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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Changing the favorite icon


In some browsers, your site can display an "ICON" in the address bar. The default Joomla! site shows the Joomla! icon.

This is easy and quick to change. It gives your site a nice custom look and removes the Joomla! logo at the same time.

Getting ready

You'll need a graphic of size 100 x 100 pixels, typically .png format. Additionally, you can use a 32 x 32 or 16 x 16 graphic.

The Open-source graphics tool GIMP or commercial tools like Photoshop or Snagit are some of the graphics applications available for your use.

You will require a FTP client and any browser.

How to do it...

  1. Visit - http://www.favicongenerator.com/.

  2. Upload your 100 x 100 pixel graphic.

  3. Click Generate a file with the extension .ico.

  4. Save it to your local disk.

  5. Rename the file to favicon.ico.

  6. Connect to your website using your FTP client.

  7. Upload the <file>.ico. /joomla/templates/<your template> directory.

How it works...

The favicon is loaded up by the browser each time a page is called from your template directory. You can see this by opening the site and looking in the address bar.