Up and Running with Joomla
2nd Edition
Published on 21. July 2009
100 pages
978-0-596-80624-8 (ISBN)
Description
Need to launch a feature-rich website quickly where you have one or more people authoring the content? Want to use a powerful, robust, and scalable Content Management System (CMS) you can trust? This Short Cut will get you up and running with Joomla 1.5, a freely available open source CMS. Learn how to install, configure, customize, and extend your Joomla installation. Also learn the tricks of the trade in how to set up and manage both your content and your users. Joomla can be a challenge to understand at first, so drastically cut your "e;get up to speed"e; time by taking the Short Cut!
More details
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
2,53 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-596-80624-8 (9780596806248)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
- Intro
- Assumptions
- Satisfying the Prerequisites
- WAMP, MAMP, and LAMP-An Alternative
- Web Server
- PHP
- MySQL
- Installing Joomla
- Creating a Database User and Schema
- Setup Process
- Understanding the configuration.php File
- Additional Configuration Settings
- Important Site-Wide Options
- Email Settings
- Organizing Your Content
- A Little Planning
- Sections
- Categories
- Selecting a Template
- Considerations
- Working with Templates
- Controlling Modules
- Basic Settings
- Adding Modules
- Managing Users
- Adding Users
- Linking Users to Contacts
- Groups and Permissions
- Public Front-end
- Public Back-end
- More Options
- Now What?
- Adding Articles
- Types of Content
- Categorized Content
- Uncategorized Content
- The Basics
- Writing an Article
- Cut-and-Pasting from a Word Processor
- Parameters and Metadata
- Images and Video
- Front-end Editing
- Front Page Content
- Archiving
- Understanding Links
- Joomla URLs
- Default URLs
- SEF URLs
- Linking to Pages
- Adding Menus
- Creating a Menu
- Activating Our Menu
- Adding Items to Our Menu
- Controlling Layout with Menu Parameters
- Other Useful Content
- Web Links
- News Feeds (RSS)
- Polls
- Creating Templates
- Core Template Files
- Basic Shell
- Defining Layout
- Including External CSS and JavaScript Files
- Using Extensions
- Installation and Configuration
- Common Gotchas
- Some of Our Favorites
- Introducing SEO
- Scaling Joomla
- Wrapping Up
