Wednesday 25 April 2018

How to Create Joomla Menus

Menu manager allows creating custom menus for your website and allows navigation through your website.
Step (1) − Click on MenusMenu Manager in Joomla administrator,
Step (2) − To add a new menu to your website, go to MenusMenu ManagerAdd New Menu
After clicking on Add New Menu, you will get the screen as shown below. Here you can create a new menu.

  • Title − Title of the menu.
  • Menu Type − Type of menu.
  • Description − Brief description about the menu.
Step (3) − To create a new menu item, go to MenusName of the MenuAdd New Menu Item

You can also add new menu item via User Menu. All the steps described below applies to menu item creation via this method.
 When you open the page of a New Menu Item, you will get the following screen −



There are two main sections under New Menu Item −
  • Menu Title − It displays the title of the menu item in the menu.
  • Alias − It is used as SEF url. Joomla will automatically fill the value of the title. It will produce UTF-8 aliases; it does not allow spaces and underscores.

    • Menu Item Type − It specifies the type of menu item such as articles, tags, web links, system links, contacts etc.
    • Link − It determines the link in the menu.
    • Target Window − It provides three options− Parent, New Window with Navigation and New without Navigation which targets the browser window when a menu item is clicked.
    • Template Style − You can select a template style for your website by clicking dropdown menu which gives Beez3 - Default and protostar - Default styles or provides default templates for your website.
    • Menu Location − It specifies which menu link will appear; either Main Menu or User Menu.
    • Parent Item − This helps you select a parent item by selecting either Menu Item Root or Home.
    • Status − It displays the status of the article. Status such as Published, Unpublished and Trashed.
    • Default Page − It provides Yes or No options to set the menu item as default or home page of the site.
    • Access − Only the selected option from this dropdown list such as Guest, Public, Super Users, Registered and Special can view the site.
    • Language − It specifies the language of the site. It provides either ALL or English (UK) options.
    • Note − It is used to enter the text information.

      Link Type

      The next tab is Link Type in Add New Menu Item
      • Link Title Attribute − It specifies a description for the title attribute of the given hyperlink.
      • Link CSS Style − It applies a custom CSS style to the hyperlink.
      • Link Image − It uses an image to be used with hyperlink.
      • Add Menu Title − It provides Yes or No options and adds the menu title next to the image. The default is Yes

    Page Display

    The next tab Page Display in Add New Menu Item,
  • Browser Page Title − It specifies the description of the browser page title.
  • Show Page Heading − It provides Yes or No option which hides or shows the page title in the page heading.
  • Page Heading − It specifies the text for the page heading.
  • Page Class − It defines the optional CSS class to styling the elements in the page.

Metadata

The next tab Metadata in Add New Menu Item
It contains following options as described below −
  • Meta Description − It is used as an optional paragraph which includes a description of the page and is displayed in the results of the search engines.
  • Meta Keywords − These are the optional keywords to be used in the html page.
  • Robots − It specifies robot instructions such as use Global, Index, Follow, No Index,No Index, No follow.
  • Secure − It defines whether link must use SSL or Secure Site URL. It provides three options such as Off, On and Ignore.

Sunday 22 April 2018

Joomla Toolbar

toolbar options in Joomla. Given below is a list of toolbars −
  • Article Manager Toolbar
  • Category Manager Toolbar
  • Media Manager Toolbar
  • Menu Manager Toolbar
  • Module Manager Toolbar
  • User Manager Toolbar
  • Global Configuration Toolbar
  • Template Manager Toolbar
Article Manager Toolbar
Click on ContentArticle Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. In Article Manager, you can create the standard pages that consist of images, text and hyperlinks. The following figure depicts the Article Manager Toolbar.
  • New − Create a new article.
  • Edit − Edit any specific article.
  • Publish − Publish the article to the user on the website.
  • Unpublish − Unpublish the article to the user on the website.
  • Featured − Selected article is featured. Multiple articles can also be featured.
  • Archive − It can change the status of the articles to published or unpublished by selecting archived in the select status filter.
  • Check In − Check-in the selected article. Multiple articles can be checked-in.
  • Trash − Delete the selected article permanently.
  • Batch − Selected articles are processed by batch.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Category Manager Toolbar

Click on ContentCategory Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages to create categorize the articles which allows to group your content better. The following figure depicts the Category Manager Toolbar.

