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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

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—rearrange the layout of articles on the home page


You decide to rearrange the items on the Front Page. Let's say you want a maximum of two intro texts, both in just one column. Apart from this, you would like to show a few hyperlinks to other articles that could be of interest to visitors browsing the home page.

  1. 1. Navigate to Menus | Main Menu. In the Menu Item Manager, click on Home to edit the settings of the home page.

  2. 2. In the Parameters (Basic) section, the default view settings are shown. There's 1 leading (full width) intro text, 4 intro texts are shown in 2 columns, and there are 4 hyperlinks. If we want a single column on the front page, we'll set the number of intros and columns to zero. Change the values as follows: set # Leading to 2, # Intro to 0, Columns to 0, and # Links to 4.

  3. 3. Click on Preview to see the changes on the frontend. There are now two full-width intro texts. Because up to now only three articles have been assigned to the home page, beneath the...