User

LornaS

From Joomla! Documentation

My blog and pictures[edit]

Joomla! Getting Started Manual[edit]

  • Joomla! Getting Started Manual - I am trying to write this using the idea of presenting a lot of 'hands-on' instructions and notes on 'How To - - do things'.
I have written a lot of this kind of documentation in the last 20 years - mostly about databases - both designing and creating them. I have also written technical documents about database systems management. Now trying to apply experience to Joomla! documentation. Fun but hard work.

There are two versions in common use.

  • Version 1.5 is well established and widelt used. It is indicated by this icon:-Joomla 1.5
  • Version 1.6 was released early in 2011. It is indicated by this icon:- Joomla 1.6

The pages were written for version 1.5.

Skill levels: - Readership

A simple word for each group is too simplistic.

The descriptions are intended to define rough target areas of expertise.
Clearly, each group has different needs and some can be let loose on other docs on the site.

The notion of 'levels of expertise' implies that it becomes harder as you move beyond adding content. But it might be harder for someone who is used to adding to static websites to learn to think-Joomla! than for someone who has not had so much experience programming. So I am trying to avoid notions of levels of difficulty.

My publications[edit]

All written under my previous name - Lorna Weatherill

  • The Pottery Trade and North Staffordshire. 1660-1760, xviii + 174pp. 20 figures. 7 maps. 16 tables. 12 illustrations. (Manchester University Press, 1972)
  • A Hundred Years of Paper-Making: An Illustrated History of the Guardbridge Paper Company Ltd, 1873-1973, vii + 122pp. 13 figures. 4 maps. 8 tables. 62 illustrations. (Guardbridge Paper Company, 1974)
  • The Growth of the Pottery Industry in England, l660-l815 (1987, an edition of my thesis by Garland Publications, New York; this is in the series 'outstanding theses from the LSE.')
  • Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760, about 80,000 words, 20 tables. 40 illustrations. (Routledge, 1988 and 1997 in paperback).
  • Richard Latham's Account Book, 1725-1765 (Oxford U.P. and the British Academy, 1990). This has about 40 pp. of introduction, 127 pp. of the edited document and 150 pp. of a concordance.

Things to try or to keep[edit]

Shows active module positions - regardless of whether anything is published to them. Add to the end of a url

&tp=1


Links for transclusion[edit]

  • new user NewUser
  • link to readership - Readership
  • link to links - Page Index
  • How to login - How to login
  • References - for the whole documentation - refs
  • Header file with all the trimmings - GSheader
  • Footer at end with index - GSFooter
  • Mechanics of using the Back-end - used for exploring back end and for admin pages - BackEnd
  • To includea t the start of the design / create pages - DesignAim

Editing and style guides from wikipedia[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing

images[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax

colours[edit]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors


joomla refs misc[edit]

article ref[edit]

http://docs.joomla.org/Article_Management

conversion and copying sites[edit]

http://docs.joomla.org/How_to_Convert_an_existing_Web_site_to_a_Joomla!_Web_site

http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website

http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_you_copy_a_site_from_localhost_to_a_remote_host%3F

Backups[edit]

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/site-security/backup/1606

Akeeba is an excellent tool to backup a site and combined with Kickstart, sites can be transferred easily.

http://www.akeebabackup.com/download/akeeba-kickstart.html

admin sites[edit]

http://docs.joomla.org/Administrators

http://docs.joomla.org/Security_and_Performance_FAQs

http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Administration_FAQ

http://docs.joomla.org/Top_10_Stupidest_Administrator_Tricks

http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Security_Checklist

Access control[edit]

http://docs.joomla.org/ACL_Tutorial_for_Joomla_1.6

http://docs.joomla.org/Access_Control_List

http://docs.joomla.org/Changing_user_groups

Templates[edit]

http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Beez

http://docs.joomla.org/Category:Templates

http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_1.5_Template_Tutorial/Table_of_Contents




Layout tests[edit]

Can I use an html table[edit]

the one on hold

Section Category Article
About About Article layout
Contacts Article layout with a list of contacts and details
Find Us Article layout with a map
How to Join Article layout with suitable information
Subscriptions Article layout with the list of how much it costs
Newsletters Category List layout so that more than one newsletter can be seen
History Category Blog layout with READ MORE for long articles

wiki

Section Category Article
About About Article layout
Contacts Article layout
Find Us Article layout
How to Join Article layout
Subscriptions Article layout
Newsletters Category List layout
History Category Blog layout




html table

Section Category Article

About

About

Article layout

Contacts

Article layout

Find Us

Article layout

How to Join

Article layout

Subscriptions

Article layout

Newsletters

Category List layout

History

Category Blog layout



testing layouts for divs[edit]

some text as an aside

contained in a "div" element that is floated to the right.

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some text as an aside

contained in a "div" element and floats left

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some text as a cross reference

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Versions: There are two versions of Joomla! in common use

  • version 1.5 indicated by this icon:-Joomla 1.5
  • version 1.6 indicated by this icon:- Joomla 1.6

This page was written for 1.5 but the information in it applies to 1.6


Versions: There are two versions of Joomla! in common use

  • version 1.5 indicated by this icon:-Joomla 1.5
  • version 1.6 indicated by this icon:- Joomla 1.6

This page was written for 1.5 and some of the functionality in 1.6 is different. This is indicated in the text and the parts applicable to 1.6 are indicated with the 1.6 icon. Joomla 1.6


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Cross Reference:

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Aims:

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An aside

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black border



colours and span[edit]

I could do comments by highlighting the words - as below - but the border is nicer

Something to go here - placemarker: not floated


Words coloured - For comments about editing - use green perhaps

background coloured

background coloured

both coloured

use for comments

new lines within the span



Image tests[edit]

A lot more to this than meets the eye.

This is me in my dinghy - nothing to do with Joomla!

Things I want to keep[edit]

The difference between authors and publishers[edit]

  • Authors can create and alter articles but they cannot 'publish' them - which means that they do not display until someone with publish permissions has ticked the right box for them to be published.
  • Publishers can see the Publish tick-box when they edit or create an article - so they can publish their own articles.
  • Publishers can edit documents that they did not create.

To get it published depends on the way the site is managed. Publishing is normally done by the site adminstrator or someone with publish permissions. You are likely to need to send an email asking for it to be published.


--Lorna Scammell December 2010