2nd Edition Seamus Bellamy Learn to: • Use Joomla!’s preconfigured modules to create interactive Web sites • Build sites with discussion boards, RSS feeds, and shopping carts • Enable users to post comments and photos and participate in surveys • Take advantage of new security features Joomla! ® 2nd Edition Making Everything Easier! ™ Open the book and find: • All about getting and installing Joomla! • Tips on mastering the Front Page • How to build navigation into your site with menus • Ways to lay out Web pages with Joomla! templates • Search engine optimization techniques to drive Web traffic • How to work with Joomla! modules • Steps for managing visitors on your site • The 10 best Joomla! extensions to use Seamus Bellamy is a writer and Web designer. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2010943060 ISBN: 978-0-470-59902-0 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 01_9780470599020-ffirs.indd iv 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info About the Author Seamus Bellamy is a writer, web designer, and scofflaw educated at the University of King’s College in Halifax. His diverse resume includes time spent working in the intelligence community, pri- vate sector security, and as a journalist. His work is published on a regular basis both domestically and internationally, most notably in Mac|Life Magazine and Irish Music Magazine. Seamus is a proud Gaelic speaker, a technology enthusiast, and has been known to play a mean bodhranand bouzouki — although not at the same time. 01_9780470599020-ffirs.indd v 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info 01_9780470599020-ffirs.indd vi 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info Dedication Many thanks to Lynn Beighley for the moral and technical support, and of course, to my family — thank you for enduring over three decades of fountain pens, skullduggery, and laptops. 01_9780470599020-ffirs.indd vii 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info 01_9780470599020-ffirs.indd viii 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info [...]... Teams 287 Joomla Quick Start Guides 287 Joomla Quick Start Videos 287 Joomla Tutorials 288 Joomla Beginners .288 www.it-ebooks.info xxi xxii Joomla! For Dummies, 2nd Edition Chapter 15: Ten Top Joomla Template Sites SiteGround 289 Joomla- Templates.com 290 Joomlashack 291 Joomla2 4.com .292 JoomlaShine 294 JoomlaTP.com ... for Content Articles 281 Akeeba Backup Core 282 Projectfork 282 hwdVideoShare 282 Phoca Gallery 282 JEvents Events Calendar 283 Chapter 14: Ten Ways to Get Help on Joomla 285 Joomla Help Site 285 Joomla Official Documentation Wiki 286 Joomla Forums 286 Joomla Community Portal 286 Joomla User Groups 287 Joomla. .. to Jump into Joomla 16 www.it-ebooks.info xiv Joomla! For Dummies, 2nd Edition Chapter 2: Getting and Installing Joomla 19 Getting Joomla 20 Downloading the software 20 Unzipping the software .21 Checking minimum requirements 21 Online requirements 21 Offline requirements 22 Installing Joomla on a Host Server .22 Uploading the Joomla files... .150 Uploading a picture 151 Inserting an image 152 Formatting Articles with HTML Tags .154 www.it-ebooks.info xvii xviii Joomla! For Dummies, 2nd Edition Working with Tables and Columns 156 Creating a table in an article .156 Formatting a table 158 Creating a Table of Contents 160 Back (And Forth) to the Future: Publishing at Different Times 162 Publishing... to build your own site from scratch using HTML Now, Joomla takes care of all the details for you, allowing you to concentrate on the content of your site instead of struggling with the details of how that content is presented Welcome to the new era of web publishing www.it-ebooks.info 2 Joomla! For Dummies, 2nd Edition How This Book Is Organized Joomla is a big topic Here are the various parts you’re... italics, like this, the first time they’re discussed www.it-ebooks.info 3 4 Joomla! For Dummies, 2nd Edition Icons Used in This Book You’ll find a few icons in this book, and here’s what they mean This icon marks an extra hint for more Joomla power This icon marks something you should remember to make sure you’re getting the most out of Joomla This icon means that what follows is technical, insider stuff... in anywhere you like Joomla for Dummies is written to allow you to do just that But if you want to get the full Joomla story from the beginning, start with Chapter 1, which is where all the action starts www.it-ebooks.info Part I Getting Started with Joomla www.it-ebooks.info T In this part his part is where you begin putting Joomla to work First, we give you an overview of Joomla as it’s used today... Kathy Simpson, Beth Taylor, Eric vanBok, and Kyle Looper of Wiley for their tireless efforts on this book, as well as the Joomla community for its invaluable assistance in filling in many of the details www.it-ebooks.info Publisher’s Acknowledgments We’re proud of this book; please send us your comments at http:/ /dummies. custhelp.com For other comments, please contact our Customer Care Department within... one way to think of CMSes is as word processors for the Web) but a lot more fun The CMS of choice these days is Joomla, which is what this book is all about Joomla is free and dramatically powerful Want a site that looks as though a Fortune 500 company is behind it? With Joomla, you can whip one up in no time at all You’re going to find that not only is Joomla free but it’s also remarkably trouble free... 39 The hard way: Installing components .39 The easy way: Installing XAMPP 39 XAMPP for Windows 40 XAMPP for Linux 42 XAMPP for the Mac 43 Installing the Joomla program 44 Looking at Your New Joomla Site .45 Ordering from the menus 46 Top menu 46 About Joomla! menu 46 This Site menu 47 Touring the modules 47 Controlling the action . Bellamy BookTitle ® or ™ FOR DUMmIES ‰ Joomla! ® FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION 01_9780470599020-ffirs.indd iii 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info Joomla! For Dummies ® , 2nd Edition Published by Wiley. Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies. com, Making Everything Easier, . 12/29/10 11:53 AM www.it-ebooks.info Joomla! For Dummies, 2nd Edition xiv Chapter 2: Getting and Installing Joomla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Getting Joomla 20 Downloading the software 20 Unzipping