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Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

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Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

Overview of this book

Often a company hires consultants or web developers to build a Joomla! web site, and then takes over running the site in house. If you are a content administrator concerned with creating and maintaining the 'product' of a content management site, and not modifying its code, this book is all you need. This practical, hands-on guide will give you all the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Joomla! site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Administrators. It is a quick-start guide that best serves content administrators and editors and doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs help with article management, multimedia management, search engine optimization, and more will also benefit from it. To explain all the features, we will work on developing and maintaining the content and structure of a fledgling web site for a fictitious company "The Party People". Beginning with the basics, which includes an exploration of how to access and navigate around the administration interface, you will move into managing and creating content, including adding images, video, and audio material. There is advice on how to make the most of your multimedia material and how to choose the right file type for your needs. As your skills develop, you will work through techniques for making the site search-engine friendly and securing it against potential malicious attacks. All of these techniques and processes are explained step by step, and by the end of the book you will be able to take advantage your new-found knowledge and skills and maintain your Joomla! site with ease. Keeping your content fresh and engaging becomes easy, once you know how and that's what this book aims to do. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Joomla!-based web sites.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Creating a new Article


Adding new content to a website is important to keep it interesting for the target audience—and, more importantly, it keeps them coming back! Creating a new Article is a good way to add new information while retaining the earlier Articles, which can be unpublished to make room within the existing framework.

Adding text

The following steps show how to add text:

  1. 1. Click the New button within the Article Manager.

  2. 2. Type in an Article Title, remembering that it may appear on the site (depending on the global settings), so name it something relevant or interesting. Leave the Alias name blank, as Joomla! does this automatically.

  3. 3. Decide whether the Article should appear on the front page or not and then allocate it to an existing Section or leave it as unallocated. Select a Category, or if the section is uncategorized, this will automatically be completed as uncategorized. The following screenshot illustrates an uncategorized Article, published to the home page of the Party...