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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—reviewing submitted content


Sorry, I'll have to ask you now to switch back once again to your original role—being the site administrator. After all, once an Author has submitted an article you (or another user with publishing permissions) should review and approve the new content to get it to display on the site. Let's see how this works:

  1. 1. Log in to the backend of your site as Administrator. Navigate to Tools | Read Messages (or click on the little envelope icon next to the Preview button in the backend Control Panel). You'll see this message:

    A new Article has been submitted by [ jvgogh ] titled [ SRUP Welcomes New Members ] from Section [ News ] and Category [ General News ].

    Note

    Receiving submission reminders

    The Private Messaging icon isn't really conspicuous—you're bound to overlook messages alarming you about new submissions. Do you want to get an e-mail notification every time new content is submitted? Navigate to Tools | Read Messages and click on the Settings button...