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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Eric Tiggeler
Jul, 2014 | 476 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
A New and Easy Way to Build Websites
A New and Easy Way to Build Websites
Join the CMS revolution
Why would you choose Joomla!?
What kind of sites can you build with Joomla!?
Learning to use Joomla!
Summary
2
Getting Joomla! Up and Running
Getting Joomla! Up and Running
What do you need to start?
Installing Joomla! on a web server
Time for action – downloading the Joomla! files
Time for action – placing the files on the web server
Time for action – creating a database
Time for action – running the Joomla! installation wizard
Installing Joomla! on your own computer
Time for action – installing XAMPP
Time for action – creating a MySQL database
Time for action – downloading Joomla! and running the installation wizard
Upgrading from previous versions of Joomla!
Got stuck? Get help!
Summary
3
First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla!
First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla!
Building websites the Joomla! way
Introducing the frontend and backend – the Joomla! interface
Exploring the frontend – the website as the user sees it
Time for action – touring the example site
Administering your site in the backend
Time for action – logging in to the backend
Getting your feet wet – start administering your site
Time for action – publishing your first article
Time for action – adding a module to the site
Time for action – setting Joomla! preferences
Summary
4
Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour
Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour
What you will be making
Removing the sample data
Time for action – deleting articles and categories
Time for action – deleting menus
Building your new site in three steps
Time for action – creating a copy of the current template
Time for action – preparing a new logo image
Time for action – tweaking the design details
Time for action – creating a news category
Time for action – creating an article
Time for action – adding a menu link
Time for action – adding uncategorized articles
Time for action – assigning articles to the home page
Time for action – creating a contact
Time for action – creating a Contact Form menu link
Time for action – creating a message block
Wrapping up – changing site settings
Time for action – changing the site configuration
Summary
5
Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively
Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively
Building on the example site
Grouping content – a crash course on site organization
Time for action – creating a future-proof site map
Creating categories and subcategories
Time for action – creating a category and subcategories
Displaying main categories and subcategories on your site
Time for action – creating a link to point to a main category
Refining your site structure
Time for action – moving content from one category to another
Time for action – renaming a category
Using tags to label and organize content
Time for action – creating a tag
Summary
6
Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles
Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles
Articles and content pages – what's the difference?
Creating and editing articles – beyond the basics
Making your words look good – formatting article text
Time for action – adding styles to the article text
Extending the text editor
Adding images to articles
Time for action – uploading images
Time for action – inserting and aligning images
Changing the way the article is displayed
Time for action – creating intro text
Time for action – using page breaks to split up an article
Displaying images and links with articles
Time for action – adding images and links to an article
Restoring a previous version of an article
Tweaking the details – changing article settings
Archiving articles
Time for action – creating a News archive
Summary
7
Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
Why do you need overview pages anyway?
Mastering the home page layout
Time for action – rearranging the layout of articles on the home page
Time for action – showing the most recent items first
Time for action – creating a different home page
Creating category overview pages
The first type of overview page – creating Category Blog layouts
Time for action – creating a face book using the Blog layout
The second type of overview page – lists
Time for action – adding a link to a Category List layout
Creating overview pages that show tagged articles
Time for action – creating a tagged items overview page
Summary
8
Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus
Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus
How many menus can you have?
Creating user-friendly navigation – cleaning up Main Menu
Time for action – changing the order of menu items
Time for action – creating a secondary menu item
Time for action – create a new, empty menu
Time for action – moving hyperlinks to the new menu
Time for action – telling Joomla! where to display the menu
Using the horizontal drop-down menu as the main menu
Time for action – displaying Main Menu links in Top Menu
Exploring menu module settings
What types of menu links are available?
Creating plain text links
Time for action – creating text links
Summary
9
Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute
Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute
Working with the default set of user groups
Time for action – adding a user with frontend authoring permissions
Time for action – putting Login Form on the home page
Time for action – logging in as a frontend content contributor
Time for action – reviewing and publishing submitted content
Enabling self-registration – allowing visitors to register
Time for action – registering yourself and logging in
Time for action – hiding content for nonregistered users
Time for action – partially hiding content from nonregistered users
Creating custom-made user groups
Time for action – creating a user group
Time for action – telling Joomla! what the group can see
Time for action – telling Joomla! what the group can do
Time for action – adding users to the new group
Summary
10
Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla!
Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla!
Extensions in all shapes and sizes
Enhancing your site using core extensions
Time for action – adding the Newsflash module to the home page
Time for action – adding a series of contacts
Enhancing your site using third-party extensions
Time for action – downloading and installing an extension
Time for action – putting the extension to work
Time for action – creating an image gallery
Time for action – replacing the default text editor of Joomla!
Managing the site language
Time for action – removing or replacing default texts
Summary
11
Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates
Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates
What do templates do?
Why are templates so much fun?
Changing the settings of the current template
Time for action – changing the site color and layout options
Switching to a different template
Time for action – activating a different template
Applying template styles to individual pages
Time for action – creating a template style for one specific page
Downloading and installing a new template
Time for action – downloading and activating a new template
Time for action – adding the logo file
Time for action – adding a menu module
Time for action – placing modules in new template positions
Customizing a template – tweaking CSS styles
Time for action – customizing the background color using CSS
Backing up and restoring a customized template
Where can you get a new template for your site?
Creating your own template
Using a template framework as the base for your own template
Summary
12
Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques
Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques
Working on search engine optimization
Optimizing articles to make them easy to find
Configuring HTML page titles
Time for action – setting the HTML page title
Adding meaningful metadata
Time for action – personalizing the site metadata
Using search engine friendly URLs
Adding extra links to the site's content
Time for action – adding a list of links to popular articles
Adding microdata to your content
Redirecting visitors after pages have been moved
Time for action – creating page redirects
Getting to know more about your site's traffic
More SEO resources
Summary
Keeping the Site Secure
Keeping the Site Secure
Choosing a web host that meets your security requirements
Creating a Multilingual Site
Creating a Multilingual Site
Creating a new site with multilingual capabilities
Creating a translated version of an existing site
Pop Quiz Answers
Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 2, Getting Joomla! Up and Running
Chapter 3, First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla!
Chapter 4, Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour
Chapter 5, Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively
Chapter 6, Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles
Chapter 7, Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages
Chapter 8, Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus
Chapter 9, Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute
Chapter 10, Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla!
Chapter 11, Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates
Chapter 12, Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques
Index
Index

Chapter 7, Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages

Pop quiz – test your knowledge of home pages and overview pages

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