Joomla

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) and helps one store content (text, documents, photos, videos etc) on websites. It can be used for building websites of all kinds - corporate, personal, eCommerce, charity, educational, travel, news, magazines etc. Joomla 1.0 was released in September 2005 and the Joomla developer community keeps adding features with every release. It is a free and open source software (FOSS) which makes it one of the most popular CMS.

A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires no technical knowledge to manage a website. It has powerful extensions and plugins that can help a user create galleries, polls, searches, chats, forums and many other utilities easily without requiring any technical development skills.

Basic Level

1. Overview of Joomla

• Explain the concept of Content Management System
• Introduce Joomla as a CMS
• Software and hardware requirements for running Joomla
• OS and Joomla version to be used for the series
• Overview of the key features that will be demonstrated in the Joomla series

2. Installing Joomla on localhost

• Install Joomla on Linux machine
• Cross verify the installation

3. Common mistakes and uninstalling Joomla

• Explain the common mistakes that happen when installing Joomla
• Demonstrate solutions to those mistakes
• Explain how to uninstall Joomla

4. Creating Articles in Joomla

• Explain about Article Manager in Joomla
• Create a new Article
• Edit and existing Article
• Make a copy of an article
• Delete an article

5. Article Options in Joomla

• Explain about status of an article
• Explain about various publishing options
• Explain about the global options for articles

6. Formatting Article in Joomla

• Demonstrate basic formatting for an article
• Explain about styling an article text
• Demonstrate how to insert lists, page breaks and read more link.

7. Categories in Joomla

• Explain about Category Manager
• Explain how to create and edit categories
• Explain how to create sub-categories
• Explain how to assign articles to a category
• Explain how to move or copy articles to a different category
• Explain the difference between deleting and unpublishing a category and how to perform the two operations

8. Menus in Joomla

• Explain menus and their importance in Joomla
• Explain about Menu Manager
• Explain how to create menu items and submenus
• Demonstrate how to change the default homepage
• Explain how to unpublish menu items

Contributors and Content Editors

Itspriyanka, Minal, Nirmala Venkat, PoojaMoolya