JoomPlaza templates

A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Other terms used to describe a Web Widget include Gadget, Badge, Module, Capsule, Snippet, Mini and Flake. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages.

For example, the "Help Azaria" module in the left column of this site uses a widget from ChipIn.com (to test it, make a donation to Azaria's Dolphin Therapy fund to see the progress bar go up - wink wink). Many "web 2.0" sites offer widgets for blogs and other sites to display their content or tools for performing a specific task (like raising money via the ChipIn widget). It is a great way to add content or functionality to your site with very little effort. The process for embedding a widget to your site is usually just copying and pasting a snippet of code into the appropriate location.

If you are using joomla content component as a blog , sometimes it does not enough for our need. Because it does not have comment, tag, ping etc. You need to use 3rd party component or plugin for blogging with joomla regular content component. But joomla has a lot of blog component and you can pick one of them.

I like to give you some example of popular joomla blog component. Please share your toughs. Which blog component are you using for blogging on Joomla

Normally in a Joomla article, code such as Javascript or PHP will not work. This is for good security reasons. People could do a lot of harm if they were free to use these inside your articles. However, many advanced users need to use such code. This tutorial will show you how to do it:

This tutorial will guide you through the steps used to add the Article title to the Read More... link that is displayed in the Joomla! Front Page, Category and Section Blog Layout.

You will need to be able to access the file system which houses your Joomla! web site in order to complete this tutorial.

Today, I received E-mail from a member , He asked me :

“I tried to copy and paste the embed code into the HTML code using the content manager's WYSIWYG interface. The code is supposed to play a movie(youtube), but it does not play. If I look at the page's HTML source code, I see that the embed code is indeed there, but it is not playing.”

There are actually several ways to go about embedding a YouTube video into an article in Joomla! 1.5, But in this article, I will show you the way that makes it dead simple.

There are many Joomla template providers, you can download A Joomla template ( Free or Premium) for your website easily.But some time,your favorite template has some thing which you dont like. Ex : the title (h1) is so big or small, The font in article is so small and you want to change the font , so on…The easy way to solve this problems is edit CSS file from template folder. Today, I read a nice tip from OStraining about this.this tip introduce a tool for firefox named Web developer. with this tool I think you can manage CSS files better

This purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to find and fix problems with your Joomla templates. We're going to focus on CSS (or Cascading Style Sheets) because they control very common issues such as fonts, colors and padding.

If you ever wanted create a slash page in Joomla you may have run in to the problem with the home button in your Joomla site’s menu continually sending the users back to the splash page of a website. From a usability point of view, this can become very annoying for many users who are simply just trying to get back to the home page of the site.

There are a few ways to implement a splash page on to a Joomla site and this tutorial will take you through the process of one style of implementation.