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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

Media Manager


As its name suggests, the Media Manager is the place to keep track of and organize all your media files within folders and subfolders. You can use it to upload files, delete old material, or create new folders.

Accessing and using the Media Manager

The interface within the Media Manager is graphical and similar to other file explorer programs you will have definitely used within a Windows environment.

Like any of the sections of the administration control panel, you can access the Media Manager either by:

  • Clicking Site | Media Manager from the top menu

  • Clicking the Media Manager icon on the Control Panel

You can switch your view of the files within the Media Manager to suit your preference, as both provide the same level of functionality:

  • Click Thumbnail View to see small graphic versions of your files, handy when you want to find an image

  • Click Detail View to see the names of your files along with the dimensions and sizes

The following screenshot illustrates the use of the thumbnail...