Blog entries tagged tutorial

Create Custom URL Fields in JomSocial Image links to Social Networks

Cheryl Allin — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:02:05 +0100

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 IRead More...

Backup your Joomla site or move to a different server

Cheryl Allin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:39:19 +0100

Since I recently did this for a client, I thought I'd create a quick (well, maybe not so quick) and easy (ok, not so easy either) tutorial on how you can backup your Joomla site and move it to a new web host.

Since Joomla is made up mostly of files and folders with a MySQL database, we'll want to backup both. The best way to start is to create a backup folder on your PC and then:

1. Using FTP, copy your Joomla site's configuration.php file over intoRead More...

I'm New to Joomla, Where do I start?

Cheryl Allin — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:01:36 +0100

For this article, I'm going to assume you've managed to get Joomla installed on your website host and now you're looking around in the back end and unsure what to do next.

The first think you'll want to do is decide on your websites
structure. You're going to have topics you'll want to cover with your
website such as what the site is for, what services you provide, what
news you want to get out, etc. These will roughly equate to the
'SRead More...