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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

Web Links


With this you can construct a link list or a download section that you can integrate into your website. Joomla! provides the categories again and counts the hits on the links. In the user menu, you can have your registered visitors suggest links to be added to the list. These links will then appear in the list that can be requested from the Components | Web Links | Links menu. These links, depending on user rights, may still have to be published.

Links

You can see all the links that have been entered so far with their assigned categories, as well as the hits up to now in the links overview template:

The parameters that are valid for all links can be edited in the presets. You can enter individual links from scratch, and decide about publishing them and edit them:

The details include:

Name: The name of the link that appears on your website

Alias: Short URL

Published: Should the link be published immediately?

Category: Selection of an existing link category

URL: The URL of the link

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