Chapter 8 [ 133 ] So, the text is there already. Now we have to take care of the smaller details. Firstly, the whole text should not be displayed, only a small hook. Return to the back end, put the cursor at the place where the teaser is to end and click on the Read more button below the text eld. A red line that symbolizes the division between the two parts of the text is inserted in the window: You can also use the editor tools to format the text. After you click on Save, your front page will look like the following: Parameters There are various parameter blocks here as well, just like in the creation of menus. You can see general information about the article above the parameter blocks. Article ID: The dataset number of the article. State: Current status (currently published). Hits: How often this article has been accessed. If you click the Reset button, the hits are reset to 0. Content Menu [ 134 ] Revised: In the beginning, the article has version number 1. Every time it is saved, the version number increases by 1. (This provides a foundation for the planned version administration). Created: Date of creation. Modied: Date of editing. Parameters—Article The rst block represents the base parameters: Author: You can select the writer of the piece of news from a list. All existing users are displayed in this list. Author Alias: You can enter an author pseudonym that will then be displayed on the website. Access Level: This option is used for providing access to the three user groups. Created Date: At this point you can change the creation date of the article. If you click on the calendar icon, a graphic calendar will appear to help you with the input. Start Publishing: This lets you set a start date for publication. By default, content is published immediately. If you click on the calendar icon, a graphic calendar will appear to help you with the input. End Publishing: Here you can enter an expiration date for the content. By default, content never expires. If you click on the calendar icon, a graphic calendar will appear again. Chapter 8 [ 135 ] Parameters-Advanced In the Parameters-Advanced section you can overwrite the parameters that were dened for this content. These settings are only valid for request of the complete article in Site | Global Conguration. These settings are only valid for the call up of the complete article, in our case after clicking on the Read more link. Show Title: Should the page title be displayed or hidden? Title Linkable: Overwriting of the global settings. Intro Text: Should the teaser text be displayed or hidden? Section Name: Should the section name be displayed or hidden? Section Title Linkable: Should the section name be displayed as a link to all articles in this section? Content Menu [ 136 ] Category Title: Should the category name be displayed or hidden? Category Title Linkable: Should the category name be displayed as a link to all categories in this section? These seven parameters overwrite the global settings for this individual article: Content language: The language of the article can be dened with this. This new feature offers interesting options with language control in conjunction with Alex Kempens' Joomsh (http://www.joomfish.net/). Depending on the content, the website could be displayed in one or another language. Key Reference: References for export into the DocBook (http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/DocBook) format can be dened here. At the moment this is only relevant for developers in connection with the help system. Alternative Read more: An alternative text can be entered here for the Read more link. This is relevant when creating a barrier-free website. Metadata Information In this tab you can enter a specic description and keywords for every page section as metadata. The texts entered here are then inserted with the message in the meta tags into the HTML source code of the website in addition to the metadata specied in the Global Conguration: Chapter 8 [ 137 ] In the Robots section, search words for robots can be entered. The respective meta tag is then enabled. <meta name="robots" content="word1 word2" /> In the Author eld you can also enter a special author name for the meta tags. Images How do images get into the content? The images issue is a recurrent theme in the CMS world. The image has to be created (camera), transmitted (cable, WLAN), edited (image enhancement), loaded onto the server (FTP, PHP-Upload), and linked to the article. Joomla! by default allows you to link images that are in the Media Manager into your article by means of a selection dialog. Position the cursor at the place within the text where you would like the image to be displayed. Then click on the Image button below the text window. The following screen should be observed: Content Menu [ 138 ] You can link whichever image you want from the media section into any piece of content. If the image isn't in the media section yet, you can upload it by clicking the Upload icon while you are editing the content. Select a subdirectory and click on the image that you want to insert. Click on the Insert button. Now you can add a title for the image and align it. Your image now appears in the text window as seen in the following screenshot: The parameters of the image can, of course, be edited with the TinyMCE editor. Mark the image by left-clicking on it. Then click on the icon with the tree above the text window. The image dialog box of the TinyMCE editor opens. You can now dene additional parameters like links, pop-up windows, attitude, and some other parameters. Here a 15-pixel space has been dened around the image. Chapter 8 [ 139 ] After you have clicked on the Apply icon, check the result either on your website or by clicking the Preview icon. You can insert page breaks as easily as the Read more link or the images. Position the cursor where you want the page break to be and click on the Pagebreak button below the text eld. The following screen should be observed: You can enter a Page Title for the next page with this. In addition you can enter an Table of Contents Alias for the table of content that Joomla! automatically produces. For example, here the title of the article is My News and in the content directory there is now a heading by the name of Everything you ever wanted to know about coffee. Now click on Insert Pagebreak. The page break is displayed as a gray line in the text window. Above the article text you can now see Page x of y, there is a Article Index top right with the text that you entered and below the text of the article are the links Prev and Next to navigate between the pages. You can integrate as many images and page breaks as you want into a text. Content Menu [ 140 ] Article Trash Just as with the menu items, you cannot delete articles directly. By clicking the Trash icon in article management, the articles are dispatched into the trash basket. Clicking the Restore icon in the trash basket will restore the deleted articles, clicking the Delete icon will irretrievably delete them: Section Manager The overview table of the section manager lists the information in the structured format that you have already seen in other lists. In this case, it includes the categories that are contained in a section as well as a count of how many are active and how many are in the trash basket: You can publish, copy, delete, and edit the existing sections and create new ones here. Chapter 8 [ 141 ] Editing Sections As an example, let us modify the already existing section News and link it to our Joomla! 