Joomla – Useful Resources ”; Previous Next The following resources contain additional information on Joomla. Please use them to get more in-depth knowledge on this topic. Joomla Online Training 56 Lectures 3 hours Tutorialspoint More Detail Drupal Online Training 62 Lectures 3.5 hours Tutorialspoint More Detail High Availability for the LAMP Stack, Step-by-Step 24 Lectures 1.5 hours Jason Cannon More Detail Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Website SEO ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Website SEO in Joomla. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is about optimizing a website for search engine. It helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the other sites in response to a search query. Joomla Website SEO Following are the simple steps used to set the Joomla Website SEO − Step 1 − Click on System → Global Configuration in Joomla administrator. By default Site tab opens up as shown below. Following are the details of the fields present in the SEO Setting. Search Engine Friendly URLs − Optimizing the URL”s to the search engine. Use URL rewriting − Selecting the server, which rewrites the URL”s to meet a specific condition. Adds Suffix to URL − Based on the document type the suffix to the URL is added. Unicode Aliases − It selects between the transliteration and Unicode aliases. Include Site Name in Page Titles − Provide your site name on all pages at the beginning or end of the page. Toolbar Following are the toolbar options in SEO − Save − Saves your SEO Setting. Save & Close − Saves the SEO Setting and closes the current screen. Cancel − Cancels the SEO Setting in Joomla. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Extensions Manager ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Extensions Manager in Joomla. We can install different types of extensions to extend the functionality of the site. Joomla Extensions Manager Following are the simple steps used to set the Joomla Extensions Manager. Step 1 − Click on Install Extensions option in Joomla. Step 2 − Click on Choose File button and choose the extension forum which you have downloaded to include on your web site. Click on Upload & Install button. Step 3 − Joomla starts installing the Forum extension for your site. After completing the installation, you will get the successful installation message as shown below. Step 4 − It is also possible to install the extensions directly from the web, select the extension that you want to add on your website and click on Install button. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Article Metadata ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Article Metadata in Joomla. Metadata describes details of the article in short. It makes it easy to work with a particular data. Joomla – Article Metadata Following are the simple steps used to set the Joomla article metadata − Step 1 − Go to System → Global Configuration as shown in the following screen. Next, click on Global Configuration, you will get to see the following screen. Fill the fields with appropriate values. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present in the Joomla Article Metadata section. Site Meta Description − Overall description of the website is written here. This will be used by the search engine. Site Meta Keywords − Keywords and phrases are written to describe your website. Both should be separated by comma. Robots − Robot instruction. Content Rights − Writing the rights of the content which is being used by others. Show Author Meta Tag − The Author Meta tag is shown during viewing the articles. Show Joomla! Version − It displays the currently used Joomla version. Toolbar Following are the toolbar options in the Metadata − Save − Saves your metadata settings. Save & Close − Saves the metadata settings and closes the current screen. Cancel − Cancels the metadata settings in Joomla. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Adding Contacts ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Adding Contacts in Joomla. It stores the contact details of the company. Joomla Adding Contacts Following are the simple steps used to set the Joomla contacts. Step 1 − Go to System → Global Configuration as shown in the following screen. Next, click on Contacts in Joomla Global Configuration and you will get to see the following screen. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present on the Contact tab. Choose a layout − It selects default layout for items. Contact Category − In case of Hide, contact category will not display. In case of Show Without Link, it will display plain text and in case of Show With Link it will display as menu items. Save History − It saves the version history of the component when selected as Yes. Otherwise no version history is saved. Maximum Version − It always saves the maximum number of versions for an item. Show Contact List − If Show is selected, the user can edit the contact information by selecting the drop-down menu list of all contact information. Display Format − Display format for contacts. Name − Name of contact is shown or hidden. Contact”s Position − The contact”s position is shown or hidden. Email − The email address is shown or