  • New − Add a new category.
  • Edit − Edits an existing category.
  • Publish − Publish the categories to the user on the website.
  • Unpublish − Unpublish the categories to the user on the website.
  • Archive − It can change the status of the categories to published or unpublished by selecting archived in the select status filter.
  • Check In − Check-in the particular selected category. Multiple categories can be checked-in.
  • Trash − Delete the selected category permanently.
  • Batch − Selected categories are processed by batch.
  • Rebuild − It is used to rebuild the categories tree data.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Media Manager Toolbar

Click on ContentMedia Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages the files by uploading a new file or deleting the existing ones on your web server. Given below is a snapshot of the Media Manager Toolbar.

  • Upload − Upload images from your system.
  • Create New Folder − Create a new folder on Joomla server.
  • Delete − Deletes the selected item/images permanently.
  • Help − This opens the help screen.
  • Option &minus It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Menu Manager Toolbar

Click on MenusMenu Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages the menu items. Here new menus are created, deleted or menus are managed subsequently. Given below is a snapshot of the Menu Manager Toolbar.

  • New − It creates a new menu item.
  • Edit − Edits the selected menu item.
  • Delete − Deletes the selected menu item permanently.
  • Rebuild − It rebuilds or refreshes the relevant menu items present.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Module Manager Toolbar

Click on ExtensionModule Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages the modules location and functions that are installed. The following figure depicts the Module Manager Toolbar.

  • New − It creates new modules.
  • Edit − It edits the selected modules.
  • Duplicate − A copy of the selected module can be created using this button.
  • Publish − Publish the selected modules to the user on the website.
  • Unpublish − Unpublish the selected modules to the user on the website.
  • Check In − Check-in the particular selected modules. Multiple modules can be checked-in.
  • Trash − Delete the selected modules permanently.
  • Batch − Selected modules are processed by batch.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

User Manager Toolbar

Click on UsersUser Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages all the user information such as Username, Email, Last Visit Date and Registration Date. Given below is the snapshot of the User Manager Toolbar.

  • New − It creates a new user.
  • Edit − It edits the selected user.
  • Activate − It activates multiple users.
  • Block − It blocks the selected user.
  • Unblock − It unblocks the selected users.
  • Delete − It deletes the particular users.
  • Batch − Selected users are processed as a batch.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Global Configuration Toolbar

Click on SystemGlobal Configuration in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages the global setting of the Joomla site. Given below is a snapshot of the Global Configuration Toolbar.

  • Save − Saves the configuration and stays on the same screen.
  • Save & Close − Saves the configuration and closes the screen.
  • Cancel − Cancels the configuration changes and returns to the previous screen without saving.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.

Template Manager Toolbar

Click on ExtensionTemplate Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages the templates that you use in the website. The following picture shows the Template Manager Toolbar −

  • Default − Sets the particular selected style as default.
  • Edit − Edits the template pages.
  • Duplicate − Creates a duplicate template.
  • Delete − Deletes the template.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Language Manager Toolbar

Click on ExtensionLanguage Manager in Joomla administrator control panel. It manages the languages that you use in the website. The following picture shows the Language Manager Toolbar −

  • Default − Sets the particular selected language as default.
  • Install Language − Install the required language.
  • Help − Help button is used to open the help screen.
  • Option − It opens the setting window where you can change the setting of the articles.

Joomla Control Panel

The Control Panel provides default features and functions of Joomla to access through clickable icons, menu bar etc. When you login to the Joomla administrative panel,


Article Content


There are four icons under the CONTENT section as shown below −
  • Add New Article − It creates a new article page.
  • Article Manager − It manages all your present articles.
  • Category Manager − It creates new categories and helps in publishing/unpublishing the categories.
  • Media Manager − It manages the files by uploading various new files or deleting the existing ones on your web server.

Structure Format

In STRUCTURE section, there are two groups of icons −
  • Menu Manager − Menu manager allows creating custom menus for your website and navigating through your website.
  • Module Manager − It manages the modules such as location and function of modules that are installed on site

User Information

Under USERS section, there is one icon located −
  • User Manager − It manages the user information, which allows creating or deleting the user, changing passwords, time and languages. You can also assign the user to User Groups.

Set the configuration

Three icons are located under the CONFIGURATION section as given below −
  • Global Configuration − This is an important part in the Joomla back-end. Any changes made in this configuration, will affect the entire website.
  • Template Manager − It manages the templates used in the website.
  • Language Manager − It manages installed language by setting the default language for your site.

