Tutorials by Gaiamycat

As a Joomla developer, you will want to customize the copyright information found in the bottom of your Joomla website, either for your own site, or for one of your client's sites.

To embed video in to a Joomla 1.5 or later website, you will have to make sure that you have your privileges set so that you do not trigger the "black list" security feature. This article explains in detail how to allow videos in to Joomla articles.

When new users register at a Joomla website, they can be classified as a specific type of user depending upon how the site administrators originally set up user registration. This article explains how to change a user classification after they have registered.

It's easy to create a blog that allows you to make regular postings and have them all appear on a single page in Joomla using articles, sections, categories and the "Syndicate" module to create an RSS feed.

When you first install Joomla on your server, you may notice that the date format is in a European format, meaning that the the day of the month precedes the name of the month like this. In the U.S. the date formats are generally displayed with the the month first.

One of the most important things a developer can do to get her site ranked in the search engines is to develop quality meta tags. Although the Title tag is not technically a meta tag, it is unquestionably the most important item on your site that is not in the body area.

It's easy to build a large and complicated website with Joomla, and it's just as easy to back up all the files and the database on another server or rebuild it after a server failure or website attack. This article will explain how to back up the entire home directory as well as the database associa

Most quality Joomla templates come with the ability to alter the width of the template as well as the width of any side columns. This article will explain how to change the total width of a Joomla template as well as how to change the width of any side columns.

Joomla creates long URLs for interior pages like this: example.com/?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=2. These types of URLs are not very search engine friendly. This article will explain how to make the URLs more search engine friendly and therefore help your site rank better.

This article will explain in detail how to remove any or all of the columns in category listings including: the header, the filter, the date, the "Display" drop down menu, the author name and the number of hits found in the category.