Favicon
Favicon also known as a website icon, url icon, or bookmark icon. Generally it is your website logo or some other small graphic which is used as favicon. This favicon is displayed in address bar or page tabs when u load any websites. A web designer can create such an favicon and put it into a website. This favicon is also see in the bookmarks.

Creating Icons Favicon image
A favicon must be square in size, and at least 16 x 16 pixels. Consider creating both a 16 x 16-pixel icon as well as a 32 x 32-pixel icon. To create the icon, use an any image editor such photoshop, and save the icon in the .ico file format. Explorer will ignore icons that are not in .ico format, and will instead display the default shortcut icon of the browser.

You can use online tool to generate the favicon.
    http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Including Favicon
You can include this favicon in the root folder of the website and just write small html code in the head section of the HTML document. And the favicon will be displayed in the address bar.

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico">

In case of joomla website, there are components for including or changing the favicon for you, just install these joomla components. Go to that component, select image to be converted as favicon and its done.

Components available for favicon are:
http://www.phoca.cz/phocafavicon/

Templating is one of the great feature of joomla. By just one click anyone can change the whole look of the website. But many time we find it difficult to get good free joomla templates. There are many commercial companies which provide excellent looking joomla templates. But to get them you will have to spend few dollars for that. So here is another good site where you can find such templates , the site is BoyGJ.com. In my next article i will tell you how easy it is to built your own Joomla Template.  

Many time we come across a situation where we want to display module in Article, Like what if u want to display some menu in content or what if u want to display random image module in the content item. Some times the situation demands for a Login Form module in article.

When we install joomla, by default plugin called Content-Load Module is installed and published. This plugin can be used to show any module in article. That is, any published module can be shown in article, just by using the position of the module.

Module can published in article in very simple steps:

1. Create or Publish the module you want to display in Article

2. Give some position to that module.

3. Go to the article (content) where u want to display the module.

4 And write this code:

(loadposition yourmoduleposition)

Note that brackets should be curly bracket { } and not the one which are shown in above example

5. It done, isn't it simple. So go ahead and use this powerful feature of joomla in you site.

If you are new to Joomla and want to remove "Welcome to " from the home page see

How to remove 'Welcome to the Frontpage'

If you install new Joomla! 1.5, and you get the 'Welcome to the Frontpage' title on your Frontpage of your site. Sometimes, it is difficult to find, where you can change this title. You try lots of things like go to Manage Frontpage, menu menu, see the home menu item, tried unpublishing the home menu link and many such things, but still not getting where this welcome message is coming from

It realy simple,

just go to your Joomla! 1.5 Administration site and login. In your administration site go to:

• Menus - Main Menu (now you are in: Menu Item Manager: mainmenu).
• Click on 'Home' link to edit this link (you are now in: Menu Item: Edit).
• Click on Parameters System and change or delete the Page title.
  • If you change the Page title, changed title will be displayed on your Frontpage as a title.
  • If you delete the Page title, Menu link will be displayed on your Frontpage as a title (in the present case 'Home' will be displayed as title, because 'Home' is the name of the link to the Frontpage).
  • If you don't want to display any title, set Show Page Title below Page title parameter to 'No'.
• Don't forget to save changes. And its done.

Create Your own Joomla Module:

Sometimes you want to place HTML code, Image or Javascript code on your site front page.You could this by working into the template file (index.php), but there is another easier and more flexible and easy way.

Put it into a Joomla Module
Joomla Modules are peace of code which can be placed any where on the site. By just giving the different position to joomla module you can change the look of the site. Modules provide flexibility.

So how to make module in Joomla 1.5?

• Login to adminstrator side
• go to Module Manager
• click on new button
• select Custom HTML
• click on Next
• Enter Title
• Select Position, note you can also type in the positon, this will create the new position
• Put your HTML code in Custom Output
• Save

One very important feature of joomla module is , it can be shown in content or article. See how to publish module in joomla article.

Your done! You just made your own Joomla Module!

Most people show just stated out with Joomla have problems how to handle the different parts that make up the Content Structure of Joomla.
Especially the Section and category part seems problematic to understand.
But it is actually quite easy to work with if you understand the basic principle.

Start simple and think about a book that You want to write!
Remember this, because with this book reference the idea of giving structure to your website is much easier to handle.

So how-to structure your website?
As said , act like you are going to write a book.

Joomla Section:
These are the parts of your book, not the Chapters!
Lets say we are going to build a site about Microsoft Word, than parts of your site could be like:
• Basics
• Layout
• Documents
• Standard documents
• Scripting Macro's and Working environment.

These Book parts can then be divided into different Chapters.

Joomla Category:
Now these are your Chapters !
Here you make the chapter structure of your book part, for instance the book part about standard documents:
• Standard settings
• Templates
• Layout profiles
• Menu creation and editing
• creating Forms macro's

Joomla Content:
Now You are going to write your pages, your articles for your book.

And again reference your book on word as example:
Your write an article about managing templates in MS Word.
This article is placed on the site under the section(Book part) "Standard Documents" and into the category (Chapter) " Templates".

Now Your site has the book structure build in and every visitors can find its way through the site much easier because he/she will see the way its structured.
If you later on should decide that an article is misplaced, you can move it into a new categorie with the "move" function of Joomla.