Install Extension

There are many Extensions available in Joomla. You can install different types of extensions to extend the functionality of the site.

Maintenance

In MAINTENANCE section, there are two icons located −
  • Joomla is up-to-date − It views the current update status of the Joomla installation.
  • All extensions are up-to-date − It views the current update status of the Joomla extension.

Logged-In User

It shows the administrator name who has logged in to the Joomla site.

Published Articles

It shows the published articles and also shows the present article, that you have published.

Information of Sites

It displays the details of the site such as OS name, version of PHP and MySQL etc and also shows the number of users that are using

Saturday 21 April 2018

Joomla Installation

Download Joomla


Download the Joomla zip file from the official site http://www.joomla.org/download.html


Create Store Database

  • Joomla requires MySQL database. So create a new empty database and user/password (for e.g. User as "root" and password as "root" or else you can set as per your convenience) for Joomla.
  • After following the above step, you can continue with the installation process.

SetUp Wizard

It's very easy to set up Joomla into your system. The following steps describe how to setup Joomla locally on your system.
Step (1) − Extract the downloaded Joomla folder and upload it on your web server or localhost.
Step (2) − Open your browser and navigate to your Joomla file path, localhost/< Your_joomla_folder > then you will get the first screen of the Joomla installer

It contains the following fields −
  • Site Name − Enter the name of the site which you are going to create in Joomla.
  • Description − Add a small description about your site.
  • Admin Email − Enter your email address which helps to recover our password or any update.
  • Admin Username − Enter the username as per your choice while logging into Joomla.
  • Admin Password − Enter password to protect your site.
  • Site Offline − It specifies whether your site should be offline or online after completion of installation by clicking on Yes/No.
After filling all the information, click on the Next button.

Step (3) − Here, you have to enter the information about the MYSQL database

  • Database Type − Select your database type. By default it will be MySQLi.
  • Host Name − Write the host name by default it will be localhost.
  • Username − Enter the user name of your MySQL database.
  • Password − Enter the password which you had set for MySQL Database.
  • Database Name − Enter the database name which you have created in MySQL database for Joomla.
  • Table Prefix − It is used to add prefix in the database tables which helps to run multiple sites on the same database. It takes the default value.
  • Old Database Process − It gives two options Backup orRemove. If you had already created a database then you can either remove it or select the backup option to create a backup of your whole database information.
After filling all information, click on Next button.
Step (4) − In this step, you will be on last page of the installation process.

Choose Default English (GB) Sample Data as an example to build your website and click on Install button.
Step (5) − Next, you can see that Joomla starts the installation process on your machine
Step (6) − After a few minutes, after installation is successful and you will get a screen of the Joomla web installer

Next, click on the "Remove installation folder" button which will help you to protect your site, so that no other person can re-install your site.
Note − If your installation gets stuck and does not get completed for more than an hour, then do some changes as shown below.
Go to Joomla folder → installation → sql folder → mysql folder Open joomla.sql file and find the following term: "ENGINE=InnoDB". Replace this term with "ENGINE=MyIsam" and save the file.
Before MySQL 5.5.5, MyISAM is the default storage engine. (The default was changed to InnoDB in MySQL 5.5.5.)
Then your installation will begin.

Admin Panel

After installing Joomla you are able to login to your Joomla Admin Panel as described below −
Step (1) − To access Joomla administrative panel, open the browser and type the URL as http://localhost/ < Your_joomla_folder >/administrator/index.php
Step (2) − Enter the username and password which you had mentioned during installation as shown in the step 3 of Set Up Wizard section and click on the login button

System Requirements for Joomla 3.x

  • Database − MySQL 5.1 +
  • Web Server 
    • WAMP (Windows)
    • LAMP (Linux)
    • XAMP (Multi-platform)
    • MAMP (Macintosh)
    • Nginx
    • Microsoft IIS
  • Operating System − Cross-platform
  • Browser Support − IE (Internet Explorer 7), Firefox, Google chrome
  • SSL (Secure Socket Layer) − A valid security certificate is required for HTTPS
  • PHP Compatibility − PHP 5.4+ or PHP 5.3.10+

what is joomla?

Joomla is an open source Content Management System (CMS), which is used to build websites and online applications. It is free and extendable which is separated into front-end templates and back-end templates (administrator). Joomla is developed using PHP, Object Oriented Programming, software design patterns and MySQL

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