Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration电子书

Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

Table of Contents

Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

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. Exploring Your New Joomla! Website

Where to begin

Logging into the Control Panel

Getting around the administration

Site

Menus

Content

Components

Extensions

Tools

Help

Related toolbars

Organizing your site

Understanding Sections, Categories, and Articles

What are uncategorized articles?

Site wide settings

Leave it to the experts

Overview of the extensions

Components

Modules

Plugins

Summary

2. Creating, Editing, and Organizing Content

General tips on writing content for the Web

A note on copyright

Making your home page engaging

The Article Manager

Filtering the display of Articles

Column headings

The toolbar

Archive and unarchive Articles

Publish and unpublish an Article

Move or copy an Article

Trashing an Article

Edit, New, and Parameters

Editing an existing Article using the text editor

Opening the Article

Editing the Article

Creating a new Article

Adding text

Adding a table to an Article

Breaking up Article content

Adding a Read More link

Adding a page break

Using the JCE text editor

Authorization and publishing from the frontend

Adding content for approval through frontend access

To submit an Article from the frontend

What are Article parameters?

The advanced parameters—but only if you really have to!

Metadata information is what search engines like

Summary

3. Managing Images and Videos

Media Manager

Accessing and using the Media Manager

Creating a new subfolder

A note on copyright

What you should know about image and video files

Choosing the best image file format

Adding and managing images

Uploading a new image

Deleting an image

Updating a Simple Image Gallery

Changing the Simple Image Gallery's dimensions

Using video files

Choosing the best video file format

Uploading a video

Updating videos—AllVideos plugin

Changing to a different video file and format

Updating a YouTube video

Changing the YouTube video dimensions

Audio files

Summary

4. Backing Up Your Website

What's the Control Panel and where is it?

Manually backing up your site

Backing up the database using the phpMyAdmin interface

Backing up the site files using the Backup Wizard

Using an external FTP application to download and upload your files

Restoring your website manually

Backing up and restoring with the JoomlaPack component

Understanding the restoration process

Step 1: Create the archive file and upload

Step 2. Creating a new database and user

Step 3: Kick-start the installation

Step 4: Restoring your website

Summary

5. User Management

The big picture: Who are users?

Frontend users

Frontend user definitions

Administration users

Editing the frontend Login Form

Lost usernames and passwords

Allowing new account registrations

Adding custom text to the Login Form

Directing registered users to a certain section of the site

Managing your users: The User Manager

Creating a new user

Adding a new user as a site contact

Adding a new contact Category

Adding the new user to your list of contacts

Adding a new customer manually

Editing existing users

Editing a user profile

Updating the linked contact details

Resetting a username and password

Dealing with problematic users

Deleting a user

Blocking a user

What if a new user can't log in?

Sending e-mails to a group of users

Sending a private message to a user

Summary

6. Making Your Site Popular

Overview of Search Engine Ranking

What is metadata?

General strategies for SEO

Updating content frequently

Link building

Adding an external link to an Article

Adding an internal link to an Article

Social media

Using social media for marketing

Facebook

Twitter

StumbleUpon

Delicious

Reddit and Digg

RSS feeds

Social media on your site

Customizing Stalker

Making the most of Google

Setting up a Google Account

Setting up Google Analytics

Research keywords

Google's keyword tool

Adding lots of content

Pay per click traffic

Keyword tips

Creating a new, search engine-friendly Article

Summary

7. Security—Precaution and Recovery

Precautionary measures

Keeping up-to-date

Upgrade to the latest version of Joomla!

Localhost environments

Installing the upgrade patch

Review your hosting account

Change the administration username and password

Why change the administration username from "admin" to something else?

Reset the FTP login password

Other precautions

Installing and configuring jSecure authentication

Downloading jSecure

Installing jSecure through the administration control panel

Configuring the jSecure Plugin to change the administration login URL

What should I do if my site is exploited?

Help, I can't log into the administration panel!

Generate an MD5 hash value

Reset the "admin" user password in the database

Log into the administration interface

What else should I do?

Check for any new or suspicious files

Run diagnostic scripts

Advise your hosting provider

Review the Raw Access Logs for your site

How do I recover my site after a serious compromise?

Summary

8. Menus, Modules, and Components

Extending a menu with a new link

Creating the Article

Reordering menu items

Removing a menu item

Adding Web Links

Setting the Web Links global parameters

Adding a Category of links

Adding the links to the Category

Editing and deleting web links and Categories

Adding the web links page to the (top) menu

Advertising banners

Setting up banner advertising

Adding a banner Category

Adding a banner client

Setting the banner parameters

Adding the banner

Enabling the banner module

Managing and editing banners

Latest news module: Updating and adding

Setting up the content

Enabling the module

Managing your latest news

Random images module

Change the files in the image folder

Redirect to a different image directory

Installing third-party extensions— modules, components, and plugins

Position of modules

Plugins

Installing an extension

Configuring the component

Adding the new component to a menu

Additional third-party extensions

VirtueMart

JCal Pro

DOCman

Letterman

Core modules

NewsFlash

Who's online

Polls

Feed display

Summary

Index