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How to Activate Joomla Template in Joomla 3.0

by Elaine December 6, 2012
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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to activate Joomla template that you installed.  This is also tutorial on how to change the default Joomla 3.0 site Template.  After you install a Joomla 3.0 Template you must activate it and set it as default before you will see it on your website.  I recently installed and activated [...]

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Joomla 2.5.8 Tutorial – How to Change the Site Logo

by Elaine November 28, 2012

How to Change the Joomla 2.5.8 Logo on the front of your Joomla website is pretty easy.  The question is how to remove that blue box that says ‘We are Volunteers’?  I will address that question in another tutorial, and focus now on how to change the logo first.  You will change the Joomla 2.5.8 [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Change the Logo and Site Name

by Elaine November 9, 2012

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to change your Joomla logo and the site name.  They keep on moving these features around which always makes it hard to find.  Changing your Joomla logo and site name is managed in your Joomla template Manager in the Options tab.  Below are 3 easy steps to change your logo [...]

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Joomla 3.0 – Beez3 Template Module Positions

by Elaine September 23, 2012

In my previous post I mentioned how to change the Joomla 3.0 Template Manager options to enable the preview of Template module positions. In this post, I will show you the Joomla 3.0 Beez3 Template Module Positions that was provided in the template module map.  There are 8 main areas and 15 different module positions [...]

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Joomla 3.0 – How to Preview Template Module Positions

by Elaine September 23, 2012

You can preview Template Module Positions in Joomla 3.0.  Having a map of the module positions makes it easier to manage and organize your content.  The steps below help you preview Template Module positions for any Joomla 3.0 template you have activated on your website. Here is a high level overview of how to view the [...]

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How to Edit the CSS files in Joomla 3.0

by Elaine September 23, 2012

You can edit your css files or your index.php files directly in Joomla 3.0 from the Template Manager.  In Joomla 3.0 the new frontend Joomla template is the Beez 3.   The process to find and edit the Beez 3 Template is the same as in previous version when you were editing Beez 2. High [...]

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Joomla 2.5 Tutorial – How to Change Default Font Color

by Elaine July 8, 2012

Joomla 2.5 Tutorial – The default font color for articles in the Beez20 template is #333, which is a greyish colour.  You can easily change this default font colour in your Template Manager.  Below I will show you how to easily change your personal.css in Beez_20 template.  Below you will see that I changed my [...]

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Joomla 2.5 – How to Change the text “Close Info” and “Open Info”

by Elaine June 1, 2012

This post is in response to a comment left by Farbrico on one of my older posts – “How to Remove the Close and Open info buttons“.   This Joomla 2.5 tutorial will answer his question on how to change the “Close Info” and “Open Info” string or text to other words.  Although this might [...]

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Joomla 2.5 – How to Uninstall Joomla Template

by Elaine February 29, 2012

Joomla 2.5 – How to Uninstall / Delete a Joomla 2.5 Template While going through the most obvious way of Uninstalling a Joomla 2.5 template in the Template Manager, I got an error message that said: Cannot delete last style of a template I really have no idea what this error message means.  But I [...]

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Joomla 2.5 – How to Always Hide the Right Column in Beez_20

by Elaine February 24, 2012

Joomla 2.5 Tutorial – How to Permanently Hide the Right column in Beez_20 This tip is provided by Bradh who was responding to my post here about “How to Remove the Collapsible Column – Close/Open Info” in Beez_20.  It’s very helpful if you have no modules assigned to the right side of your template yet [...]

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