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Site Settings

Site Offline:
To off public access to the site. Shows offline message in file templatessystemoffline.php .

Offline Message:
You can edit text shown in the offline message via this text field.

Site Name:
Setting for your sites name this name appears in the back end.

Default WYSIWYG Editor:
Joomla comes with a few default editors this setting can help you choose which one to as the default.
More editors choices can be added by turning on a editor plug-in via the plug-in manager.

List Length:
This sets the default paging for grids items shown.
When viewing most manager items articles etc.

Feed length:
This sets the RSS feed length for articles.

Metadata Settings

Global Site Meta Description:
Adds global meta description this can be overridden by any article parameter setting.
If none is given then this is used.
 
Global Site Meta Keywords:
Adds global meta keywords description this can be overridden by any article parameter setting.
If none is given then this is used Keywords most be separated by commas.

Show Title Meta Tag:
Shows the name of the author or article creators name in the meta tag title.

Show Author Meta Tag:
Shows the name of the author or article creators name in the meta tag title.


SEO Settings

Search Engine Friendly URLs:
Turns on more readable URL's you don't need the next settings but they do help if you have them.

Turns your URL's from this
http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=27

To this
http://www.yoursite,com/index.php/joomla-overview


Use Apache mod_rewrite:
If you are using the Apache web server with mod_rewrite installed it makes very nice Url's that can be better controlled.
Please note that there is a file in your Joomla root install that needs to be renamed for it to work.
"htaccess.txt" to ".htaccess" yes there needs to be a dot in front of it.

Add suffix to URLs:
The file suffix setting is .html part to the file.
No suffix
http://www.yoursite,com/index.php/joomla-overview
with Suffix
http://www.yoursite,com/index.php/joomla-overview.html