Professional Joomla templates and extensions club

If you are a Joomla user you have most likely created, edited or modified a article for your site. When you did it you probably used whats called a WYSIWYG editor. These allow you to view your article like you might see it in Word or some sort of document editor. The problem with these editors is the poor code they insert. Much of the backend code that is being used in these editors is not compliant or is using old HTML markup to render your document. Also sometimes when you want to insert some sort of proper code to make your words more pleasing, they strip it out mercilessly.
Here are some examples of how a WYSIWYG editor can hurt your site.

Semantic code and being compliant, why does this concern me?

If you have ever pondered what XHTML compliance was, or saw it on our templates and had no idea what it was?
I am going to explain to you the importance of it all, and why you need to be compliant.

One of the most frequent questions we get asked is how to get the default Joomla editor to display properly when editing content.

The problem that occurs is with the way the editor works. By default, it will automatically pull the styling from the published template, which means if there is a background color or graphic set on the templates frontend, this will be used as the editors background. This makes editing content really difficult.

By default, when linking to category or section of content items, Joomla sets the "blog view" to display in 2 columns. If you would like to change this so that they display one underneath the other, simply open up the menu link for that category/section and from the right hand side "parameters" options, set the options as follows: