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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating an image gallery

  1. To show all images as a gallery, we'll use a plugin called Simple Image Gallery Extended. Navigate to Extensions | Extension Manager and click on the Install from Web tab. In the search box, enter image gallery extended. The Simple Image Gallery Extended plugin will turn up in the search results. Click on it and then click on the Download button.
  2. You're taken to http://joomla-extensions.kubik-rubik.de/sige-simple-image-gallery-extended. Download the latest version; at the time of writing, this file is called plg_sige_v3-2.zip.
  3. Navigate to Extensions | Extension Manager and click on Upload Package File. Select the plugin's ZIP file that you downloaded and click on Upload & Install. You'll see a message when the installation is finished: Installing plugin was successful.
  4. As this is a plugin, we'll use the Plugin Manager to enable the extension. Navigate to Extensions | Plugin Manager and locate the Content - Simple...
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