J1.5:Doing more with Joomla! 1.5

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Getting Started with Joomla! Contents 1 Who is it written for? 2 The appearance of a website 2.1 Templates 2.2 menus 2.3 Modules 3 Adding and modifying functionality 3.1 Banner manager 3.2 Extending the Site - Plugins 3.3 Extending the site - Extensions 3.4 e-Commerce 3.5 Security 4 Further information Articles in this series Start Here: Introduction to Getting Started with Joomla! for version 1.5 Hands-on a Joomla! site: Use a site that has already been set up. Install a copy of Joomla! on your own computer, known as localhost Use the Demo on the Joomla! site. Adding and altering Articles: Hands-on how to begin to edit an Article. Hands-on how to create a new Article. Editing Articles: Hands-on adding links to other pages Hands-on adding a table Hands-on adding a picture Hands-on splitting a long article Manipulating Articles using the Front-end Setting up a Joomla! site: Background: get to know the Back-end Background: controlling user access to a Joomla! Site Background: design the content - Sections and Categories Background: design appearance using Menus and Modules Background: design appearance using default Templates Hands-on setting up a Joomla! site Administration: Starting to manage a Joomla! site Doing and learning more: Do more with Jooomla! 1.5 Beyond the basics: doing more Jooomla! Books, links and helpful resources

The aim of this document is to provide an overview of other things you can do with Joomla! that are not covered in these getting started series of documents.

There are large numbers of resources and other things that can be done with Joomla available.

Who is it written for?

• Everyone: But -- -

some of these things require some computing and programming skills, so the main focus here is on people with some design and/or development experience.

• The focus is on individual developers and designers, rather than people woring in a team which provides its own resources
• Beginners will struggle, but it is worth trying to expand your horizons

The appearance of a website

- sometimes done by a web designer

Front page of the site

Templates

• Introduction to Joomla! Templates
• Beez Template
• More Templates
• Joomla! 1.5 Template Tutorial

menus

Modules

Adding and modifying functionality

- sometimes done by a web developer

Banner manager

Extending the Site - Plugins

Extending the site - Extensions

• How do you find a Joomla! extension?
• http://extensions.joomla.org/

e-Commerce

Security

Further information