Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration Table Of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Exploring Your New Joomla! Website
Chapter 2: Creating, Editing, and Organizing Content
Chapter 3: Managing Images and Videos
Chapter 4: Backing Up Your Website
Chapter 5: User Management
Chapter 6: Making Your Site Popular
Chapter 7: Security—Precaution and Recovery
Chapter 8: Menus, Modules, and Components
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

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