By default, Joomla automatically strips out iframe and some other HTML elements for security reasons. In order to embed videos from popular providers like YouTube and Vimeo, you have to disable the filtering of the iframe tag. This tutorial will cover how to do it for the default Joomla! TinyMCE editor. Continue reading “Embed Videos”
Banners
By default Joomla comes with a component for managing banners. It allows you to add different banners, organize them into categories and display them in different places on your website. The first thing you need to do is to create a new banner. To do this login to your Joomla admin area and go to Components -> Banners -> Banners. Continue reading “Banners”
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Help & Support
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Contacts Page
If you want to receive feedback from your visitors, having a Contact Us page on your site is an easy way to achieve that. Joomla has a default component that allows you to create such a page with just few clicks. Continue reading “Contacts Page”
Extensions
Joomla provides all the functionality you need for a simple site, but if you require some specific functionality you can often find what you need with an Extension from a third party developer. Continue reading “Extensions”
Images
The Joomla Media Manager is used to add images to Articles and Modules, and can be accessed in different ways. In this section we will go over how to add images to your content and how to upload them through the Media Manager. Continue reading “Images”
Modules
As you’ve learned in previous sections, website content can be broken up into two parts: primary content and secondary content. You learned how to create primary content in the Articles section and how to link to that content in the Menus one. Other content on the page, such as navigation menus, newsletter signup forms or footer text is secondary content. In Joomla, this secondary content is normally controlled through Modules. Modules are one of the five types of Joomla Extensions. The other types are more fully explained in next sections. Continue reading “Modules”
Menus
The displaying of content in Joomla is a bit different than traditional web design. In a Joomla website, Menus are used to create pages and specify how the content appears on the page. Continue reading “Menus”
Articles
In this section you will learn the second part to creating primary content – creating Joomla Articles. You will also learn to search for and filter Articles in the Joomla Administrator. Continue reading “Articles”
Categories
This is the section where you start to create your actual website content. There are two steps to creating most new content in Joomla. First you create one or more Categories, which is described in this section, and then you create Articles which we will discuss in the next section. Continue reading “Categories”