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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

Creating a new, search engine-friendly Article


Let's put all of this information to use and create a new, search engine-friendly article for the Costumes section of the Party People website. We'll add text, an image that links to another website, and some metadata.

As we know, the page metadata holds a brief description of the page and the keywords applicable to the content. While this information is not compulsory when creating/editing an Article, it makes good practice to include them.

Use the Title of your Article to add meaningful keywords, as this can also be helpful in better search engine ranking. Add a title that describes and defines the content of the Article. You can choose not to display the Title on the frontend of the site if it doesn't make any sense to the end user, by clicking the radio button in the Parameters section.

As mentioned, make the title linked as well.

First, we'll follow the given steps to set up the Article:

  1. 1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager from the top...