Joomla! User Manual
Joomla! V1.0.11
21 October 2006
Steve White – Websdezined.com
and
Andy Wallace,
Introduction
Thank you for choosing Joomla! Content Management System (CMS) software! You have made
a great choice by selecting one of the most powerful and versatile Open Source Content
Management Systems available.
Joomla! is an award-winning CMS that will help you build web sites and other powerful online
applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an Open Source solution that is freely available to everybody.
What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
A CMS is a computer software system for organising and facilitating collaborative creation of
documents and other content. A CMS is frequently a web application used for managing web
sites and web content.
Joomla! for End Users
The basic Joomla! package is designed to be relatively easy to install, even for nonprogrammers.
Most people have no trouble getting our software up and running, and there is
plenty of support available via the Joomla! forum at
http://forum.joomla.org.Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit
content, upload and add images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or
organisation go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla!
web site.
You will easily be able to add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, and create
an unlimited amount of Sections, Categories, and Content Items on your web site via a simple,
browser-based interface.
Taking Joomla! to the Next Level
Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your web site
sing. However, for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that
makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and
extensions (Components, Modules, and Mambots). Here are just some examples of the hundreds
of available extensions:
Dynamic form builders
Business or organisational directories
Document management
Image and multimedia galleries
E‐commerce and shopping cart engines
Forums and chat software
Calendars
Blogging software
E‐mail newsletters
Data collection and reporting tools
Banner advertising systems
Subscription services...
in addition, many, many more.
Chapter 1: Welcome to Joomla!
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 18 Version 1.0.1.
You can find examples at the growing Joomla! Extensions or Components directory at
http://extensions.joomla.org/. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by
our active developer community!
Joomla! for Developers
Many companies or organisations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the
basic Joomla! package or in the freely available third party extensions.
Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to
create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.
Using the core framework, developers can easily build:
Integrated e‐commerce systems
Inventory control systems
Data reporting tools
Custom product catalogues
Complex business directories
Reservation and booking systems
Communication tools
Application bridges
or any kind of application to suit a unique need.
If your company or organisation hires a third party Joomla! developer, or builds in-house software
using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any
one developer or to a proprietary, closed application.
You can learn more about developing on the Joomla! framework on our developer’s network at
http://dev.joomla.org/. The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage our framework and user
interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment.
So, What’s the Catch?
There is no catch. Joomla! is free and available to all under the GPL licence. Further Information
about this at
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/5/6/.We do not claim that Joomla! is perfect, and cannot promise to meet every requirement in the
world. However, for many web applications, our software is perfectly suited for the job.
We are adding great new features with each release and, with the help and advice of our
incredible user community; we plan to deliver award-winning software for years to come.
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