[Hagen graf] building websites with joomla(bookos org)

Building Websites with Joomla!

A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla!

CMS website up fast

Hagen Graf

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

Building Websites with Joomla!

A step by step tutorial to getting your Joomla! CMS website up fast

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Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the

information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty,

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First published: February 2006

Production Reference: 3200206

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

32 Lincoln Road

Olton

Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

ISBN 1-904811-94-9

www.packtpub.com

Cover Design by www.visionwt.com

First published in the German language under the title "Joomla!" by Addison-Wesley, an imprint

of Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH, München.

Credits

Authors

Hagen Graff

Technical Editor

Nanda Padmanabhan

Editorial Manager

Dipali Chittar

Indexer

Abhishek Shirodkar

Proofreader

Chris Smith

Production Coordinator

Manjiri Nadkarni

Cover Designer

Helen Wood

About the Authors

Hagen Graff was born in July 1964. Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany, his first contact

with a computer was in the late seventies with a Radioshack TRS 80. As a salesperson, he organized

his customers' data by programming suitable applications. This gave him a big advantage over other

salesmen. With the intention of honing his skills, he joined evening courses in programming and

became a programmer. Nowadays he works in his wife's consulting company as a trainer, consultant,

and programmer (http://alternative-unternehmensberatung.de).

Hagen Graf has published three other books in German, about the Apache web server, about

security problems in Windows XP, and about Mambo. Since 2001, he has been engaged in a

nonprofit e-learning community called "machm-it.org e.V.", as well as in several national and

international projects. All the projects are related to content management, community building,

and harnessing the power of social software like wikis and weblogs. He chose Mambo CMS, from

which Joomla! has forked, because of its simplicity and easy-to-use administration. You can

access and comment on his blog (http://hagen.take-part.org).

This is the second time, a book of mine has been translated from German to English. It

isn't easy to organize the translation in another language in a reasonable way, especially

on a topic on Open Source Software. One point is that most of the software is developed

in international communities basically in English language. Another point is the speed of

the development. Release fast, release often! Today we have Joomla 1.0.7 and the

development is going on.

It is now time for thanks...

I wish to thank the Joomla community who made this wonderful world wide project possible.

I also wish to thank the Packt Publishing team, especially Louay, Nanda, Dipali, Abhishek,

Chris, Manjiri, and Helen (for the dynamic cover picture). I also wish to thank Alex

Kempkens, core member of the Joomla! devteam and Angie Radtke who is very much

engaged in improving the accessibility of Joomla! websites.

They all have done an excellent job!

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Chapter 1: Terms and Concepts 5

A Quick Glance into History 6

Joomla!—How was it Developed? 8

Structure of a CMS 9

Front End and Back End 9

Configuration Settings 9

Access Rights 9

Content 9

Templates 10

Extensions (Components) 10

Workflow 10

Joomla! as Real Estate 10

Joomla! Versions 11

Numbering System of Joomla! Versions 11

Roadmap 12

Joomla! Features 13

Examples of Joomla! Pages 13

Joomla.org 14

Porsche, Brazil 15

PC Praxis, Germany 16

BSI DANS, Norway 17

Team Lesotho, Lesotho 18

Summary 18

Chapter 2: Installation 19

Setting Up the Local Server Environment 20

Windows 20

XAMPP for Windows 20

Linux 23

SUSE (10.x) OpenSUSE 23

Debian/Ubuntu 24

Your Own Server at a Provider 25

Table of Contents

On a Virtual Server in the Net 25

Installing Joomla! 26

Selecting a Directory for Installation 26

An Example 26

Local Installation of Joomla! 27

Directory 27

Unpacking 28

Joomla! Web Installer 30

Summary 38

Chapter 3: A Tour of Your New Homepage 39

Front End 39

Menus 41

Top Menu 41

Main Menu 41

Other Menu 42

Content 42

What is Content? 42

First Page/Front Page 43

The Latest Messages/The Most Often Read Messages 44

Advertising 45

Banner Area 45

Functions 45

Polling 46

Who is Online? 46

Feeds 47

Back 47

Search Field 47

Decorative Elements 48

Prospects 48

Back End 49

Summary 50

Chapter 4: Customizing Joomla! 51

A Different Look and Feel 51

Modifying the Menu Name 51

Changing the Template 52

Configuration of Joomla! Administration 55

Table of Contents

Help Menu 57

Site Menu 60

Global Configuration 60

Site 61

Locale 65

Content 66

Database 69

Server 70

Metadata 71

Mail 72

Cache 73

Statistics 73

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 73

Language Manager 74

Media Manager 75

Preview 76

Statistics 76

Template Manager 78

Site Templates 78

Install 79

Administrator Templates 80

Install 80

Module Positions 80

Trash Manager 80

User Manager 80

New 81

Menu Manager 83

Customize Existing Menu 83

New 84

Edit 84

Publish 88

Unpublish 88

Move 88

Copy 88

Trash 88

Create a New Menu 88

Content 90

Miscellaneous 91

Components 91

Links 91

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Table of Contents

Installers Menu 94

Messages Menu 95

Inbox 95

Configuration 95

System Menu 95

Global Check-In 95

Summary 96

Chapter 5: Managing Content 97

Content by Section 98

Section 98

Category 98

Add/Edit Section Category 98

All Content Items 103

Static Content Manager 104

Content Parameters 105

Publishing 105

Images 107

Parameters 108

Meta Info 109

Link to Menu 109

Section Manager 110

Category Manager 111

Frontpage Manager 112

Archive Manager 112

Summary 113

Chapter 6: Components, Modules, and Mambots 115

Components Menu 115

Installing and Uninstalling Components 115

Installed Components 117

Banner 117

Manage Clients 117

Manage Banners 118

Contacts 120

Manage Contacts 120

Contacts Categories 123

Mass Mail 124

Table of Contents

News Feeds 126

Manage Newsfeeds 126

Manage Categories 128

Polls 128

Syndicates 131

Weblinks 134

Weblink Items 135

Weblink Categories 136

Module Menu 136

Install/Uninstall 136

Site Modules 137

All Menus (mod_mainmenu) 138

Banner 139

Syndicate 141

Statistics 141

Template Chooser 141

Archive 142

Sections 142

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