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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

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

Working with media


Media is a big part of a Joomla! site. This can include music, animation, pictures, and more.

Joomla! has a very powerful media manager built in it, which enables you to categorize and assign all types of media.

Getting ready

You'll need at least one .jpg or .png image to work with.

To get started, log in to your Administrator Console.

How to do it...

  1. Open Media Manager.

    Once open, the Media Manager has several items of interest:

    We're going to add some advertising images to the banners folder.

  2. Click on the banners folder icon (see the preceding screenshot).

    We are now positioned in the folder we wish to upload a file to.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the screen till you see Upload File control. Please note this is available at all times in the Media Manager.

  4. Click on Browse... and find the file you wish to upload. This will be browsing your local machine.

  5. Once you locate it - click Start Upload.

    You'll note that there is a new image in the line-up of banners now.

    We chose banners specifically...