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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Time for action—display the new header image file


Let's get Joomla! to show our new header image. To do this, you'll first upload the file to your web server using FTP—which is very similar to moving or copying files on your own computer using File Explorer in Windows or the Finder on the Mac. If you've installed Joomla! yourself, you've already used FTP to put the Joomla software files on the web server (see Chapter 2 on installing Joomla!). If you're new to FTP, you can read more on the Web on using FTP software such as FileZilla (www.siteground.com/tutorials/ftp/filezilla.htm).

  1. 1. Using your FTP program, connect to your web server and find the root directory where Joomla! is installed. Browse to the /templates/rhuk_milkyway/images directory. This is the directory that contains the images files for the default Joomla! template, rhuk_milkyway. Upload the srupheader.png file you just created to this folder.

    Next,we'll take a peek under the Joomla! hood and change a rule in the template files...