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Joomla! 1.5: Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned a lot about different ways of user interaction in Joomla!. The following is what we have covered:

  • In the User Manager you can create new users and assign them to a specific Group, granting them various levels of access to the site. There are five groups available, each with their own set of permissions.

  • Some users have access to only the frontend of the site; others have more permissions and can login to both the frontend and the backend of the site.

  • To allow users to login to the site, you'll have to create an entrance: a login form where they can enter their username and password.

  • Some frontend users are only allowed to submit or edit content; they can't publish it. Another user with publishing permissions has to review their submissions and makes them visible on the site.

  • By enabling user self-registration a user community can develop. Registered users have exclusive access to "members only" content.

  • To invite visitors to register you can show them only...