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Introduction to Joomla

Introduction to Joomla

By Steve Gibson

Running Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes


Overview

Joomla! is a Content Management System (CMS) for building rich, dynamic websites quickly. With Joomla, there is no software needed. An easy to use, non technical browser based interface allows you to manage every aspect of your website including content, images, videos and more, all directly from your browser. No HTML required. There are thousands of extensions and add ons that extend the power of your Joomla Website such as ecommerce, data reporting, image controls, directories, communication tools, reservation systems, and much much more. Joomla is open source, standards based and best of all, its free.

In this video tutorial we will show you how to install Joomla as well as walk you through Joomla's many features.

Detailed Video Descriptions

  1 - Why Joomla

  2. What’s New in Joomla 1.5

  • 2-0 - The long awaited Joomla 1.5 was released in January of 2008. In this video, Steve explains the differences between the new version and the old. (3:32)

  3. Installing  Joomla

  • 3-0 - Installing  from cPanel using Fantastico: It is said that installing Joomla is the hardest part. Don’t be fooled; this video makes it easy. (3:28)

  • 3-1 - Installing  from FTP: If your web host doesn’t use cPanel, you will probably need to install Joomla manually, using FTP. In this easy-to-follow, step-by-step video, Steve walks you through the entire process.  (8:51)

  4. The Joomla Environment

  5. Organization

  • 5-0 - Overview of Organizing Content In Joomla: In this video, Steve discusses the use of Sections and Categories for keeping your content organized. (1:41)

  • 5-1 - Sections (Adding and editing) : The Sections of your site contain the big ideas of your articles. In this video, you’ll learn how to edit existing sections and add new ones. (2:25)

  • 5-2 - Categories (Adding and editing) : Within Sections, your articles can be placed into more specific Categories. In this video, you’ll learn how to edit existing categories and add new ones. (2:49)

  • 5-3 - Manipulating Sections and Categories: In this video, Steve demonstrates how to publish, unpublish, copy, move, and rearrange Categories and Sections. (1:12)

  • 5-4 - Media Manager (Viewing, Creating Folders and Uploading new files): Joomla’s Media Manager does just what you’d think—it helps you manage all the media in your website. In this video, Steve gives you a quick tour of the Media Manager. (3:00)

  6. Content Creation

  • 6-0 - Viewing All Content Items: In this video, you’ll learn how to view and sort all of your articles in Joomla. (2:56)

  • 6-1 - Adding Content Pages: In this video, you’ll learn the basics of creating new Articles on your website. (2:03)

  • 6-2 - Using the TinyMCE Editor: In this video, Steve shows you how to use Joomla’s built in wysiwyg editor (4:19)

  • 6-3 - Parameters for Content Pages: In this video, Steve demonstrates how to edit your content parameters, such as Author, Access Level, Created Date, etc. (5:03)

  • 6-4 - Manipulating Content Items: In this video, Steve demonstrates the basics of editing the properties of your content and articles using the Article Manager. (1:49)

  7. Module Manager

  • 7-0 - Intro to the Module Manager: Modules are small sections of content, such as menus, that appear on your Joomla website. In this video, Steve gives a quick overview of the Module Manager. (2:22)

  • 7-1 - Previewing Module Positions : In this video, Steve demonstrates how to preview the positions of the modules on your Joomla site using the Template Manager. (2:59)

  • 7-2 - Editing Module Contents: This video demonstrates how to open and edit specific modules using the Module Manager. (4:51)

  • 7-3 - Changing Module Positions: In this video, Steve demonstrates how to use the Module Manager to move your modules around to different areas of the web page. (2:51)

  • 7-4 - Type of Modules: In this video, Steve discussed the different types of modules that are installed with the default installation of Joomla (3:57)

  • 7-5 - Adding New Modules : Steve demonstrates the basics of adding a new module to your website(2:04)

  8. Menus and Navigation

  • 8-0 - Intro to Menus – Steve discusses the basics of menus and how they work.  (2:12)

  • 8-1 - Editing menus – In this video, Steve demonstrates how to mak changes to menu items. (4:14)

  • 8-2 - Adding Menu Items - Articles – Steve demonstrates how to add a menu item that links to a specific article. (3:55)

  • 8-3 - Adding Menu Items – Contacts – This video shows you how to link to a list of contacts (2:59)

  • 8-4 - Adding Menu Items - News Feeds – In this video, you’ll learn how to add a menu item that links to an RSS news feed. (2:32)

