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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

Random images module


The Party People website has a sequence of random images displayed in the right column that we want to update with new images. We can do this in two ways:

Change the files in the image folder

The steps to change files in the image folder are as follows:

  1. 1. Navigate to the Media Manager through the top menu: Site | Media Manager or click the icon on the administration control panel.

  2. 2. Navigate to the images | stories | randomImages directory where the images are stored.

  3. 3. Edit, upload, or move the images as needed. Chapter 3, Managing Images and Videos describes how to do this in detail.

The new images or adjustments will be displayed on the frontend of the site.

Redirect to a different image directory

The steps are as follows:

  1. 1. Click Extensions | Module Manager in the top menu to view the list of enabled and disabled modules installed on the site. Ours is enabled and in the right position, so we will sort the list to only display enabled modules in the right position...