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Building job sites with Joomla!
Building job sites with Joomla!

Building job sites with Joomla!: Establish and be in charge of a job site using easily adaptable Joomla! Extensions.

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Building job sites with Joomla!

Chapter 2. Control Panel Interface

Joomla! is a popular CMS, and control panel is an essential part of any CMS. The Joomla! control panel is known as Joomla! administrator panel. We have also installed Jobs! component to build our jobsite. This component provides control panel interface as well. In order to manage your Joomla! jobsite properly, you must familiarize yourselves with the Joomla! 1.5 administrator control panel and Jobs! control panel interface. Joomla! consists of a frontend and a backend. The frontend is the website that is easily accessible to visitors or users. The backend contains the administration layer of the website, which may not be fully accessible to all users, except the super-administrator. The super-administrator can manage the whole website from this backend control panel.

This chapter gives a brief overview of:

  • Joomla! administrator panel, including its menus, submenus, tools, lists, and dialogs

  • Jobs! control panel interface, including its buttons, tabs, and...

Introducing Joomla! administrator panel


To access the administrator login page, you need to type the path of administrator directory in the address field. For example,http://localhost/administrator. If you are not using the local server, type your web server address instead of localhost.

After logging into the Joomla! administrator panel, you will see an interface similar to the next screenshot:

At the top of the screen, you will see a menu bar with menus and submenus. You will also see the following four elements on the right-hand side:

  • Preview link: It is a link to preview the website's front page.

  • Received message counter: It shows how many messages you have received. If no messages are received, it shows a zero (0).

  • Users counter: It displays how many users are logged into your site at the moment.

  • Logout link: This link is used to log out from the administrator panel.

Below the menu bar, you will see buttons such as Add New Article, Article Manager, Front Page Manager, Section...

Introducing Jobs! control panel interface


Jobs! Pro and Jobs! Basic, both variations, provide a user-friendly control panel interface. You have full control over your jobsite, and you can manage your site easily by using this control panel.

To go to your Jobs! control panel, click on the menu Components | Jobs | All Tools.

Now, you will see the Jobs! control panel interface. We have installed Jobs! Pro 1.3.2 version. It will look like the following screenshot:

At the top of the screen, you will see all the tabs. You will see all the buttons below these tabs, on the left-hand side. You will see also RSS Feeds, Unpublished Companies, Statistics, and others, beside the buttons on the right-hand side.

Buttons

Buttons are separated into five groups—Management, Job Seeker Tools, Employer Tools, Credit System, and Information.

Management group contains buttons that are related to jobsite management. There are fourteen buttons in the Management group—Control Panel, List Categories, List Countries...

Summary


Now, after finishing this chapter, you are able to administrate and run your Joomla! jobsite with ease. This chapter introduced you to the Joomla! 1.5 administrator panel and Jobs! control panel interface. In the next chapter, you will learn the basics of designing a template for your jobsite.

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Key benefits

  • Build your own monster.com using Joomla!
  • Take your job site to the next level using commercial Jobs! Extension
  • Administrate and publish your Joomla! job site easily using the Joomla! 1.5 administrator panel and Jobs! Pro control panel interface
  • Boost your job site ranking in search engines using Joomla! SEO

Description

Joomla! is a content management system that helps both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites. Joomla! has extensions for construcing job sites; web sites for handling employment and careers. It can take hours to build even an elementary job site but imagine yourself building a job site such as Monster, CareerBuilder, a niche job listing such as TechCrunch or your own company job site within few minutes and with minimal development efforts.Building job sites with Joomla! shows you how to create your own job site with Joomla! with the Jobs! Pro extension. From the basic installation and configuration, you will see all the steps required to assemble a working job site in next to no time.This book is a step-by-step tutorial for creating a job site using Joomla!. First you will set up a server environment to install Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs!. Next you will learn how you can use Jobs! configuration settings to control the components of your job site such as adding companies, adding social bookmarking buttons, enabling the users to post their resume online and so on. You will learn to easily manage your site using the Jobs! control panel. This will be followed by using job site template to quickly create a job site and simultaneously test the site you have created. Next you will learn how to speed up the communication between employers and the jobseekers using e-mail templates. You can also entirely control user registration system from Jobs! Pro admin panel. You will also learn to add and manage job types, job categories, and applications to keep your database organized and to keep track of the application status. You will also learn to add a jobseeker or an employer and to manage resume fields. Then you will configure credit systems to charge an amount of money to users according to the specific service provided. By the end of this book you will learn to professionally optimize your Joomla! Job site for search engines and look at list of words that need to be avoided in the URLs.

