Last month, in our article SEO, Joomla! and your Template we explained that before visiting the pages on a web site, search engines (for instance Google and Yahoo) check for the presence of instructions about the web site on its server. These instructions can be given by two files that are distributed with Joomla! and are normally found in the top level of your Joomla! installation: htaccess.txt and robots.txt. Both of these files can be [...]

Joomla! 1.5 offers partial multi-linguality, meaning that the system language of Joomla! or its extensions can be translated, but if you want to translate your content, you’ll need third party extensions like Joom!Fish or Nooku. If you want to modify the system language, you can edit the necessary files, but with the next Joomla! upgrade, your changes might be gone. So how to deal with this? Language files in the Joomla! directory structure With Joomla!, [...]

Traffic You’ve beautified your Joomla website to the best of your ability.  Now what?  Get yourself an Alexa Toolbar on  your Firefox or IE browser today.  Google Chrome is fast and nice, but it will not help you in terms on increasing your Alexa Traffic rank which is used by most Internet Advertisement Publishing companies that sell legitimate advertising spots. You can also installl a Firefox extension, Alexa Sparky, through the Firefox Addons feature from [...]

By default, Joomla requires you to edit the language files by hand. Fortunately, there’s another option: an extension called Translations Manager. With this extension, you can even create new language translations based off of existing ones, this is a lot of work, so you should only create one if it hasn’t been done already There are dozens of ready-made translations available on the Joomla Extensions Directory. For help finding and installing a language pack, watch the [...]

This tutorial will show you how to change the parameters of the default Joomla template 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 Templates Manager. Click on the default theme Look to the right side of the page. Here, you can change several aspects of the default theme “Color Variation” will change the border color of the main menus to the color specified. Choose a new color “Background Variation” will [...]

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 [...]

In this tutorial, we will explore the Template Manager install Joomla. Templates are what Joomla uses to control how your site looks. You can download and install templates, modify existing ones, or given make your own. That’s all beyond the scope of this tutorial, however 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 Templates Manager. This is the Template Manager. As you can see, all the installed templates are displayed here The default [...]

This tutorial will show you how to use the Joomla Plugin Manager to change the settings of the plugins you already have installed. For details on how to find install plugins, see the accompanying tutorials. To begin, please go to Joomla back-end via this url: “your_site/administrator” (e.g:http://vinaora.com/joomla/administrator/) Start by going to Extensions. Click Plugin Manager Here, you’ll see any plugins that come with Joomla by default or that you’ve installed yourself Suppose we want to enable authentication using GMail. [...]

As with most Content Management Systems, Joomla’s true power can only be realized with the use of its vast number of extensions. For help finding extensions to install, watch the previous tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to install and uninstall all types of extensions 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 click Install/Uninstall There are three ways you can choose to install an extension. The first way [...]