Thursday, March 12, 2009

Creating a Poll in Joomla 1.5

Creating a Poll in Joomla 1.5

Let's place a poll in order to find out what visitors think about your new site. Follow the steps below to add a poll to your Joomla site:

Step 1. From the top menu in the Joomla admin area choose Components -> Polls:
Step 2. Click [New] from the top right menu. Let's call the poll: "What do you think about our site?".

Step 3. In the left menu we will list the poll options: "Great", "Not bad", "Awful". Step 4. To save the new poll, click on [Save] from the top right menu.

Step 5. Now the poll has to be made public, i.e. to be published. For this purpose click on Extensions -> Module Manager from the top menu: Step 6. Choose [New] from the top - right menu, find Poll from the options listed and check it. Step 7. Click on "Next" from the top right menu.

Step 8. Set the poll title to: What do you think about our new site?

Step 9. Set "Show title" to "No".

Step 10. From the right box, Module Parameters > Poll select the poll called "What do you think about our new site".
Step 11. Click on [Save] from the top right menu and you will have the poll published on your frontpage.

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How to add the Contact us page to the menu?

How to add the Contact us page to the menu?

Step 1. Let's add a link to the "Contact us" page. For this purpose click on the [New] icon from the top menu and choose:Internal Link -> Contacts -> Category -> Standard Contact Layout.
Step 2. Fill the information about your new menu item "Contact us" and click [Save].

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How to set a page as default?

How to set a page as default?

While you are still in the Menu Item Manager, let's set your page "About us" as default.

Step 1. For this purpose check its radio button and click on [Default] from the top menu:
Step 2. (Optionally) You can remove the default link "Home" because we will not need it.

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