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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Goodbye to a spartan Menu Manager


The Menu Manager in Joomla! 1.5 did the job, but there was certainly some room for improvement. Joomla! 1.6 offers a fully overhauled Menu Manager. Just to see why this is a good thing and what's been added, let's have a very brief look at what the old menu manager looked like. Here's the old Menu Manager screen:

It was a really basic setup—but it didn't function as anyone new to Joomla! would expect. If you'd click any of the menu names in the Menu Manager in order to edit the menu links, you'd end up in the wrong screen:

No Joomla!, we didn't want to change the Unique Name or any other internal references to the menu! There must be many, many Joomla! users who had to learn the hard way that in order to edit the menu contents, they actually had to click an inconspicuous little icon in the Menu Item(s) column. In the new release, those days of Menu Manager usability disasters are finally over!