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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

Chapter 2. Creating, Editing, and Organizing Content

The content of a website is what drives users to visit it in the first instance and keeping them coming back is the key to a successful website. Content should be written for its intended audience and delivered in a well presented and easy-to-read layout. Writing and presenting content for the Web is different from writing for printed material, and this chapter addresses a number of ways content editors can do this successfully. The Wired magazines website (http://www.wired.com/) recently won a "Webby Award" for the exceptional quality of its editing/copyediting. If you want to know more about The Webby Awards, take a look at their Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webby_Awards. They award exceptional websites within categories.

Articles are an important part of the Joomla! website framework as they present the various items of news and information a user seeks. They contain text and multimedia like images, videos, and audio...