Who is this book for?

If you are looking for building and managing a job site using Joomla! extensions then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of using extensions is not expected but Joomla! basics will be required.

What you will learn

  • Install and configure Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs! Pro along with all of it’s modules
  • Create a custom Joomla! 1.5 template to build your job site in just few minutes
  • Step by step guidelines for configuring your job site to control Site tab settings, System tab settings and Metadata settings
  • Manage jobs, job types, and categories with administrative rights
  • Manage cover letters and resume files to make your application stand out in a crowd
  • Create email templates to expedite the communication between the employers and applicants
  • Instant reference to accomplish complex tasks such as registering an employer or a jobseeker and managing employers credits, resume field, field category, and education levels.
  • Augment your website ranking in search engines using handy SEO strategies such as using effective keyword, making SEF URLs, creating sitemap, submitting website to search engines and so on

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
Installing and Configuring Joomla! 1.5 and Jobs! Pro 1.3.2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Control Panel Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Designing a Jobsite Template Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Changing Configuration Settings Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Jobs, Job Types, and Categories Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Countries and Companies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing E-mail, Applications, and Application Status Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
User Registration, Credits, Resume Fields, and Education Levels Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Managing Cover Letter, Resume, and Resume Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Search Engine Optimization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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johncvg@belgacom.net Oct 21, 2010
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This book covers everything you need to know about Joomla 1.5 installation and configuration as well as its advertised Jobs! Pro component so it is targeted at the Joomla beginner.Everything is there including installing XAMPP and Joomla, even the basics of Joomla template design.The real meat of the book, Jobs! Pro, starts at Chapter 5 and from there covers all you need to know about this extension. If your a beginner at Joomla and haven't used Jobs! Pro before then this book is ideal.The final chapter deals with Joomla Search Engine Optimization.This is a book aimed at a very precise market, Jobs! Pro but a large portion of the book clearly explains all you need to know about Joomla itself so it can be recommended on that basis as well.
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The book "Building job sites with Joomla!" concerned primarily only one issue, the construction sites with job offers. It's true that the author added some more general topics such as about SEO, but do not change the fact that it is addressed to a very narrow audience.The first chapter I was very disappointed, as usual, several pages how to install Joomla! and ... how to install the commercial component of Jobs!. The author wrote only that it is commercial, and gave the address page. I wish I had made an effort to specify exactly why he chose this instead of another extension, because we have more than one (ex. JA Job Board) to build this kind of web page.And was any word why Joomla! is the best possible CMS, the construction of such sites, because there is some scripts build ony for this.Thus the impression that the subsequent chapters is simply advertising and documentation of this component, not a case study site, which is already working on this component.Chapter 3 what about how build a template, it is quite chaotic and too little practical, looks like a rewritten documentation. There are a lot of unnecessary information, and is not the most important, being guided by building or selecting a template for such sites.The next chapter is about the administration of a duplication of information from other books for beginners.I think a person who reaches out for the title already knows the basics of CMS, therefore, considers it a waste of paper.The last chapter of SEO - is also weak, the author mentions only one extension, as if forgetting the other, in my opinion, more useful for administration of Joomla.Information were also taken notice, and where this whole marketing and HR coating. In a word, I'm disappointed. Only 2 or 3 chapters are useful with description extension, but the rest of the content is very far-fetched, sorry.
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