Here is a short tutorial on

how to assign multiple templates

to articles and pages in your joomla website.

Open your template manager

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

Select template

Click "select from list" radio button

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.

Hold the ctrl key to select multiple items

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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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

Click the "add/edit image" button

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

Click the "Upload" button

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“

Navigate to your image

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.

With your file in the upload queue click "upload"

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.

select image & click insert

Your image will show in your article

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

Its that easy!

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“Welcome to the front page” This message is displayed by default in a new installation of joomla.

To disable this or change to your desired welcome message:

From the joomla control panel dashboard select the *Main Menu from the Menus drop down box

Open your main menu

Select your default home page

open your default home page

In the “Parameters (System)” box (bottom menu on the right hand side).

Parameters (System)

You will see the first setting at the top called

“Page Title” This is where you can change the message

The next setting,

“Show page title” will let you choose whether or not to show this title on your home page.

Its that easy!

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Changing the front page article layout in joomla can fix problems with articles running off the page in some templates.

From the control panel dashboard select the drop down menus & click on “Main Menu”

Select Menus>*Main Menu

Select your default home page

From the list of links select your home page (Your default home page with the star)

Now you will see all your settings for your home page in your  Joomla website

Joomla front page article layout settings

#Leading This setting determines the number of full width articles to be shown at the top of your front page (home page)

#Intro This setting shows the number of articles displayed below the leading articles:

TIP: Leading + Intro = Total articles displayed on front page.

#Columns This setting will split #Intro horizontally

#Links This will display links to articles with only the title of the article displayed as the link.

Here is an example:

“Leading 2″

” Intro 4″

“Columns 2″

This is what it would look like:

"Leading 2" " Intro 4" "Columns 2"

ITS THAT EASY!

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Here is a short tutorial on:

how to easily create a new page on your Joomla website

And how to create a link to that new page in your website menu

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Log in to the administration back end of joomla

From the control panel dashboard

select new article

joomla control panel dashboard new article

Or from the article manager

select new article

First create your page for your website

Then when you are finished, change the settings, title the page and save your article

(Remember, you can always open the page later and edit)

When the page/article save is completed,

select the menu you would like the link to appear in from the “Menus” drop down menu.

Once you click on the menu you would like the page link to be displayed in,

The “menu item manager” window will load.

On the upper right hand side of the window you will need to select “new”

You will see a new window open now with a tree type structure.

Click the articles link & when the tree expands, you will want to click the Article Layout

This will display your article as a single page.

Once you click the “Article Layout” link, the “new menu item” settings window will open

where you can adjust your page link settings. When you are happy with the settings and link title, click “Save“

Great! now you are done!

That was easy!

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