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Administrator template
Administrator templates changes the way the administrator interface looks.

If you are building a website for yourself, then you will probably never need to change your back-end template. When building websites for clients, you might need to slightly customize the administrator template to reflect your customer’s brand. Below is a screen shot of an Adminstrator template.

Site Template
The site templates change the way your website looks to visitors.

Most of the time, you will be dealing with the site templates to change public look-n-feel of your website. Below is an example of a Site template, it is Joomla's default blog template.

10. Templates

A template controls the graphical presentation of your website. It determines the layout, colors, type-faces, graphics and other aspects of design that make your site unique. There are two types of
templates: “Site template” for front-end presentation and “Administrator template” for back-end presentation.

To view your templates....Go to “Extensions” => “Template Manager”. The window below will appear.

You'll need to be online for some plug-ins to work.

In case of Facebook plug-in, it requires some live data to work.

A.B Damola:
Zino, all of d fb plugins av installed alwz bring 'Strict standard error'. Cud it b because am nt doin it online? Am usin xampp 2 do 'trial n error'

Yes. Disqus is one of them, its quite easy to configure. You may go to www.joomla.org/extensions to search for more.

A.B Damola:
@ZinoFego, is dia any plugin 2 mak pple comment on joomla3.1 blog? Dia r only 'print' and 'email' optns dia?

I will advice you to use Joomla 3.1 because it is the latest version, it has more advanced features and to top it all, it has more security features.

Djangocode: @ZinoFego

Advice on Which Version to Use and why..

Between Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.1 to 3.2..

Thanks..

9. Plug-in

A plug-in though lighter, has the same function as a Component, Modules; it is built to extend Joomla’s functionality with third-party options.

[/b]To access the Plug-ins in our site.[/b]
Click Extensions, then "Plug-in Manager".

Here, all the plug-ins in the system will show. Most plug-ins have very little configurations. You just need to Enable or Disable them. For now, we will not do any Plug-in configuration.

Gotcha... Thanks man.

I'm teaching a free Joomla class here on NL, you can hop in to share your Joomla knowledge with us: https://www.nairaland.com/1485054/joomla-free-training-nairaland-live

folyboy2013: in file com_jea / jea.php there are access groups listed...

//add ACL
$acl = & JFactory::getACL();
$acl->addACL( 'com_jea', 'edit', 'users', 'jea agent', 'property', 'own' );
$acl->addACL( 'com_jea', 'edit', 'users', 'manager', 'property', 'all' );
$acl->addACL( 'com_jea', 'edit', 'users', 'administrator', 'property', 'all' );
$acl->addACL( 'com_jea', 'edit', 'users', 'super administrator', 'property', 'all' );

change line

$acl->addACL( 'com_jea', 'edit', 'users', 'jea agent', 'property', 'own' );

to

$acl->addACL( 'com_jea', 'edit', 'users', 'Registered', 'property', 'own' );

I was looking for an explanation on how you solved the bolded below.

"i use JEA extension for my property listing but ijavascript:void(0); have a problem on how to make register user to be able to add property on the front end, the problem i am having is that the JEA is not showing on my group user section"

Please share with us how you did it. I typed a probable solution but could post it because NL was down earlier in the day.

You don't have to create forms from phpmyadmin. A Joomla module or component can do that for you. The data that was submitted from the module or component can either be sent to your email or you can view it at the administrator's end of the site; in some cases both.

Nasty22: Thumbs up sir...u r a blessin..plz help me wit diz
1.So hw do i create forms on my joomla site usin phymyadmin?
2.after creatin d forms how do i acces d data dat av bin submited?
3.assumin d cöntent of d form was meant 2 ask questions 2a person..hw do i do i use joomla 2 create a login so dat i cud assess d info.sent 2d database?hlp me sir

Did the medical condition start before or after the wedding?

luvola: arsenal fan una know dey sleep ? Lwkmd

Arsenal All The Way!!!!

The free wasn't in light of being bad. Look at it from the angle of professionalism and service/product branding.

