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.

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.

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.

Joomla is a GREAT Content Management System (CMS), but it can be daunting for a beginner to learn. Instead of floundering or asking a lot of beginner questions, make sure that you read the Joomla beginner’s documentation. (more…)