Monday, July 5, 2010

How To Edit Your Joomla Contact Page

Your contact page is not really a page. So don't create one in the Article Manager!

The Contact Manager will do some things for you much better than a mere page will do.

First, it will keep your email address off the page - so spambots cannot pick it up.

Second, it provides a contact form with Captcha (image verify code) which you can turn on or off, but which can protect you from site spam if you have it on.

Third, as your business grows, if you need to have someone else help answer emails or calls, it can provide more than one contact form to route emails and calls to other people.

To set this up, go to Components -> Contacts -> Contacts. Click on the name of the contact that is already in there. Put your details in instead of the ones that are there.

You can put in a message also. You can even put in a picture if you choose.

On the right, you can choose which elements you want to show.

Save the Contact. If you have a Contact Us link on the front of your site, this will already link directly to it.
If you do not have one, then go to Menus -> MainMenu (or the name of the menu you want to put it into). Click New, and select Qcontacts.

Then select Single Contact Layout. Name it, and select the contact you are linking to. Save it.

You can also link to a category of contacts. This is how you link to more than one contact. You just select Contact Category Layout instead of Single Contact Layout when you create the menu link.

The Contact Manager is a professional and effective solution for providing contact information and a contact form for your site visitors.

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