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Feb 19
2011

Create Custom URL Fields in JomSocial Image links to Social Networks

Posted by Cheryl Allin in tutorial , troubleshooting , howto  , extensions , components

Cheryl Allin

I'm very proud of myself today. I'm in NO way a PHP programmer, I've just been a Joomla user since before Joomla was Joomla and have never been afraid to jump in and beat it to submission whenever I've had an idea. Sometimes, extension developers will solve your crisis for you. Other times, you have to dig in and create your own solutions.

Yesterday, I was customizing one of my sites and working on getting JomSocial looking pretty. It's often a case of viewing the source to see what IDs and classes are involved and then going into Dreamweaver and using the 'find and replace' function to find every instance of a CSS call. It can be crazy, but I'm stubborn about getting what I want.

Aug 17
2007

Display a Joomla Component on your Frontpage

Posted by Cheryl Allin in howto  , components

Cheryl Allin

In an earlier tutorial, I explained how your frontpage content item will disappear if you don't have the default 'Home' link at the top of your Main Menu.  But, what if you don't want your 'Welcome to the website' content item on the Frontpage, but you would rather have Sobi or CMS Realty to display instead?  Believe it or not, I didn't at first realize how to do this (but should have).