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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

Screen Layout


Menu Bar

Joomla! administration, just like your site, consists of different elements. The menus are in the top menu bar as shown in the following figure:

There are four elements on the right-hand side:

  • A link to the website (Preview)

  • A note on whether you have received any messages and how many

  • Another note on how many users are logged on to your site at the moment

  • The Logout button

Tool Bar

Underneath the menu bar is the tool bar. Here is an example of menu entries in the mainmenu:

In the left area, the name of the current edit area and its corresponding icon are displayed (tool bar). To the right of it, depending on the manager, there are various disabled icons. If you slide your mouse cursor over one of these icons, a frame appears and you can click the left mouse button and implement the appropriate function. The following are the most popular icons and their relevance.

Toolbar Element

Relevance

Cancel

The editing is canceled without saving.

Enable

The selected element is enabled...