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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we've focused on what it's all about in Joomla!: managing actual content. You've seen how Joomla! 1.6 enables you to categorize content and to display category contents, and you've learned what's new in creating and editing content:

  • The biggest change in working with content is the new way in which articles can be organized in an unlimited number of categories and subcategories.

  • The New Category or Edit Category screen offers you some new settings, such as adding a note or adding metadata for category pages.

  • There are some flexible new methods available to display category contents on the frontend of your site: through the Display All Categories menu item type, and through two new modules displaying links to categories and articles.

  • The updated article editor screen now allows you to easily create a link from one article to another in the same website.

  • The Media Manager, Joomla!'s built-in utility to upload and manage image files, is now located at Content | Media Manager...