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Pujan Srivastava

pujansrt@gmail.com

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Outline

Joomla Introduction

Setting Up/ Installing Joomla

Sections, Categories and Articles

Managing Users

Managing Web Links

Managing News Feeds

Managing Templates

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Joomla is a content management system (CMS)

It enables you to build Web sites.

It enables you to build powerful online applications.

An open source solution that is freely available to everyone.The most popular open source CMS currently available.

Requires little amount of instructions to start up.

Highly extensible and thousands of free extensions are available.

It runs on PHP/MySQL.

What is Joomla

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Easy to install.

Simple to manage.

Reliable.

Works well on WAMP, XAMPP, LAMP. Latest stable build is 1.6

What is Joomla

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Key Features of Joomla

Simplicity - Intuitive graphical Web User Interface.

Open Source & Free - Modify anything you like.

Flexibility - Highly configurable and customizable.

Dynamic content - Modify anything on the fly. Robustness - Extremely stable core infrastructure.

Rich features - Page caching, RSS Feeds, Blogs, Polls, Languages.

Extensibility - 3rd party extension and plug-ins.

Pro-active support - Joomla! teams and community support.

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A computer application used to create, edit, manage, andpublish content in a consistently organized fashion.

The content manager may include files: Images, Audio files,Video files, documents, and Web contents.

Allows the ability to assign roles and responsibilities todifferent content categories or types. (Ex: Editor, Manager)

Allows to track and manage multiple versions of a singleinstance of content.

Allows to publish the content to a repository to support access

to the content (search and retrieval).Allows WYSIWYG editor (Anyone can edit, without having

technical knowledge.

What is a CMS

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Corporate Web sites or portals

Corporate intranet and extranet

Online magazines and newspapers

E-commerce and online reservations

Government applications

Small business Web sites

Non-profit organizations

Community-based portals

Personal or family homepages

Source:http://community.joomla.org/showcase/

Who uses Joomla

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Who uses Joomla

http://community.joomla.org/showcase/

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Joomla 1.6

Whats new in Joomla! 1.6: Access Control Lists (ACL) :

There are 2 separate aspects to ACL

1. Which users can gain access to what parts of the Web site? Forexample, is a given menu choice will be visible for a given user?

2. What operations (or actions) a user can perform on any given

object? For example, can a user submit or edit an article?

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Joomla 1.6

Joomla! 1.6 now requires:

PHP 5.2+

MySQL 5.0.4+

UI Redesign Nested categories

ACL and customizable user groups

Improved Extension Manager

Redirect Manager

Integrated Trash Featured Items

Under the hood changes

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Joomla 1.5 Joomla 1.6

Limited to 8 user roles Granular user access control

Limited section/category/article Flexible category structure

Multisite support is absent. Multisite support is present.

Translation using language packs Translation Manager inbuilt

Comparing Joomla 1.5 and 1.6

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Joomla Content Organization

Business

Sections Categories

OS1

OS2

OS3

Firewall 10

Firewall 09 Firewall 08

Server 2010

Server 2009

Server 2008

Operating Sys

Firewalls

Servers

Articles

Content is organized in Hierarchy fashion.

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Authoring, Editing, and Publishing

Collaborative authoring

Editors (tools for content integration)

o Embed Audio, Video, Presentations, and Media

Faster documentation lifecycle

o Agile or Scrum documentation projects

Web Publishing

o RSS Feeds, Mail Publishing, Web 2.0 Social Media

Comment Systems, Ratings, and Contacts

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Joomla Application Framework

Framework layer

Modules TemplatesComponents

Core Application

Libraries Framework Plug-ins

Extension layer

Application layer

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Developer / Extensibility

Application bridges

Data reporting tools

Reservation systems

Communication tools Custom product catalogs

Inventory control systems

Complex business directories

Integrated e-commerce systems

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Joomla Installation

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Preparation Requirements to run Joomla

Apache Web Server

PHP

MySQL

Choose any of these:

LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP)

MAMP (Mac OSX Apache MySQL PHP)

Or your individual choice of installation

Note: It is assumed that WAMP was installed. If not then let meknow. You are supposed to know admin passwords of WAMP.

Note: If you are interested in using Linux then let me know.(Knowledge of Linux is required)

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Download Joomla/ Place in root directory

Browse Joomla website at www.joomla.org

Look for Download for joomla 1.6 (zip package)

Click and save to local computer.

Extract the .zip package

Note: This will extract contents to a folder namedjoomla

Copy the extracted folder to root directory of web server

Note: For WAMP, example C:\wamp\www

You will have something like C:\wamp\www\joomla

Start WAMP services Open a browser

On the address bar, enter http://localhost/joomla Note: This will start the installation of Joomla

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Installing Joomla

On the first step of the installation, the language tobe used is to selected.

Select language en-US and click Next

The second step is displayed, Go over the Pre-Install Check to see that all items except

Display Errors are in green

Click Next

The third step brings the GNU review Go over the agreement

Click Next

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Installing Joomla- Part 2

The fourth step is displayed; enter parameters asfollows: Host: localhost

Username: root

Database Name: joomla Note: You may select any db name.

Click Next

The fifth step is displayed FTP is not necessary at this level, you may leave it.

