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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

Summary


In this chapter, you've learned all about two types of pages that Joomla! uses to draw the visitor towards the actual content of your site: home pages and overview pages.

  • When you want to set the layout and arrangement of the Front Page contents, you change the settings of the Main Menu Home link. These allow you to determine how many introductory article texts the home page shows, and how they are laid out.

  • When you want a completely different home page, you can choose not to use the Front Page settings. You can set any Main Menu item to be the default home page contents.

  • To show your visitor the contents of a section or category, you'll create menu links to section and category overview pages. These provide an intermediate level between the home page and content pages; they're like "second level home pages".

  • There are two main formats for overview pages, Blog Layout and List Layout.

  • The Blog Layout is more versatile and is focused on content. It provides a taste of the article content...