It used to be when you wanted to put up a website you searched and found a template and then hunted around until you found a free or cheap html editor.
Then you spent the better part of the day trying to figure out how to layout your text and images to make it all look right. After you finished the index page then you had to work on each of the other pages - all by hand.
Don't forget to make sure your menu links all work and go to the correct page.

No wonder the newbie...

Well, today's been a busy day on the www.fitstartingtoday.com site.

I've install quite a few little applications and modules and did a video to show how to install Amazon's Astore application.

So, let's get busy looking at all the new things that's been put on the site. One of the first things I did was change some of the article features. One of the complaints about Joomla is it doesn't have the same blog type capabilities as WordPress. Meaning people can't post comments...

Social Bookmarking is a system that allows users / readers to store and organize bookmarks of page they enjoy on the internet. A great way to improve stickiness is to add bookmarking widgets to your site.
There are several available depending on the platform you are using.

Since we are using Joomla, a trip to Joomla.org extensions collection was the goal today.

I've used this particular plug in before and I noticed that they had updated it.
Have a look at the...

I always seem to be working on this site at the end of the day - right when my brain is turning to mush!

At any rate, I finally had enough of that gray text so I changed it. That is done in the CSS file. The trick is finding it. The new color is certainly easier on the eyes.

www.fitstartingtoday.com

Here are a few more tips when using Joomla. The front page is set up in a standard "Front Page Blog Format"
What this means is ANY article in the...