How to Translate Your Website Contents into Various Languages Using Joomla 1.7

Joomla 1.7 does not require JoomFish or other components to enable multilingual support. This support is built in Joomla 1.7 natively, although we don't find it particularly intuitive. There is a couple of steps that one needs to know to get it all going smoothly.

Below is a simple step-by-step summary of how to enable multilingual feature in Joomla 1.7:

1. Login to your website, from...

Graphic Makeover for Your Website

Building a website is not unlike building a house. Supporting and growing your website is also very similar to decorating your house.

Website Graphics on a Shoestring

First of all, get used to the idea that there is no end to it

You can always do more for your website! You can always find yet better images, better icons, better image rotators, newer plugins and modules to highlight various content...

How to Create Product Catalogues Using Standard Joomla Blog View

There are many product galleries extensions created for Joomla but it is always nice to see just how flexible Joomla! is if you know how to use it. Take a look at

What Your Hosting Provider Needs to Have to Host a Joomla Website

If you are considering a new Joomla website or converting your old website into a Joomla website, start with finding out whether your current hosting provider supports Joomla properly. Some hosting companies say that they do, but in reality there maybe requrements missing or they implement a work-around for some of the requrements, which may cause problems.

Here is what your hosting company needs to...

How to Select Joomla Website Templates

One of the most common remarks we hear people make after looking at various Joomla website templates is "Joomla looks so cluttered". First all of all, do not confuse Joomla! with the templates you can upload onto it. Joomla is a very powerful web content management platform. It is like Windows or Linux. So you can upload different kinds of website templates into it. Simple, clean, cluttered...

Top 10 Web Safe Fonts

Here is a list of 10 web safe fonts that are most popular with web designers:

1. Arial
2. Courier
3. Impact
4. Georgia
5. Lucida Console
6. Lucida San Serif
7. Tahoma
8. Times New Roman
9. Trebuchet
10. Verdana

In addition, the following 5 web safe fonts are gradually gaining popularity with web designers as well:

1. Arial Narrow
2. Century Gothic
3. Copperplate Gothic Light
4. Gill Sans
5. Palatino Linotype

Incoming search terms

Optimising Web Design for SEO

Here is what Google has to say about the file extensions: "At Google, we are able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. File types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, html, shtml, xml, cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri, swf.“

Details on file types:

• Adobe Portable Document Format...

If you are going to have a Joomla website, you will need to install several components to enable functionalities not supported by Joomla natively (not yet). For example, a Site Map is a must for SEO. Newsletter subscription is a must for lead generation. Google Analytics is a must for your understanding of your visitors' behaviour on your website. And there are a few more functionalities that most small business...

The standard contact form in Joomla is used very frequently by most Joomla designers because it is so convenient, and it is already there! But have you ever noticed that the capitalization is a little flaky? For example:

• Enter your Name:
• Email address:
• Message Subject:

In other words, there is no consistency in the capitalization of these labels. Fixing this is pretty straightforward.

First I would recommend that you install the...