Jooming with Joomla

The amount of work needed to get a site up and running especially the front end XHTML design part i A LOT.
I came across one excellent CMS solution which can very well be used to develop plain vanilla websites.
 The results are really amazing.
I feel it is much better than Drupal in terms of ease of use and its rich admin features..


It has millions of plugins and themes to choose from. Once you get the knack of placing the plugins and 
using themes into your site, virtually you can achieve amazing results with very less coding effort.

Here are a few notes for Joomla 1.5:

Positioning in CSS is the key for each module. You need to understand the positioning after reading the CSS.
The module name is the key in css that needs to be mentioned in the new module's postion attribute. Eg: left, top, right, user3, use4 , etc

To add a search box in home page
 Extensions --> Module Manager -->new--> search

To add a menu
 Extensions -->Module manager --> new --> menu.
   Be careful to give the position of the menu as the one in HTML theme...eg: 

News in home page
   Define a section news, then a category for news. Add article for this category.
   Extensions-->  Module manager --> new --> news flash
   Choose the category which holds articles for news..thats it.

Contact us 
   Menus --> new --> Internal link--contacts

Gallery
  Download a plugin extension like MorfeoShow. Add this module and configure..


Watch out for this space. more to come....joom jooom joooooomla