Whether you’ve never worked on Joomla before, or whether you are a Joomla pro, it can never do you any harm to learn a few tips on how to make your Joomla site and better and smoother one.
If you’ve never used Joomla before, then it can be a bit overwhelming at first, what with all the new things you’ll get to see. But once you start getting used to it, you’ll find it easier to handle. Creating a good Joomla site can be a challenging task and is very different from creating a static HTML site.
Joomla is very famous for its SEO-friendly URL’s. Most default URL’s are very dynamic and are looked down on by the search engines. This is why you need a Joomla extension to rewrite all these dynamic URL’s and make them more search engine friendly.
RSS feeds have become extremely important for websites and blogs. Even if you don’t have the kind of demand for it, it is still important to create RSS feeds.
Because it is so easy to change themes on your Joomla site, you might be tempted to keep changing them. Having different themes for each of your web pages is very unprofessional. You can instead use different templates for various sections.
There is a default favicon that comes in Joomla and is displayed on the browser. This favicon might be very small and might not be noticed by people, so customize it and replace it with your logo.
You can use as many menus in Joomla, so take advantage of this. This doesn’t mean you should put everything on just one menu! Instead distribute it between the left and top menus. If all your main items are in the left menu, then make sure the other items like About Us, Privacy Policy and FAQ’s should be put in the top menu. Use dropdown menus for putting in more stuff.
Just because you have access to so many of the useful Joomla extensions with improved functionality, does not mean you use too many of them on your site. Always be moderate. Never clutter your site with images and extensions. Always learn to leave the right amount of space.
Creating eye-catching web pages is useful for any website, and Joomla is not an exception. So spend some time in sprucing up your 404 pages or your site offline pages and your visitors will be very pleased. This also goes a long way in showing that your website is maintained regularly, thus bringing your visitors back to you.
Articles and pages are very different. Articles are basically posts that are published at regular intervals of time and go down in the archives, while pages include stuff like the About Us page. So, if you have something important to tell and you want it to stay on your front page, make it a page and not an article.
If you’ve never used Joomla before, then it can be a bit overwhelming at first, what with all the new things you’ll get to see. But once you start getting used to it, you’ll find it easier to handle. Creating a good Joomla site can be a challenging task and is very different from creating a static HTML site.
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