1.5 Book menu. Put a check on the checkbox in front of News in the section list and click on the Edit icon: Title: Title of the section (also appears in the browser's title line). Alias: The name in Joomla!'s internal register. Published: Whether the section should be published immediately or not. Order: The sorting of the sections is dened here. Access Level: Who has access to this element? Image: With this you can select an image that will be displayed on the website when the category is requested. This image has to be in the root directory of the Media Manager—here it is articles.jpg. Image Position: You can dene the alignment of the image here. Description Window: This is the description of the section. If you have selected a WYSIWYG editor in Site | Global Conguration, you will be offered a basic text editor here. Content Menu [ 142 ] The only thing missing now is a link to the Joomla! 1.5 Book. You can link this section using Menus | Main Menu. Here you can specify Joomla! 1.5 Book in the Display in option. Go to Menus | Main Menu and click on the New icon. Then click on the Articles menu item type. [...]... components for Joomla! 1.0, and bit by bit more and more are being readied for Joomla! 1 .5 But first take a look at the components that are shipped with Joomla! 1 .5 Banner Banner consists of Banners, Clients, and Categories Banners The banner component makes the display of advertising banners on your site possible Banner switching with Joomla! is accounted for on the basis of purchased banner impressions A... similar in Joomla! Business logic, such as banner administration or a forum, is written in a generic way and then works in Joomla! in concert with all of the templates and with the Joomla! administration A module often assumes the display of a website and a plug-in adds additional functionality to existing text (similar to a scripting language) By now there are over 2,000 supplemental components for Joomla!. .. is: "What are users searching for on my website?" With Joomla! 1 .5, you can find the search terms and their frequency in the search statistics In order for this to work, you have to explicitly enable capture of search words in the presets Web Links With this you can construct a link list or a download section that you can integrate into your website Joomla! provides the categories again and counts the... In our case, this includes only the two categories, Latest News and Newsflash These wound up in the table display of the content by simply clicking on the category link The blog display with Joomla! is a list of items with their intro texts (hooks, teasers) and depending on the article, a Read more link In both cases, there is an orange‑colored button in your browser, behind which you can find a news... is the title page of your website Joomla! suggests that it should contain the articles that you would like to have there Sometimes, such as with a simple website, you may not want that type of a start page A single article may be enough under certain circumstances This brings us to the question: 'What should my website look like later?' If you will want a start page with several articles later, then... of remaining impressions Clicks: Clicks on the banner in numbers and as a percentage of impressions Tags: Tags (categories) for the banner can be assigned with this The display of the banners can be controlled with these tags ID: Dataset key [ 151 ] Components Menu Graphic Banners To switch a new full banner, first upload the file from the media area (Site | Media Manager) into the /images/banner/... Category: Select the contact category At the moment we only have the sample category Contacts Linked to User: This option allows you to link a contact with a user account Access Level: Which user group can access this contact? ID: Dataset number of the contact [ 155 ] Components Menu Information Here are the information fields for this contact Fields that don't have any values in them are automatically hidden... contact form [ 158 ] Chapter 9 Categories In the Categories section you can define new categories and modify existing ones You get there from the Components | Contacts | Categories menu and via the Categories tab in the Contact Manager The edit form is displayed after you click on the Edit icon or on the category name You can integrate an image and edit the description with the WYSIWYG editor [ 159 ] Components... articles list You can sort the articles within the front page here You can see the title, section, category, and author of the article uncategorized articles are called Static Content here You can limit the list with the filter options If you have more articles than will fit on the front page, navigation links are activated on the website below the front page articles [ 1 45 ] Content Menu You can change the... category URL: The URL of the link Order: Sorting of the links Parameters: Here you can select whether the link should be displayed in a new window (with or without navigation) or in the same window Description: You can enter a comprehensive description of the link [ 1 65 ] Components Menu Categories The link categories, which can be accessed in the respective Category Section, are administered in the Components . supplemental components for Joomla! 1. 0, and bit by bit more and more are being readied for Joomla! 1. 5. But rst take a look at the components that are shipped with Joomla! 1. 5. Banner Banner consists. here. Content Menu [ 14 2 ] The only thing missing now is a link to the Joomla! 1. 5 Book. You can link this section using Menus | Main Menu. Here you can specify Joomla! 1. 5 Book in the Display. similar in Joomla!. Business logic, such as banner administration or a forum, is written in a generic way and then works in Joomla! in concert with all of the templates and with the Joomla! administration.