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Global Site Settings
Menus
Content
User Manager
Joomla allows you to put people in one of several
user groups. The higher up the ladder you go, the
more permissions you get.
Menus have two functions:
Content is simply the text articles on your site.
They need to be organized into this structure:
Special
Registered
Public
Super Administrator
Administrator
Manager
Publisher
Author
Editor
Registered
Public
Media Manager
• Upload your images
• Create folders to organize your images
Global Configuration
• Take your site offline if you’re not ready
for the whole world to see it
• Choose your site name
• Turn on Search Engine Friendly URLs
They allow people to find
pages on your site.
Display They control the layout of the
pages they link to.
Navigation
Creating these navigation
links is just like sending a parcel. First we create the box,
then we fill it and finally we
tell Joomla where to send it.
1) Create Box
Menus >> Menu Manager >> New
Content Creation Workflow
This system means you have to create a
Joomla website using this workflow:
2) Fill Box
1 Section Manager
Menus >> Choose your menu >> New
2 Category Manager
3) Send Box
Extensions >> Module Manager >>
Open the module with the name of
your menu >> Position Dropdown
3 Article Manager
4 Menu Link
You can choose the default options for
your articles by going to Content >> Article
Manager >> Parameters.
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Extensions
Modules
Components
There are 5 kinds of
Joomla extensions. To
understand them, let’s
compare Joomla to
a car.
Modules are small boxes around the outside
of your site.
Go to Extensions >> Module Manager and
Components sit right in the center of your
site and do all the hard work. Joomla arrives
with 6 components:
open a module. You’ll find three options for
placing modules:
shows advertising from the
Banners components
Components = Engines
They do all the hard work that drives your site.
top, bottom, left, right etc. Find your
position by using example.com/?tp=1
Contacts
Modules = Dashboard
They show the work being done by the
components.
if several modules are in the same
position, what order will they appear in.
Plugins = Spark-plugs
These do little tasks to help keep Joomla
running.
Template = Paint-job
Change the template and you change the
design of the car.
Language = This translates all the labels inside
the car.
Position
Order
NewsFeeds
pulls in regular news from other
websites
Useful Joomla Modules:
for
Banners
shows advertising images
Breadcrumbs
shows people which pages
they’ve visited
Custom HTML
an empty box for any code
you want
the most recent articles added
to your site
Login people can login, register or recover
their lost user information
• Download the extensions to your desktop
Most Read
your most popular articles
• Extensions >> Install Uninstall
Newsflash
rotates articles at random
•Click “Upload file and install”
company
Polls allows people to vote on topics of
your choice
Installing Extensions:
•Click “Browse” and find the extension
creates a staff directory for your
you can choose to only have the module appear on certain pages. Do this via the
“Menu Assignment” option.
Pages
Latest News
Finding Extensions
http://Extensions.Joomla.org
Banners
visitors can vote on topics you choose
in the Polls component
Poll
Search
shows a search box for your site
Search
records what people are searching
Weblinks
a directory of links to other sites
Whenever you add a new component, it will
appear in this list.
Templates
Free templates: Joomla24.com
Commercial templates: BestofJoomla.com
Change your template:
Extensions >> Template Manager >>
Select the box next to your chosen template
>> Click Default
Edit your template:
Extensions >> Template Manager >>
Open your chosen template