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Language overrides from Administrator

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
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on Friday, 20 April 2012
in Tutorial

Language file overrideVarious functions in Joomla require certain text to be displayed. These values are stored in various text files and previously you could only change the text by finding and downloading the correct file, changing the text and then uploading the file again. And then repeating the process if you got it wrong. Fortunately there is a much easier solution now and this post explains how to use the language override feature.

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Picnik Replacement

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Tuesday, 3 April 2012
in Tutorial

Picnik alternativeThe tool we have previously recommended for resizing images is about to disappear. This post introduces you to a great replacement that's not only dead simple to use, but a lot of fun too.

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How to use Captcha in Joomla 2.5

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
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on Thursday, 8 March 2012
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reCaptcha(VIDEO) Sick of getting spam registrations on your Joomla website? This video tutorial demonstrates how to use the Captcha feature that was introduced in Joomla 2.5.

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How to embed a Wufoo form into a Joomla article

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Friday, 17 February 2012
in Tutorial

Wufoo logoI am a fan of using Joomla for all your website needs wherever possible. However there are times when it might make sense to use an external solution. In this tutorial you will learn how to create forms using a popular service called Wufoo and embed the form into a Joomla article.

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Creating spaces around images

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Friday, 10 February 2012
in Tutorial

Text aligned hard up against an imageDo you like to wrap your images around your text? The standard editor supplied with Joomla provides an alignment feature to do this, but this results in the image crashing in to the surrounding text. This tutorial demonstrates how to solve this through the use of a free extension that every Joomla site should use.

Tags: images, JCE, tutorial
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Joomla editor tips

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Thursday, 6 October 2011
in Tutorial

Our top 7 tips when working with the Joomla editor

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Joomla language files

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 21 September 2011
in Tutorial

How to change the text that appears with many common Joomla functions.

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K2 templates

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Thursday, 15 September 2011
in Tutorial

This week's newsletter will explain how you can get a custom K2 template working for your Joomla website. It's a bit more involved in terms of file manipulation, but we'll look at it from a very general point of view, give you some tips and explain why we think this is a really nice feature. You will need either good knowledge of and access to cPanel or a good command of FTP. You will also need to know a bit about CSS, and remember that you can always get professional help when you need it.

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How to write killer titles

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Monday, 22 August 2011
in Tutorial

the-most-overlooked-feature-of-JoomlaThis week is a bit of a combination topic. We are talking a bit about K2 still as we address the topic of titles for your articles, but we're also including some SEO ideas, as well as some basic standards for good writing. We are, after all, trying to drive traffic to our websites with almost everything we do. If you produce your own content for your website, you'll want to go through these points carefully.

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K2 Fields

Posted by Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce
Owner of Build a Joomla Website. Responsible for 1 wife, 3 kids and 17 fish.
User is currently offline
on Wednesday, 3 August 2011
in Tutorial

This week we'll be discussing the benefits of K2 once again. Specifically, we'll look at the Extra Fields available with K2 and what you can do with them to improve your site and make some of the work you do a bit easier.

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