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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

About the Reviewer

Toivo Talikka lives in Sydney with his wife Maja, their son Mikko, and dog Marlo. Toivo has worked on applications based on Joomla! for two years and provided support at the Joomla! forum to reach the level of Joomla! Ace. His tips and observations can be found at his blog http://toivo.talikka.com.

Toivo's career in computing started in the early 70's in an air conditioned room filled with 7-foot-tall tape drives, hard disk drives looking like top-loading washing machines, paper tape, and card readers connected to a GE-115 computer. He punched his first assembler programs onto 80-column cards and had at his disposal 16 KB of ferrite core memory and 5 MB of disk space.

Toivo's expertise in Retail Point Of Sale systems gained at ICL Finland led him to work for the company in Australia, England, and Sweden. He returned to Sydney to work with NCR. Then Burns Philp offered him a position in Papua New Guinea in its Merchandise division, from where he moved to the shipping subsidiary and, subsequently, to Shipping's head office in Sydney. His next job was IT Operations Manager for a CBD law firm. After that, Toivo ran a one-man consultancy in Sydney for five years, helping clients in legal services, wholesale, and aged-care industries to manage their computer applications and networks. His company, Total Data Pty Ltd, provided remote systems administration, internet security, and onsite hardware maintenance and installations, covering both Windows and Linux servers.

For his own use, Toivo installed Linux servers and firewalls and got an introduction to Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP), the tools he then used to write a web-based customer-billing application accessible from his Nokia cell phone. His interest in Open Source applications and Joomla! led to a full-time job as a web developer, responsible for websites based on Joomla!, its extensions, and their integration with web-based services, at one of the Australian subsidiaries of a French global company, Schneider Electric.