Thanks superdaantje

I'm already using joomla for my site.  How difficult is it to change to mambo now.  I'm not overly keen on doing this as its taken me a while to sort out my Amazon ads etc but I am open to advise. 

Hi

I would like to integrate a forum into my site and wondered if anyone had any suggestions as to what works best with Joomla.

I've had FIREBOARD suggested.  Any opinions on this?

Thanks

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Hi

I have joined the Amzon Associates program and the build link feature that they offer produces the following kind of link:

"http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=simulationgam-21&o=2&p=8&l=as1&asins=0761531416&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000ff&bc1=000000&bg1=ffffff&f=ifr"

Which just shows up on my webpage as a messy hyperlink rather than the intended image.

Does anyone know what i need to do to resolve this?

Thank You

Hi Again.

I checked the CHMOD for the template folder (which holds all of the vaarious templates I have tried to drag and drop with), this I changed from 777 to 755, and I checked the CHMOD of the actual template I really want to use and and it was already 755.

After these changes I still can't drag and drop to my preferred template so looks like I will be heading off to see me webhosting support desk    not exactly the quickest in the world but if needs must.

I will post when I get this resolved so it will hopefully be of use to other people.

Thanks

OK, so I changed to 'Search Engine Friendly URLs' in SEO and now none of links work.

I thought if I deleted all my content and recreated the Categories and Sections I had before it might make new links but no.

Even categories I am adding for the first time, their links are not working.

I went into CHANGELOG.PHP and change the access to Read, Write and Execute for the User, Group and Others group.

Can someone help me please.

Edited to say - I can't change htaccess.txt to .htaccess as I dont have a file called htaccess.txt, I already have .htaccess and I definitely didn't do this change. Thanks

That worked perfectly.

Thank you very much 

Hi again LOL

I have edited the heeading of my original post to say solved.  Its not quite yet but the theory is IYKWIM.

I can't drop and drag the header into the template I downloaded due to access rights now 

It never rains but it poors.

I want to delete some checked out items as I changed to 'Search Engine Friendly URLs' and now my links dont work anymore.

I thought I would delete my various categories and sections and re-create then again as I didn't have many but they are all checked out and I can't get rid of them.

Can someone help me pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease

Hi Again 

When I was looking in the templates folder there was only 1 directory called joomla-admin, once I saw what the graphics were I figured they were for the original template but for some reason there is not a folder for the template I am using now which should have been called DDJ003 (something like that going from memory.

OK, I figured out what I did wrong, I went into the admin folder and then looked at templates instead of looking in templates, I've found myDDJ003 folder  .

YIPPEE  Thank you so so much.

Right, I'm getting there.

I have installed SmartFTP and have been having a wander about and templates and images folder you mentioned I have found that.  I downloaded the contents and ended up with various graphics, but they are for the ugly black header, rather than the template I installed on your advice.

What am I missing?

Thank for your help so far.

Oh dear    I dont know what SMARTFTP is, I am getting by at the moment just using Joomla and the webhosting I have is based on CPanel.

I think I'm also using 1.010 but dont know how to update it 

Can't open 2nd .png either 

Thanks for the info joomlanewbie.

I have installed Firefox and installed a new template to replace the solar flame one.

But thats where I run into problems. I am in media manager and have found a direcory called /M_Images but can not see the heading.  Also dont know how I would extract it evem if I found it.

Sorry to be a pain but I did tell you I was very new to all this 

Hi

I am very new to website creation and Joomla and I'm having some trouble finding things.

I would like to change the big black Joomla graphic at the top of the page and get rid of the powered by advert on the right of the page but I can not seem to fin out where to do this.

I thought maybe editing the template but 1.  I dont think I am allowed to edit this template 2.  Even if I am allowed I have no clue how to do it.



Can someone please help a website beginner.

Thank You