Book Image

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
Book Image

Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

Design


The next morning has come, the wine festival is over, Didier and Marlene have taken a lot of photographs. M. Bertrand has created the website to his satisfaction and has even integrated the PDFs.

The PayPal connection works.

They all meet for breakfast and Ruth, in the meantime, has finished the template. She brings the finished components on a USB stick and talks about her experiences with the template for an hour.

Installation of the Template

M. Bertrand copies the template files to the /httpddocs/templates/tmpl_bertrand and /httpddocs/templates/tmpl_bertrand_shop directories using FTP. In the Extensions | Template menu he defines the new tmpl_bertrand template as the default:

He assigns the tmpl_bertrand_shop template to the wine pages in edit mode. That way the customer will know that he or she is in the shop section.

The Template

Ruth created the template according to the following considerations:

Maintenance

Since M. Bertrand will be maintaining the site himself, she used as simply...