Suppose you have a large number of articles, contacts, or other content type in your database and you realize that you want to change a parameter for all of these items. You could go through the back-end screen and change them one by one. If you have a lot of items, this could take a long time. Here is a trick you can use to quickly make global changes to parameters in Joomla!.

To emphasize W3C valid code and lean pages, neither flash and JavaScript are generally considered to be favourable. But a lot of (drop down) menu solution make use of one of these two. There are a number of techniques one can use to get this more visually attractive (drop down) menus, almost solely using CSS and limiting the use of javascript to a minimum.

All of them use unordered lists (better known as bulleted lists), to create the menu. An often used solution is the drop down menu called “suckerfish”. Its pure CSS, very lean, hack free and just as 12 lines of JavaScript to bail out some tiny problems with IE6 and lower. You can see a demo of what can be created with Suckerfish. More detailed guides about the Suckerfish technique, can be found at [1] and alistapart.com.

Suckerfish functions very well in combination with Joomla!.