KinetECO has been working for quite a while on installing windmills and solar
panels all over parts of California and they have collected a number of
testimonials that they would like to include on this Web site and those
testimonials should go in the right column of the Home page.
So what I'd like to do is I'd like to get rid of this Login Form just by
unpublishing it, and then I'd like to make a module that will display all of
these great testimonials that KinetECO has collected over on the right column.
And the way I can do that inside of Joomla! is something called a Custom HTML Module.
Think of this as a mini article. It works exactly the same way when you
create a Custom HTML Module, it just gives you space to type anything you want
to type into it and it will display that in the correct module position.
So I am going to go ahead and set that up now. In the back end of Joomla!
if I go to Extensions>Module Manager and the first thing I am going to do is
unpublish this Login Form, so I'm just going to hit that checkmark,
turn that into an X and when I refresh my Home page, now that column is gone.
So, then the next thing I want to do is add my testimonials.
In your Exercise Files you will find a document that has the testimonials in it,
at least the three we want to feature on the home page.
I am going to highlight all of those and Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy those
and then I am going to make a new module.
So I am going to click my New button here inside of the module manager
and scroll on down to the Custom HTML Module.
So I am going to go ahead and click on that and I am going to give this
a Title of Testimonials.
And I am going to set that title to Show, I actually do want the word
Testimonials to Show up at the top of this.
The position I'm going to want to have is that right side of the screen,
I'm going to scroll on down here and I'm going to pick Right [position-7] and then
I'm going to go on to the Basic Options tab, this will allow me to add a
background image for example, to this particular Testimonials, I don't really
want that, so I am going to continue on here. There are some Advanced Options; again,
I'll go through those in another video. And then finally this one called Custom output.
The Custom output tab is where you're going to paste those Testimonials, so I am
going to click inside this box and Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste them into place.
And I've got a little formatting here that I need to cleanup, so give me
just a second to fix that.
So there we go, I've got my three Testimonials in place, I've cleaned them up.
Now what pages do I want this assigned to?
Well, actually I want it only on the home page, so rather than my Module
Assignment On all pages, I'm going to pick only the pages selected and
I am going to select None of those pages and then check off just the Home page.
And that will have my Testimonials show up in the right column only on the
Home page of the Web site.
Then I am going to say Save & Close.
And now when I go to the front end of the Web site and I hit Refresh, you can see
I have my Testimonials that show up here on the right column in the Home page.
And if I go to my About page, I don't have anything in the right column at the moment,
because I disabled that login box that was there, so now my About page
is stretched to fill the entire content area here.
The Custom HTML Module is incredibly useful.
You can use it to put text in, just like we did here, you could also use that
functionality for including a YouTube video in a module position or a Twitter feed
or a Facebook feed, similar to what I did earlier with an article,
you can do that same kind of thing with a module as well.
You'll find the Custom HTML Module to be very flexible and very useful for
a wide variety of applications on your Joomla! site.