Links will be updated when I get around to creating these documentations. I plan to help you with all the topics below. Hopefully I can get through them all before a new version of Joomla comes out. Enjoy!
1. Installing Joomla 1.6/J17
- Web hosting overview
- Installing Joomla! 1.6 on a PC
- How to Install Joomla 1.7 Manually on Dreamhost
- How to change Meta Data
- How to change your Favicon
- How to include Site name in the Title Bar
- How to Remove/Change the Site description at the top – “Open Source Content Management”
- Remove “Home” Breadcrumbs on Frontpage
- How to make Joomla site offline
- How to Enable Debug Mode
- How to Disable Debug Mode
- How to customize the text in the “Who’s Online” Module
- How to activate the Extended TinyMCE Editor
- How to Show “Welcome (Name) with Logout Button”
2. Adding Images with the Media Manager
- How to upload images
- How to bulk upload images using Flash Uploader
- How to create a new images directory
- How to change (increase/decrease) image maximum upload filesize
3. Creating Categories with the Category Manager
- Creating categories for your site
- How to create nested categories
- Modifying categories
- How to display multiple subcategories in Blog Layout
- How to display Subcategories with Images and Descriptions
4. Creating Articles with the Article Manager
- What are featured articles?
- Change Order of Featured Articles
- Adding articles to the featured page
- Remove articles from the frontpage
- How to make Featured Articles “Sticky”
- Where is the Frontpage Manager
- Creating individual articles
- How to Insert or Edit an Article Anchor
- Featured articles ordering horizontally or down
- How to fix Featured Articles sorting by Category Name
- How to show/hide Next/Previous Links in Articles
- How to hide Article Details
- How to Display the Article Publish Date/Article Details
- How to Place a Module Inside an Article
- Formatting articles
- Adding an external link
- Adding an internal link
- Adding article images
- How to wrap text around images
- Adding a YouTube video to an article
- Linking to a PDF or other document
- How to add ‘Read More’ link to article
- Dividing long articles using page breaks
- Deleting and restoring articles
- How to add Google Adsense to Joomla Articles
- Where are trashed articles
- How to reset article hits
- How to embed Google Forms in Article
- How to remove the Lock icon?
5. Creating Menus with the Menu Manager
- Understanding and configuring menus
- How to Change the default Home Menu Item
- How to Link Menu Items to Article Anchors
- How to remove “Welcome to Frontpage”
- How to Change the Menu Title?
- How to Hide Menu Item Title/Page Title
- Linking an article to the menu
- Creating a Menu Item For Component
- How to Add a ‘Contact Us’ Link to the Main Menu
- Understanding parent and child menu items
- How to Make the Parent Menu Item Not Clickable
- Create Sub/Menus to link to Article Categories
- How to create a Category Blog Menu
- How to Display the Article Publish Date/Details in Article Menu Items
- Configuring category blogs
- Advanced category blog configuration
- Configuring category lists
- Advanced category list configuration
- Comparing page headings, article titles, and browser page titles
- How to Show/Hide Next/Previous Links in Menus
- Configuring submenus
- Creating a new menu and displaying it on the site
- How to display external website within your Joomla website
- How to Unpublish a Menu
- How to use Images for the Menu instead of text
6. Setting Display Options
- Setting global configuration options for articles
- Setting menu options
- Setting individual article configuration options
7. Using Modules with the Module Manager
- Installing a new modules
- Deleting a module
- How to uninstall Modules
- Adding a module to your website
- How to Sort Modules Manually
- Assigning a module to the site
- How to remove modules from the frontpage
- How to change bottom 3 images that read ‘Support Joomla’
- How to add Adsense to your Joomla website
- How to add Banners to your website
- Publish a single article in a module position
- How to Remove the “Search” box on the frontpage
- How to Remove the Font Size Resizers “Bigger Reset Smaller”
8. Using Components with the Extensions Manager
- Installing a component
- Deleting a component
- Using the contact component
- Creating a contact list
- Using the banner component
- Using the web links component
- How to Change Default Number of Weblinks per Page
- How to uninstall Plugins
- How to uninstall Languages
9. Using Templates – Changing look of your website with the Template Manager
- Installing templates
- Uninstalling/deleting templates
- Setting the default site template style
- Changing the admin template
- Joomla! templates from third-party providers
- What are the Template module positions
- How to edit Template css files
- How Install and Activate a new Joomla Template
- How to add a new module position in your Joomla Template
10. ACL Essentials with the User Manager
- Introduction to ACL
- Understanding default groups
- Creating a new group
- Creating a user
- How to redirect users on Login
- How to create hidden article and redirect registered users to that article
- How to redirect users on Logout
- Create Guest Only Access to Menus and Modules
- Assigning permissions to a user group
- Creating a new access level
- Configuring content for ACL
- Creating a login link
- How to Remove the Login Form & Link
- Disable New Account Registration
- Allowing self-registration
- How to allow users to modify their own user profile
- Grant Admin Access to Article Manager for Certain Users
- How to grant access to your Joomla site while it is offline
11. Extending Joomla! 1.6
- Evaluating extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory
- Installing Akeeba Backup and creating a backup
- Installing and using Simple Image Gallery
- Upgrading extensions
- Delete Sample Data
12. Recommended and useful Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 1.6 Extensions
elaine
elaine@cmsmind.com