1. Content Layouts
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Joomla! provides plenty of flexibility when displaying your Web content. Whether you are using Joomla! for a blog site, news or a Web site for a company, you'll find one or more content styles to showcase ...

2. The Joomla! Community
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Got a question? With more than 140,000 members, the online forums at forum.joomla.org are a great resource for both new and experienced users. Go ahead, ask your toughest questions, the community is waiting ...

3. I installed with my own language, but the Back-end is still in English
(FAQs/Languages)

... of Joomla! is on our Help Site.  ...

4. Does the PDF icon render pictures and special characters?
(FAQs/Languages)

Yes! Prior to Joomla! 1.5, only the text values of an Article and only for ISO-8859-1 encoding was allowed in the PDF rendition. With the new PDF library in place, the complete Article including images ...

5. Where did the Mambots go?
(FAQs/Current Users)

Mambots have been renamed as Plugins. Mambots were introduced in Mambo and offered possibilities to add plug-in logic to your site mainly for the purpose of manipulating content. In Joomla! 1.5, Plugins ...

6. Is it useful to install the sample data?
(FAQs/New to ANDICOM)

Well you are reading it right now! This depends on what you want to achieve. If you are new to Joomla! and have no clue how it all fits together, just install the sample data. If you don't like the English ...

7. Extensions
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Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your Web site sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible ...

8. Platforms and Open Standards
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Joomla! runs on any platform including Windows, most flavours of Linux, several Unix versions, and the Apple OS/X platform. Joomla! depends on PHP and the MySQL database to deliver dynamic content.  ...

9. What languages are supported by Joomla! 1.5?
(FAQs/Languages)

... and more are being added all the time. By default the English language is installed for the Back and Front-ends. You can download additional language files from the Joomla!Extensions Directory. In addition ...

10. How do I install Joomla! 1.5?
(FAQs/General)

Installing of Joomla! 1.5 is pretty easy. We assume you have set-up your Web site, and it is accessible with your browser. Download Joomla! 1.5, unzip it and upload/copy the files into the directory you ...

11. Where did the Installers go?
(FAQs/Current Users)

The improved Installer can be found under the Extensions Menu. With versions prior to Joomla! 1.5 you needed to select a specific Extension type when you wanted to install it and use the Installer associated ...

12. Where is the Static Content Item?
(FAQs/Current Users)

In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5 there were separate processes for creating a Static Content Item and normal Content Items. The processes have been combined now and whilst both content types are still ...

13. Joomla! Facts
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Here are some interesting facts about Joomla! Over 140,000 active registered Users on the Official Joomla! community forum and more on the many international community sites.over 1,000,000 posts in over ...

14. Support and Documentation
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Support Support for the Joomla! CMS can be found on several places. The best place to start would be the official Help Site. Here you can help yourself to the information that is regularly published and ...

15. Joomla! Features
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Joomla! features: Completely database driven site engines News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable Topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors Fully customisable ...

16. My MySQL database does not support UTF-8. Do I have a problem?
(FAQs/General)

No you don't. Versions of MySQL lower than 4.1 do not have built in UTF-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use UTF-8 on older databases. Let the ...

17. Can Joomla! 1.5 operate with PHP Safe Mode On?
(FAQs/General)

... As files normally are created either by the Joomla! application or by FTP access, the combination of PHP file actions and the FTP Layer allows Joomla! to operate in PHP Safe Mode.  ...

18. Why does Joomla! 1.5 use utf-8 encoding?
(FAQs/General)

Well... how about never needing to mess with encoding settings again? Ever needed to display several languages on one page or site and something always came up in Giberish? With utf-8 (a variant of Unicode) ...

19. How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ?
(FAQs/Current Users)

Joomla! 1.5 does not provide an upgrade path from earlier versions. Converting an older site to a Joomla! 1.5 site requires creation of a new empty site using Joomla! 1.5 and then populating the new site ...

20. How do I localise Joomla! to my language?
(FAQs/Languages)

General In Joomla! 1.5 all User interfaces can be localised. This includes the installation, the Back-end Control Panel and the Front-end Site. The core release of Joomla! 1.5 is shipped with multiple ...