Hotel Plazza utilizes the Resto Plazza Component. This component has multiple functionalities. As shown in our January release, you can use it to build a Restaurant Website. Now in this February release, we show you how it can also be used to build a Hotel Website!
Not only the Component, the Design is also multifunction! If not used for Hotel Websites, it can also be used to build a Company Profile Websites, Portfolio websites, and more!
Hotel Plazza also comes with an additional function: The tpreservation plugin. This is an easy to use plugin so that your users can request reservations from your website.
And as always, we give you more than you ask. Hotel Plazza comes in packages of a component, a template, modules, plugins, and a Joomla QuickStart, and much more! Join our Club today, and download Hotel Plazza now!!

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This takes you to the Category:[New] screen. Enter a Title for your Category and a Description if you want to. I have entered Technical Support as my title.

 
Click the save button on the top right of the screen. This takes you back to the Category Manager:[Contact Details] screen.  This category has nothing to do with the categories related to content of the site, it is used only for Contacts.
Go back to the top menu select components again, but this time instead of selecting Categories from the contacts fly out menu select contacts. This will take you to the Contact Manager screen. Click the New button on the top right of the screen, this takes you to the Contact:[New] Screen.
In this screen we need to fill out some details of our contact.  In the Details section, enter the name for your contact in the Name field, select a category for your contact from the Category dropdown list and select a user to link this contact to from the user dropdown list. This will mean that the email address that is recorded for that user, will receive the emails from the contact form.

 
Click Save on the top right of the screen, this will take you back to the Contact Manager screen. You have created a contact component now, for this contact and linked it to the user’s email address, however there is no way for a visitor to get to the contact form from the front page of your site, so the next step is to create a link in our menu to the contact component.
Go to the Administration Menu and Select Menu and then Main Menu, this will take you to the Menu Item Manager : [mainmenu] Screen.  Click the New Icon on the top right of the screen. This takes us to the Menu Item: [New] Screen

 
From the List of Menu Items that you can create there are 2 options for Contacts, one will list contacts for an entire category and the other will display a single contact’s details. Click on Standard Contact Layout in the list. This will bring up a form to fill out details, enter a title for the Menu item in the Details section of the screen, I entered Contact Technical Support, this will be the words that appear on the link which a visitor will click from the menu. On the right side of the screen under parameters basic you will need to select the contact that you created in the earlier step from the Select Contact dropdown list if this is the first time you are doing this, it should be selected automatically as there will only be one contact.

 
Click  the Save button on the top right of the screen. To see what the contact link you have created click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel). This will open up your Joomla site to the front page; you will now see a new link in your menu named what you named it in the previous step. Click on the menu link you created and you will be taken to the new contact form that you created.

 
Click on the Extensions Menu on your administration panel screen and select Module Manager from the list of Options. Select any module from the list that you would like to explore the settings for. I have select My Special Offers module, which displays a Special Offer to my site visitors. Once you select the module click on the Edit button in the top of the menu bar, alternatively you can just click on the name of the module that you would like to edit. This will take you to the Module:[Edit] screen.
Title Option -  In the image below you can see my Special Offer Module on the Top Left of the screen. The Title is set to Special Offer, but the text also says Special Offer, repeating the wording which I don’t want. There could be a number of reasons that you do not want to display your title.

 
Select No next to Show Title in the Details Section on the Module:[Edit] screen. Click the Apply button in the top right of the screen.

 
To see your changes click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel), this will open up your Joomla site to the front page. In the image below the title is no longer there, this has been highlighted in blue for illustration purposes.

 
In the example above, you can see that my Special Offer appears at the top and my Main Menu appears next. I would like to adjust this so that the Main Menu appears at the top left and the Special Offer is second. In order to do this select the order drop down box from the details section and move to where you want the module to go, in this instance, I want it to be below the Main Menu, so I selected the Main Menu order, which will set my Special Offer Order to that and move the Main Menu up. Click the Apply button in the top right of the screen.

 
To see your changes click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel), this will open up your Joomla site to the front page. In the image below the Special Offer has been moved below the Main Menu, this has been highlighted in blue for illustration purposes.

 
The last setting that we would like to look at here, is the position of the module. Two of the positions available (left and right) are self explanatory, one will mean your module appears on the left of the screen (as in the image above) and the other will mean that your module appears on the right of the screen. I will now show you how to have a look at the template manager, so that you can see what the other position names mean in terms of your screen real estate.
Click on the Extensions Menu on your administration panel screen and select Template Manager from the list of Options. This will take you to the Template Manager screen.

 
The template manager screen shows you what template is used to determine the display options of your Joomla site. The default template for Joomla 1.5 is rhuk_milkyway. Click Edit on the top right hand section of your screen or click the name of the template, this will take you to the Template:[Edit] screen. For the moment we do not want to change anything on this screen we just want to view the position placements of the template. Click on the Preview button on the right of the screen.

 
This will show you a preview of the site template on the screen. In this view, you can see boxes with red writing in them, these boxes show you the positions of various used and unused screen space. You can choose to place your module into any of these options using the same steps that we used above, but changing the position in the position dropdown box in the details section.

