Joomla Bites!
Here are a few uncategorized bite-sized hints and hacks to help you manage your Joomla site.
Automatically update your copyright date to avoid a mad panic in the new year.
A simple but very versatile jQuery hover effect using the HD-Anycode module. As demonstrated by the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill.
How to remove the article number from search engine friendly Joomla 2.5 sites.
An animated effect for headings. The h1 tag slowly submerges on page load, while the paragraph text fades in. Super stylish with a background-image.
Sometimes you may want to style articles depending on which category they belong to. Here's how to load a category specific CSS file...
Use the AnyCode module to add a smooth jQuery "fade-in" effect to your article.
Use jQuery to make two separate auto-height columns exactly the same height.
Joomla 3 requires you to turn Magic Quotes "Off" in order to be installed. But how do you do that? And what are they anyway?
Under the advanced parameters section of the HD-Anycode module is a "URL Sniffer" function. But what does it do?
It's easy to embed a Google Map using the HD-Anycode module but as an iframe based service Google Maps are not responsive.
How to change the meta-generator tag to hide the fact that your website is a Joomla one.
Create a simple image slideshow with only CSS trickery (no javascript required).
How to quickly and safely solve your Joomla bugs - even when you can't find the original source files.
Under the advanced parameters section of the HD-Custom CSS module is a "Browser Sniffer" function. But what does it do?
Despite all your careful template coding sometimes a particular browser doesn't play safe with a particular extension.
The "loadposition" command is an incredibly useful way to apply modules to a specific position within an article.