Tips & How to

If a Contact Form isn’t sending emails properly, setting the Mail Settings to use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) may resolve the issue. By default, Joomla 2.5 3.0 uses the PHP Mail() function to send emails from the server. The settings can be modified via the Joomla admin area.

Many newbies to Joomla and WordPress find that the default templates installed do not meet their website needs. If that is the case with you, don’t panic – there are many professionally-designed templates available on market, flexible in terms of available positions and functionality, are attractive and often theme-based.

It seems that Joomla loads mootools (core & more) by default, bumping the frontpage up to 300+ Kbytes where the mootools library are the major part in that size. We want to avoid mootools, at least on the selected menu item, while we are aware that some modules might need the mootools.

Icon or even a logo on the menu – it’s not new, this approach can be seen on the websites for several years. In particular, it may be useful to eliminate the first (start position) ‘Home’ or ‘Start’ to house icon.

If you have a mobile version of your website (also based on Joomla!) and it isn’t responsive/adaptive you may want to provide a note to the users if that version is more appropriate.

Although responsive template has many advantages, you do not always have the opportunity to use it. Especially if your client has an old version of Joomla 1.5 that does not have this type of templates.

According to the statistics, it appears that the weather app is one of the most frequently downloaded applications on smartphones. Also, websites are not worse and have their own weather modules.

You’ve distributed a newsletter to your subscribers and received complaints from some readers that your images would not show up? The answer may be quite simple: include the image in the source code of your newsletter! To accomplish this, the image must first be converted to a base64 string.

So your or yours client website got hacked? It’s all too common to hear of Joomla 1.5 (or Joomla 1.6) sites getting hacked over and over, administrators addressing the symptoms but, without tackling the root cause, wondering why they’re so unlucky. They just use temporary solutions, keep applying band-aids without cleaning the wound and bad infections come back sooner or later.

Because SEO has become such a holistic part of website (also based on Joomla!) improvement, it is no surprise that content formatting is a part of the process. The title tag is the most important element on the page. Next up is the first heading (H1), and then the main body of the content. HTML has several tags that define headings: H1, H2, H3 …