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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
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An easy to use, step-by-step guide to creating professional, mobile-friendly websites with the free Joomla CMS. The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition is the ultimate guide for web developers who wish to build upon their skills and knowledge on creating websites. Even if you're new to this subject, you won't have any difficulty understanding the clear and friendly instructions and explanations. No prior knowledge of HTML and CSS is required.
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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action – heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz – heading
Have a go hero – heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites
Join the CMS revolution
Why would you choose Joomla!?
What kind of sites can you build with Joomla!?
Learning to use Joomla!
The approach of this book
What's the current version of Joomla!?
About the example site
Summary
2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running
What do you need to start?
Hosting space
FTP software
More than one browser
Installing Joomla! on a web server
Time for action – downloading the Joomla! files
What just happened?
Time for action – placing the files on the web server
What just happened?
Time for action – creating a database
What just happened?
Time for action – running the Joomla! installation wizard
What just happened?
What are post-installation messages?
Installing Joomla! on your own computer
Downloading and installing a web server software
Time for action – installing XAMPP
What just happened?
Creating a database
Time for action – creating a MySQL database
What just happened?
Downloading and installing Joomla!
Time for action – downloading Joomla! and running the installation wizard
What just happened?
What if it the installation doesn't work?
Upgrading from previous versions of Joomla!
Updating Joomla! 1.5 to 3.x
Updating Joomla! 2.5 to 3.x
Got stuck? Get help!
Pop quiz – test your knowledge of installing Joomla
Summary
3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla!
Building websites the Joomla! way
Sorry, web pages have ceased to exist
The benefits of the CMS approach to websites
A website built of blocks
Introducing the frontend and backend – the Joomla! interface
Your workspace – the backend
What's the frontend?
Exploring the frontend – the website as the user sees it
Time for action – touring the example site
What just happened?
Exploring the example content
Have go hero – get familiar with the other example sites
Administering your site in the backend
Time for action – logging in to the backend
What just happened?
Taking a closer look at Control Panel
The top menu
The shortcut list (quick icons)
The information panels
The preview and info bar
Adjusting Control Panel to your needs
Understanding the backend tools and controls
What if you can't click on the top menu items?
Getting your feet wet – start administering your site
The three types of backend tasks
A content management example – let's create some content!
Time for action – publishing your first article
What just happened?
An extension management example – adding a module
Time for action – adding a module to the site
What just happened?
A site management example – configuring basic site settings
Time for action – setting Joomla! preferences
What just happened?
Have a go hero – explore the configuration options
Pop quiz – test your knowledge of Joomla basics
Summary
4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour
What you will be making
Meet your client
Removing the sample data
Step one – removing the sample content
Time for action – deleting articles and categories
Step two – deleting menus and other modules
Time for action – deleting menus
What just happened?
Have a go hero – clean out the list of modules
Building your new site in three steps
Step one – customizing the layout
Time for action – creating a copy of the current template
What just happened?
Time for action – preparing a new logo image
Time for action – tweaking the design details
What just happened?
CSS style sheets? Come again?
Have a go hero – exploring layout settings
Step two – adding content
Creating a foundation first – creating categories
Time for action – creating a news category
What just happened?
Creating articles and using the images and links fields
Time for action – creating an article
What just happened?
Have a go hero – add more images to articles
Making content visible on the site – creating a menu link
Time for action – adding a menu link
What just happened?
That's the all-important power of menus
Have a go hero – create more categories and articles
Creating menu links to the new content
Adding individual content pages – uncategorized articles
Time for action – adding uncategorized articles
What just happened?
Have a go hero – rearrange the main menu using drag-and-drop
Putting content on the home page – at last!
Adding items to the home page
Time for action – assigning articles to the home page
What just happened?
Step three – adding extras through extensions
Components and extensions – what's t...
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