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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—partially hiding content from non-registered users


Suppose your client wants to offer their site members some exclusive content; anyone registering to the SRUP site can enjoy special discounts on art supplies and other goodies. Let's create this content and make sure it's only partly shown—unless users register:

  1. 1. To create a new section, navigate to Content | Section Manager and click on New. Call this new section Member Area.

  2. 2. To create a new category, navigate to Content | Category Manager and click on New. Call the new category Member Discounts. Set the Section to Member Area.

  3. 3. To create a new article, navigate to Content | Article Manager and click on New. Assign the new article to the Member Area section and the Member Discounts category.

  4. 4. Make sure to divide the article in an intro text and a main body text by placing the cursor directly after the intro text and then clicking on the Read more… button. A red dotted line indicates where the intro text ends and the...