s create a new menu Enter the details for the menu. Menu Type should be one word Then we’ll save the menu The menu has been created. Now let’s create a copy of a menu. This copies all of the menu items [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be adding a new content category that we will be able to create new content under. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Content” -> “Category Manager“ To create our new category click the [New] button in the toolbar. Fill in the form to create the category. Then you can enter a description for the category. To create our new [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be adding a content item (article) to the site. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Content” -> “Article Manager“ Let’s create a new item Enter a title for the article We’ll set it to show on the frontpage Then select the section and category Enter your content If you wish to insert an image, pagebreak or read more link you can use [...]

Hi Joomla fans, in this Joomla tutorial we will be adding a new section to our content. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Navigate to “Content” -> “Section Manager“ To add a new section clink the [New] button in the toolbar Fill out the fields for “Title” and “Section Name“. If you would like to assign an image from the “images/stories” folder to appear with this section you can do it [...]