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At Cologne, part of the team attended to J and Beyond 2018 to develop the new JED 4 system, the next iteration of the directory.
In attendance: Jaz Parkyn, Anibal Sanchez and Hugh Douglas-Smith.
JED 4
Today the Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) team met at 2 pm GMT via Glip to discuss our progress of current tasks.
In attendance: Jaz Parkyn, Anibal Sanchez, Aleksander Kuczek, Dénes Székely, Mark Lee, Luca Marzo and Troy Hall.
Absent: Daniel Dubois, Darek Śnieg, Hugh Douglas-Smith, Markus Bopp, Martin Mueller, Miron Savan, Paul Franklin, Sotiris Katsaniotis.
If you want to change colors, font properties, spacing, backgrounds and other design features, adding a custom CSS file is the answer.
If you're using Protostar as template and want to tweak the look, don't edit template.css, instead use this cool feature available since Joomla 3.5 to load your own CSS file.
Let's start...
The file we will create should be named "user.css", so Protostar can load it automatically.
Here you can create template overrides and create new files.
A successful message will confirm the creation of a new file where you can safely add your customisations in order to change the design of Protostar, the default Joomla template.
In my example, I’m increasing the size of the text using the font-size and line-height properties.
Visit the public face of your site. Protostar will automatically detect and load our custom code.
As you can see in the screenshot above, the text is bigger which means my tweaks are working. It doesn’t look good, but is enough to illustrate how the loading of custom CSS works in the default Joomla template.
Read more https://extensions.joomla.org/blog/item/load-custom-css-in-protostar-the-default-joomla-template
Joomla is charged with many options to make your website flexible and powerful. Those features are ready to cover specific needs, integrate new capabilities and make the content much easier to manage.
In this post I will share with you some tips that are worth taking the time to learn.
Improving the speed is part of the list of basic requirements from any developer. We are talking about the time a website can take to load.
This result depends on many factors, such as number of images, CSS files, javascript files, and other files that a site loads for every page.
Try the following tip to enable cache and page compression:
Go to System > Global configuration > System > Cache: ON (start with Conservative caching then try Progressive)
System > Global configuration > Server > Gzip Page Compression: yes
Save and close
The improvement is not specific for all the sites; but is possible to make your site load 50% faster.
By default, the protostar template comes with a boxed layout. To use the full width version, go to:
Extensions > Template manager > Protostar - default > Advanced > Fluid Layout: fluid
Save and close
To change the tag that wraps the module title:
Extensions > Module manager > Your module > Advanced > Header tag. Choose: h1, h2, h2, h4, h5, h6, p or div.
Save and close
Note: this feature may work or not depending on the template you are using.
Do you want to include javascript or iframe tags without getting stripped out after saving? Try this:
System > Global configuration > Default Editor: CodeMirror or None
Save and close
Then edit your module from Extensions > Module manager > Your custom HTML module.
If you need to customize the text from buttons or labels, look to the language manager:
Extensions > Language manager > Overrides > New
Joomla 3 allows to switch back to a previous version of an article.
Content > Article manager > Your article > Versions (button on top)
Edit your menu items starting from the public site:
System > Global configuration > Mouse-over Edit Icons for: modules & menus
Save and close
Your articles can receive ratings. To enable that functionality go to:
Content > Article manager > Options > Show voting: show
Read more https://extensions.joomla.org/blog/item/8-joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier
Create a website can be fun and easy when you are using the right tools. If your goal is build a very basic website and take your first steps into Joomla, this tutorial is for you.
Continue reading to learn how to create a website in 3 steps.
For this tutorial is recommend to have a hosting plan with a
domain name.
For example: yourdomain.com
However if you don’t have a hosting plan, use LAMP software to host the website in your computer. In this scenario the installation process would be different. For more details read:
Let’s install Joomla. Go to yourdomain.com/cpanel and login.
Be aware not all the hosting plans include CPanel, if that is your case ask to your hosting provider for assistance or try the regular installation process.
Back to CPanel, find the auto installer for Joomla; the location of this option may depends on your hosting provider and the CPanel version.
Fill all the information required such as database, site settings, language details and admin account. Pay special attention to admin account details, which consist in the username and password to login once Joomla is installed.
Find a reference for "Import sample data" if exist, as we don’t need the demo content set this option to none.
When you’re done click in "Install" button and wait for a successful message. If everything is fine, you will have a working Joomla site after a minute.
Go to yourdomain.com to see an empty website that needs to be feed with information.
Login in the backend to make it happen from yourdomain.com/administrator
In this point you already know what content must be added. We will create articles that would become in pages later.
Go to Content > Article manager > Add new article
I created the "About us" article by typing the title and the content.
Optional: you can add images from Images & Links > Intro Image / Full article image
Click "Save & close" button when you’re done. Repeat the
same process for every article you need.
In my list I have 5 articles, including "Welcome" that will be
displayed in homepage by doing click in the star icon as the next
screenshot displays:
We have articles, we need menu items to link to them.
Go to Menus > Main menu > Add new menu item
I created the "About us" menu item linked to the article with the same name.
Click "Save & close" button when you’re done. Repeat the same process for every menu item you need.
Be aware the only exception is your home page (i. e. "welcome" article), you already have a menu item for that page.
In my list I have 5 menu items for my menu.
The last part is visit your public website to see the end result: the articles are loaded in the left, the menu in the right.
Read more https://extensions.joomla.org/blog/item/create-a-website-in-3-steps