Sometime you may need to display data within your content using a tabbed layout form.

This can easily be done using a great, free download from No Number called Tabber.

Once you have downloaded, then install just like any other Joomla! extension. This plugin is enabled during installation.
Please make sure you bookmark their documents pages too, so that you have access to the syntax required, but it so easy using the following code.
Take a look at the plugin in the Plugins Manager as it does have some parameters you can play with. 

{ tab=Tab Title 1 } Your text... { tab=Tab Title 2 } Your text... { /tabs }

Using that code as an example, simply paste that into your K2 item. Please note, when you paste it, it may transfer some formatting from the site, so in your WYSIWYG editor, view the source and paste it their so that it strips any styling. Please also remove the blank space after "{" and before "}".

Let put that in to action.

OK, so now you have some tabs in your item, lets push it a stage further and display K2 item content in those tabs.

Again, we are going to use a plugin from No Number, this time, Articles Anywhere.  Installation is as simple as before and again, there are some parameters that can be adjusted, but I have left the default settings in place.

This time, we drop in the Articles Anywhere syntax for K2 Items in place of the text we used before, which is as simple as { article k2:nnn } Please remove the blank space after "{" and before "}" and change nnn to the K2 Item ID number for the item you wish to display. 

Now the smart thing is, tab 1 has some additional syntax so that it shows the title,  100 characters of text and then a custom read more.
Full details can be found in the plugin parameters on in the No Number documents. 

{ tab=K2 Item 1 } { article k2:nnn } { title } { text:50 } { readmore:Custom read more! }  { /article }

Thats it all done.

Play and enjoy.

So, Joomla! 1.6 was finally released on 10th January 2011 and we wanted to get our hands on it an play, go grab a copy.

You will need to consider where you will set your installation on your server.
For demo sites, we have chosen to create a "demos" folder within the root of our server, this will contain individual folders for each demo installation we create.

Once you have decided on your installation directory, you will need to upload the Joomla_1.6.0-Stable-Full_Package.zip file to that location using your favourite FTP software or maybe using cPanel if your host provides you with it.

Now that you have the .zip in your installation directory, you will need to unzip the contents.

OK, so at this stage we have downloaded the installer, uploaded and extracted the contents, we are ready to start the installation.

In your web browser, enter the URL for your installation, this could be in the form of:

www.yoursite.com/yourinstallfolder/installation

Remember to append installation to the end of the URL so that it will load the index.php located within it.
Once you have that entered, hit enter and you will be presented with the following screen.

Select the language that you wish to use and click next.

Following the on screen information and check you don't have any red No in the first section, then click next.

Take time to read the license information, may seem boring but important to know, then click next.

At this point, we need to enter some database information, maybe you have already set this up, but we have left this detail until this point as an easy reminder that it needs to be done. If you have not setup a database, then you will need to do so now before you proceed. We are not going to cover how to set up a database in this guide, there are plenty of tutorials on the Internet that can assist.
If you have got your database setup, then you need to enter the relevant information in to the required fields, then click next when you are ready.

On this page, you can enter ftp details but it is not essential, you can just choose to skip this and proceed to the next stage by clicking next.

On this screen, you can enter a name for your site, plus, in the advanced settings you can enter some meta data, this can be added later.
Enter an email address, which will be used for admin contact.
Enter an admin name and password which will be used to access the administrator (backend) of the site. We have not tested this yet, but in 1.5 admin was always the default.
Finally, you can choose to install sample data if you want to. If you dont, then there will be no content on the site when it goes live so we chose to install it. Click next.

That's it, we are done, almost.
As this screen says, you now need to go and delete the installation directory from your server to proceed. Please ensure you do delete the correct directory.
Once you have completed the deletion, then you can click on either the Site or Administrator links.
If you click on Site, you can then still access the admin side by simply adding /administrator to the end of the URL in your address bar.

So what happens when you click on Site?

Want to see what the front-end of Joomla! 1.6 looks like, then click the button below.

   Our Live J!1.6 demo

And if you click on Administrator?

Simply enter the user name and password that you enter in the Main Configuration and click Login and enter the world of the Joomla 1.6 back-end.

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