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How to make registered users Authors when they register |
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There is a quick fix to make users Authors when they register. You need to edit the registration.php file located in components/com_registration, on line 142, change this line --> $row->gid = $acl->get_group_id( 'Registered', 'ARO' ); to $row->gid = $acl->get_group_id( 'Author', 'ARO' );
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Joomla! css introduction tutorial |
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This is a short introduction to css and Joomla template system. click here to watch the wmv video (windows only) (2.2 7MB)
In this video we show you how css works and where the css file is located in the joomla system.
In addition to this we go over some basic css:
- relative and absolute position with css
- margin, padding, and borders using css
- styling modules using class suffix
- styling and position of modules
For more information on how to use css, please visit some of these websites:
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This is to create a link to the user profile so that a user can change their email, username, or password. 1. choose the menu you want the link to appear on. 2. create a new link using: link to url 3. give it a name like user profile or something that your users will understand. 4. in the link, put: index.php?option=com_user&task=UserDetails 5. Change the access level to: Registered. This is to ensure that this link only appears when a user logs in.
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Adding Images using TinyMCE |
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This tutorial explains how you can upload and add images using the media manager and tinyMCE wysiwyg editor in Joomla or Mambo Content System. Our tutorial is using Joomla, but the tinyMCE wysiwyg editor is found in both Mambo and Joomla. The tutorial is 7 minutes long and 5MB, click here to download and watch the joomla images tutorial. |
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click here to watch a 9 minute video on modules. The file is windows media, and 4 MB. Make sure you have your media player on full screen. The video shows you how to move modules to various module positions in the template, how to publish or unpublish modules, and how to make modules appear on certain pages which have links on menus.
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This is a 5 minute tutorial on how to add clients and banners to your website using the banner manager in Mambo. The video follows the steps below and explains the different parts of the manager. click here to watch the movie, it is 5 minutes long and is 1.8 MB.
1. Click on Manage Clients and add a client. 2. Next click Manage Banners, and add your graphic by clicking the upload button. 3. Next add a new banner by clicking the new button. 4. Fill in all the information, choose the banner you uploaded from the drop down list, and click save. Any questions, feel free to contact us through our contact form. Adding Custom Banner Code If you are adding custom banner code, you will find you get a javascript error and mambo wants you to choose an image from the drop down list. It will also ask you for a banner url. To work around this, you can upload a transparent gif, either a 1x1 pixel gif, or the size of your banner space. The default banner in mambo is 468x60. I have created a 1x1 transparent gif and you can download it by right clicking here, and choosing save link as in Mozilla Firefox or Save Target as in Internet Explorer. You can then upload to your banners in the banner manager. After uploading remember to close the banner you are working on and open a new one to refresh the list of images in the banner manager drop down list. Finally, in the banner url, you can put something in comments, like this --> <!-- see custom code --> note: if you are hosting your image, and you are using custom code, the custom banner code will take precedence over the banner url and image. You will have to put the source code in the custom banner code to point to the image on your server. Choosing it in the banner manager will NOT work.
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This video is a mambo video tutorial that shows you how you can add images to your content using a table, and using this table you can add a caption. This is designed as an easy way for novice users to add images to their Mambo site and properly align them in regards to the text. It also reviews a few of the items related to publishing an article like author name, date, and meta tag information. The video is 10 minutes long, and weighs in at 4 MB. The WYSWIG editor that we are using is TMEdit, you can find it here at http://www.thinkmambo.com. Click here to watch the video.
** note for mambo developers: In order to use the CSS style editor as we have in this video, you need to add the style to your stylesheet, and then add the style to the tmedit.php file located in the mambots/editors directory, at line 329.
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This is a quick tutorial on how to add links to your menus. Click here to download and watch the video.
VERY IMPORTANT: Before you can add a link, you must first add the content you would like to link to. Here is a brief overview of adding a link.
- Log in to your administrator panel. Users with manager, administrator, and super administrator permissions are allowed to log into the administrator panel, usually found at http://www.your-domain-name.com/administrator.
- Place your mouse on the word menu, the drop down list will appear and you then click on the menu you would like to add the link to.
- You then click on New, choose they type of item you are linking to, Blog - Category Content, Blog - Content Section, Table - Category Content, etc...
- Give your link a name, and choose the necessary parameters.
- Click Save.
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Adding and Controlling new menus |
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This 7 minute video shows you how to add a menu to your web site, and how to control the appearance and placement of the menu.. Click here to watch the video(3 MB).
Here is a quick overview of how to add a menu.
- Add your menu through the menu manager. Log in to the administrator panel, click menu, click menu manager.
- Click New to create your new menu, give your menu a name and click save. Menus are a type of module, when you create a new menu, you create a new module which can be edited in the module manager.
- To place your menu in the correct area of your website and edit the menu parameters, click modules, click site moduels, find the menu you created in the list, click on the name.
- Make sure your module is placed in an active position on your template, make sure it is published, and finally make sure it is in the right order amoung the other items in that position.
In the video we also show you how to control the menu using the module manager. In the module manager you can control the placement of the video and how it appears. For example, menus can appear as vertically, horizontally, or as a bulleted list. You can also give a menu a CSS extension so you can control the appearance.
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This video will show you how to add a content items through the administrator panel of Mambo.
Click here to download and watch the movie "adding content to Mambo" , as it is downloading, read this short paragraph on how Mambo organizes the two main types of content, static pages, and content items.
Content is organized in two ways. You can build static pages, which are an individual page where all the information is shown on the screen. The other way mambo handles content is through the section category hiearchy. Much like a newspaper is divided into sections, which have different sub-sections. For example you have sports, and in sports you have football, tennis, and other pages dedicated to the articles for that particular sport, Mambo organizes the content in exactly the same way, first you create a section, then you add the different categories under that section, and finally you add content items to these categories.
VERY IMPORTANT: Only after you add content items will your categories appear on the website.
1. a. to add an article make sure you already have the section created and the category for that article, then
click Content, all content items.
2. click new
3. fill in all the appropriate information. Name, intro text, main text, choose a section, choose a category in that section.
4. On the right are parameters regarding your content item.
a. Publishing: Choose if you want the article to be shown on the front page. Choose who can view the item. Choose when it will be shown and when it will be taken off the site.
b. If you don't have an html editor for the content with an image manager, you can click the image tab and add images to your content with this tab.
c. A list of items regarding the content item, put your mouse over the blue i to view information regarding each item.
d. meta info tab: this will help search engines categorize and index your page.
e. Link tab: you can make a link on any one of your menus to this content item directly using this tab.
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Here you will find Joomla/Mambo Content Management System tutorials for the most important aspects of managing your website. All tutorials are in windows media. We use this format because it creates a small file size and a very good quality. If you are a mac user, unfortunately this screen capture codec is not available for the mac. Sorry that I have not found the time to make the videos in a format for mac users. In the future we plan to make videos that are not OS dependent. If there is a tutorial that you would like that you don't find here, please contact us and we would be glad to make one for you.
