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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

Determining your templates' module positions


Modules are built-in 'extensions' that are used to display your content to the website visitors. Using our example in the last recipe, you saw that you can make your site show a different template, based on the 'section' that is called. A module can be used in a similar fashion, showing components or other modules such as the Login module (also known as mod_login).

The module positions are placeholders, which are used to display content with the associated module.

Here is an example of the Login module being displayed in the left module position on the default Joomla! template rhuk_milkyway:

The designer of a template has full control over module position locations and their names. You might recognize left, right, and banner. These are module positions available in the default Joomla! setup.

Note

Module positions when left is right

LEFT, RIGHT, and other module positions are names only and do not always reflect the geographical position on the screen...