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Contents at a Glance
5
Contents
6
About the Author
12
About the Technical Reviewer
13
About the Cover Image Designer
14
Acknowledgments
15
Introduction
16
Who the book is for
16
What you will learn from this book
16
Layout conventions
17
Introduction to Joomla!
19
What is a CMS?
19
What is Joomla!?
21
Characteristics of Joomla!
23
Advantages of Joomla!
25
Summary
26
Installing Joomla!
28
Prerequisites to installing Joomla! on the local server
28
Installing Joomla! locally
56
Installing Joomla! on a remote server
72
Summary
81
Your First Steps in Joomla!
83
The elements of the Administrator interface
85
Using the Section, Category, Article, and Menu Item Managers
89
The Other Control Panel Managers
117
Working with the front page
121
Applying a different template
124
Summary
129
Managing Images and Banners
131
What is the Media Manager?
131
Displaying a client’s banners
139
Displaying banners on the basis of content
162
Summary
168
Creating Users and Contacts
170
What is a contact?
171
Working with the User Manager
171
Creating a Contact category
178
Creating contacts
182
Creating menu items to link to contacts
191
Summary
199
Creating Interaction
201
News feeds
201
Creating news feeds
205
Creating polls
209
Summary
217
Dealing with Menus
219
Creating a menu
221
Creating menu items
223
Articles
226
Explanation of Parameters sections (Advanced, Component, and System)
266
Contacts
272
News Feeds
273
Poll
280
Search
283
User
285
Web Links
293
Wrapper
299
External Link
302
Separator
304
Alias
305
Summary
307
Modules
309
The Module Manager
309
Archive
317
Banners
318
Breadcrumbs
322
Feed Display
323
Footer
327
Latest News
327
Login Form
329
Main Menu
332
Popular
334
Newsflash
336
Polls
340
Random Image
341
Related Items
342
Search
347
Sections
350
Statistics
350
Syndication
352
Who’s Online
354
Wrapper
355
Summary
358
Adding Extensions
360
Extension Manager
361
Installing new templates
363
Adding e-commerce
367
Installing an RSS feed reader
396
Adding a chat feature to your Joomla! website
403
Summary
424
Making It Global
426
Global Configuration settings
427
Providing a multilingual facility to visitors
468
Summary
480
Index
482
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