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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

Setting up a site contact


Joomla! has the ability to manage contacts for your visitors. Joomla! gives you multiple ways to engage your site visitors with this. Some areas that might be of value to you are say, setting up separate contacts for support or sales.

In most sites, there is the ability for your visitors to reach you via your site. This is typically a section called CONTACT US. Joomla! has the native ability to make this easy to do through the use of a CONTACT FORM. The SITE contact is the means to do that.

The beauty of this is that it hides your email address from the public, thus lowering the chances a spam bot will grab it and add you to its list.

If you have to change a contact name, you can simply change the name and contact information and Joomla! handles the rest. Now when someone sends you a mail through the site, their note is routed to you based on the email listed in your contact.

Getting ready

You'll need to have the contact information for someone to populate the fields...