This new free Joomla turtorial explains how to add Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to Joomla articles: Add Meta Title, Meta Description, and Meta Keywords to Joomla Articles.

Search Engine Optimization is important if you want your website to rank well in Google or other search engines.

Joomla 1.5 makes it pretty easy to turn on SSL for your whole site, for individual pages, or for administrators only. See our new Joomla tutorial: Turn on SSL for Joomla Website.

Using AllVideosReloaded, it’s pretty easy to add YouTube, Vimeo, and many other videos to a Joomla article. Click here to see our new Joomla Video Tutorial: How to Add Videos to Joomla Articles.

It sounds simple, but adding a link to an image in an article seems to confuse some users. See our new Joomla Tutorial: How to add a link to an image in a Joomla article.

Yesterday, I noticed that none of the YouTube videos on my site would play. For example, when I clicked on one of these videos, nothing happended, but there was a message at the bottom of Firefox that said Waiting for gdata.youtube.com…. (more…)

Joomla allows you to add an article index or table of contents to a Joomla article. For example, if you have long Joomla article, you might want to spit it into smaller pages. With Joomla, you can easily do this and automatically add a table of contents (TOC) so the user can navigate to different parts of the article quickly. Usually, you would want to split the articles at headings, but you can split them anywhere you want.

Watch Joomla Video: How to add a table of contents (article index) to a Joomla article

How to add links to a Joomla article. This new Joomla video tutorial explains how to add links to a Joomla article. For example, you can link to another Joomla article; you can link to an external website, or you can link to Joomla contacts. Click here to view my new Joomla Video Tutorial on how to add links to a Joomla Article

You can restrict access to Joomla Articles. For example, you can create restrictions to menu links, such as links to Joomla menu items like forms, or components, or you can restrict access to category or section lists or blogs. In addition, you can restrict access to individual Joomla articles.

• Click here to see how to restrict access to Joomla menu items: Components, Sections, Categories, etc.
• Click here to see how to limit access to individual Joomla articles.

You can use Firebug, a plugin for Firefox browser, to fix css problems in Joomla, WordPress, or any web page. There are a lot of questions on the Joomla forum regarding problems with css and Joomla templates, especially with IE6, IE7, or IE8. These problems can be hard to find and fix. Firebug makes finding css problems, or understanding css, much easier than looking at the page source alone. Check out my new Joomla video tutorial that explains how to use Firebug to determine how a web page is built with css.

A lot of people, including me, have trouble configuring Joomla FTP. It’s not that hard, but it’s very specific. See our new article on configuring Joomla 1.5 FTP.