Here is a short tutorial on

how to assign multiple templates

to articles and pages in your joomla website.

1. Go to your template manager: Extensions >Template manager.
2. Click the theme you want to apply to a page

In the menu assignment box: Click the: “Select from list” radio button

Now you can select the menu link to the page you want the theme to be shown on.

• Hold the ctrl key while selecting if you wish to select more than one page.

If your article doesn’t have a menu link then you cant apply the theme.

You can make a main menu link to your article to get the theme to work.

To make a menu link see: http://creativedigiworks.com/blog/2009/10/new-article-with-menu-link-joomla/

Its that easy!

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into a great design resource!

Here are some links to some great looking free professional icons:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/21/40-professional-icon-sets-for-free-download/

Check out the rest of the website, there is lots of free content!

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A short tutorial on how to upload and embed images into your articles using

the JCE editor for joomla 1.5

Open the article you wish to embed the image into & click the “add/edit image“ button

Next, click the “Upload” button to open the upload option window

Click “add” button to browse your computer for the image you wish to upload

Click "add" to browse for image

Navigate to the image on your computer, select it and click “open“

After you select your image and click open, you will see your file in the upload queue. Click the “upload” button and your image will now upload to joomla.

When the upload is complete you will see your image name appear in the list. To embed this image into your article, click on the image name from the list and then edit the image settings at the top of the window. Now click the “insert” button at the bottom & your image will appear in your article where the cursor was left or within the selected table.

Now hit “apply” or “save” the article and test it out in your internet browser!

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A basic overview on enabling the search engine friendly URLs for Joomla 1.5

To enable the SEF for Joomla:

• Login to admin
• Choose the “Global Configuration” option
• You will now see the SEO settings on the right

SEF Url’s without apache mod_rewrite

To enable SEF Url’s on a server which does not support apache mod_rewrite, change the search engine friendly URLs checkbox from No to Yes

Save the changes by selecting the save button.

The component name and item id is now removed from the Url and replaced with “index.php/frontpage”

SEF Url’s using apache mod_rewrite

Most hosting companies include mod_rewrite support as part of their web hosting package.

Using this option is the most common approach when using SEF Urls

To enable SEF Urls with Mod_Rewrite you need to do the following.

1. Using an FTP client access the directory where you have installed Joomla 1.5
2. You will see a file called htaccess.txt
3. Before you enable the SEF Urls you need to rename the htaccess.txt file to .htaccess
4. Rename this file using your ftp client.
5. In your Joomla SEO settings change the buttons for both the search engine friendly URLs and Use Apache mod_rewrite from No to Yes
6. The settings will look like this:

Now save your changes.

Your URLs will now look like this:

http://creativedigiworks.com/services

Add Suffix to URLs

Joomla 1.5 also supports the option to add the suffix .html at the end:

enable the suffix url option:

Change  button next to Add suffix to Urls from No to Yes

Your URLs will now look like this:

http://www.creativedigiworks.com/services.html

ITS THAT EASY!

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Get a free advertisement with google through their “local business center”

Your listing will appear in google search for your area and categories, as well as show your potential clients a thumbnail size map of your business location.

You can list:

• your business name
• Website
• email
• location on google maps
• business hours
• accepted payments
• phone number
• youtube videos
• photos or logo
• 5 catagories to be listed under
• 200 word description

Did I mention this is completely free?

All you need to do is:

1. create or sign in to your gmail/google account
2. Visit this link https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?continue=http://maps.google.com/local/add/businessCenter%3Fgl%3DUS%26hl%3Den-US&service=lbc&hl=en-US&gl=US
3. Set up your free listing
4. verify your account by selecting a call back (they call within 2min. with your code)
5. Enjoy a little free promotion of your business with google!

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