Web World Guru

1. Name of Joomla Component: AEC control (Account Expiration control)
    Description: Component for paid membership
    Download Website: http://valanx.org/component/option,com_docman/Itemid,111/

2. Name of Joomla Component: CB (community Builder component).
    Description: Add custom files to user profile and membership
    Download Website: http://www.joomlapolis.com/

3. Name of Joomla Component: Google Map Component
    Description:The GoogleMap makes it possible to create unlimited destinations on your map. You can attach address information, a thumb picture and
    a text on your marker.
    Download Website: http://joomla.jansangill.dk/download/files/2

4. Name of Joomla Component: Chrono forms
    Description: GUI based form generator tool.you can edit html ,php code and design the e-mail templates ajax validation,and All types Form elements
    are avilable
         
5. Name of Joomla Component: Ozio gallery2
    Description: Gallery Component you can create various type of gallery view like flash ,simple ,lightbox etc
    Download Website: http://www.joomla.it/download/oziogallery.html

Very Important feature of Joomla is to change the positions of modules easily from administrator.
Re arranging the modules can completely change the look and feel of your joomla website.

For this many times we want to see, what are the module positions, available in your current joomla website template or we need to know at what position particular module is published.

Viewing Module Position in Joomla can be done from administrator login from backend.

Go to:
1. Extensions
2. Template Manager
3. Click on the Default Template ( Default template is marked with yellow star in joomla 1.5)
4. Click on the Preview button which is on the top tool bar
5. You can see the module positions available in your default template.

But there is another short and sweet method to see the positions available in current template from front end!! Yes you can see the positions from the front end itself.

You just have to append you joomla website url with ?tp=1

Example:
http://www.webworldguru.com/?tp=1

Many more such small but useful tips are more to come.
Be in touch and link back if you like this article.

Regards
Amit Patekar

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!

As you just read in joomla you can create, install modules. But you need to publish these modules on specific positions.

Example of joomla template positions can be left, right, top etc.
Don’t go on the meaning of the word used for positions as it depends on the template.
For example: if in your template left position is defined in right hand column then the module published on left position will be shown on right column.
I hope i am not confusing you.

How to see available module positions in joomla template ?

Bottom line is you need to know the positions which are available in your joomla template.
You can see different positions available and there exact location on the joomla template, using two different methods

1. www.yourwebsite.com?index.php&tp=1
2. Login to Administrator, go to templates , select the template of which you want to see the module positions, and click on preview.

How to make positions in joomla ?

There are two steps
1. create new module position
2. Put this module position in your joomla template, so that you can publish different module on this new position

To create new module position, when you click on any module there is drop down for selecting module position, you can actually type in this box and create new module position :)

Now go to your joomla template and edit index.php, put <jdoc:include type="modules" name="newpostion" /> and its done.
 

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.