This article deliberately archived as an example.

As with previous releases, Joomla! provides a unified and easy-to-use framework for delivering content for Web sites of all kinds. To support the changing nature of the Internet and emerging Web technologies, Joomla! required substantial restructuring of its core functionality and we also used this effort to simplify many challenges within the current user interface. Joomla! 1.5 has many new features.

In Joomla! 1.5, you''ll notice:

• Substantially improved usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the original Mambo foundations
• Expanded accessibility to support internationalisation, double-byte characters and right-to-left support for Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew languages among others
• Extended integration of external applications through Web services
• Enhanced content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination
• A more sustainable and flexible framework for Component and Extension developers
• Backward compatibility with previous releases of Components, Templates, Modules, and other Extensions

By putting all of your content into nested categories you can give users and search engines access to everything using a menu.

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jLocator provides rich interface to search and display dealer/office locations for a company who owns offices in multiple locations using Google Map API.

jLocator provides easy to use interface for searching location, zip code, area code and provides Google map to display the locations.

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Administrator can easily add/edit the locations/offices from backend interface and publish/unpublished locations.

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There are lots of places you can get help with Joomla!. In many places in your site administrator you will see the help icon. Click on this for more information about the options and functions of items on your screen. Other places to get help are:

• Support Forums
• Documentation
• Professionals
• Books

It's easy to get started creating your website. Knowing some of the basics will help.

What is a Content Management System?

A content management system is software that allows you to create and manage webpages easily by separating the creation of your content from the mechanics required to present it on the web.

In this site, the content is stored in a database. The look and feel are created by a template. The Joomla! software brings together the template and the content to create web pages.

Site and Administrator

Your site actually has two separate sites. The site (also called the front end) is what visitors to your site will see. The administrator (also called the back end) is only used by people managing your site. You can access the administrator by clicking the "Site Administrator" link on the "This Site" menu or by adding /administrator to the end of you domain name.

Log in to the administrator using the username and password created during the installation of Joomla!.

Logging in

To login to the front end of your site use the login form or the login menu link on the "This Site" menu. Use the user name an password that were created as part of the installation process. Once logged in you will be able to create and edit articles.

In managing your site, you will be able to create content that only logged in users are able to see.

Creating an article

Once you are logged in, a new menu will be visible. To create a new article, click on the "submit article" link on that menu.

The new article interface gives you a lot of options, but all you need to do is add a title an put something in the content area. To make it easy to find, set the state to published an put it in the Joomla! category.

Learn more

There is much more to learn about how to use Joomla! to create the web site you envision. You can learn much more at the Joomla! documentation site and on the Joomla! forums.

All components also are used in the administrator area of your website. In addition to the ones listed here, there are components in the administrator that do not have direct front end displays, but do help shape your site. The most important ones for most users are

• Media Manager
• Extensions Manager
• Menu Manager
• Global Configuration
• Banners
• Redirect

Media Manager

The media manager component lets you upload and insert images into content throughout your site. Optionally, you can enable the flash uploader which will allow you to to upload multiple images. Help

Extensions Manager

The extensions manager lets you install, update, uninstall and manage all of your extensions. The extensions manager has been extensively redesigned for Joomla! 1.6, although the core install and uninstall functionality remains the same as in Joomla 1.5. Help

Menu Manager

The menu manager lets you create the menus you see displayed on your site. It also allows you to assign modules and template styles to specific menu links. Help

Global Configuration

The global configuration is where the site administrator configures things such as whether search engine friendly urls are enabled, the site meta data (descriptive text used by search engines and indexers) and other functions. For many beginning users simply leaving the settings on default is a good way to begin, although when your site is ready for the public you will want to change the meta data to match its content. Help

Banners

The banners component provides a simple way to display a rotating image in a module and, if you wish to have advertising, a way to track the number of times an image is viewed and clicked. Help

Redirect

The redirect component is used to manage broken links that produce Page Not Found (404) errors. If enabled it will allow you to redirect broken links to specific pages. It can also be used to manage migration related URL changes. Help

The contact component provides a way to provide contact forms and information for your site or to create a complex directory that can be used for many different purposes. Help

The content component (com_content) is what you use to write articles. It is extremely flexible and has the largest number of built in views. Articles can be created and edited from the front end, making content the easiest component to use to create your site content. Help

The search component provides basic search functionality for the information contained in your core components. Many third party extensions also can be searched by the search component. Help

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The authentication plugins operate when users login to your site or administrator. The Joomla! authentication is in operation by default but you can enable Gmail or LDAP or install a plugin for a different system. An example is included that may be used to create a new authentication plugin.

Default on:

• Joomla Help

Default off:

• Gmail Help
• LDAP Help

Editors are used thoughout Joomla! where content is created. TinyMCE is the default choice in most locations although CodeMirror is used in the template manager. No Editor provides a text box for html content.

Default on:

• CodeMirror Help
• TinyMCE Help
• No Editor Help

Default off:

• None

These plugins are behind the buttons found beneath your editor. They only run when an editor plugin runs.

