Web Development Documentation

These pages are FAQs explain many of the tasks explained by those created for earlier versions of Joomla.  FAQs from older versions may still be useful for the new version.  If you would like to request a FAQ on a topic not listed here, submit a work order.

• Accessibility
  • Alternative Text (Alt Text)
• Administration
  • How to Clear the Joomla! Cache
  • Joomla Administrator Overview Login
• Articles
  • Adding a New Article (Joomla! front-end)
  • Adding and Formatting Tables within an Article (Joomla! 3.x) - Basic Editing
  • Adding and Linking to Anchors (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Article Versions
  • Changing an Article's Category (Joomla! back-end)
  • Copy and Paste Text from MS Word
  • Copying and Pasting from Excel to a Joomla Article
  • Creating a Category (Joomla! back-end)
  • Creating a copy of an existing article
  • Creating an Article (Joomla! back-end)
  • Creating Links in Articles (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Editing Articles (Joomla! 3.x, front-end) - Basic Editing
  • Editing Articles (Joomla! back-end) - Define Headings, Styles
  • Editing Articles (Joomla! back-end) - Using Images in Joomla!
  • Editing Articles (Joomla! back-end) - Work with Lists
  • Find an Article
  • Hiding a Page Title
  • Link to a PDF
  • Re-order Articles
  • Uploading and linking to files using Media Manager
  • Using Definition Lists (dd/dt) in Joomla
  • Working with Tables and making them responsive
• Chronoforms
  • Chronoforms: Adding a CAPTCHA to a Form
  • Chronoforms: Configuring a form to send email
  • Chronoforms: Create a new table for an existing form
  • Chronoforms: Embedding a Form within an Article
  • Chronoforms: Saving Data from a Form to a Data Table
  • Chronoforms: Simple Form Setup
• Community Builder
  • How to edit a Community Builder profile
• DOCMan
  • Linking to DocMan Documents (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Reordering Display of DOCman Documents
  • Updating DOCman Documents with New Files (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Upload and Publish Documents using DOCman (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Upload Multiple Files using DocMan (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Using Categories in DocMan (Joomla! 3.x)
• Events
  • SAS Events Module - Adding and Removing Events
• Ignite Gallery
  • Add Ignite Gallery to Website
  • Create Gallery
  • Edit Images (Description, Alt Text)
  • Ignite Gallery Overview
  • Upload Images
• Images
  • Adding an image to an article [Joomla 3.x]
  • How to add a link to an image
  • How to Add an Image to Media
  • Image Captions with Styling
  • Link text to a file in Media
  • Working With Popup Windows
  • Working With Popup Windows - How to use the lightbox/JCE-media pop-up effect on images
• JEvents
  • Adding an Event (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Display JEvents as a Menu Item Samples
  • Display of Events on Website
  • JEvents (Latest Events)
  • Manage Event Categories
  • Overview of JEvents
  • Work with Events
• Latest News Enhanced
  • Latest News Enhanced - Reordering Items
• Menus
  • Category List Layout
  • Configure Menu Item to Display Articles in Article Order (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Creating a Menu Item that links to a Category (category blog)
  • Creating a New Menu Item (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Creating and Editing External Links as Menu items (Joomla 3.x)
  • How to Add an Image to a Menu Item
• Modules (Standard Joomla)
  • Add Menus to your site
  • Adding a Custom Module (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Create a Custom Module
  • Display a "NEWSFLASH" for Article Content Display
  • Display a Category List
  • Edit a Custom Module
  • Module Position
  • Place a Module within Content
  • Random Image Module
  • What is a Module?
• Non-Joomla! Questions
  • How to make a screen shot (Mac)
  • How to mark up a screenshot (Mac)
  • Installing banner files on SAS Website (Non-CMS sites)
  • Publishing Web Pages to stargate.rutgers.edu
• RU Courses
  • Displaying Syllabi in RU Courses Module
  • RU Courses Module
  • Upload a syllabus so that it appears as a link in the RU Courses module
• SAS Website Templates
  • Checklist for SAS Academic Websites
  • SAS Web Template
• Smart Slider 2
  • Smart Slider 2: Copy and Modify a Template Layer
  • Smart Slider 2: Creating Sliders (Manual Slider method)
  • Smart Slider 2: Duplicating a Text Layer
  • Smart Slider 2: Updating Sliders
  • Work with Smart Slider 2
• Video
  • Displaying Youtube Video Within an Article or Module (Joomla! 3.x)
• Visforms
  • Create a New Form / Form Properties
  • Visforms: Configuring a form to save data and viewing the data
  • Visforms: Configuring a form to send email
  • Visforms: Form Setup
  • Work with Data Results
  • Work with Fields for Form
  • Work with VISFORMS
• Weblinks
  • Joomla Weblinks
• Workshop Documents
  • Advanced Content Editing
  • Components Workshop (Weblinks, Jevents, Smart Slider)
  • Forms (Visforms and SAS Invite)
  • Galleries, Sliders & Videos in Joomla
  • Ignite Gallery Workshop
  • JEvents Workshop
  • Joomla! Frontend Editing
  • Modules in Joomla
  • Website Administration & Editing