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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—creating text links


The SRUP website is in desperate need of an internal hyperlink from one page to another, a link from the Mission Statement page to the Ugly Paintings overview page. Let's create this link:

  1. 1. Before you can create a hyperlink, you have to get the URL of the target page. Navigate to the Menus | Main Menu and open the target page to edit it.

  2. 2. In the Link: field, select all of the text (press Ctrl + A) and copy it (press Ctrl + C).

  3. 3. Now create a link to the URL you just copied. Navigate to Content | Article Manager and open the article that needs to contain the link in the editor. In this example, we've selected the Mission Statement article.

  4. 4. Select the word or words that should be a hyperlink and click on the hyperlink icon in the editor:

  5. 5. A pop-up screen appears. In the Link URL box, paste the target page URL and add a Title for the hyperlink. The Title will show up when the visitor hovers the mouse pointer on the link. In this example, we've entered...