  • 8-5 - Adding Menu Items – Polls – Steve demonstrates how to add a menu item that links to the results of a poll.  (1:23)

  • 8-6 - Adding Menu Items - Search – This video demonstrates how to create a link to a search component for your site.  (2:19)

  • 8-7 - Adding Menu Items – User – If you want external users to be able to log in to your site, you’ll need to create the functionality to let them register, log in, log out, etc. This video explains how to create links to various pages that perform these functions. (6:01)

  • 8-8 - Adding Menu Items - Web Links – This video shows you how to create a menu item that links to a categorized list of web links. (3:34)

  • 8-9 - Adding Menu Items – Wrapper – A wrapper is an iFrame that contains the contents of another website. This video shows you how to create a link to a wrapper page. (1:57)

  • 8-10 - Adding Menu Items - External Link – This video shows you how to create a menu item that links to an external website. (2:19)

  • 8-11 - Adding Menu Items - Separator  - This video shows you how to create a menu item that serves as a separator between other menu items. (1:31)

  • 8-12 - Adding Menu Items – Alias – An alias is a menu item that points to the same page as another menu item. (1:48)

  9. Components

  • 9-0 - Pre-Installed Components: In this video, Steve discusses the components that come with the default installation of Joomla. (2:13)

  • 9-1 - Banner Components: In this video, Steve discusses the banner advertisement system that comes pre-installed with Joomla (3:59)

  • 9-2 - Contacts Components: This video demonstrates how to create contacts for a contact page. (3:22)

  • 9-3 - News Feed Components: Steve teaches how to link to RSS Feeds across the web with this easy component. (4:05)

  • 9-4 - Poll Component: Want to know what do your visitors think? Steve explains how to use the poll component to find out.  (2:55)

  • 9-5 - Search Component: In this video, Steve explains how to create search logging capabilities that will keep track of what visitors are searching for on your website. (2:25)

  • 9-6 - Weblinks Component: This video discusses the basics of creating outgoing weblink pages on your site. (2:26)

  10. Templates

  • 10-0 - Overview of Templates : In this video, Steve explains the basics of customizing the look and feel of your website using templates. (2:01)

  • 10-1 - Previewing Templates:  Steve demonstrates how to use the Template Manager to gain a sneak peak at your overall template. (0:38)

  • 10-2 - Installing New Templates: Don’t like the pre-installed templates? In this video, Steve will demonstrate how to download and install new templates to Joomla. (3:33)

  • 10-3 - Module Position of Templates: In this video, Steve takes a look at how all the modules fit in this template and where they’re located. (2:53)

  • 10-4 - Editing Templates: In this video, Steve explains the basics of editing Joomla templates. (2:30)

  11. Extensions

  • 11-0 - Understanding Extensions – Steve explains the basics of understanding Extensions, Components, Modules and Plugins.  (3:17)

  • 11-1 - Installing and Uninstalling Extensions – In this video, Steve demonstrates how to install and uninstall extensions in Joomla 1.5. (3:23)

  12: Administration

  • 12-0 - Global configuration  - In this video, Steve takes you on a tour of the backend configuration of Joomla 1.5 (8:39)

  • 12-1 - User Management  - In this video, you’ll learn how to create new users, assign permissions, suspend accounts, change permissions and more. (4:54)

  • 12-2 - System Info – In this video, Steve shows you where to go to find your system info, php settings, configuration file settings, directory permissions, etc. (2:49)

  13. Maintenance

  • 13-0 - Backing  Up Your Files – In this video, Steve discusses creating a back up copy of your Joomla 1.5 data and database. (4:59)

  • 13-1 - Patches and upgrades.  – In this video, Steve demonstrates how to check for and apply patches and upgrades to Joomla. (2:22)

  14. Additional features

  • 14-0 - Global Check-in – When you’re editing an article in Joomla, that file becomes locked to all other users. Sometimes, however, computers might crash and files may become locked even though no one is using them. That’s where Global Check-in comes into play. (2:29)

  • 14-1 - Saving and Applying Changes – It may seem that Saving changes and Applying changes are the same thing, but they’re not. In this video, Steve explains the differences. (1:31)

  • 14-2 - Search Engine Optimization – In this video, Steve shows you some of the built-in features of Joomla that will assist in you in getting the best search engine results possible. (7:32)

  • 14-3 - Additional Joomla Help – In this video, Steve shows you a few resources where you can find some additional help with Joomla. (2:49)
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