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A blog about the Joomla CMS with tips, tricks and evaluation of Open Source and commercial add-ons.

In this blog you are as likely to find a video tutorial about a specific Joomla Extension as you are to find an article about a recently discovered bug and its fix.
I write this blog to give back t the Joomla community and as such I invite you to let me know what you think and participate with your own thoughts and comments.

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How to make a static home page in Joomla

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Written by Marco Conti Sunday, 04 February 2007 09:02

Joomla is a fantastic tool for building modern and dynamic websites. However, many people new to Joomla find it hard to set up their site to mimic a non-portal site with one or more fixed articles on the front or main home page. In this article I will try to explain some of the tricks you can use to achieve this effect while keeping the RSS feed and the blog style layout of the dynamic content.

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Set up a blog in Joomla (1.0)

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Written by Marco Conti Friday, 15 December 2006 11:53

A common complaint of the Joomla! Blog section is that it seems to have a life of its own. Joomla! is based on the concept of "Sections" and "Categories", where a Section is composed of one or more categories and each category is composed of the actual content. This is a source of some confusion and a lot of frustration on the part of users and I will try to explain how the Joomla! system works and how to set up a working personal bog in Joomla!

If I want to setup a Blog on Joomla, I need to be able to publish only a given section within the blog page. For example, if I have two categories, "Blog" and "Services", I don't want to have the content from the services category spill over in my Blog.

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Designing CSS layouts for Joomla with Dreamweaver

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Written by Marco Conti Friday, 03 November 2006 12:35

Many web designers are used to and like to use Macromedia Dreamweaver (DW) to work on their HTML and CSS. The latter in particular is very well supported in DW8 and it allows for very visual work on CSS files.

However, because of the way Joomla templates are structured it is often impossible, or at least unpractical, to work on a Joomla template from within DW in any satisfactory fashion.

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How to edit a Joomla template with Firefox

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Written by Marco Conti Sunday, 29 October 2006 18:36

When I first discovered Joomla! when it was still Mambo, my first question was: "How the heck am I going to edit the template?"

I think this is pretty much the first question any traditional web designer has when they first try to work with a CMS. It's natural. We are used to a Top down style of designing the page and then inserting the content, Joomla is the opposite. The content is there, but the design, even the excellently designed Ruck Solarflare, is the first thing we must change if we want to make an original website.

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