Default on:

• Editor Button: Image Help
• Editor Button: Readmore Help
• Editor Button: Page Break Help
• Editor Button: Article Help

Default off:

• None

The search component uses plugins to control which parts of your Joomla! site are searched. You may choose to turn off some areas to improve performance or for other reasons. Many third party Joomla! extensions have search plugins that extend where search takes place.

Default On:

• Content Help
• Contacts Help
• Weblinks Help
• News Feeds Help
• Categories Help

Welcome!

This is a basic site about the beautiful and fascinating parks of Australia.

On this site you can read all about my travels to different parks, see photos, and find links to park websites.

This sample site is an example of using the core of Joomla! to create a basic website, whether a "brochure site,"  a personal blog, or as a way to present information on a topic you are interested in.

Read more about the site in the About Parks module.

Lorem Ipsum is filler text that is commonly used by designers before the content for a new site is ready.

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Lorem Ipsum is text that is traditionally used by designers when working on a site before the content is ready.

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Here's how to find our shop.

By car

Drive along Main Street to the intersection with First Avenue.  Look for our sign.

By foot

From the center of town, walk north on Main Street until you see our sign.

By bus

Take the #73 Bus to the last stop. We are on the north east corner.

Welcome to the Fruit Shop

We sell fruits from around the world. Please use our website to learn more about our business. We hope you will come to our shop and buy some fruit.

This mini site will show you how you might want to set up a site for a business, in this case one selling fruit. It shows how to use access controls to manage your site content. If you were building a real site, you would might want to extend it with e-commerce, a catalog, mailing lists or other enhancements, many of which are available through the Joomla! Extensions Directory.

To understand this site you will probably want to make one user with groups set to customer and one with group set to grower. By logging in with different privileges you can see how access control works.

At our orchard we grow the world's best oranges as well as other citrus fruit such as lemons and grapefruit. Our family has been tending this orchard for generations.

Watermelon is a wonderful and healthy treat. We grow the world's sweetest watermelon. We have the largest watermelon patch in our country.

This module shows a list of the calendar months containing archived articles. After you have changed the status of an article to archived, this list will be automatically generated. Help

This module displays a list of categories from one parent category. Help

This module allows you to display the articles in a specific category. Help

This Module shows a list of the most recently published and current Articles. Some that are shown may have expired even though they are the most recent. Help

This module displays a username and password login form. It also displays a link to retrieve a forgotten password. If user registration is enabled (in the Global Configuration settings), another link will be shown to enable self-registration for users. Help

The Who's Online Module displays the number of Anonymous Users (e.g. Guests) and Registered Users (ones logged in) that are currently accessing the Web site. Help

This module displays the latest registered users. Help

The banner module is used to display the banners that are managed by the banners component in the site administrator. Help.

This Module allows you to create your own HTML Module using a WYSIWYG editor. Help

This module allows the displaying of a syndicated feed. Help

This module shows the Joomla! copyright information. Help

The language switcher module allows you to take advantage of the language tags that are available when content, modules and menu links are created.

This module displays a list of available Content Languages for switching between them.

When switching languages, it redirects to the Home page defined for the chosen language. Thereafter, the navigation will be the one defined for that language.

The language filter plugin must be enabled for this module to work properly.

Help

To view an example of the language switch moduler module, go to the site administrator and enable the language filter plugin and the language switcher module labellled "language switcher" and visit the fruit shop or park sample sites. Then follow the instructions in this tutorial.

This module will display a search box. Help

The Statistics Module shows information about your server installation together with statistics on the Web site users, number of Articles in your database and the number of Web links you provide.

The syndicate module allows you to display a link that allows users to take a feed from your site. It will only display on pages for which feeds are possible. That means it will not display on single article, contact or weblinks pages, such as this one. Help

This module displays a menu on the site (frontend).  Menus can be displayed in a wide variety of ways by using the menu options and css menu styles. Help

Breadcrumbs provide a pathway for users to navigate through the site. Help

Now includes a version for Joomla! ® 1.5, Joomla! ® 1.6 and Joomla! ® 1.7

Joomla! ® has one security problem, any web user can easily know if the site is created in Joomla! ® by typing the URL to access the administration area (i.e. www.sitename.com/administrator). This allows hackers to hack the site easily once they crack the id and password for Joomla! ® . The jSecure Authentication component prevents access to the administration (back end) login page if the user does not use the appropriate access key.

jLocator

jLocator provides rich interface to search and display dealer/office locations for a company who owns offices in multiple locations using Google Map API.

jLocator provides easy to use interface for searching location, zip code, area code and provides Google map to display the locations.

Read more...

jLike Button enables users to make connections to webpage and share content with friends on Facebook with just one click.

Since the content is hosted by Facebook, the button can display personalized content whether or not the user has logged into the site.

Protect you Wordpress site! wSecure hides your Wordpress admin page from public access making it invisible helping protect your website from hackers. The problem with Wordpress is that anyone can tell if your site is Wordpress by simply typing in the default URL to the administration area