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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783981502

Length 476 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Eric Tiggeler

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 – replacing the default text editor of Joomla!

Let's install JCE and set it to be the default text editor.

Navigate to Extensions | Extension Manager. In the search field in the Install from Web page, enter jce. The JCE will be shown as the first search result. Click on the JCE details and then click on the Install button, as shown in the following screenshot:
A great thing about JCE is that it fully automates the installation. Just hit the Install button in the next screen and you're good to go. The installation should take about half a minute. You'll see a message: Installing component was successful.
There is just one thing to take care of now. Tell Joomla that you want JCE to be the default editor. Navigate to System | Global Configuration. In the Site Settings panel, set the Default Editor option to Editor - JCE and save your changes. This is shown in the following screenshot: