Recently, I started WordPress tips to answer basic questions I get about WordPress and in a similar vein, this set of tips caters for Joomla and how to improve its design and functionality. The first Joomla tip deals with displaying two or more columns in your Joomla frontpage.

1. Log into your Joomla administrator account and click the “Menus -> Main Menu” option from the administrator menu. Then click the “Home” link.
2. On the right panel, under “Parameters (Basic)” there are four settings (highlighted in red below) 1) #Leading: denotes the number of articles that are displayed in full width and use 0 if you do not want any article to be displayed in full width on the homepage, 2) #Intro: denotes the number of articles to display with their intro text, 3) Columns: denotes the number of columns per row used to display the intro text and 4) #Links: denotes the number of items to display as links.
   
   
   

   Joomla Frontpage Column Layout Settings

3. Click “Save” to save and exit this screen or “Apply” to save the changes and remain within the setting screen. Pressing “Close” will exit this setting screen without applying any changes.

That’s all, if you have any questions or suggestions for Joomla tips then please leave a comment.