A Mambot is a small, task-oriented function that intercepts content before it is displayed and manipulates it in some way. Joomla provides a number of Mambots in the core distribution. Let's try in this tutorial to install mambots.

Reprinted with permission from Compass Design: Valid W3C joomla template designs for your website

In this series of joomla tutorials, we'll be building a valid joomla template. Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that is freely (literally) available and supported by a large on-line community. The site will actually be live on-line at livesite.compassdesigns.net from the very beginning, you'll be able to see the different stages as the design develops. As this is a CSS designed site, you'll be able to slowly see the raw joomla design get styled step by step.

Joomla Users can be arranged in several groups with different levels of access control. User groups  with access to the Frontend include Anonymous, Registered, Author, Editor and Publisher. There are also three groups with access to the Backend: Manager, Administrator and Super Administrator. This is a basic tutorial about how to add, edit and delete users.

A good option to have more content on your site is to have rss news from other sites. In this tutorial we will show you how to add rss news on your site. Joomla come with a complex component named "Syndicate". With this component you can show news ordered by categories. You can add almost unlimited categories and sites to this component. Let's start our tutorial.

Reprinted with permission from Compass Design: Valid W3C joomla template designs for your website

In this article we will look quickly at installing joomla and then spend most of our time discussing the joomla doctype and how it relates to a valid joomla site. We'll also briefly look at how to construct a basic or blank joomla template with the index.php file.

Did you know that you can have more templates on your site? You can have another template for every section of your site. In this tutorial we will show you how to assign different templates to your site.

Media Manager is a great Joomla option. You can use it to organize your website images and media files. You can upload images, generate image codes, create directories and a lot more. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Joomla Media Manager.

Reprinted with permission from Compass Design: Valid W3C joomla template designs for your website

So we have a very basic shell of a web site. Doesn't look very interesting does it. Well, we can soon change that, let's make a few changes. We will also optimize the template for SEO. Joomla has some challenges compared to a static website, but techniques such as those we describe here can improve your joomla SEO efforts.

A Newsflash module can be added to your Joomla website to show important news to your visitors. The module can import news from one of your content categories. You can import content form any category, but only one category / module. In this tutorial we will configure the newsflash module.