#4 - Customising the Joomla Frontpage

Audience: Joomla Newbies

This simple question is asked over and over again on the Joomla forums by newbies. The most popular question would be, how do I change from two columns to one column display.

Understanding the FrontPage component

The Joomla frontpage is a component which allows you to control how your homepage looks. It is slightly different from standard components in the fact that its configuration is not done via the Components menu. Instead you need to find the Home link in your main menu. In a default installation the Home points to the frontpage component.

To customise the look and feel of the frontpage you need to edit the Parameters of the Home menu item link. Therefore go to Menu > mainmenu > and click on the Home link.

#Leading - This parameter determines the number of full width articles to display. Articles displayed in the Leading will have the Intro text displayed. This setting overrides the columns parameter i.e. if you have decided to have 2 columns and 1 items in the leading intro you will have a layout as follows: 

Article 1 - Full Width (Row 1 - Leading)

Article 2 (Row 2, Column 1)       Article 3 (Row2, Column 2)

Article 4 (Row 3, Colum 1)         Article 5 (Row 3, Column 2)

Columns - the columns determines how many columns will feature in each row. If you want more than a single column, set the number of columns here. 

#Intro - the number of articles whose Intro text will be displayed (excludes the number of items in the Leading parameter).

#Links - the number of links to articles to display (excludes the number of items in the Leading and Intro parameters). Items showed in the Links section will feature just the title of the article (with no Intro text displayed).

Joomla 1.5 - Changing the Title (Welcome to the FrontPage)

The following article shows how to change the article title in Joomla 1.5

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Gavin Doolan - Thanks for the help. IP:210.49.173.221 | 2007-07-02 06:21:33 Hi mate, thanks for the help. I'm still amazed at how flexible Joomla is. Although I'd prefer non-tabled layouts. 1.5 Should be great! :)

Raed Darwich - Thanks IP:81.138.116.161 | 2007-08-17 07:47:05 thank you

zagpau - Thank You! : ) IP:75.28.148.158 | 2007-10-28 05:05:19 This saved our project from certain doom. It's so simple, it hurts. Thank you.

jude IP:219.65.40.84 | 2007-11-28 02:10:38 in joomla 1.5 a two-column frontpage item sequence goes like this (to take one example) ist article(lead) 2nd 5th 3rd 6th 4th 7th Is there a fix to do row-pairs instead? e.g. 2nd 3rd etc

mick - thanks IP:89.100.153.11 | 2008-02-13 15:46:20 I was looking for this info for about 2 hours, thanks for the clear explaination!

Sephan - help needed IP:198.54.202.82 | 2008-03-05 05:29:30 I would like to change the title of the front page. It's currently what joomla's default is "Welcome to the front page". I went to the home button, but there's no title to change in the parameters on the side. Thanks

Bernard - Home page annoying issue IP:122.104.55.118 | 2008-03-13 16:45:05 Hey there. I've got a couple of links from joomla front page to some articles but when i want to look at each article it displays the article within the mainbody of the front page, rather than showing the article on its own? Is this a built-in characteristic? or is it just my site? or is it just me? or am i crazy?

Lou - Home page annoying issue IP:162.83.195.19 | 2008-03-20 11:29:34 I have the same issue Bernard, Any body know how to do this?

Angelus - Question IP:189.149.96.117 | 2008-04-09 08:19:35 Hey i have the same question as Sephan i dont know how to change the front page's title, ive been looking for the option to change it but i dont see it anywhere... i use version 1.5. Thabks so much! Have a great day!

DART Creations - Welcome to the FrontPage IP:217.145.5.18 | 2008-04-09 08:39:51 I have just recently added a new article in Tips and Tricks section which details exactly how to change this. I also added a link to this article at the bottom of the page. Hope this helps

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