Just my thought though.

hilaryiwens05: It doesn't matter...whether I use d website mail or I use any other mail. 1ce d contact is made.
And stop callin other mail free as if its bad

Great concept but don't you think an email of your own website is a better idea compared to using a free email like you?

hilaryiwens05: Learn CMS(content management system)website designing in 3weeks.
Learning materials will also be provided. Course include:
1)Joomla, wordpress,& e-commerce web application
2)Website Hosting
3) And many more

Contact: 08182428991
BBM: 28B80E4B
Email: hilaryiwens@yahoo.com

8. Modules
Just like the Component, Modules are built to extend Joomla’s functionality with third-party options.

To access the "Modules", Click "Extensions" and then "Module Manager", all the "Modules" in your Joomla site will be shown.

The modules shown are the default modules as installed in Joomla and how these modules are positioned in the frontend makes your site appear the way you want it to. So two persons may use the same template but achieve different results.

Creating a New Module
Modules can be created from components installed in Joomla. Or you can install an already made Module. Most of the items we see in the frontend are modules.

So lets create a new module called "User Login" from the installed components in the site. There is a component already installed that we will access to enable us do this task.

Click "Extensions" then "Module Manager".
Click "New". In the next window, click "Login"
Enter a Title for this Module eg. "User Login"
Click Save & Close.

The module we just created won't appear at the frontend because we did not position it anywhere in the website. I will discuss a concept called "Module Positions" when we get to "Template Manager" shortly.

Module Positions will help us place our "User Login" form in the website. So lets continue to the next topic. We will revisit the "User Login" Module.

That's beautiful. Hope you are sharing with others.

huzaifaidris: Great tutorial. I use to get upto 500 visitors to my blog a day using just the twitter method with some of my own twists and I also used TweetAdder to automate all my things

Yesterday I showed how to get your first 1,000 visitors... a strategy that
leverages the incredible opportunities of Twitter and Facebook.

Today I want to show you how social media fits into your overall strategy for getting
traffic, links, and ultimately more customers.

This is exactly how I build both my personal and my companies' brands. As you'll
notice, social media is the center stone... but here's how it all fits together:

1. First I build presences on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn --
participate
in the community, add friends, and join the conversation.

(Refer back to the previous email on "Part 1" on how I do this.)

2. I link each of my profiles to my personal website to help build my personal
brand. At
the same time I link to my company from each profile, which helps it build more
traffic
and potentially acquire new customers.

3. On the social profiles I post on topics that make me seem like an authority
figure in
my space, which helps me land speaking gigs. These speaking gigs tend to convert very
well for customer acquisition for my company.

(Refer back to my email about the "3 Big Mistakes" for how to identify exactly what
your
readers / niche leaders are interested in.)

4. Every time I speak I tell people to follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and
LinkedIn, which helps me grow my audience.

5. As I start getting more of a following on these social sites I promote my
businesses
through there, which doesn't just build traffic, it also causes new people to discover
them and link to them from their blogs/websites.

6. Because my social media profiles are growing, I then hit up industry news websites
and blogs and ask them if I can guest post on their site. I also tell them how I will
promote the post through my social profiles, which helps get them more traffic. These
guest posts also bring in more customers as I include a bio in each guest post that
links
back to my company website.

7. Lastly, I constantly monitor who is saying what about my competition on these
social
websites. When I hear people complain I hit them up and tell them how my company can
solve their problems. This has helped me land big contracts with companies like HP and
Samsung.

Using the steps I mentioned above, not only am I increasing my traffic, but more
importantly I am acquiring new customers through social media.

The thing is, you can do this, too. This email shows how it all fits together, and
previous emails went in depth on most of these steps... like how to get started on
Facebook and Twitter (the same methods work on other social sites, too)...

... how to quickly identify article topics that your niche is guaranteed to like
(and then
how to promote that content)... how to "reprogram" your mind to stay motivated
through it all... and what to stop doing so you keep your time, energy and emotion
focused on this effective stuff while your competitors waste it on worthless,
conventional
tactics.

Sounds like you're in a pretty good spot.

PS -- Next up we answer the question on all our minds: How do you automate this stuff?

Source: http://www.quicksprout.com/blog

Yes....without even knowing how scripts work.

Rizstar: k we are waiting. please can i use joomla to create dynamic sites without necessarily writing scripts.?

