User's Manual

o See the tutorial Using Class Suffixes in Joomla! 1.5 for more information.

· Menu Image. Optional image to display to the left or right of the Menu Item. Image must be in the

folder "images/stories".

· SSL Enabled. Whether or not this page should use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and the Secure Site

URL. This is used to encrypt the information sent between the browser and the web site.

Quick Tips

Parameters for Articles and Contacts can be set at 3 different levels:

1. the individual Article or Contact New or Edit screen (Article:[Edit] or Contact:[Edit]).

2. the Menu Item that displays the Article or Contact (this screen).

3. the Global Configuration screen, accessed using the Parameters button on the Article

Manager and Contact Manager screens.

The parameter set for the individual Article or Contact always takes first priority. If the individual

parameter is set to "Use Global", then the parameter set in the Menu Item takes priority. If both of

these are set to "Use Global", then the parameter in the Global Configuration takes priority.

· Parameters for News Feeds, Search, and Web Links work in a similar way, except that they are only

set in this screen and in the Global Configuration screens. No parameters are set for individual items

of these types. As with Articles and Contacts, the Menu Item setting takes priority over the Global

Configuration setting.

· Use the Global Configuration parameters whenever possible. This way, if you want to change a

parameter setting for all content items, you can just change it once in the Global Configuration and it

will automatically be reflected in all affected content items.

· Often on the Front Page component, Joomla! users do not want their Articles to display in 2 columns,

which is the default value. The first Article displays in one column (using the full width), but

subsequent Articles display in 2 columns. This can be adjusted by changing the values of the

Parameters - Basic for the Front Page.

· If you are trying to manually change the order of articles on the Front Page or in a Blog or List

Layout, make sure that you have the Primary Order and Category Order parameters set correctly in

the Parameters - Advanced Section. If these parameters are set incorrectly, changing the order

manually will have no effect on the order on the web page.

Toolbar

Cancel. Go back to the main screen of the Manager, without saving the modifications you made.

· Help. Opens this Help Screen.