hidden. Street Address − The street address is shown or hidden. City or Suburb − The city or suburb is shown or hidden. State or County − The state or county is shown or hidden. Postal Code − The postal code is shown or hidden. Country − The country is shown or hidden. Telephone − The telephone number is shown or hidden. Mobile Phone − The mobile phone number is shown or hidden. Fax − The fax number is shown or hidden. Web Page − The web page is shown or hidden. Misc. Information − The Misc information is shown or hidden. Image − The contact image is shown or hidden. Image − Select the contact image from your local storage and click on Insert button to insert image. vCard − The contact details in vCard format is shown or hidden. Show User Articles − If Show, is selected, it displays the list of articles created by the user. Show Profile − If Show, is selected, it displays the user profile. Show Links − Show or Hide links. Link A Label − An addition website links this contact. Link B Label − An addition website links this contact. Link C Label − An addition website links this contact. Link D Label − An addition website links this contact. Link E Label − An addition website links this contact. Show Tags − The single category tags is shown or hidden. Step 2 − In Icons tab, you can apply settings for single contact. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present in the Icons tab. Settings − Displays icon, text or nothing beside the information. Address Icon − Choose the address icon from the media folder by clicking on select button. Default icon gets displayed when nothing is selected. Email Icon − Choose the email icon from the media folder by clicking on select button. Default icon gets displayed when nothing is selected. Telephone Icon − Choose the telephone icon from the media folder by clicking on select button. Default icon gets displayed when nothing is selected. Mobile Icon − Choose the mobile icon from the media folder by clicking on select button. Default icon gets displayed when nothing is selected. Fax Icon − Choose the fax icon from the media folder by clicking on select button. Default icon gets displayed when nothing is selected. Misc Icon − Choose the misc icon from the media folder by clicking on select button. Default icon gets displayed when nothing is selected. Step 3 − In Category tab, you can apply settings for contact category options. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present in the Category tab. Choose a Layout − Selects default layout. Category Title − The category title is shown or hidden. Category Description − The category description is shown or hidden. Category Image − The category image is shown or hidden. Subcategory Levels − Displays the levels of subcategory. Empty Categories − The article which does not contain any categories are shown or hidden. Subcategories Descriptions − The description of subcategories is shown or hidden. #Contacts in Category − The contacts present in category is shown or hidden. Show Tags − The single category tags is shown or hidden. Step 4 − In Categories tab, you can apply settings for contact categories options. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present in the Categories tab. Top Level Category Description − The description of top level category is shown or hidden. Subcategory Levels − Display the levels of subcategory. Empty Categories − The article which does not contain any categories are shown or hidden. Subcategories Descriptions − The description of subcategories is shown or hidden. #Contacts in Category − The contacts present in category is shown or hidden. Step 5 − In List Layouts tab, you can apply settings for contact list option. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present in the List Layout tab. Filter Field − The filter field for the list is shown or hidden. Display Select − Number of items selected is shown or hidden. Table Headings − Heading present in the table is shown or hidden. Position − In list of contacts, the column position is shown or hidden. Email − In list of contacts, the column of email is shown or hidden. Phone − In list of contacts, the column of phone is shown or hidden. Mobile − In list of contacts, the column of mobile is shown or hidden. Fax − In list of contacts, the column of fax is shown or hidden. City or
Joomla – Adding Content ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study how to add content on the Joomla website. Adding Content Following are the simple steps to add content in Joomla. Step 1 − Click on Content → Article Manager → Add New Article as shown below. Step 2 − After clicking on Add New Article, you will get the editor page of the Article Manager as shown below. Following are the details of the fields on editor page of the Article Manager. Title Title − It is used to write the title of the article. This title gets displayed on the page. Alias − It is auto generated from the given title name. TinyMCE editor It is a WYSIWYG Editor, which is similar to a word processor interface where we can edit the contents of the article. First Row − They appear on the top of the Editor page and contain a group of related commands. Edit − Undo, Redo and Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all. Insert − Insert image, Insert link, Horizontal line, Special Character. View − Visual Aids. Format − Bold, italic, underline and various formats are available in this group. Table − It is used to display the table format in the article by using row and columns. Tools − It displays the source code of your article in html format and the code will be displayed in a new popup window. Second Row − In this row, we can see that there are 4 buttons present − The first button is used to make font bold, italic, underlined and strikethrough. The second button is used to do the alignment of the content i.e. Left, center, right and full. The third button is used to select pre-defined format for the text i.e. Paragraph, heading, text or pre. The fourth button is used to display the list format either by using bullet or numbers. Third Row − The first button is used for indentation of paragraphs or text, either indent to the left side or right side. The second button is used to undo or redo the content. The third button is used to insert or remove the link, insert images and display the source code of your article in html format. The fourth button is used to add a horizontal line and add tables by using a dropdown option. The fifth button is used to superscript and subscript the text. The sixth button is used to insert the special character in the text. Details Category − It is used to select the category for your article. Tags − It is used to display the tags on the front-end page. Status − You can select any of the following status for your article − Published − Items get published on the website. Unpublished − Items do not get published on the website. Archived − Items will not get displayed in the menu list as well as on blogs. Trashed − Items will be deleted from the site. Featured − It is used, whether to display the article on the home page or not by using the buttons YES/NO. Access − You can select an access level for your item from the list box. Language − It selects the language for its item. Version Note − It is used to note the version of the item. It is optional. Text Insertion It is used for writing the content of an article. Editor Buttons Five buttons present at the bottom of the text editor as shown below are the editor buttons. Article Button − Click on Article button a window pops-up as shown below. Here, we can select the required article to view. Image − Click on the Image button, a window pops-up as shown below. Here, you can add the details of the images. After filling all the fields, click on Insert Button. Directory − Search the particular directory present in image folder. Image URL − Insert image URL. Image Description − Write brief description about particular image. Image Title − Write the name of the image. Image Float − Set the image location. Caption − Write a caption for the image. Caption Class − It calls Joomla libraries to load the image. Page Break − Click on Page Break button, a window pop-up will get displayed as shown below. Page Title − Enter the title of the page. Table of Contents Alias − Enter the table content alias. Read More − Click on the Read More button, The red dotted line gets displayed in the editor. The further information part of the article gets displayed after the read dotted lines or sometimes it displays the entire article. Toggle editor − TinyMCE editor will get displayed or its get invisible. Toolbar Following are the toolbar options − Save − Saves the contents and stays on the same screen. Save & Close − Saves the content and closes the screen. Save & New − Saves the content and opens a new content page. Cancel − Cancels the content changes made into it and returns to the previous screen without saving. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Plugin Manager ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Plugin Manager in Joomla. It helps you enable and disable Joomla Plugins. This adds the unique features to an existing web site. Joomla Plugin Manager Following are the simple steps to set or edit existing Joomla Plugins − Step 1 − Click on Extension → Plugin Manager in Joomla administrator as shown below. Step 2 − After clicking on the Plugin Manager, an existing Joomla plugins will be displayed as shown below. Toolbar Following are the toolbar options in the Plugin − Edit − Edit the plug-in. Enable − Enable the plug-in to use on the website. Disable − Disable the plug-in which are not necessary on the website. Check In − Used to check in the plug-in and after completing the process displays the successful message. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Discuss Joomla ”; Previous Next Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which is used to build websites and online applications. It is free and extendable which is separated into front-end templates and back-end templates (administrator). Joomla is developed using PHP, Object Oriented Programming, software design patterns and MySQL (used for storing the data). This tutorial will teach you the basics of Joomla using which you can create websites with ease. The tutorial is divided into sections such as Joomla Basics, Joomla Menus, Joomla Modules, Joomla Global Settings, and Joomla Advanced. Each of these sections contain related topics with screenshots explaining the Joomla admin screens. