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Article: Joomla 1.6 Quick Look: Template Styles

Joomla 1.6 includes a new feature called template styles.  This gives you the ability to use a single template in many different ways by saving different sets of options as a style.  Watch the Joomla 1.6 video on template styles to find...

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Article: Joomla 1.6 Spotlight: Hathor

Andrew Eddie interviews Andrea Tarr about a new Administrator template in Joomla 1.6.  This template has been designed to meet accessibility requirements allowing Joomla to be not only viewed, but used by and ever wider audience.  Watch...

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Article: Removing the Joomla Generator Tag

A common request from Joomla web masters is the ability to remove the generator meta tag from the source output of the site.  This is usually for security reasons to make it less obvious that the site is running Joomla.  The generator...

Article: Starting a Template

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the Joomla template is the window to the web.  It is the vehicle by which output is arranged and displayed as a visitor browses your site.  The template is made up of three different types of...

Article: Supporting the Joomla Print View Correctly

The Joomla Print or Popup view is poorly supported despite the fact that Joomla has some of the best web site designs in the world.  This is due to template designers neglecting a file named component.php in their template folder.  The Art...

Article: Template Tip: Displaying the Current Year in Copyright Notices

If you are anything like me and maintain a few web sites, sometimes you forget to update the copyright year that you typically put in a footer module or embed in the template itself.  A tiny line of PHP code can fix this so you never have to...

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Article: Template Tip: Hiding Modules when a User Logs In

Joomla is pretty good at hiding things from the public, and then exposing them once the user logs in.  However, what happens when you want to hide a module position, for example, when the user logs in.  I had this problem with The Art of...