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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling users to log in and contribute content


Let's find out how you can use the default user groups to add a couple of people allowed to log in to the site and contribute content. After you've installed Joomla, there's just one user present—the Super User. By navigating to (Users |User Manager), you can check the account details of the Super User—the Name (by default this is Super User), the User Name (this is admin, unless you've changed this yourself when setting up your account), whether this user account is Enabled, the user's Email address, the user's Last Visit Date and Registration Date and the user's ID (an identifying user number that's used by the system):

Click the Name of the user to edit their account details. For example, for security reasons you'll probably want to change the default User Name (admin) to something that's harder to guess. Just enter a new name and save changes. The next time you log in, use your updated credentials.

Tip

There's also a shortcut available to...