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Search Engine Optimization: Mobile Devices
Search Engine Optimization: Mobile Devices Major search engines have completely separate mobile crawlers that scan your Joomla Instance. You may have seen Googlebot-mobile in your log files. This bot actually scans your Joomla Instance using a...
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Search Engine Optimization: Images
Search Engine Optimization: Images Image optimization is a form of On-Page SEO. As with all SEO, it is important to be as descriptive and accurate as possible. Alt Tags When adding an image to an article, you will have the option to add an “ALT” tag....
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Installing Extensions (Joomla 3)
Installing Extensions (Joomla 3) At some point, you may decide that the core Joomla functionalities are not enough for you - you want to create even more functionality within your site. This is where the ever-expansive world of Joomla extensions can be...
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Banner Module (Joomla 3)
Banner Module (Joomla 3) Joomla features a Banner component to help users create and edit banner ads that can feature products and product details, advertisements, affiliate marketing ads, or many other pieces of information relevant to a site. Banners...
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Random Images Module (Joomla 3)
Random Images Module (Joomla 3) The Random Images Module will allow you to create a module that displays custom images in a random order. Each time someone visits your site, Joomla will randomly pull a different image from a folder of images that you...
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Access Levels (Joomla 3)
Access Levels (Joomla 3) One of the many useful features of Joomla is the ability to display certain parts of your site for specific User Groups. This is done through access levels. Access control levels (ACL) in Joomla are quite vast. You can set up a...
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Media Manager Overview (Joomla 3)
Media Manager Overview (Joomla 3) The Joomla Media Manager supports a variety of different file types that can be displayed or utilized within the site. This article explains how to access the Media Manager and illustrates few basic concepts that any...
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Supported File Types (Joomla 3)
Supported File Types (Joomla 3) Depending on the version of Joomla that you're using, different file types are supported. Uploading different file types to your site is important if you want to provide links to different files instead of incorporating...
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Email Configuration (Joomla 3)
Email Configuration (Joomla 3) This article includes directions for using the core Joomla PHP email function and information about configurating a SMTP server as proxy for your mass emailing. We use the core PHP email function to regulate the quantity...
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Protostar Options (Joomla 3)
Protostar Options (Joomla 3) There are a number of options that you have for personalizing your site using the Protostar template. They include the following: Changing the Template Color Changing the Background Color Adding a Logo Creating a Title &...
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Updating Extensions (Joomla 2.5)
Updating Extensions (Joomla 2.5) Joomla 2.5 has an extension updater feature within the back end of your site. If there is a newer version of an extension available, you may receive a notification and be able to update the extension all within the back...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Joomla Compression and Caching
A Comprehensive Guide to Joomla Compression and Caching The Basics of Compression and Caching Types of Joomla Compression and Caching The Bottom Line The Basics of Compression and Caching When visitors come to your site, their browser displays content...
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The CloudAccess.net Update Stripe Process
The CloudAccess.net Joomla Update Stripe Process Important: Now that Joomla has improved it's updated process, CloudAccess.net is no longer performing auto-updates for Joomla 3+. If you have a Joomla 3 site, our Support Team would be happy to manually...
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Site Management permissions
Site Management permissions As a Managed Hosting Provider we need access to your sites in order to provide the support or features that our company offers. However, we allow our clients to disable these permissions as they see fit. Currently there are...
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Creating & Uploading a Custom Package
Creating & Uploading a Custom Package Creating a Custom Package The CloudAccess.net API injects your custom installable Joomla Package into a core-Joomla application. Your custom package can include any extensions, template and/or dataset. This package...
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Removing the Main Body Area
Removing the Main Body Area The main body area of a particular page is usually where article(s) or major components are displayed. This article explains how to remove the main body area on all pages and how to duplicate a template so you can remove the...
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Displaying Modules/Menus on Mobile Devices
Displaying Modules/Menus on Mobile Devices CloudBase 3 is a template based on the Gantry4 Framework, which uses Bootstrap, a responsive grid system. A useful feature of Bootstrap is the collection of responsive utility classes that can be used to help...
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Using CloudBase 3 Style Presets
Using CloudBase 3 Style Presets CloudBase 3 comes with 15 predefined style presets. To access the presets, open the CloudBase 3 template through the Template Manager and click on the Presets button in the toolbar. Use the scroll feature to scroll...
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Aligning Module Content Left & Right
Aligning Module Content Left & Right By default in the CloudBase 3 template, content in modules is aligned left as illustrated in the Latest News module below. To get the content to align left, open the module in the Module Manager , click on the...
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Joomla SEO Checklist
Joomla SEO Checklist The recorded webinar below runs through the 10 step Joomla SEO Checklist that follows. Watch the webinar and follow the steps to organically improve your Joomla Instance's visibility and ranking on search results. 1. Determine...