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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

Time for action – adding a user with frontend authoring permissions


Let's create user accounts for a couple of club members who'll become content contributors.

  1. Navigate to Users | User Manager.

  2. There's just one user, you. By default, Joomla calls this first user Super User (and this user belongs to the Super Users group). To add another user, click on the New button in the toolbar.

  3. In the Add New User screen, add Account Details as desired. In this example, we've entered Jim Van Gogh in the Name field. In the Login Name field we've entered jvgogh. Enter a Password and a valid Email address for the new user:

  4. Click the Assigned User Groups tab and, select Author. This will allow the new user to submit and edit content (after logging in to the frontend of the site):

  5. Click on Save & Close. The User Manager screen now shows the new User:

What just happened?

In the site user list in the User Manager, you're no longer on your own. As Mr. Van Gogh has been assigned to the Author user group, he is...