Joomla! : 1.6 first look : a concise guide to everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6 / Eric Tiggeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiggeler, Eric.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joomla! (Computer file).

Web site development.

Web sites--Authoring programs.

Web sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Olton, Birmingham : Packt Pub. Ltd., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Davenport Chris: Chris has almost 30-years experience in the Information Technology field and has extensive experience of software development on a diverse range of platforms and at all levels from assembler to 4th-generation languages. He has been involved in projects for major clients including Royal Life, Bristol & West and British Rail. He became interested in open source software in the mid-1990's and now hardly ever uses proprietary software. He was invited to join the Core Team for the Joomla! TM project in November 2006. He is currently on the Joomla Leadership Team (which superseded the Core Team) and is a member of the Joomla Production Working Group with responsibility for documentation. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Mathematics. Tiggeler Eric: Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla! , such as the highly successful Joomla! 2. 5 Beginner's Guide and Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide, both by Packt Publishing. He has also written several Joomla! guides in Dutch. His books have received excellent reader reviews. He also writes tutorials for several computer magazines and Joomla! community websites. Over the last ten years, he has developed numerous websites, big and small, using Joomla! . He is fascinated by the Web as a powerful, creative, and ever-changing means of communication, as well as by the revolutionary software Joomla! , which enables anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites. On a daily basis, he works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated to the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 20 books in Dutch on writing and communication. His passion lies in making complex things easy to understand. He is married, has two daughters, and lives and works in Hilversum, the Netherlands. On the Web, you'll find him at www. joomla. erictiggeler. nl(in Dutch) and www. joomm. net(in English).

Summary:

A concise guide to everything that's new in Joomla! 1.6.

Contents:

Joomla! 1.6 First Look; Joomla! 1.6 First Look; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, e-Books, discount offers, and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Stepping Up to Joomla! 1.6; Upgrading from 1.5; Joomla! 1.5 extension compatibility; Changes for templates; When should you move to 1.6?; Migrating content from Joomla! 1.5; What's new? A quick overview

1 - Usability enhancementsA friendlier interface; The great new time-saving toolbar; 2 - Working with content; The endless joy of unlimited categories; No more fiddling with menus; 3 - New ways to manage user access; Do you want it simple? Keep it simple; 4 - Working with extensions and templates; Updating extensions? Just lean back; Templating to your taste; SEO improvements; Summary; 2. Exploring your Enhanced Workspace; Before you start: choosing a safe root user's name; Changing the root user's name after installation; Logging in to the backend; What's changed in the backend?

What's gone: no more sectionsWhat's been added: the Users menu; What's been moved: some tools and odds and ends; User Settings and Media Settings have been moved; Five great new time-saving features; Timesaver # 1: going home in one click; Timesaver # 2: adding new items in one click; Timesaver # 3: Save & New; Using the new Save & New button; Timesaver # 4: Save as Copy; Creating dummy content using Save as Copy; Timesaver # 5: tabbed screens; One great life-saver: two-step deletion; Deleting an item; Exploring and restoring thrashed content; Permanently deleting items

Customizing the looks of the backendSelecting another backend template; Setting the backend template to suit your taste; Summary; 3. Organizing and Managing Content; Organizing content using nested categories; Improvement #1: categories can now be one level deep; Improvement #2: creating multiple category levels; Creating a set of 'nested' categories; Using nested categories in the sample data; Exploring the sample data; How can different categories look like different sites?; New category settings: notes and metadata; Adding category metadata

Fresh ways to display category contents on the frontendNew category view # 1: List All Categories; Creating a link to a site map; Tweaking the site map display; New Category View # 2: Articles Categories Module; Creating an Articles Categories module; Adding some more category listings; New Category View # 3: Articles (in) Category Module; Using the new Articles Category Module; Working with the updated article editor; Creating a link to an article; Inserting an article title as a hyperlink; Using the updated Media Manager; Enabling the Flash image uploader; Archiving articles; Summary

4. Managing Menus and Menu Modules

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-37671-7

9786613376718

1-84951-343-0

OCLC:

797916643