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So, far we have setup some content for this Web site the Content that

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consistently shows up in the middle of the page, we've created our first module,

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a Menu module, which displays a page as well.

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Modules go well beyond menus though a module is any bit of functionality that

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you'd like to display in some area other than the main part of the Web page.

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It could be something that displays in the Header, the Footer, the left or the

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right columns, across the top, or even inside an article.

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There are several modules that come with

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Joomla! by default and will cover those in the next few videos.

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The big question is how do you get a module to display in certain parts of the Web page?

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Every template comes with certain module positions, these are positions coded

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by the person who created the template, which will ultimately contain

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the modules for that page, if there are any modules assigned to that page.

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There is an easy trick to peek at where module positions are located within our template.

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If you're familiar with Joomla! 1.5

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You might be familiar with something called the TP=1 trick

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for displaying module positions on the Web page, that will trick happens to be

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disabled by default in Joomla! 3.0.

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You'll have to turn it on in order to use this particular trick.

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So, let me show you how to turn on this particular trick, show you what the trick is

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and now I'll show you where your module positions are located inside of a template.

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So, to do this will top into the back end of Joomla!

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and we're going to go to Extensions, Template, Manager and we're going to go

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to the Options here inside the Template Manager, and we're going to do this

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Preview Module Positions, which right now is disabled, we want to enable it,

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and say Save and Close.

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If you notice here these icons that are next to the names of these templates,

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some of them have turned into little eyeballs, the template we are currently

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using for the front end of the Web site is called Protostar.

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I know that, because this is the site template rather than in ministry or template,

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and there's a star by indicating that this is the default template for the Web site.

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So Protostar is what we are working with right now.

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If I click on this eyeball right next to the Protostar template, this will open

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up a New tab and inside of this New tab is this page were I have got this

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red text indicating where all of my module positions are located.

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So I have a module positions sort of up here in the upper right corner called

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position zero 0, I have one across the top called Position 1 that's where we put our menu.

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I have a banner position here across the top, I have a position 8, which would

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give me a left side of the screen where I could position elements on the left of

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the screen, or position 7 on the right, a position 3 is just above my Content,

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position 2 just below it and I have a footer position as well, and then finally

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at the bottom there is a debug position, that would be a great place if you're a

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developer, you could dump any kind of debugging code and so forth you can put

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down there in that particular position.

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So, that is all of the module positions that are available here to us in the

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template and where they're going to go.

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That's going to be really helpful to us, as we start working with modules inside

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of this Web site and we need to be clear on where those modules are going to be

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assigned so that we know where they appear on the front end of the Web site.