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 [...]

At times you may wish to create a link to another article from inside the article you are currently creating. From the Article Manager screen, Click the button titled Article situated towards the bottom of the wysiwyg editor. Select the article you wish to link to from the pop-up window that appears. Clicking the name of the article will automatically create a link in your current article.

In the previous version of Joomla you we’re not able to insert meta data on a category. When displaying content on a category blog view or a category table view, Google or any other search engine would simple read the global meta data for the site creating repeated meta information across the Joomla website. In the latest version you’ll see that there are now parameters that have been made available for the addition of the meta keywords [...]

Contributors to your website can be easily added, assigned appropriate access as needed, and allocated to a various groups. To create a new user click Users from the top menu, click User Manager, and select Add New User. From the following screen, users can reset their passwords if needed, and be granted appropriate access to the website by being allocated to a specific group.