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Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

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Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

Overview of this book

Often a company hires consultants or web developers to build a Joomla! web site, and then takes over running the site in house. If you are a content administrator concerned with creating and maintaining the 'product' of a content management site, and not modifying its code, this book is all you need. This practical, hands-on guide will give you all the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Joomla! site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Administrators. It is a quick-start guide that best serves content administrators and editors and doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs help with article management, multimedia management, search engine optimization, and more will also benefit from it. To explain all the features, we will work on developing and maintaining the content and structure of a fledgling web site for a fictitious company "The Party People". Beginning with the basics, which includes an exploration of how to access and navigate around the administration interface, you will move into managing and creating content, including adding images, video, and audio material. There is advice on how to make the most of your multimedia material and how to choose the right file type for your needs. As your skills develop, you will work through techniques for making the site search-engine friendly and securing it against potential malicious attacks. All of these techniques and processes are explained step by step, and by the end of the book you will be able to take advantage your new-found knowledge and skills and maintain your Joomla! site with ease. Keeping your content fresh and engaging becomes easy, once you know how and that's what this book aims to do. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Joomla!-based web sites.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

What's the Control Panel and where is it?


The Control Panel is a graphical interface that you enter through your hosting service website. Control Panels themselves use proprietary software and are all different, but for the purposes of our outline we'll use the cPanel system. They are all similar in nature though and even if your hosting service uses a different system, this outline will still help you understand some of the terminology and areas you need to access.

The Control Panel is shown in the following screenshot:

The modules we'll refer to in this chapter are as follows:

  • File Manager

  • Backup Wizard

  • phpMyAdmin

Briefly, the Control Panel is sectioned into areas containing a number of modules, which you can use to manage your account. They are as follows:

  • Preferences: Allows you to set certain preferences in the management of your hosting account, such as adding/changing your contact details and passwords.

  • Mail: Set up and manage your e-mail accounts and any redirections. Here you can...