1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 KinetECO has been working for quite a while on installing windmills and solar 2 00:00:06,001 --> 00:00:10,001 panels all over parts of California and they have collected a number of 3 00:00:10,002 --> 00:00:15,002 testimonials that they would like to include on this Web site and those 4 00:00:15,003 --> 00:00:18,003 testimonials should go in the right column of the Home page. 5 00:00:18,004 --> 00:00:23,004 So what I'd like to do is I'd like to get rid of this Login Form just by 6 00:00:23,005 --> 00:00:27,005 unpublishing it, and then I'd like to make a module that will display all of 7 00:00:27,006 --> 00:00:33,006 these great testimonials that KinetECO has collected over on the right column. 8 00:00:33,007 --> 00:00:37,007 And the way I can do that inside of Joomla! is something called a Custom HTML Module. 9 00:00:37,008 --> 00:00:43,008 Think of this as a mini article. It works exactly the same way when you 10 00:00:43,009 --> 00:00:48,009 create a Custom HTML Module, it just gives you space to type anything you want 11 00:00:48,010 --> 00:00:51,010 to type into it and it will display that in the correct module position. 12 00:00:51,011 --> 00:00:56,011 So I am going to go ahead and set that up now. In the back end of Joomla! 13 00:00:56,012 --> 00:01:02,012 if I go to Extensions>Module Manager and the first thing I am going to do is 14 00:01:02,013 --> 00:01:06,013 unpublish this Login Form, so I'm just going to hit that checkmark, 15 00:01:06,014 --> 00:01:11,014 turn that into an X and when I refresh my Home page, now that column is gone. 16 00:01:11,015 --> 00:01:15,015 So, then the next thing I want to do is add my testimonials. 17 00:01:15,016 --> 00:01:20,016 In your Exercise Files you will find a document that has the testimonials in it, 18 00:01:20,017 --> 00:01:22,017 at least the three we want to feature on the home page. 19 00:01:22,018 --> 00:01:27,018 I am going to highlight all of those and Ctrl+C or Cmd+C to copy those 20 00:01:27,019 --> 00:01:29,019 and then I am going to make a new module. 21 00:01:29,020 --> 00:01:33,020 So I am going to click my New button here inside of the module manager 22 00:01:33,021 --> 00:01:36,021 and scroll on down to the Custom HTML Module. 23 00:01:36,022 --> 00:01:41,022 So I am going to go ahead and click on that and I am going to give this 24 00:01:41,023 --> 00:01:43,023 a Title of Testimonials. 25 00:01:43,024 --> 00:01:47,024 And I am going to set that title to Show, I actually do want the word 26 00:01:47,025 --> 00:01:49,025 Testimonials to Show up at the top of this. 27 00:01:49,026 --> 00:01:53,026 The position I'm going to want to have is that right side of the screen, 28 00:01:53,027 --> 00:01:59,027 I'm going to scroll on down here and I'm going to pick Right [position-7] and then 29 00:01:59,028 --> 00:02:03,028 I'm going to go on to the Basic Options tab, this will allow me to add a 30 00:02:03,029 --> 00:02:08,029 background image for example, to this particular Testimonials, I don't really 31 00:02:08,030 --> 00:02:11,030 want that, so I am going to continue on here. There are some Advanced Options; again, 32 00:02:11,031 --> 00:02:16,031 I'll go through those in another video. And then finally this one called Custom output. 33 00:02:16,032 --> 00:02:20,032 The Custom output tab is where you're going to paste those Testimonials, so I am 34 00:02:20,033 --> 00:02:25,033 going to click inside this box and Ctrl+V or Cmd+V to paste them into place. 35 00:02:25,034 --> 00:02:29,034 And I've got a little formatting here that I need to cleanup, so give me 36 00:02:29,035 --> 00:02:30,035 just a second to fix that. 37 00:02:30,036 --> 00:02:41,036 So there we go, I've got my three Testimonials in place, I've cleaned them up. 38 00:02:41,037 --> 00:02:44,037 Now what pages do I want this assigned to? 39 00:02:44,038 --> 00:02:48,038 Well, actually I want it only on the home page, so rather than my Module 40 00:02:48,039 --> 00:02:54,039 Assignment On all pages, I'm going to pick only the pages selected and 41 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:59,040 I am going to select None of those pages and then check off just the Home page. 42 00:02:59,041 --> 00:03:03,041 And that will have my Testimonials show up in the right column only on the 43 00:03:03,042 --> 00:03:04,042 Home page of the Web site. 44 00:03:04,043 --> 00:03:06,043 Then I am going to say Save & Close. 45 00:03:06,044 --> 00:03:11,044 And now when I go to the front end of the Web site and I hit Refresh, you can see 46 00:03:11,045 --> 00:03:15,045 I have my Testimonials that show up here on the right column in the Home page. 47 00:03:15,046 --> 00:03:19,046 And if I go to my About page, I don't have anything in the right column at the moment, 48 00:03:19,047 --> 00:03:24,047 because I disabled that login box that was there, so now my About page 49 00:03:24,048 --> 00:03:28,048 is stretched to fill the entire content area here. 50 00:03:28,049 --> 00:03:31,049 The Custom HTML Module is incredibly useful. 51 00:03:31,050 --> 00:03:36,050 You can use it to put text in, just like we did here, you could also use that 52 00:03:36,051 --> 00:03:41,051 functionality for including a YouTube video in a module position or a Twitter feed 53 00:03:41,052 --> 00:03:45,052 or a Facebook feed, similar to what I did earlier with an article, 54 00:03:45,053 --> 00:03:48,053 you can do that same kind of thing with a module as well. 55 00:03:48,054 --> 00:03:52,054 You'll find the Custom HTML Module to be very flexible and very useful for 56 00:03:52,055 --> 00:03:56,055 a wide variety of applications on your Joomla! site.