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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
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Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
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First published: March 2011
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Credits
Author
Eric Tiggeler
Reviewers
Eric Brown
Mark Kielar
Rita Lewis
Peter Martin
Oleg Nesterov
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About the Author
Eric Tiggeler is the author of Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide! and has written two Dutch Joomla! guides, both of which got excellent reviews. He writes tutorials for several computer magazines and for the Dutch Joomla! community website. Over the last 10 years, Eric has developed numerous websites, big and small, many of them using Joomla!.
Eric is fascinated by the Web as a powerful and creative means of communication; and by revolutionary software such as Joomla!, enabling anybody to create beautiful and user-friendly websites.
On a daily basis, Eric works as a consultant and copywriter at a communication consultancy company affiliated with the Free University of Amsterdam. Over the last few years, he has written more than 10 Dutch books on writing and communication. His passion is making complex things easy to understand.
Eric Tiggeler is married and has two daughters. He lives and works in Hilversum (the Netherlands). On the Web, you'll find him on http://www.schrijfgids.nl (in Dutch) and on http://www.joomm.net (in English).
Any book is a team effort, so I'd like to thank everyone at Packt Publishing for their encouragement and commitment to this project. Thanks also to all reviewers for testing the alpha version of this book and helping me create a thoroughly reliable final release!
About the Reviewers
Eric Brown was born and raised in California. He joined the U.S. Navy at 17 and became a Preventive Medicine Technician. Upon exiting military service, he left the medical field behind and moved to Nebraska and entered college to study art and design, which resulted in a Bachelor's of Science in Graphic Design from Wayne State College in Nebraska. Eric has since branched out by teaching himself (or learning from others) various aspects of HTML, CSS, and PHP as well as a variety of other coding languages and web marketing strategies and tools. He currently owns his own media business located in Manhattan, KS, where he lives with his wife and pets.
Over the years Eric has worked for a local design and development firm in Nebraska on such projects as the Golden Spike Tower website aimed at tourist traffic centered on the Union Pacific's Bailey Yard and with a premier pet industry design and development firm as a project manager. He has also written for such prestigious publications as Trafficology (a purchased print publication on web marketing read by over 80,000 people world-wide), CMSWire.com (a leader in content management news), ReveNews (a highly rated site on various aspects of marketing), and Gadgetell (a well-known gadget news site).
Eric was a reviewer for Joomla! 1.5 JavaScript jQuery by Packt Publishing. He has also been involved in other books as well providing editing, image touch-up, and custom hand-drawn maps for Tagging Along (a Neville Family retrospective) and editing, layout, cover art, and image touch-up on My Life and Community (Biography of Ken Huebner).
I would like to thank all those who have helped to bring my career to this point, but most of all I would like to thank my wife Jaime and my two children, Ariel and Autumn, for all their patience and understanding during the development stages of my career and business.
Mark Kielar brings over 25 years of experience in design, photography, commercial art, analysis, and computing to his understanding of open source content management systems such as Joomla! 1.6. He has applied his expertise in web design and development, writing, and editing to projects for organizations as diverse as the Oakland California Charter Schools and Mark Brand Architecture. Mark currently operates his own web design and content management business, Sparkling Finish, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I'd like to thank my good friends and Joomla! Mentor Rita Lewis at wordstoweb.net and Mark Brand at Mark Brand Architecture for their support in my work in website design and creation. A special thank you goes out to a special friend, Lynne Wardell, who has supported me for many years in all my endeavors.
Rita Lewis has been creating and managing the content of websites for small businesses and creative organizations for the past 20 years working under the name, Words To Web, Inc. During that time she has created and managed Joomla! sites for independent movies for Shayanne Productions and non-profits such as the Interfaith Community Against Domestic Violence. Rita is a regular blogger on Freelance Switch as well as the author of 15 books on Macintosh computing and the Internet, including titles for O'Reilly & Associates, Peachpit Press, and SAMs. Rita has been awarded by the Computer Book Club and The Society For Technical Communications for her efforts.
Peter Martin has a keen interest in computers, programming, sharing knowledge, and how people (mis)use information technology. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics (International Marketing Management) and a Master's degree in Mass Communication. He discovered PHP/MySQL in 2003 and Joomla!'s predecessor, Mambo CMS, a year later. Peter has his own business http://www.db8.nl (founded in 2005) and he supports companies and organizations with Joomla! and Joomla! extension development.
Peter is actively involved in the Joomla! community where he is a member of the Community Leadership Team and Global Moderator at the Joomla! forum.
His other interests are open source software, Ubuntu Linux, Arduino, music (collecting vinyl records), and art house movies. Peter lives in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Oleg Nesterov is a professional web developer. He holds a Master's degree in Mechanics and Mathematics (diploma with honors) from Sumy State University in Ukraine. Since graduation, he has figured out the three main principles for his life: having a mission, loving what you do, and constant self-development. He tries to follow each of these principles in his life and job. That's why he's a web developer.
Oleg runs MindK (http://www.mindk.com), a web development company that focuses on producing custom Joomla! extensions, templates, and websites of the highest quality. He is an active member of the Joomla! community and speaker at international Joomla! conferences.
He enjoys sharing his experience with others, teaching people, and creating tools that increase developers' productivity.
