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Many, many screens in a Joomla site have both "Save" and "Apply" Buttons. This tutorial will show you the difference between the two.

Change the "Site Name" field to something different (this is just an example, you can try changing anything on any page with a Save and Apply button).

1. Click on Apply
2. Notice that there's a message "The Global Configuration details have been updated"
3. Notice that you're still on the same "Global Configuration" page

This time we'll try clicking the "Save" button.

This time you still get the "The Global Configuration details have been updated" message but now you've been logged out of the screen.

So what's the difference between Save and Apply?

• "Save" saves your changes and forces you out of the current screen
• "Apply" saves your changes but keeps you on the current screen

I want my image to appear at the top of the article so I'm going to place my cursor before the first text.

Scroll to the bottom of the article and click on the Image button

Click on the image you want to use and its location should appear in the "Image URL" field. Then (and most importantly) chose either "left" or "right" from the "Align" dropdown. Finally, you can can click on "Insert".

This is what your image and text will look like if you choose "right" in the "Align" dropdown.

This is what your image and text will look like if you choose "left" in the "Align" dropdown.

Go to example.com/administrator and login to your site.

Click on "Extensions" and then "Template Manager"

rhuk_milkyway is my default template so I'll click on that name.

Click "Edit HTML" in the top-right corner.

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and post your code right above the final lines: . Then click "Save" in the top-right corner and you'll have finished.

You can login via your hosting company's site or you could go via FTP. Essentially you just need a way to get to your files.

Every hosting company should give you access to your files, althought the access may be in different places with each host. This is an example from the popular CPanel software.

We're going to open up the folder that contains our templates.

Select the "rhuk_milkyway" folder and click "Copy"

Choose a new name for the folder. In this case, I'm simply going to call it "rhuk_milkyway_copy" and click "Copy File(s)"

Check the box next to "templateDetails.xml" and select any of the editing options. templateDetails.xml is the table of contents for our template and contains all of the identifying information that Joomla needs.

Inside the fields, change the name of the template to something that clearly identifies it as a copy.

Now if you go to Administrator >> Extensions >> Template Manager you should see the two copies of the same template.

Often you can access your CPanel just by adding /cpanel to your domain name ... example.com/cpanel

Although your screen may not look 100% identical to the one above, every version of Cpanel does come with a "File Manger" option somewhere.

Visit the front of your site in its new location and verify that everything is working correctly.

Change that setting to remove your /test/ folder

Change that setting to remove your /test/ folder. Click "Save" in the top-right corner.

First, we'll find the current width of your screen so you can have an idea of how large these sizes are. Most of the time it will be in your computer settings:
- For my Mac its Apple icon >> System Preferences >> Displays
- For my PC its Start >> Control Panel >> Display >> Settings
In this case my screen is 1680x1050.

Your own screen probably isn't the best width to use. I'd go to Google Analytics and check what the most common screen sizes are for your site visitors. Go to Visitors >> Browser Capabilities >> Screen Resolutions.

Generally the more tech-savvy your visitors, the large the screen. In this case it wouldn't make much sense to have a narrow website width. Ideally our site will be at least close to 1000px. Increasingly widths of around 960px are common.