Step 1 – Create a Poll Component

First go to the Administration panel and select Components and then Poll from the menu.

 
This will take you to the Poll Manager screen. Click the New button on the top right of the screen. This will take you to the Poll: [New] screen. In the Details Section enter a title for the poll, this is what you would like visitors to vote on. I have entered “How did you find Creating Your First Poll?” Because we don’t want people to just vote over and over again, Joomla imposes a time limit wherein a visitor can only vote once during this amount of time. This time limit can be adjusted by changing the value in the lag box under details. I have left it at the default which is set to 86400 seconds, which equates to 24 hours. Set published to Yes.  
The options section on the right, is where you enter what you would like your visitors to vote on, so if this were an election, the options would be your nominees. I have entered some options for visitors to vote on.

 
Click Save in the top right section of the screen. This will take you back to the Poll Manager screen, even though the poll is listed and it is said to published, it will not yet be visible from your Joomla site. To get your poll onto your site, you will need to create a module to display  it.
Step 2 Create a Module to Display Your Pole
Go to Extensions and select Module Manager from the dropdown menu.

Click New on the Module Manager Screen and you will be taken to the Module:[New] Screen. Here there are a lists of modules that are available, because we want to create a module that will display our poll,  select polls on the right hand side then click the next button in the top right of the screen.

 
This will take you the Module [Edit] Screen. In this screen we need to select our poll from the select poll drop down list on the right side of the screen (underneath module parameters). We also need to enter a title for our poll, this will be displayed above the poll in the module. I have entered “Tell Us what You Think?”

 
Click Save.
This will take you back to the Module Manager Screen, where you will be able to see your newly created module and that it is now active.
To see your new poll module click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel), this will open up your Joomla site to the front page. In the image below the poll module that we just created appears below the menu on the left hand side of the screen, it has been highlighted in blue for illustration purposes.

 
Select one of the options and click Vote.  The site visitor will be thanked for their vote (at the top of the screen) and the Poll component will display the current results of the poll.

Click New on the Module Manager Screen and you will be taken to the Module:[New] Screen. Here there are a lists of modules that are available, because we want to enter information about our special, we would like to enter Custom HTML into our module so that we can add the information about our special offer.
 

Select Custom HTML and click the next button in the top right of the screen. This will take you to the Module :[Edit] screen where you can enter any HTML into the editor to format your special offer. In the top left of the screen enter a title for your module. I entered Special Offer. Enter the text you want in your sidebar in the WYSIWYG editor at the bottom of the screen. Format your text in the manner you would like. Click Save.

This will take you back to the Module Manager Screen, where you will be able to see your newly created module and that it is now active.

 
To see your new sidebar click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel), this will open up your Joomla site to the front page. In the image below the sidebar that we just created appears below the menu on the left hand side of the screen, it has been highlighted in blue for illustration purposes. 

This will take you to the Article :[New] screen

First you need to fill out some dialog boxes. Enter the Title of the content page, in this example I have entered “About the Display Joomla Site”.  Make Sure that Yes is selected next to Published, this will ensure that your content will be active.  Select No next to Front Page, this is not for the front page of the site, but rather the About Page, so it will not appear on the front page.  I have left Section and Category set to Uncategorised.
Insert your content into the text editor section and click the save button. This will take you to the Article Manager Screen

Notice that your article is set to published and set to not show on the front page.  When you go to your front page, you will see that the article can not be seen from the front page, but also that there is no way to get to that article. We will now need to add a link to the menu in order to get to the article that we just published.
Go to the Administration Menu and Select Menu and then Main Menu, this will take you to the Menu Item Manager : [mainmenu] Screen.  Click the New Icon on the top right of the screen. This takes us to the Menu Item: [New] Screen

 
Because we are working with Articles, click Article in the list. This expands a list of options for how we would like to display the article. We would like just a single article to be displayed so click on Article Layout. You will then be taken to a screen where we can create a link to the Content Item that we created earlier.
Insert a Title into the Title Box, Here I have inserted About Us. The title that you enter here will appear as a link on the menu and can be different to the title of your content item (or article)

 
Next click on the Select Button, to the right of the Select Article Box, which is under the Parameters (Basic) section on the right side of the page, this will bring up a list of articles that are in your database. Select the Article that you created in the earlier steps.

This will take you back to the previous screen. Click on Save. This takes you back to the Menu Item Manager : [mainmenu] Screen.  To see what the link you have created click Preview in the top right of the menu (the one that is just below the green bar at the top of the administration panel). This will open up your Joomla site to the front page, you will now see a new link in your menu named what you named it in the previous step. Click on the menu link you created and you will be taken to the new content page that you created.
 

The Rocket Theme templates are professionally designed and every template has a number of options for designs, colors and styles.  In this tutorial, you will learn that How to Customize the Rocket Theme Templates.

The Rocket Theme templates feature stylistics and unique designs, which provide special touch to your websites.  With few modifications, you can change the look and feel of your Rocket Theme Joomla templates.

