Let say that you want to have or  create a splash screen page on your Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, WordPress where users can choose what what language their prefer, or you just want to put an a huge image to greet your visitors. And suddently you’re wondering “How on earth I’m supposed to do that kind of thing?”.

Well, don’t be sad now because it’s not difficult to that. All you need is to place an extra command in your .htaccess. Just add this line of code anywhere in your .htaccess file. Read more…

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By default, Joomla and Mambo provides several module position. But if you feel that is not enough, you could create more module position (custom module position) from Joomla or Mambo backend, and you could named it anything you like.

To create a new module position

1. Login to the backend using administrator user id and password.
2. Click on Site -> Template Manager -> Module Position.
3. You’ll see all module position that already exist on your Joomla or Mambo site.
4. To create a new position, simply type the name of the position on the “Position” column, you could also add a description for it if you like.
5. If you’re done, click on the Save button.

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Joomla’s front page will automatically list all new content items that have been set to the frontpage. You can also make a static page as your site front page. When you set a static page to the front page and no Joomla content item set to the front page, Joomla will give you a message like “There are no items to display”. Can we avoid this error message if we want to use Joomla static content page in the front page? Yes, we can.

First go to your Joomla backend, and create a new static page from Content -> Static Content Manager menu. Click “New” to create a new static content. Click on the “Parameters” tab and change all necessary option in it if you want to change the way the static content look like. If you’re done click on the “Save” button. Read more…

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