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This is Part 2 of the Joomla Template Tutorial series. Part 1 is here. Part 3 is here. By now, you should already know what Joomla elements are, particularly Main Body and Modules/Module Positions. Let’s move on: 3. Identify where you want to place your Joomla elements Now take a look at your mockup and…

This is Part 1 of the Joomla Template Tutorial series. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. This is an article that I’ve been delaying because its not the easiest thing to write. But as luck will have it, I decided to do a redesign of my website, & decided not to put this…

It is good SEO practice to put the page title first in your title tags, and then your site name. Unfortunately, by default, Joomla places the site name first before the page title. To change this, grab a copy of the file /includes/joomla.php Around line number 507, replace this: $this->_head[‘title’] = $title ? $GLOBALS[‘mosConfig_sitename’] .…

When using the mambot {mosimage}, Joomla automatically puts a horizontal space (hspace) around your image. This can destroy a website layout, especially one that is specifically sized up to the last pixel. An alternative, of course, is to just use the <img> tags in inserting images. However, this has a weakness: The paths are not…

Note: This was written for Mambo 4.5.1a Stable and AkoComment 2.0 AkoComment gives your users the capability to post comments on content items. I personally use this on my website. AkoComment puts links to comments on the homepage. Unfortunately, this does not look visually appealing, most especially if you turned on Read More of Mambo.…

Note: This was written for Mambo 4.5.1a Stable Mambo allows you to easily include custom HTML content on the sideblocks of your website. For example, if you want to put a donation button on the right column of your page. The old way of doing this is by hard coding the custom HTML content on…

Note: This was written for Mambo 4.5.1a Stable By default, the contact form of Mambo will display the contact information, then the text “Send an Email to this Contact,” followed by the actual email form. To change the text “Send an Email to this Contact:” Download the file /Mambo/language/english.php to your computer.    Open the…

Note: This was written for Mambo 4.5.1a Stable Mambo has a special feature to make your URLs Search Engine Friendly (or SEF). This means that your URLs can be converted to a format that is recognized by most search engine spiders, giving your website a higher placement in search results. An explanation Website packages such…

Some of you might have noticed the new footer line on the website. Yes, for the past week, chette.com has been running on Mambo, an open source Content Management System (CMS). Chette.com has been formerly using pMachine as its main engine. I had some reservations since the beginning — the developers have released a commercial…