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With a library of thousands of free Extensions , you can add what you need as your site grows. Don't wait, look through the Joomla! Extensions library today.
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The one thing about a Web site, it always changes! Joomla! makes it easy to add Articles, content, images, videos, and more. Site administrators can edit and manage content 'in-context' by clicking the 'Edit' link. Webmasters can also edit …
Joomla! Facts
Here are some interesting facts about Joomla! Over 210,000 active registered Users on the Official Joomla! community forum and more on the many international community sites. over 1,000,000 posts in over 200,000 topics over 1,200 posts per …
Support and Documentation
Support Support for the Joomla! CMS can be found on several places. The best place to start would be the Joomla! Official Documentation Wiki . Here you can help yourself to the information that is regularly published and updated as Joomla! …
Joomla! Overview
If you're new to Web publishing systems, you'll find that Joomla! delivers sophisticated solutions to your online needs. It can deliver a robust enterprise-level Web site, empowered by endless extensibility for your bespoke publishing needs…
Joomla! Features
Joomla! features: Completely database driven site engines News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors Fully customisable layouts including left , center , and ri…
My MySQL database does not support UTF-8. Do I have a problem?
No you don't. Versions of MySQL lower than 4.1 do not have built in UTF-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use UTF-8 on older databases. Let the installer take care of all the setti…
What is the FTP layer for?
The FTP Layer allows file operations (such as installing Extensions or updating the main configuration file) without having to make all the folders and files writable. This has been an issue on Linux and other Unix based platforms in respec…
Only one edit window! How do I create "Read more..."?
This is now implemented by inserting a Read more... tag (the button is located below the editor area) a dotted line appears in the edited text showing the split location for the Read more.... A new Plugin takes care of the rest. It is worth…
Can Joomla! 1.5 operate with PHP Safe Mode On?
Yes it can! This is a significant security improvement. The safe mode limits PHP to be able to perform actions only on files/folders who's owner is the same as PHP is currently using (this is usually 'apache'). As files normally are created…
What happened to the locale setting?
This is now defined in the Language [ lang ].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit the entries in the locale tag.…
Why does Joomla! 1.5 use UTF-8 encoding?
Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again? Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish? With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) glyphs (character forms) of basic…
How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ?
Joomla! 1.5 does not provide an upgrade path from earlier versions. Converting an older site to a Joomla! 1.5 site requires creation of a new empty site using Joomla! 1.5 and then populating the new site with the content from the old site. …
How do I localise Joomla! to my language?
General In Joomla! 1.5 all User interfaces can be localised. This includes the installation, the Back-end Control Panel and the Front-end Site. The core release of Joomla! 1.5 is shipped with multiple language choices in the installation bu…