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Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

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Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

Overview of this book

Often a company hires consultants or web developers to build a Joomla! web site, and then takes over running the site in house. If you are a content administrator concerned with creating and maintaining the 'product' of a content management site, and not modifying its code, this book is all you need. This practical, hands-on guide will give you all the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Joomla! site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Administrators. It is a quick-start guide that best serves content administrators and editors and doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs help with article management, multimedia management, search engine optimization, and more will also benefit from it. To explain all the features, we will work on developing and maintaining the content and structure of a fledgling web site for a fictitious company "The Party People". Beginning with the basics, which includes an exploration of how to access and navigate around the administration interface, you will move into managing and creating content, including adding images, video, and audio material. There is advice on how to make the most of your multimedia material and how to choose the right file type for your needs. As your skills develop, you will work through techniques for making the site search-engine friendly and securing it against potential malicious attacks. All of these techniques and processes are explained step by step, and by the end of the book you will be able to take advantage your new-found knowledge and skills and maintain your Joomla! site with ease. Keeping your content fresh and engaging becomes easy, once you know how and that's what this book aims to do. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Joomla!-based web sites.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Site wide settings


So that your site performs as intended, there were a number of important operational (or system configuration) settings established by the developer during the setup phase. These settings include how often the site cache files are cleansed and whether users can register on your site or not.

Leave it to the experts

The Global Configuration screen can only be accessed by users with Super Administrator access and presents all the fundamental settings required to ensure that your site runs smoothly. It can be accessed from the Control Panel or the site menu: Site | Global Configuration.

Having said this however, it is best to leave any changes to this section to your web developer.

There are three tabs within the Configuration screen: Site, System and Server. All of the settings within have been set up by your developer and should be left as they are. If they are changed, the front and backend of the site may go offline or some of its functionality will be affected. Approach with extreme caution if you are not familiar with any of these settings.

Outside the scope of the previous screenshot, which shows the three sections within the Global Configuration, within the Site section there is also the SEO Settings, seen in the following screenshot:

These settings were established by your developer and should be left as they are. Enabling settings that are set to No without some in-depth technical knowledge of .htaccess among other things will most likely result in the incorrect presentation of your site.