Joomla!!

[Somecamel]

Hi all,

To cut a long story short- I have always built my own website with mostly wusiwyg programs. In the end I decided to let a professional company do it etc.

Im quite happy with the 'design' but not happy with the functionality.

I've been looking at Joomla and have brought myself a template from templatemonster to start mucking about on.

Might seem like a really stupid question and I wanted to pick all the IT bods on heres brains. I have the website up and running but obviously it still has all the content from the template- particularly the rotating banner at the top which is currently rotating farm stocks I want it to rotate my pics. The current URL is www dot eastbournesolar dot com, can someone have a look and give me some pointers

Thanks

Lee

 

[Baz Watkins]

The rotator is either a component or module/plugin variation. Some pull images from articles created under a specific category, which are then arranged in the order required, so 1 article per image, other pull images from a folder within the media manager.

Looking at the front page via Firefox and Firebug the rotator is pulling the images from your folder directory as: images/stories/flash/pic, so if thats the case all you need to do is replace the images with a same size variant, and any text additions may well be made via the article if one is being called. If no article is being called, and it is just a series of images from the directory then its easy to change.

The only way to tell for certain is to spend time rooting thorugh your admin section.

Depending on what you want doing, and if you have all the written content and images to hand, using Joomla is a quick and neat way to self manage your website. If you don't want the hassle of learning the intricacies of learning Joomla, handing it over to a pro with a set of guidlines will reduce the time to live by a large margin. If you need more help, pm me, or contact me via my website: create-enable dot com.

 

[himanshujain]

Well,
About the question: I could not see the rotating banner and it seems that it has already been taken care of

About suggestions (without your asking ): The site is not really ready and nothing seems to be working including links. It is not good to take something live before it is ready because the initial indexing by search engines may go a long way to punish it. As they say "the first impression as the last impression" and as search engines may say "the impression may take a long long walk before we find them back to change"

 

[Somecamel]

Thanks for all the replies guys

 

[technology+business]

I agree with himanshujain that the site looks very incomplete. Somecamel I would sugggest take an experts help. We sometimes tend to think we will do it ourselves but always leave the job for the experts and focus on business development. Mate, I learnt this from my own mistakes.

 

[Somecamel]

Hi again, I already have a working site designed by 'experts' .

This site is more for me to play around with and learn how to do it myself

Lee

 

[Sussex IT]

Hi again, I already have a working site designed by 'experts' .

This site is more for me to play around with and learn how to do it myself

Lee

Hi Lee,

I've PM'd you.

 

[makeitseen]

Use a component called YOOTheme - they have a good slideshow feature.

 

[Walk-IT]

Joomla is a really good platform, and you can go a long way very quickly, though you can also spend a very long time trying to find the right extensions to give you exactly what you want!

Have a good look through the Joomla showcase site: http://community.joomla.org/showcase/sites.html

This might help give you some inspiration as to where to go next.

If you let us know some of your ideas for the site, I'm sure we can suggest some extensions that will be right for you.