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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Setting up sections


Sections are the topmost portion of your Joomla! site. They are the guidepost to the rest of the content in your site. In this chapter, we will go through the process of setting up a section.

Getting ready

There are many schools of thoughts for sections. You can imagine a section is like a filing cabinet drawer. It holds many file and folders. Categories are like the files and folders in the cabinet drawer. Within a file folder, we have papers and other media, such as photos, or cd-roms, or other things. Sections are the containers that hold categories. A section can have many categories. Articles, like the metaphorical paper, is content and its tied to a category. So the order is Sections | Categories | Articles.

You have the ability to define sections any way you like based on how you want to order your content. I would suggest that you use sections for major portions of your site. Examples can include NEWS, PRODUCTS, HELP, or SUPPORT. It really all depends on how you...