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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There are many useful reasons why you would want to embed a module within article content on your website.

• include a menu in an article
• include a custom html module in an article
• include search function in article

Any of your modules published within your module manager can be embedded.

Getting Started

If you already have a module in mind, its as easy as adding:

{loadposition user21}

Just add above syntax in your article where you would like the module to appear & edit “user21″ to reflect the position of the module you would like to embed & your done.

Here is a short tutorial showing how to make your own custom module and embed it in an article on your front page

From the control panel dashboard, click on your module manager

In the top right hand side of your module manager click “New”

Click “custom HTML” or click radial checkbox to the left of the text and click “next”

Enter your “Title” in this case were using “my custom module”

Create a new “user position” by typing one directly into the box, the value can be any number you want.

*TIP* Its best to start with a higher number to avoide using a position already used by your joomla template.

*TIP* Menu assignment, the all setting will allow the module to be embedded on any page in your site

Now if you scroll down past the settings to the bottom, you will see your editor.

This is where you create your custom module

When you are done editing your “Custom Module”, scroll back up to the top of the page and click save

(Top Right)

Once you have saved your “Custom Module”,

Click your article manager so you can embed your newly created “Custom Module”

(In this case we are embedding it on the home page of our site)

Type: {loadposition user21} into the article where you wish to display your new “custom HTML” module

*TIP* You can also center the syntax or place it in a table

if you wish to further control where the “Custom HTML” module displays

Now save your article and check it out!

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”

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

#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:

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

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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