Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 phần 3 ppt

Chapter 3 [ 59 ] Login Area A login module is important if you want to split your website into a public and a protected area. The visitor then has to have a way of registering and logging on. Perhaps, he or she even occasionally forgets his or her password. The login module should be able to take all situations into consideration as shown in the following gure: Polling Since our content is designed for certain target groups, we should now and then ask the group that actually surfs our site for their opinion. This is the simplest way of getting usable opinions about your site. Joomla! has an integrated polling component. You can see the display module on the sample page as shown in the following gure: A Tour of Your New Website [ 60 ] Who is Online? This module is about communication and community. After the user has been able to see which articles are new and particularly popular, naturally he or she would like to know who is navigating the site right now. A distinction is made between guests and logged-in users as shown in the following gure: Deliberate carefully about whether you want to offer such features on your website. If you claim in your content that you are the largest ring-tone website in the U.S. and only one guest hangs out in your site, this will hurt your credibility. However, if you do indeed constantly have 10 – 20 visitors and logged -n users, this is a good way to demonstrate dynamics. Feeds News feeds are becoming more and more popular. These are standardized, machine readable collections of content, which can be processed further, to some extent the content of your site, without the encumbrance of the template and layout. The Syndication module offers the website's news feed. You will learn more about this technology later in the book. Search Field The functionality that underlies the search eld contributes greatly to the user friendliness of a website. Many sites have search elds. Often, however, they only search through a portion of the website. With Joomla!, however, this is different, all pages are denitely scanned. If new extensions are added, their content is also searched. Chapter 3 [ 61 ] You can type a search term and press Enter on the keyboard. The result is a hit list, with the desired term visually highlighted. Decorative Elements After so many functions, modules, and content, the issue of design, corporate identity, and the look and feel of the website pops up. A template represents the layout of the page and is laid on top of the content like a screen. Since it is hard to argue about taste or beauty, you have the option of providing various templates for the same content. For example, the look of your website could be different in winter than in summer, or it could have an Olympics look during the Olympic Games. (Chapter 13 covers the creation of your own templates.) In principle, a template consists of a logo, a certain color combination, selected character fonts and sizes, and as clever an arrangement of the available content as possible. The example template of course has the Joomla! logo: Outlook I am sure that after this tour and from your own experience from exploring the sample data you can understand that the administration of content can be a very demanding task. Above all, it is important not to lose your overview. A Tour of Your New Website [ 62 ] Back end The administration of the website takes place in the back end in the Joomla! Administration. You can get to the Joomla! administration under the URL [Domain name]/administrator/ If you are also working with your local installation, the URL is http://localhost/joomla150/administrator/ Log on with your ID, admin. You had specied the user data yourself in the web installer during installation. Chapter 3 [ 63 ] You will see an interface with menus, icons, and tabs, identical to the graphic interface of your operating system. For security purposes, you should protect the directory [pathtoJoomla]/administrator/ with an .htaccess le. Because of the popularity of Joomla!, hackers constantly attempt to get at the administration. Summary This chapter helped us get a feel of a Joomla! website. We are now familiar with the front end and back end of Joomla!. In the next chapter will learn about customizing Joomla! according to our requirements. [...]... parameters with which you can change the colors and width of the template, and even asign special menu points Play with the options and keep going back to the website to check the impacts the changes make [ 69 ] Customizing Joomla! Language and Templates Joomla! allows you to work with tabs in the browser window Internet Explorer from version 7 on also supports register navigation (tabbed browsing) With. .. help Help with Speech Balloons Speech balloons are a handy solution These help texts are entered into the language files and are also displayed on a local basis without an Internet connection Help Menu The Help menu that is at the very end provides you with concentrated information for Joomla! and its environment It contains two menu entries Joomla! Help and System Info [ 75 ] Configuration of Joomla!. .. front end and back end in Joomla! 1.5 in different languages, it is possible that you could have mixed-language administrator accounts In the Back-end Language and Front-end Language fields, you can select the valid languages for this user account from the available languages You can do the same with the User Editor So that you can edit texts in a user‑friendly fashion, Joomla! 1.5 includes the TinyMCE... switch, you also have to rename the htaccess.txt file in the Joomla! directory to htaccess In Windows, such a renaming is only possible with particular programs, for example, with the Ultraedit editor (http://www.ultraedit.com/) or in the command line with the following command: rename htaccess.txt htaccess Under Linux, the renaming works without any problem; the file, however, subsequently is no longer... these views with a click on the tab Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Konqueror have had these features for years, but are still not as popular as Internet Explorer Summary In this chapter we saw how to customize our website in terms of language and templates [ 70 ] Configuration of Joomla! Administration Joomla! tries to offer the same user friendliness as any program with a graphical... code of a Joomla! site, you will see the following meta tags in the top area . is http://localhost/joomla 150 /administrator/ Log on with your ID, admin. You had specied the user data yourself in the web installer during installation. Chapter 3 [ 63 ] You will see an interface with menus,. of Joomla! 1. 5. It is, however, being offered as an installable add on (translation manager: http://extensions.joomla. org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_ id ,17 76/Itemid, 35 / ). Don't. different design. (You will learn more about templates in Chapter 13 .) At the moment, the default version of Joomla! 1. 5. 0 comes with the following templates: the previously introduced one by