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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing the site language


In the Extensions menu, you'll also find the Language Manager. Here you can add and install languages for both the administrative interface and the frontend of the site. To install a new language pack, click on Install Languages. This takes you to an overview of all available language packs. Adding a language is just a matter of selecting it and clicking on the Install button. Once it's installed, it's available in the Language Manager and you can make it the new default language. Set the default language for both the frontend and backend of your website.

Changing default text strings

Any Joomla site may contain lots of built-in text strings. You see them turn up on the frontend when you display articles—just think of words and sentences such as Read more, More articles, and Details. These texts are part of the Joomla default package and in most cases, you won't have to bother changing them. However, sometimes the default texts don't fit your website. Luckily, it...