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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

Article creation


Articles, also known as content, are really the heart of your Joomla! content management system. They are the reason Joomla! exists. In this recipe we'll create an article and assign it a category and section. This will help you as your site grows, and you create more content and make it available.

As you proceed through this, you'll note that many of the settings reference Global. Within Joomla!, you can set specific parameters Globally. That is to say, providing them to all articles the same way. If for instance I ALWAYS want to show the Title in an article, I would set that globally, and simply leave the global setting as is for each article. If I had a specific article that I did not wish to display the Title for I could change that locally for that article only. Changing the title setting in the article from GLOBAL to NO, would accomplish this.

Getting ready

You'll need to log in to the Joomla! Administrator Console. For our purposes, we will be generating content to put...