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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Time for action—inserting and aligning images


Now, let's insert the images you've just uploaded into the article text:

  1. 1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article, Just What is Ugly Art?, to edit it (by clicking on the article title).

  2. 2. Let's place an image in each of the article paragraphs. Place the cursor at the beginning of the first paragraph below the introduction text, just after the first subheading.

  3. 3. Click on the Image button at the bottom of the text editor screen:

  4. 4. A pop-up screen opens displaying the contents of the images root directory. In the top left-hand corner of the pop-up screen, select the appropriate subdirectory: paintings (another way to select this directory is by clicking on the paintings folder icon).

  5. 5. Select the image you want to insert:

  6. 6. In the Image URL box, Joomla! automatically adds the appropriate URL. The other details you can add or set yourself are as follows:

    • In the Image Description box type a description. This text isn't displayed...