How we created a clean features page using iJoomla News Portal

iJoomla News Portal is typically used for creating news site, like CNN’s. Within minutes, using your existing content, you can turn your site into a dynamic news portal. However, when we created our new websites for each of our products, we wanted a features page that’s very clean and organized, and which we were not able to achieve with the  blog look of Joomla. There were a few things we needed and couldn’t get done with Joomla alone:

1. Control the number of characters shown, regardless of the “read more” tag;
2. Choose the alignment of the image, regardless of the alignment of the image in the article;
3. Choose the padding of the image and the size displayed;
4. Place a light border around each feature;
5. Align the features on both columns.

With iJoomla News Portal it was easy!

A clean features page

We removed all the zone tags from category layout. We played with the top zone until it was just right. We replaced the words “top zone” with “features” in the language area on the backend. And we copied the feature category menu item to the main menu.

That’s it!

Here’s a video that explains how we did it:

[vimeo width=”550″ height=”309″]http://vimeo.com/16740619[/vimeo]

If you don’t have iJoomla News Portal yet, you can find out more about it here.

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