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Archive for March, 2009

Joomla has this rather ugly “feature” where on a default installation, the page title for the home page shows up on the home page as if it is an article. To hide it, simply login to the administrator section (http://www.yoursite.com/administrator), highlight the menu item labelled Menus from the top menu bar and click to select Main Menu from the list that drops down. The next page should list a few items. Click on the Home item and on the following page, you should see a list of Parameters off to the right-hand side of the screen. Click on the Parameters - System item to open that section up. Right below the Page Title item you should see Show Page Title. Select No. From the buttons above that section, click either Save or Apply to complete the change.

The home page title should no longer show on the home page as an article.

This post is a slight variation on my previous post regarding the removal of the header title from Wordpress blogs. The method used in that previous post to remove the title text from the header section of Wordpress blogs will not work with Artisteer 2 generated Wordpress templates, though it turns out that such removal is actually quite intuitive.

To remove the title text, simply open the style.css file located in the generated template folder and find the section that reads h1.logo-name. That portion of the file should read similarly to the following:

h1.logo-name
{
display: block;

Simply change the block to read none as follows:

h1.logo-name
{
display: none;

One more quick change and we’re done. Following that section above, there should be a similar section which reads as follows:

.logo-text
{
display: block;

Change that block to read none as follows:

.logo-text
{
display: none;

And we’re done. The blog title should no longer show as text, leaving us with just the pretty background logo we’ve created.