So, you have a Joomla site, but you can’t seem to figure out what position a module is situated into on your site.

Maybe you are looking at template companies demo and want to understand how they layed it out? Perhaps you are just a snoop.
Well it’s easy peasy to do this. Just add ?tp=1 to the end of a Joomla url, preferably a non SEF url.
You will then be able to see all the published modules on that page.

Here are a few examples.

• http://joomla.org?tp=1
• http://www.joomlajunkie.com?tp=1
• http://www.columbusgeek.com/?tp=1

You see how that last links layout looks all fancy?  Thats because that site is powered by Morph.  In Morph you can actually bring up a  toolbar on your website frontend and easily enable or disable stuff like module positions or turn on or off the sites javascript.  Pretty cool stuff.
Want to disable this functionality for some reason?  Check out this post.

Easily one of the most asked questions in Joomla existence. This is probably one of the easiest ones to change as well.

While it is best to leave this message on your site as it helps spread the Joomla love, sometimes your clients do not want to partake in the love fest.

In Joomla 1.5.xx if you want to remove the footer, go to Extensions > Module Manager and unpublish the footer module. If you want to change the text, you need to get out your FTP client and do some changes.
Go to the language directory, go to the folder of the language you want to change, (in our case English), then find the mod_footer.ini. Search for “powered by” and change the text to whatever you want your text in the footer to be.

In some cases the template you are using might have it hard-coded in, or done differently. In this circumstance you should ask the developer of the template you are using.

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me…..blah blah blah…

For my birthday surprise today I will not post a tip. I know, bummer right? Today is all about digging into my birthday cake.

Wish me a Happy Birthday on any of my millions of social networking accounts.

http://twitter.com/matthewlking
http://www.facebook.com/matthewlking
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewlking/
http://www.last.fm/user/matthewlking
You get the idea.

You built a website for a client, now they want email addresses and a bunch more stuff.

It’s downright silly to not take care of this for your client as well. Google apps is a great resource for Joomla developers and website builders. Make sure you take advantage of this free and brilliant resource.

Why would I have Google do email, when my webhost does it already?

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Develop your Joomla site on your own network. You will be amazed how much faster you will get things done.

Building your site locally is much faster and simpler then uploading and waiting for page refreshes constantly on a remote server. The local build will then double as a sandbox test environment when your site goes live, as you should never be doing updates or upgrades to a live site.

Depending on what operating system you use, you will have two options I would suggest: read more…