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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. Although it's a fun and feature-rich tool, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build a site that meets your needs perfectly. Using this book you can create dynamic, interactive web sites that perfectly fit your needs.This practical guide gives you a head start in using Joomla! 1.5, helping you to create professional and good-looking web sites, whether you want to create a full-featured company or club web site or build a personal blog site.The Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide helps beginners to get started quickly and to get beyond the basics to take full advantage of Joomla!'s powerful features. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, contemporary, feature-rich web sites any developer can achieve with Joomla!. It gives you a head start and explains what's good and useful about Joomla! features and what's not. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimum of jargon. This book provides clear definitions, thoroughly covering the concepts behind the software and creating a coherent picture of how the software works. This book is not about what Joomla! can do—it's about what you can do using Joomla!.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction: A New and Easy Way to Build Websites

Time for action—putting the extension to work


Now, let's get News Show Pro display an article teaser text in the right-hand side column on the front page. If you've followed along and installed the NewsFlash module earlier, it's time to hide that module again, as we'll replace it. To do so, navigate to Extensions | Module Manager. Locate the NewsFlash module and click on the green check mark in the Enabled column to hide it on the frontend.

  1. 1. In the Module Manager, locate the News Show Pro module and click on the Module Name (News Pro GK1) to see the huge list of available options.

    This is a bit different from the default Newsflash module! If you scroll down, you'll see News Show Pro has more than 70 different Module Parameters. But don't despair, you'll only have to tweak a few settings to get this beast to work.

  2. 2. In the Title field, enter Recent Lectures.

  3. 3. Set Enabled: to Yes and select Position: right.

  4. 4. In the Menu Assignment section, set the module to display on the Home page only...