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

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

Choosing a web host that meets your security requirements

B. Creating a Multilingual Site

C. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Switching to a different template

Until now, we've worked with Protostar, the default template in Joomla. However, there are more templates available in the Joomla package. To see an overview, navigate to Extensions | Template Manager and click on the Templates link in the menu on the left-hand side to go to the Templates Manager: Templates screen. This is shown in the following screenshot:

Here, all available templates are displayed with thumbnail images, giving you a quick impression of the page design. In the Location column, you can see if it's a frontend or a backend template. Joomla comes with two frontend templates (Location is Site) and two templates that can be used in the backend (Location is Administrator). To get a better impression of what any of the installed templates look like, click on the template thumbnail in the Template Manager: Templates screen to see an enlarged image.