When you download a template from Rockettheme.com, you also need to download the rocket launcher.  The Rocket launcher integrates the full Joomla application and your selected design.  The Rocket Theme templates include the preset style options, built-in font configurations, tabbed modules, versatile module positions and a number of pre-configured components.

After downloading the rocket launcher, unzip all the files and upload to your web server through FTP.  The Joomla installation procedure is covered in our other tutorial “How to Install Joomla from Scratch”.

After you successfully installed the Joomla with the rocket launcher you have the options to modify color, font, design, style, module positions, logo customization and virtually any other change which you want to make in your Joomla website.

To make the basic customization in your Rocket Theme Joomla template, you need to make the changes in the following two files.

• HTML (Template File)
• CSS

You can access these files by logging on to your Joomla control panel. In the Extensions menu click “Template Manager”.
 

Select your template and click edit on the top right corner.

 
On the next page you will find a number of configuration options.

 
Here you can change the style, width, color, font size, header, menu type, menu name, menu transition and a number of other options.

Click “Edit HTML” from the top right menu and once the template file is opened, make the necessary changes carefully and save the file.  It’s recommended that you take backup of your Joomla files before making any changes.

 
Similarly you can make changes in the CSS file to change the color, font size/style and number of other formatting options.

On the main home page of Template Manager, click “Edit CSS” and on the next page select your desired CSS file and click edit.

 
After making the required changed click “Apply and “Save”.

With the abovementioned methods you can make many modifications in your Rocket Theme Joomla website. With the following tutorials, you can learn that how to make the advanced customizations in your Rocket Theme Joomla Template.
http://tutorials.rockettheme.com/joomla-templates/terrantribune-tutorials

Managing the contents in Joomla is very easy but because of the dynamic nature of Joomla websites, the dynamic URLs of Joomla are need to be converted into static URLs to make them user friendly and search engine friendly. The URL rewriting provides the way to make the search engine friendly URLs.

There are basically two types of the URL static and dynamic.  The static URLs are better than the dynamic URLs because they rank better in the search engines and they are friendlier to the end users. The dynamic URL is an address of a dynamic web page and it is created when a script search for a database. The search engine index the contents of the dynamic URLs are bit slower so they are not ideal.

Joomla offers some components to convert the dynamic URLs into static URLs.  Rewriting the URLS in Joomla is very simple and straightforward. No technical knowledge of skills is required for URL rewriting in Joomla.

In the following steps, you will learn that how to rewrite the URLs in Joomla.

Step1: Logon to your Joomla admin panel and click “Global Configurations”.

Step2: In the Global Configuration Click site and go to the “SEO Settings”.

 
Step3: Select “Yes” in the search engine friendly URLs in Use Apache Mod_rewrites.

There is a warning sing in the Use Apache mod_rewrite, which says that rename .htaccess.txt to .htaccess before activating.

Download the .htacces.txt file to your computer > open notepad > select .htaccess.txt file and open it.

In the file name type .htaccess, in the files of type select “All Files” and in the encoding there is selected “ANSI” by default.

 
After you successfully renamed the .htaccess.txt to .htaccess and uploaded it your apache web server, your Joomla website’s URL will become the static and look like as following.
http://www.textileguides.com/knitwear-a-woven/23-knitware-and-woven/116-cellulose-fibers

Security is the major concern of every business owner online and there multiple security related components in Joomla for the user authentication, user management, backup, site security, captcha, content restriction and others. The basic Joomla package is secure and people find no problem in installing and running the application.  But sometimes, there is enhanced security features are required to secure the Joomla applications. There are some great third party components that can be used to secure your Joomla website.

Here are some best Joomla security related tips.

• Rename the Joomla Admin account.
• Always keep your Joomla website updated.
• Make sure that your configuration.php file is not writable.
• Change the files permissions CHMOD (644 for files, 755 for directories).
• Check the vulnerabilities and the corrupt files by using the Joomla Diagnostic tools.
• Use Strong password.
• Backup your Joomla application periodically with good backup tools.

Below is the brief overview of some of best security related components of Joomla.

Site Security

Protect Configuration File
Protect Configuration File is component that is used to enhance the security of the Joomla configuration file.

jFireWall EndPoint Protection – Anti hacker

If you are seriously considering preventing the hackers’ attacks and increasing the secure of your website then jFireWall EndPoint Protection – Anti hacker is a good option for you.

JDefender – Ultimate Joomla Protection

JDefender is ultimate Joomla protection component that projects the Joomla from the SQL injection and PHP injections.

User Authentication

RegistrationBlocker

RegistrationBlocker is a system that allows you to block certain usernames from being registered.

Secure Registration

Secure Registration is another important component of Joomla that allow the users to register securely.

Backup

JoomlaPack – AJAX powered backup and restore

It is an open source backup component that creates the site backup that can be restored on any Joomla capable server.

Jombackup daily mysql backup bot

It takes the daily backups of the MySQL and sends it to the email of your choice.  There are plenty of configuration options available but the default options are enough to use this component efficiently.