You can find more about Oleg on his personal website: http://onesterov.com.
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Preface
Joomla! is one of the most popular open source content management systems. It's powerful, it's relatively easy to learn, and it's freely available, which explains why over the last few years it's become the engine behind millions and millions of websites worldwide. In January 2011, the much awaited version 1.6 was released. Version 1.6 is the third major release since the introduction of Joomla! in 2005.
Joomla! 1.6 is a big step forward, introducing great new features such as a flexible content categorization system (enabling you to organize content in as many categories and subcategories as you want) and a new Access Control Levels system, allowing you to control in great detail what logged in users are allowed to see and do on the site. But there's much more to Joomla! 1.6—a huge number of improvements in usability and functionality that make it more fun, and even less hassle to create state-of-the-art, user-friendly websites. Joomla! 1.6 First Look introduces you to all major new features. It focuses on practical examples and helps you to get the most out of the innovations of this new release.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Stepping up to Joomla 1.6, introduces you to what's new in Joomla! 1.6. You'll learn what's needed to install the new Joomla! release and to upgrade from the previous version, Joomla! 1.5.
Chapter 2, Exploring your Enhanced Workspace, shows you what's changed in the Joomla! backend interface: a new design, new screens, changes in menus and toolbars. You'll learn the practical effect this has on creating and maintaining sites with Joomla!.
Chapter 3, Organizing and Managing Content, covers key changes in Joomla! 1.6 that affect organizing, adding, and editing articles. You'll learn the benefits of using the new system to organize content and you'll learn to use some powerful new ways to present content on your site.
Chapter 4, Managing Menus and Menu Modules, covers enhancements in the way you work with menus and menu modules. Joomla! 1.6 not only makes it easier to manage menu contents and the menu modules, there are also new menu item types available.
Chapter 5, Managing Site Users with Access Control, introduces you to one of the biggest changes in Joomla! 1.6—the all-new Access Control Levels system. You'll learn how to use this complex system in a practical and efficient way and to control which users are permitted to view and manage content on your site.
Chapter 6, New Flexibility in Using Templates, explains what's new in selecting, using, and editing templates. You'll learn all about a new feature called Template Styles and about the great set of brand new templates that come with Joomla! 1.6.
Chapter 7, Unleashing the New Power of Extensions, focuses on using and maintaining extensions in Joomla! 1.6. The extensions screen has been overhauled, installed extensions can be updated automatically, and some great new modules have been added to the Joomla! default package.
Chapter 8, SEO Improvements, covers the new features for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this chapter, you'll find out in what respects Joomla! has become more SEO-friendly and you'll learn more about the techniques you can use to help search engines to find and rank important content on your site.
What you need for this book
To be able to follow along and try out the new features of Joomla! 1.6 for yourself, you need to have Joomla! 1.6 (and the sample data that come with it) installed on your computer or a web server. In Chapter 1, you'll find some useful information on installing Joomla! and the server requirements for Joomla! 1.6.
Who this book is for
Joomla! 1.6 First Look is targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you've some experience in using Joomla! 1.5, you're probably curious to find out what's new and how the improvements can help you to create better websites with less effort. You don't want to dive into the basics of Joomla, but you do want to learn about the main new features and try them out for yourself. This book helps you with clear step-by-step instructions, well illustrated with screenshots.
Conventions
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text are shown as follows: "Moreover, all heading elements—previously styled with proprietary Joomla! style names, such as contentheading—are now outputted according to web standards, using the H1 (Heading 1) style for the main title, H2 for secondary titles, and so forth."
A block of code is set as follows:
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Go to Menu Manager | Menus and click on the Main Menu name in the Title column".
Note
Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.
Tip
Tips and tricks appear like this.
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Chapter 1. Stepping Up to Joomla! 1.6
The Joomla! development team has worked for several years on the latest release, Joomla! 1.6. This may seem like a lot of time, but it's definitely been worth the wait. Important new features have been added, previous limitations have been dealt with, and many improvements have been added. All in all, the Joomla! CMS is fully up-to-date again. It's more powerful, more user friendly, and more fun to work with.
In this chapter, you'll learn what to consider when upgrading from Joomla! 1.5 to Joomla! 1.6 and you'll get acquainted with the main new features and enhancements.
Upgrading from 1.5
If you've installed Joomla! 1.5 before, installing the new version will seem very familiar. The installation process—using the Joomla! installation wizard—has remained unchanged. However, before you start installing Joomla!, make sure that your web hosting account meets the following list of server requirements for Joomla! 1.6.
To enable you to run a Joomla! 1.6 powered website, your web hosting account should support:
The other system requirements have remained the same since the 1.5 release:
Tip
If you don't have a web hosting account yet, it pays to be picky. Although you shouldn't have problems finding a suitable web host, don't just go for any budget hosting service. It's best to have a hosting account allowing you to change certain server settings yourself (typically by editing either a special file named .htaccess or by permission to add a php.ini file with these settings to your account). This will ensure that you can optimize server settings and successfully run Joomla! 1.6 even when your site, your site traffic, and your requirements may change. Examples of good web hosting services for Joomla! are Siteground.com, BlueHost.com, InMotionHosting.com, or Rochen.com.