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Installing Joomla- Part 3

The sixth step is displayed; enter parameters as follows:

Site Name:

Your Email:

Admin Password: Click Next

For the training purpose, use simple password. And note

(remember) it.

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Installing Joomla- Part 4

The installation is just about finished

As instructed by Joomla, go to the desktop, look for the

directory path of the Joomla installation and remove the

Installation folder

Note: On WAMP installation the directory path is

c:\wamp\www\joomla

From the desktop, switch back to the browser and click Site

link

Note: This now brings the Joomla managed website

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Site Administration

Front end and Backend

Users type

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Front End

/index.php?option=com_user&view=login

Requires Registered Account.

Teachers and quick content editing.

Back End

/administrator

Requires Back-End Administrative Privileges.Site administration, full featured site control.

Two sides of Joomla

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Generally a module or menu link allows registeredusers to login.

Content can be setup specifically for registered users.

Front-end registration can be enabled.

If permitted users can edit content inline by clickingthe edit button.

Front End

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/administrator to login to the back end.

Back-End administrators can edit all site content anduser accounts.

This is your server control, changes to templates,

modules, components, installation, categories,sections.

Back End

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Guest: A Guest is anyone that is connected to the web site but NOT registered.

Registered: have the access permission to log in to the web site, view all Contentthat is Classified as Registered Access as well as Public Access Content. By defaultRegistered Users are able to configure their own User Profile, submit a Web Link,view/rate Content Items with a Registered Classification.

Author: inherits the access permissions of the registered user and members areallowed to create a new content Item for the Front-end of the web site.

Editor: is allowed to edit all published Content Items for the Front-end of the website, and to review and edit (where appropriate) any new Content Item that hasyet to be published.

Publisher: inherits the access permissions of the Editor, and allowed to publishnew Content Items to the Front-end of the web site. In addition the Publisher cancontrol existing published Content Items and Unpublished them.

Front End User Roles

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Manager: The Manager User Group inherits the access permissions ofthe Publisher User Group in the Front-end Site:

o Media Manager

o Preview. Statistics

o Menu: Access and edit existing Menus

o Content: Content by Section, All Content, Static Content Manager,

Section Manager, Category Manager, Front Page Manager, Archives

Manager.

o Page Impressions

Back End User Roles

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Administrator: following permissions:

o

Trash Managero Create/edit/delete any user of the same level or below all except Super Admin.

o Menu Manager

o Site Modules

o Administrator Modules

o Components

Banners Contacts

News Feeds

Polls

Syndicate

Web Links

o Mambots: Site Mambots

o Installers

Components

Modules

Mambots

Back End User Roles

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Back End User Roles

Super Administrator: The Super Administrator User Group hastotal access permission that is for all Back-endadministration and all Front-end functions.

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User Manager

Allows you to add, remove, enable, disable and update user accounts.

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News Feed (RSS)

RSS: Really Simple Syndication

Ex: www.nationmultimedia.com/rss/

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Managing News Feeds1. Joomla provides a way to display updated RSS contents from

another website.

2. Menu > Components > News Feeds > Categories > New >This will create a new category

3. Now add new feed through: Menu > Components > NewsFeeds > Feeds > New. You can take a link fromwww.nationmultimedia.com/rss/

4. Select category accordingly.

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Question: News FeedsCreate Categorized Feed ( 2 or more than 2)

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Managing Users

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Managing Users and Contacts

Aside from the admin, Joomla allows for creation of users whocan modify the contents:

Pull down the Site menu and select User Manager

Create the following users with their levels:

President: Admin PR Director: Admin

Production Manager: Manager

Note: In a later section, a login will be created for the users

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Managing Users and Contacts

Contacts provide a means of web visitors to send messages to the users Pull down the Components menu, point to Contacts and select

Categories Create category Corporate

Click Contacts tab

Create the following contacts with the category

Corporate

President

PR

Prod Manager

Note: Be sure to link to corresponding user

Note: In a later section, a Contact Uslink will be created for the contacts

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Gmail: Authentication Mechanism

1. Enable Gmail plugin.

2. Admin > Extensions > Plugin Manager > Filter Gmail >

Enable it.

3. On site account login using your gmail account.

4. Do not forget to add @gmail.com extensions.

5. Finally admin can assign role to particular user such as Editor

or Admin or Registered User to name@gmail.com

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Templates

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Templates

There are 2 kind of templates to use.

1. Site Template For public view.

2. Administrator Template For Admin purpose

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Site Templates

A template is basically the design of your Joomla! powered

website.

With a template you can change the look and feel of your

website.

Templates have certain fields in which components and

modules will be shown.

Templates are easy to build or customize and they provide

maximum flexibility in how you style your site.

There are many places that offer free templates.

Downloaded templates can be customized.

Admin Menu > Extensions > Template Manager

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Site Templates: Installation

Admin Menu > Extensions > Extensions Manager > Install > Browse > Upload & Install

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Site Templates: Use After installation, just Preview, before use (check if it suits you).

Admin Menu > Extensions > Template Manager > Templates > Select > Preview

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Site Templates: Use

Admin Menu > Extensions > Template Manager > Style > Select >

Make it default

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Title of Site

Admin > Menu > Site > Global Configuration >

Site Name.

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THANKS