Joomla uses Picasa to show photo albums. It’s linked to my Picasa account.

To add a new photo to an album

• Simply upload the new photo(s) to the album.
• It will appear automatically on the web site.

To add a new photo album to the web site

• Simply create the new album.
• It will appear automatically on the web site.

Many people have had problems getting their Joomla email working for servers at GoDaddy. Here’s how I have my Windows shared hosting Joomla email settings configured:

• In Joomla, go to Site | Global Configuration
• On the Server tab, configure your Mail Setting as follows:

Mailer: SMTP Server
Mail from: your godaddy email address
From Name: your name
Sendmail path: usr/sbin/sendmail
SMTP Authentication: Yes
SMTP username: your godaddy email address
SMTP Password: your godaddy email password
SMTP Host: relay-hosting.secureserver.net

Other notes

People have suggested that the Contact you use on the Contact Us form needs to have the same email address as the one you use in the Mail Settings.

For other SMTP servers, it may be necessary to modify the SMTP port used (in the phpmail.php and/or smtp.php files). This should NOT be done for the relay-hosting.secureserver.net server. Leave it at port 25.

One problem with JCE is how to fix the editor’s content background color. The default color came with whatever your template’s background color is and it is very hard to see what you type. Create a file and name it editor_content.css.

Open the file and put the following code there and save it:

body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: left;
background: white;
background-image: none;
}

Upload this file to the folder root_directory/templates/your_template/css/editor_content.css. Go to your admin area and click on Components/JCE Admin/JCE Configuration on the menu bar. Change Use Template CSS to No. Type

editor_content.css

in Custom CSS classes and save it.

Below is a list of Joomla Extensions in use on different sites. Read more »

The Phoca component is used as a document library (it replaces the legacy DocMan component).

To configure video files for use in the library

• Using Mozilla FileZilla, FTP/upload the video file(s) to the following directory:

/a/sl/phocadownload

• Once uploaded, they are available to be loaded by the Phoca component admin GUI
• Go to Components | Phoca Download | Files
• Click the New (+) button to add a new file
• Enter the Name
• Next to the Filename field, click the File button to select the previously-uploaded file
• Choose a Section and Category
• Click Save

You should now see the file listed on the Joomla web site.

Note: .MOV video files are not supported formats. However, they can be renamed to .MP4 files before uploading and will download and play fine.

Handbrake may be used to reduce the file size using an iPod Touch optimized profile.