5 Simple Tips For Using Your Joomla Site

By Author: Josh Story
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There are many webmasters that need assistance with their Joomla site. Most problems webmasters have to deal with will be avoided by following these 5 simple guidelines for using a Joomla site:

1. The "pages" on your site are referred to as articles, the main content for each page. One of the first things you always want to do when creating a new page on your Joomla website is create a new article. Content Management Systems work by controlling how your site handles information, so it is natural that this should be your first step.

2. When you work with menu items, you must remember that these are just links that tell your site which article it is pointing to. Menu items help you assign modules to specific pages, rather than having to show them on every page or none at all.

3. Modules can be anything form pictures to text, forms or any kind of info you would need contained in a box that can be moved around to various sections of the website. A module allows you to share more info on your site's pages without putting everything in the main content section.

4. If you want to make some changes on your ...
... new site and add new content on it and you don't want the content to be seen by anybody, here are some things you can do. You can assign an access level to that page temporarily, so that only registered users can see certain pages. Whenever the new content can be shown to everybody else, you can set the access level to public. This way everybody will be able to see your updated content. You can do that in the menu item manager.

5. Sometimes, if more people work on the site, you can get locked out of a certain module or article because the site thinks someone else is still editing that item. That is very common and it is not a big deal. You just have to go in the administrative side of your site and hover over the "Tools" menu item and select "Global Check In." Now Joomla knows exactly what is being edited and if that article or section was locking you out before, but not really being modified, Joomla will unlock it so you can get back to business.

These 5 simple tips from above will definitely help you familiarize with your new website. If you have troubles with dealing with all this, you just have to get back to your web design company.

About the Author:

Josh Story is the webmaster of Tgwebmedia, which is a Tampa web design firm that provides web design Tampa, as well as search engine optimization and secure hosting for its clients.