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)
  • 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)
  • 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!
  • Find an Article
  • Hiding a Page Title
  • Re-order Articles
  • Using Definition Lists (dd/dt) in Joomla
  • Work with Lists
  • Work with Spacing between Lines
  • Working with Tables and making them responsive
• Community Builder
  • How to edit a Community Builder profile
• Custom Fields
  • Work with Custom Fields
• DOCMan
  • Creating a Listing of Documents within an Article
  • Linking to DocMan Documents (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Reordering Display of DOCman Documents
  • Unpublishing and Re-Publishing a Document
  • 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)
  • What is DOCMan?
• Events
  • SAS Events Module - Adding and Removing Events
• Forms
  • 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
  • Visforms: Configuring a form to save data and viewing the data
  • Visforms: Configuring a form to send email
  • Visforms: Create a New Form / Form Properties
  • Visforms: Form Setup
  • Visforms: Work with Fields for Form
  • Work with VISFORMS
  • Work with VISFORMS fields
• Ignite Gallery
  • Create Gallery
  • Display Inside of an Article
  • Display with a Menu Item Link
  • Edit Images (Description, Alt Text)
  • Ignite Gallery Overview
  • Upload Images
  • Work with Profiles in Ignite Gallery
• Images
  • Adding an image to an article [Joomla 3.x]
  • How to Add an Image to Media
  • Image Captions with Styling
• JEvents
  • Adding an Event (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Creating Modules for JEvents (Latest Events)
  • Display JEvents as a Menu Item Samples
  • Display of Events on Website
  • Manage Event Categories
  • Overview of JEvents
  • Work with Events
• Latest News Enhanced
  • Latest News Enhanced - Reordering Items
• Links
  • Adding and Linking to Anchors (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Creating and Editing External Links as Menu items (Joomla 3.x)
  • Creating Links in Articles (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Joomla Weblinks
  • Link text to a file in Media
  • Work with Adding FILE Links
  • Work with Links
• Menus
  • Add Menus to your site
  • 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)
  • How to Add an Image to a Menu Item
• Modules (Standard Joomla)
  • Adding a Custom Module (Joomla! 3.x)
  • 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
• PDFs and Files in Joomla
  • Add Files into Article Directly
  • JCE – Editor Pro vs. Regular
  • Upload a File in Joomla
  • Use Image Manager Extended
  • Where do we store Files?
  • Work with File Browser (manager)
  • Work with Files in Joomla
• Popups
  • Create Popup with Image Button (JCE Editor Image Manager Extended)
  • Link a file or image to a popup window (standard JCE Editor)
• RU Courses
  • 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: Creating Slides with the "Ken Burns" Effect
  • Smart Slider 2: Duplicating a Text Layer
  • Smart Slider 2: Updating Sliders
• Video
  • Add Video using IgniteGallery
  • Displaying Youtube Video Within an Article or Module (Joomla! 3.x)
  • Galleries, Sliders & Videos in Joomla
  • Insert a Video into an Article
• Workshop Documents
  • Advanced Content Editing
  • Components Workshop (Weblinks, Jevents, Smart Slider)
  • Forms (Visforms and SAS Invite)
  • Ignite Gallery Workshop
  • JEvents Workshop
  • Joomla! Frontend Editing
  • Modules in Joomla
  • Website Administration & Editing