Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Replacing the default administrator template


As you have likely become acquainted with the administrative console in Joomla!, you may not have realized it is also a template. And as such, it can easily be replaced. There are a number of administrative templates available, and a few sources are listed at the end of this recipe.

Getting ready

You will need to have acquired your administrator template of choice for this step. Please note that the template will be in a compressed form. It could have a .zip or .tgz extension.

You will need the following items:

  • Your new administrator template compressed file (it will contain several files)

  • Your FileZilla or other FTP client

How to do it...

  1. Login into the Joomla! Administrator backend and login by entering your Username and Password.

  2. Review your administrator templates that are currently installed. Navigate your top menu to Extensions | Template Manager and click Template Manager.

    Once Template Manager is open you will see the following screenshot. This...