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When you want to add an image to an Article that is not already on your web server, follow these easy steps:

1) log in to the back end of your site, the select Content > Article Manager and click on the Article title that you want to add the image to

2) once the Article editor is displayed, click the Image button at the bottom of the editor area to open the Image popup window

3) click the Browse button at the bottom of the popup and then navigate to the image on your own computer

4) click to select it, click Open and then when back in the popup, click Start upload

5) when the Upload Complete message shows at the top of the popup, close the popup

6) click in the editor area where you want the image to appear

7) click the Image button again and then browse the grid of thumbnail images to find the one you uploaded

6) click to select it, fill in the information for Image Description and Image Title, optionally set the Align property (left or right) and tick the Caption checkbox then click Insert (upper right)

8) click the Article Save or Apply button to save your changes and then check the front end of your site to see how it looks

Check other tips here for how to manipulate an existing image within an article.

This has to be one of the most-asked questions on the Joomla! Forum. It’s quite easy and quick to do, but that is once you know where to go and what to change. That is what this little tutorial is all about.

1. Menus > Main Menu

2. Click on 'Home' or whichever one is the Default (yellow star)

3. Click Parameters (System) to expand

4. Set 'Page Title' to what ever you want and 'Save'

When you install Joomla! with the Sample Data, the Front Page is set as a Front Page Blog layout that has one article (#Leading) as full width and four others (#Intro) in two columns (Columns=2) . To change to a single column for all Front Page articles, just do this:

Menus > Main Menu (or whichever one has the "Home" menu item - an asterisk in the Menus drop-down and a yellow star in the default column in Menu Manager) > "Home" > Parameters (Basic) > Columns = 1 > Save

By default, the Tiny MCE Editor that ships with Joomla! is set to the Advanced mode. This prevents a number of editor buttons (such as font size, color, links, etc.) from being displayed. To get the full full editor functionality, follow these simple steps:

Extensions > Plugin Manager > Editor - TinyMCE 2.0 > Parameters > Plugin Parameters > Functionality: change to Extended from Simple or Advanced > Save

On more than a few occasions, I have come across posts where folks “accidentally” delete one or more of the modules in the Module Manager or they do a “clean install” (that is, no Sample Data) and wonder why none of the Joomla! modules were installed.

Not to worry, there are all there and here is how to get them “back”:

Extensions > Module Manager > New (upper right) > … look! … there they all are! Just click on the one you want, set the parameters as desired and “Save”.

If you do a “clean install”, then all that will be shown in the Module Manger is a lonely instance of the type mod_mainmenu. You will have to go through the above-noted motions to get any and all the other ones that you require / want on your site.