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Mass Emailing ”; Previous Next Mass Mail is used for sending emails to the group of registered users. Users can be selected based on groups. Step 1 − To use this feature, go to Users → Mass Mail Users as shown in the screen below. Step 2 − The following screen shows Mass Mail window. The Mass Mail window provides following options − Subject − It is used for the Email subject. Message − It adds the content of the Email. Mail to Child User Groups − It is used to send Email to all child groups of the parent group. Send in HTML Mode − It uses HTML code in the mail. Send to disable users − Disable users will be included when sending mail, if it is checked. Recipients as Bcc − It hides the recipient list and adds copy to site mail. Group − It chooses a group to send the mail to. At the top left, there”s a toolbar with following options − Send Mail − It is used to send an email once finished editing. Cancel − It cancels the unsaved edits. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;
Joomla – Adding Banners ”; Previous Next In this chapter, we will study about Adding Banners in Joomla. It displays the active banners and allows you to use different banners for advertising on webpage. Adding Banners Following are the simple steps to add Banners in Joomla. Step 1 − Click Components → Banners → Banners in joomla administrator, you will get the following screen. Step 2 − Next, click on New button, you will get the following screen. There are different tabs present in above screen. By default, Details tab is active. This tab displays the details of the banner. Below we have mentioned the details of the fields present on the Details tab. Name − This block is used to write the name of the item. Alias − This is auto generated from the given name. Type − Displays the banner type i.e. image or HTML code. Image − Displays the image file of the banner. Width − Set the width of the banner image. Height − Set the height of the banner image. Alternative Text − It represents the alternative text to display on banner image. Click URL − When user clicks on the banner then it will navigate to the specified URL. Description − Brief description about the banner. Following fields are present on the right side of the Details tab. Category − It displays the category of the banner. Status − It displays the status of the banner such as Published, Unpublished, Archived and Trashed. Sticky − It displays whether the banner is Sticky or not. For that we have to select either ( Yes/No ) button. Language − It displays the specified language of the banner. Version Note − It displays the version of the items on the banner. Step 4 − After clicking on Banner Details tab, you will get the following screen. Following fields are present on Banner Details tab. Max. Impressions − Display the maximum number of impressions purchased for the banner. Unlimited checkbox indicates unlimited number of impressions to be allowed for the banner. Total Impressions − Shows the total number of banners displayed to a user on a web page. You can reset the Total Impressions to zero. Total Clicks − Displays the total number of times banners were clicked. You can reset the Total Clicks to zero. Client − Shows the client for the specified banner. Purchase Type − It shows the banner purchase type such as Use Client Default, Unlimited, Yearly, Monthly, Weekly and Daily. Track Impressions − It specifies the number of tracks the banner is displayed on web page. Track Clicks − It specifies the number of track clicks on the web page. Step 5 − Click on Publishing tab, you will get the following screen. Start Publishing − It indicates the date on which the banner is to be published on the web page. Finish Publishing − It indicates the date on which the banner is to be stopped from being published on the web page. Created Date − It indicates the date on which the banner was created. Created by − It indicates the name of the user who has created the banner. Created by alias − It indicates the name of the alias who has created the things required in banner. Modified Date − It indicates the last modified date of the banner. Modified by − It indicates the name of the user who has last modified the banner. Revision − It indicates the number of revisions for the banner. ID − It indicates the number of identity needed for the banner. Following fields are present on right side of the Publishing tab. Meta Keywords − It specifies the different meta keywords and it should be represented either by lowercase or uppercase. Use Own Prefix − It specifies to use your own prefixes by selecting either ( Yes/No ). Meta Keyword Prefix − It specifies the prefixes of meta keywords and it takes those prefixes which are available in meta keywords tag. Toolbar Following are the toolbar options present in Adding Banners. Save − Saves your Banner. Save & Close − Saves the Banner and closes the current screen. Save & New − Saves the Banner and opens a New create banner screen. Cancel − Cancels the created banner in Joomla. Print Page Previous Next Advertisements ”;