Joomla help

[devilzfan300]

I am working on a new site, www.missionenvironment.com. I am starting to get the hang of a few things, but I need help with the following. I am pretty sure once I understand how to do these things, I will be abe to do everything else I need to do to get this site up and running.

I want to make some new pages (an advertising page, an article database page, and another page with just tips on how the user can take action).

Im not really sure what those would be considered (modules, components, content, etc), and how to go about creating the new pages.

Could you just help me run through the steps to set those pages up and get their links in the main menu? I appreciate it.

[atox]

That shouldn't be too hard,
for the page with tips you could probably create a 'static content' item.

Login into your backend, choose content>static content manager. Now press the button labeled new and write your text .

For the article database page I would advise to use a section called 'Articles' or something like that. Then you can click on Content>Content By Section>Articles and add the articles you want.

Not sure what you want on the advertising page, if it's just some info about how to advertise on your site you could just make it another static content item.

Oh yeah, don't forget to add these sections/static content items to your menu

[devilzfan300]

Ok, I got the static content up. The only problem is that it is all centered, and I cant get it to be left align.

http://missionenvironment.com/index....d=14&Itemid=27

[devilzfan300]

Also, I am trying to add new categories to my resources page. I added a new one right under the old one, but it is not showing up on the webpage. Any ideas why not?

[digiweb]

Originally Posted by devilzfan300

Ok, I got the static content up. The only problem is that it is all centered, and I cant get it to be left align.

http://missionenvironment.com/index....d=14&Itemid=27

Try viewing the source of your page to find the problem. Right above the Text Links (coming soon) is a table tag with a class of "contentpaneopen." So check your css for contentpaneopen (it's in the templates/[templatename]/css/template_css.css) to see if it's set to center. Quite a bit higher in the html source on line 225 is a <div align=center> which might be the issue.

Tracking these down in Joomla requires a global search of the joomla tree. A piece of PHP code could be writing the centered table or centered css tag. Find the problem in the html and backtrack it to the joomla code.

There's a very good chance that contentpane open is being spit out at line 456 (or so depending on joomla version) of components/com_content/content.html.php. Applies to 1.12 and lower, 1.5. But find the center attribute, that's suspicious.

[devilzfan300]

Thanks, I will use your suggestions and fix that in the morning. Any ideas about how to fix the new resources issue I stated above?

[devilzfan300]

Fixed it. Thanks.