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It will be an exciting thing if your website has an image slider with high quality images.
Simply try the things given below:

1. Download any image slider extension in Joomla(zip file).

2. Here I have used “Slider Gallery Extension” and the download link is provided below:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow/12137

3. Navigate to Extensions -> Install/Uninstall. Select the zip file which you have downloaded and Install it.

4. Also Enable the module in Extensions -> Module Manager.

5. If you select and edit the Slider Gallery Module and change the Position as your need, the images will be shown in the appropriate area of the webpage which gives a nice look and feel.

6. Save the changes, goto the Front end and see the changes.

You have done it !


If you want to add a calender in Joomla website, it’s very simple.
Lets try the following steps
1. In the Joomla backend, goto Extensions -> Install/Uninstall
2. In the Upload package file section, select the calender package which you need to install. Give Upload file & Install
The link for the sample calender which I have used here is given below:

http://extensions.lesarbresdesign.info/en/downloads/category/5-minicalendar

3. Head to Extensions -> Module Manager. Enable the new module which you have just installed.
4. Go to Front End and you can see a calender in the webpage.

You can also download and add more exciting calenders to your website.

In Joomla, you can create a new Poll. You can follow the steps below to create a new poll.

1. In the backend panel of Joomla, goto Components -> Polls
2. Let us create a new poll by clicking the New icon in the right corner.
3. Give appropriate names for Title, Alias. Also enable Published to Yes
4. In the right side, there will be a option window where you can give appropriate functions and Click “Save”.
Here I have created a poll to select a favourite color.

5. Go to Extensions -> Module Manager. If Polls module is disabled, Enable it.
6. Then click on the Polls module and in the right block, select the poll name which you created in Module Parameters -> Poll

7. Save changes, go to Front end and you will see the Poll which you have created.

You can change the default logo to a new logo. Just follow the steps shown below:

1. Goto “Extensions” -> “Template Manager”.
2. Click on rhuk_milkyway template and Edit CSS
3. Here you will see a list of css files.
4. Edit the template.css file and trace for the following style

div#logo {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
float: left;
width: 298px;
height: 75px;
background: url(../images/mv_joomla_logo.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
margin-left: 30px;
margin-top: 25px;
}

5. Change the image path from  url(../images/mw_joomla_logo.png) with the new location of the logo.

Note: It’s always better to copy your new logo to /joomla/templates/rhuk_milkyway/images

Go to the Front End and see the changes. You have done!

If your website doesn’t need any Login Form, you can simply hide it in Joomla.

Try the following steps:

• Goto backend, Click on “Extensions” -> “Module Manager”.
• Spot the “Login form” module, Select it and click to disable.

Go to the Front end and see the changes.

In addition to this Login Module, you will also see modules like Main Menu, Footer, Resources, Polls etc that you can disable in this same way

You can manage the articles layout for a menu item. Just follow the steps given below:

1. Goto backend. Navigate to Menus -> Menu Manager , select a proper menu and edit the menu item.
2. Choose the menu item for which you want to change the layout.
3. In the right side panel, click on Parameters (Basic).
4. You can adjust the menu item layout: # Leading, # Intro, Columns, # Links.

The above figure means:

• one full article displayed at the beginning of the page(Leading)

• 4 short articles distributed in 2 columns(Intro & Columns)

• 4 links at the bottom of the page(Links)

The banners shown in the bottom of Joomla! can be removed.

You can follow any one of the method given below.

Method 1:

1. In the backend, goto Extensions -> Module Manager
2. Find the “Banners” module and disable it.

Go to front and refresh the page. You can see the changes.

Method 2:

1. In the backend, goto Components -> Banner
2. In the Banner Module Manager, Unpublish “Joomla! Promo Shop” and “Joomla! Pro Books”

Go to front and refresh the page. You can see the changes.

1. To make the most basic template,

2. create a new folder in the “templates” folder. Name this folder as “mynewtemplate”.

3. Using a text editor, create the files “index.php” and “templateDetails.xml”

3. make 2 new folders called “images” and “css”. Inside the “css” folder create a file called “style.css”.

*. It is fine to place all the CSS code directly in the “index.php” file to start, many web developers prefer
to place their CSS code in a separate file that can be linked from multiple pages using the “link” tag.

templateDetails.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE install PUBLIC "-//Joomla! 1.5//DTD template 1.0//EN" "http://www.joomla.org/xml/dtd/1.5/template-install.dtd">
<install version="1.5" type="template">
<name>mynewtemplate</name>
<creationDate>2008-05-01</creationDate>
<author>John Doe</author>
<authorEmail>john@example.com</authorEmail>
<authorUrl>http://www.example.com</authorUrl>
<copyright>John Doe 2008</copyright>
<license>GNU/GPL</license>
<version>1.0.2</version>
<description>My New Template</description>
<files>
<filename>index.php</filename>
<filename>component.php</filename>
<filename>templateDetails.xml</filename>
<filename>template_thumbnail.png</filename>
<filename>images/background.png</filename>
<filename>css/style.css</filename>
</files>
<positions>
<position>breadcrumb</position>
<position>left</position>
<position>right</position>
<position>top</position>
<position>user1</position>
<position>user2</position>
<position>user3</position>
<position>user4</position>
<position>footer</position>
</positions>
</install>

Index.php

<?php defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" >
<head>
<jdoc:include type="head" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/mynewtemplate/css/style.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="top" />
<jdoc:include type="component" />
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="bottom" />
</body>
</html>

4. Create an article and set it as default.

5. Go to Extensions->template manager,select mynewtemplate and set it as default.

You can change the background color for the Joomla beez template.
This can be done by editing the position.css file
You can edit the file by simply following the steps below:

1. Go to Extensions -> Template Manager
2. Select beez template from the list and click to edit
3. Click on the Edit CSS icon from the right panel
4. Select position.css from the list and click edit
5. In the beginning you will see the style property as shown below:

body
{ background: #F2E3ED;
color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 100.1%; padding: 0px;
text-align: center;
}

6. Just change the background color to any other color. For example background: #FFFFFF; will give white color
7. Save the changes, goto Front End and see the changes.

If you enable cache in Joomla, the performance of the website can be improved.

You can acheive this by simply doing the following steps:

1. In Joomla! administrator panel goto Site -> Global Configuration -> System
2. In the right panel you will see the “Cache Settings” tab: select “Yes” for cache and Save the changes.

Note:

You can also change the “Cache Time” according to your website content. If your website holds large amount of data you can adjust the Cache Time to get high performance.