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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—deleting articles, categories, and sections


To remove content you always start with the actual articles. That's because you cannot remove containers (categories and sections) as long as they're not empty.

  1. 1. Navigate to Content | Article Manager.

  2. 2. In the # Display drop-down menu at the bottom of the screen, select all. Now all of the articles are displayed in one list.

  3. 3. Select the checkbox at the top of the list (just to the right-hand side of #). This way all of the items in the column are selected:

  4. 4. Click on the Trash button in the toolbar. Joomla! shows a message confirming that the articles have been sent to the Trash.

  5. 5. When articles are in the Trash, they're still in Joomla!'s database should you wish to restore them. However, you won't be needing these articles again. To permanently delete them navigate to Content | Article Trash. Select all of the items and click on Delete.

  6. 6. In the next screen, click on Delete again to confirm you want to delete all of the articles...