Joomla! 3 beginner's guide : a clear, hands-on guide to creating perfect content managed websites with the free Joomla! CMS / Eric Tiggeler.

Includes index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed Apr 26, 2013).

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: 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; What you'll learn using this book; What's the current version of Joomla?; Summary; Chapter 2: Installation: Getting Joomla Up and Running; What do you need to start?; Hosting space; FTP software; More than one browser; Upgrading from previous versions of Joomla; Updating Joomla 1.5 to 3.x

Time for action -- placing the files on the web serverTime for action -- creating a database; Got stuck? Get help!; Summary; Chapter 3: First Steps -- Getting to Know Joomla; Making the switch -- 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; Your workspace -- the backend; Taking control -- administering your site in the backend; Time for action -- logging in to the backend; The Submenu and System menus (2); Information panels (3); Shortcut list (4); Preview and Info Bar (5); Summary

Chapter 4: Web Building Basics: Creating a Site in an HourMeet your client; Cleaning up -- removing the sample data; Step 1: Customizing the layout; Time for action -- creating a copy of the current template; Time for action -- tweaking the design details; Step 2: Adding content; Creating a foundation first: Making categories; Making content visible on the site: Creating a menu link; Time for action -- adding a menu link; Adding individual content pages: uncategorized articles; Time for action -- adding uncategorized articles; Putting content on the home page-at last!

Adding items to the home pageStep 3: adding extras through extensions; Components and Extensions, what's the difference?; Summary; Chapter 5: Small Sites, Big Sites -- Organizing your Content Effectively; Building on the example site; How do you turn a site map into a website?; Creating categories and subcategories; Time for action -- create a category and subcategories; Adding content to new categories; Displaying main categories and subcategories on your site; Time for action -- create a link to point to a main category; Changing category settings; Building a site without using categories

Chapter 6: Creating Killer Content: Adding and Editing Articles; Articles and content pages, what's the difference?; Creating and editing articles: beyond the basics; Making your words look good: formatting article text; Changing the way the article displays; One lump or two? Split the article into an intro text and main text; Displaying images and links with articles; Time for action - adding images and links to an article; Tweaking the details: changing article settings; The Publishing Options tab; The Configure Edit screen tab; The Metadata Options tab; The Article Permissions tab

Written with a fast-paced but friendly and engaging approach, this Packt Beginner's Guide is designed to be placed alongside the computer as your guide and mentor. Step-by-step tutorials are bolstered by explanations of the reasoning behind what you are doing. You will quickly pick up the necessary skills, tips, and tricks for building a successful Joomla! website. This book is written for beginners to website design. By the end of the book you will have built a complete custom content managed website, and be ready to build any kind of website.

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