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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

Front Page Manager


The Frontpage has a special mission. The front page is the title page of your website. Joomla! suggests that it should contain the articles that you would like to have there.

Sometimes, such as with a simple website, you may not want that type of a start page. A single article may be enough under certain circumstances. This brings us to the question: 'What should my website look like later?'

If you will want a start page with several articles later, then the selected content should be in a blog display format. When you are editing the individual articles, you can activate the Front Page switch. The article is then shown in the Frontpage Manage . The construction of the list is similar to that of the articles list. You can sort the articles within the front page here. You can see the title, section, category, and author of the article. uncategorized articles are called Static Content here. You can limit the list with the filter options. If you have more articles than will...