The Art of Joomla

Tutorials by Andrew Eddie for Joomla!® developers, site implementers and artisans - twittergoogle+ • facebook

Some of you may be sending your typical "Contact Us" form on your Joomla site to a Gmail or a Google Apps email address. If you are, and you are using Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3, you might have noticed a problem - when you reply to the email the address that comes up is your own email, not the email of the sender.

Read more: The Joomla Contact Form, Gmail, and Reply-To Problems

Creating a split menu between two modules, like a top menu module and a side menu module, in Joomla is really easy to do if you know the tricks. The following tutorial shows you how to do it in a few easy steps.

Read more: Splitting a Joomla Menu Between Two Modules

I've added a number of Eclipse snippets that I have used on a regular basis to assist with Joomla extension development. You can find them in the new Snippets area on this site.

Read more: Eclipse Snippets for Joomla Developers

Popup images are a very popular part of web-sites today. You see them used particularly in galleries but more and more within articles in general. Joomla gives you the ability to add popup images very easily.

Read more: Making Modal Popup Links in Joomla

It's been a while but I've produce a new extension called Artof Comments for Joomla 2.5/3 and you can download it from http://www.theartofjoomla.com/extensions/artof-comments.html. This is a Disqus plugin for articles, but with a difference. You manage the enabling of comments directly in the category and article edit forms.

Read more: Artof Comments - Disqus for Joomla, with a twist