We’re started using Joomla as our CMS for a new website we’ve been developing. One of the key functions we wanted was the ability to display article ‘snippets’ on the front page including a thumbnail image from the article.

The MiniFrontpage Joomla extension provides exactly this functionality – so we installed it. Everything was working fine, apart from the thumbnails. These just wouldn’t display – in Safari we’d just see those broke images with the question mark!

In the end, we worked out what caused the problem – the /images/ directory wasn’t writable. So if you are having problems with this module, make sure you’re images directory is writable and you should be fine!

Hope this helps someone!