Joomla! Start to Finish
Jen Kramer
Language: English
Pages: 251
ISBN: 047057089X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Everything you need to know to plan and maintain a Joomla! site
Joomla! offers powerful functionality and ease of configuration, making it an immensely popular open source content management system. However, far more than simply downloading and installing Joomla! is required in order to create a dynamic web site. This book walks you through the critical steps that must be taken in the planning process prior to establishing a Joomla! site. Joomla! expert Jen Kramer reviews essential questions that need to be asked of a client, discusses technical solutions to a variety of challenges, and explains how a site structure should be organized.
Topics Covered:
I Want a Web Site and I Want It Blue — How Much Will That Cost?
Choosing the Right Technologies to Solve the Business Problem
Downloading and Installing Joomla!
A Brief Tour of the Joomla! Administration Interface
Creating and Configuring Menus
Installing and Configuring
Modules That Come with Joomla
Components That Come with Joomla!
Plug-Ins That Come with Joomla!
Adding Extensions to Joomla!
Home Page Tips and Tricks
Custom Templates
Advanced Template and CSS Tricks
Site Maintenance and Training
Once the groundwork has been laid, you'll discover how to host and install Joomla!, and upgrade and maintain your Joomla! site.
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Image is of keys. You can set this option to None xSelected if you want, and no image will show. Login/Logout Image Align. This option specifies whether the image should display on the left or right side of the screen. The items under Parameters (System) are just like those you’ve seen before for articles, and they work the same way. Creating the Remind and Reset Link Everyone occasionally (or, perhaps, frequently) forgets a username or a password. Providing a “Lost Username” or “Lost Password”.
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Discover that they do not have to use the TinyMCE editor. The usability of this editor has improved over time, but many Joomla developers (including this one) have the opinion that TinyMCE lacks some specific functionality that would make it much easier to use. For example, TinyMCE has no default way of linking one page in your Joomla site to another by simply browsing for the page. You must know the URL of the page to which you want to link, but most clients don’t know this information and find.