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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

Polls


The integrated poll module makes it possible for you to publish polls on your site. One poll is already included with the sample data.

Title: This is the title of your poll.

Lag: This determines the time in seconds that has to elapse before another selection can be made. This lag offers some kind of protection against falsification of poll data.

Options: Here you can enter up to twelve answer options.

Click the Preview icon to get a preview of your poll. To actually display it on your site, make sure that the poll module is located at the desired position. The module is positioned on the right side by default.

If you try the poll out and select an answer, a report template appears. The poll itself is no longer displayed, since by default it was assigned only to the front page.

Search Statistics

Joomla! 1.0 had numerous options for collecting statistics about your users' access to your website. The logging of access data sometimes required a significant amount of storage space on the server...