You might have found that some of the images that have been inserted have the issue of running up the edges of content or words.

To give the image and content the proper amount of spacing we’ll have to inform the editor that there will need to be spacing placed between these two items.

To do this just follow these steps:

1. Inside a Joomla! article select an image from the files or upload a new image.
2. Once selected you can choose the “edit CSS style” button, and a window with different options will appear.
3. Inside the window click the tab that reads ”Box” and under this tab is a section labeled “Margin”
4. Inside the section labeled “Margin” uncheck the “same for all" box.  Now the other options below this box will become available.
5. Inside these now available sections is where you can put in the spacing that you desire to have between images and content (I find that pixels work best).
6. Once you believe that you have found the correct amount of spacing click the “update" button inside the window. Make sure to apply and save all changes. 

The image will now have a space where the content used to run up against its edges. If you feel the need to take away or add space, you can by repeating the previous steps. Let me know if it works for you.

You might want to add a link to another page or another website inside one of your content items.

To do this just follow these steps:

1. Inside the backend of a Joomla! article, highlight the content that you would like to become a link.
2. Click on the link button; a window with different options will come up.
3. The first empty box should read ”Link URL”. This is where you should type in the address you would like the link to take visitors to.
4. For now we will leave the other options on the window alone. Click the insert button at the bottom left corner and this will make the highlighted content from step one a blue font.
5. Click the save button at the top right of Joomla! Once saved the page should relocate to the Article Manager.
6. Now on the live webpage, refresh and scroll the mouse over where the link should appear.  A fingernail should appear, which means that the content has been turned into a link.
7. Click on the link and it should open up a window with the address that was typed into Link URL in step 4.

Let me know if it works for you.

Every one knows that a picture is worth a thousand words.  But for a webpage an image can turn a bland page into an incredibly illustrated website.  This tip will help with uploading and inserting an image into your webpage.

To do this just follow these steps:

1. Start off in the back end of Joomla! Open the articel manager then open the article you wish to edit.
2. Click the “image” button at the bottom left and a window will come up.
3. Click on the “browse file” button and options such as my documents and desktops will appear.
4. Find the image whether in a folder or on the desktop and choose the “select” button. The browse file box will close. Once closed, click on the “start upload” button. This will place the image into the image directory folder.
5. Scroll through the images, which are in alphabetical order and the uploaded image, will be inside the image directory.
6. Once the image has been located, click the insert button at the top right.
7. The picture will be placed inside the backend of Joomla! From here the image can be aligned, turned into a link and so-forth. Make sure to apply and save.
8. Go and refresh the live page to see the uploaded image.

Let me know if it works for you.

You may have noticed that when you copy content and paste it into the back-end of Joomla!, it also copies the formatting of the content. This can cause inconsistencies with the rest of the content on your site.

To avoid this you must first strip any formatting from the content before pasting it into the back-end of Joomla! To do this just follow these steps:

1. Open a plain text editor (you can use TextEdit on a Mac or Notepad on a PC).
2. Paste the content into the plain text editor. You should see that all of the formatting has been removed.
3. Copy the content in the plain text editor and paste it into the back-end of Joomla!.
4. Reapply any styles that are needed, such as bold or italics, using the buttons in the editor in the back-end of Joomla!.
5. Save the changes and view the article on your site.

This should fix your problem! Let me know if it works for you.