Comments for Five Fashion NOs for Joomla 1.5 at http://joomlafourweb.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://joomlafourweb.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:24:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://joomlafourweb.com/blog/Ten-Fashion-NOs-for-Joomla-1.5.html#comment-31 Thanks Nate! Those are great points as well, particularly the favicon! Jen - Jen Kramer Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:47:12 +0100 http://joomlafourweb.com/blog/Ten-Fashion-NOs-for-Joomla-1.5.html#comment-29 Great post Jen! Here's some NOs in my book... __ [b]1) The Joomla favicon.[/b] Many sites never change the favicon away from the default Joomla logo that'sprovided. Make your own favicon for your website, or check out some of these resources if you're not equipped with Photoshop and the like: http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/ http://mppierce66.home.comcast.net/~mppierce66/web/fi/index.htm __ [b]2) White space![/b] It's very easy to simply pack your website with countless modules, images, articles, etc. Most of the best designed websites stay away from being extremely busy and cluttered. Take advantage of the various sections and categories you can have in Joomla, and only display items that are necessary in each respective area. And resist the urge to put everything on your front page, people are only going to be there for a short time anyway. If you're making your own templates (or toying with others), keep a mind on using some margins and padding around various areas to avoid everything getting clumped together. Youtube, Google and Myspace are popular because of their abundance of content, not their design. __ [b]3) Don't publish menu items pointing to no where.[/b] Just like Jen said, there's a "publish" option for just about everything in Joomla, including individual menu items. If a section isn't ready for viewing yet, why leave the menu item there only to reveal an "under construction" page? You can complete your entire menu ahead of time and choose when your items are published as they're corresponding content is ready! __ [b]4) Don't allow your site to have an enormous fixed height.[/b] Sadly, I've seen a lot of sites out there that will set a fixed height that is really long so that the pages with the most content will have enough room to be displayed in full. This is fine, except for the fact that all the other pages with much less content will have a mile of emptiness on the bottom! Most people won't be curious enough to scroll all the way to the bottom to see your footer! __ [i]4b) Use Joomla's pagination features.[/i] In my opinion, one of Joomla's strengths is the built-in ability to section long categories and extensive articles into several pages. If you have 50 articles, all with a description, that'll be a really long and arduous page for people to navigate. Use the extra parameters in the menu manager to control how items are displayed for each menu item, and utilize "page breaks" in long articles. --- This ended up being a very big post, but it's my hope that some of these suggestions are helpful! Cheers! - Nate Silva Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:12:33 +0100