Once you have your site running, you'll need to add contacts so people can get in touch with you.

Standard to your Joomla site is a component called "Contacts." It has two parts

Categories
Content Items

If you have a Narrow Path Hosting or Grace Host website, there are Contact Categories already created for you.

To edit an existing entry, do the following.

In your browser go to the back end . http://mywebsite.xyz/administrator

Login to the back end .

Then you will see the Administrator Back End Main Menu...

The Banner Module and Component that comes installed with the basic Joomla Install is:

very useful
simple
limited

The Banner Module and Component are useful if you want to place a changing graphic image on your site and track some simple usage statistics on it. You can use it to monetize your site and sell banner ads, or you can use it to highlight other features or pages within your site.

Like most Joomla add-ons, there is a component and a module. The Banner Component allows you the set up, assign and prepare basic publishing information about a banner and the associated client. The module, then uses the component information for front end display.

The banner module displays, at random, a new banner every-time the page reloads. You cannot predetermine the ordering, but you can set a banner to display only a selected list of clients. You can copy the banner module a number of times and assign it to other pages and clients. For example, high visibility clients on the Home page, and secondary clients on other pages.

Other behaviors or Features are

upload banners / images (any number)
assign a banner to a client
set the number of times a banner is viewed (impressions purchased)
publish/unpublish
assign a banner to a url when it is clicked
show the number of impressions (views) and click throughs
allows for custom code to be assigned to a banner (e.g. affiliate tracking code)

There are a couple of tips that may help to fix problems or make it more usable.

Embed a Module into Content

Thursday, 26 June 2008

How to publish a module directly into a Joomla content item.

If you've ever asked, "How can I put a module right into content?"

Here's how:

Joomla has a bot/mambot to load a module into a position. It is called MOSLOADPOSITION.

Just put { mosloadposition name } where:

there are no spaces after the " { "
no spaces before the " } "
name is the module position name that does NOT exist in your template

Steps:

Create a new module position (Site > Template Manager > User Positions). Give it some meaningful name
Publish a module to this position. This can be a 3rd party module or a user defined module.
Enter the mambot code into the content

In your content item enter the following: { mosloadposition user8 } (be sure to remove extra spaces before mosloadposition and after user8, spaces were added intentionally in this example). This will be replaced by the content of the module(s) assigned to that position.

Would you like to see some examples?

Paypal Problem email address

Sunday, 03 February 2008

Paypal cannot process an order because of an email problem using their buy now button.

Get this error

We cannot process this transaction because there is a problem with the PayPal email address supplied by the seller. Please contact the seller to resolve the problem. If this payment is for an eBay listing, you can contact the seller via the "Ask Seller a Question" link on the listing page. When you have the correct email address, payment can be made at www.paypal.com.

Inside the page source, the code replaces the email address for the business name with this:

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Solution - easy, but finding it on your own - eeek! It took me an hour.

Here's the Fix:

1) Back End --> Mambots (Site Mambots)

2) Unpublish the Email Cloaking mambot called "mosemailcloak"

done...

Removing Generated by Joomla

Saturday, 21 November 2009
If you view source on a Joomla site, you'll see a tag that the site was generated by Joomla. It is great to give kudos to the team's great effort, but sometimes you may wish to hide it. If for example, an exploit exists, and an hacker is looking for Joomla sites, they'll find your site with that meta tag in it. It is simple to remove the tag.
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How to use a different home page and not the joomla home page

Monday, 29 December 2008
You have Joomla and when a person enters your domain in a browser it goes to the Joomla defined home page. What if you want a visitor to start at a completely different page? You want them to go to a flash landing page, or something completely different. Can you do this? YES.
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I get an error when saving an article

Wednesday, 10 September 2008
I was logged in as the administrator and spent about an hour typing in two articles -- and when trying to save it, the system gave me that http 403 error. What happened? Why? How can I avoid this in the future?
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List Content Section Formatting

Sunday, 17 August 2008

The Menu "List Content Section" displays in a confusing way.

The problem is the display between categories in the "List Content Section" Betwen the table of content items and the next section's description - there is not a clear distinction. It looks all run together.

How can you make a "demarcation" or a variation between categories? Does this display look familiar on your Joomla website?

Before

Failed to move uploaded file to media directory - solved

Wednesday, 04 June 2008
There is a problem with error reporting within Joomla - it doesn't always give you a good indication of the underlying problem. On a site http://jonandlisah.org I tried to upgrade a component. I uninstalled the old one and tried to install the newer version. I've uploaded many components and modules to this site - so I wasn't ready for any problems. When I clicked on the upload and install button, I received this error: `Failed to move uploaded file to /media directory.` The forum showed many people having this same problem - and none had a definitive answer... They mentioned permissions to the media folder - so...
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Change Next> to Read Next>

Monday, 28 January 2008
How and where to change the article navigation prompts in Joomla (line 273 in english.php) The <Prev and Next> navigation links at the bottom of a page are just okay. They aren't very people friendly. You can add your own NEXT/PREVIOUS text by editing the language file in Joomla. For example, to change the bottom / standard <Prev and Next> text to display <Read Previous Read Next> Do the following...
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