7. Components.
Components are built to extend Joomla’s functionality with third-party options.

To access the Components, Click Components and all the components in your Joomla site will be listed in the drop down.

For the sake of the class lets discuss how to create Contacts, and Joomla! Update.

1. Overview of How to Create a New Contact in Contact Manager

1. Go to Components, then click Contacts. You will be taken to the Contacts Manager window.
2. Click New.
3. Enter New Contact Details, these are basically, email, phone number, address etc.
4. Click Save & Close to See List of your New Contact in Contact Manager.
*Lets assume that the contact we just created is titled "Contact Us".

Now let us to create a menu item called Contacts that will point to the "Contact Us" contact.

Here...lets refer to how we created a Menu item before:

Click Menu...then Main Menu......then New

In the "New" opened window, click Select in front of "Menu Item Type *" to pick the type of component this menu item will point to. In the pop up window, click "Contacts"...from the items that slid down..click "Single Contact".
Click "Select" in front of "Select Contact *" to show and select "Contact Us" from the list.
Enter Contacts as the "Menu Title".

Under the "Advanced Options" tabbed item, Choose "Plain" in "Display Format" ie "Advanced Options" --- "Display Format"---"Plain".
With this, when the "Contacts" menu item is clicked at the frontend, the Contant details plus a contact form is displayed.
Click Save & Close. Go and refresh your homepage to see your new menu item called "Contacts".

2. Joomla! Update
Click "Components".....then "Joomla! Update"
In the next window, you will see the message below:

No updates available
You already have the latest Joomla! version, 3.1.5.

This is because we already have the latest version. If there is an update to Joomla, it show here. With a few clicks, you will be updated to the latest version of Joomla. As a security check, please always ensure that your Joomla version is up to date.

The other components are Joomla defaults, so you may as well leave them the way they are but if need be we can make changes to them later.

Wow....I couldn't have said it better. Thanks man.

Djangocode: If u Have downloaded Joomla and maybe the name of the Joomla folder u downloaded is Joomla3.25, Just Rename it to Joomla3.. Duplicate it by copying and Renaming others to something like Joomla4 , Joomla5 depending on how many sites u wanna Run.. Copy these renamed folders to Yo www folder if u are using WAMP or to htdocs folder if u are using XAMPP.. Remember that u have to create different databases for the Joomla copies u have in yo Root Folder.. U can access em by Running ur WAMP or XAMPP and typing this on ur browser: http://localhost/Joomla3 or http://localhost/Joomla4 etc..

2). As Per U Losing ur files incase of a Virus attack.. Get a working Antivirus(Avast is free) and keep it Updated.. Also Download RECUVA, Google it.. U can use it to Recover files that have been deleted from a Hard drive or recycle Bin or Flash drive.. And most Importantly, Save all yo Web works(Copy the folders) in a Flash or Hard Drive.. Atleast u'll only have to reinstall XAMPP or WAMP and copy your folders back incase of u formatting ur PC..

3). As For the Hotel Management Extension, Go to www.joomla.org and search for it in the extensions directory.. I Think there are Premium ones out there for sale that will surely meet ur Requirements.. Some Nairalanders might even have it.. I'll have shared it with u if I have one..

Don't Thank Me..
Thank Nairaland Webmasters..

" All the other Tabbed menu items can be left unattended to but if you want to improve the SEO for this Article then click Metadata Options and fill the fields as required. "

Please refer to the above on this page.

dheaven: Nice tutorial. But how can we make sure our articles will appear in search engine easily?

Menus

The Menu Manager manages all the navigation within your Joomla 3.0 website. The default home page, how to display your menus, what is displayed in them. You can have different types of Menu Items. Menu items are created from components installed.

To access the Menu.
Click Menu
In the drop-down, you have Menu Manager, Main Menu and Bottom Menu.

The Menu Manager is used to create New Menus. Main Menu and Bottom Menu were created using the Menu Manager.
Since we have two menu items created for us already, lets pick one of them to see how it works. Our pick is Main Menu.
Click Main Menu: You will notice that two Menu items are listed. They are About and Home.

Click About: This is where this menu item is configured. At the moment we will just be looking at the details configuration of the menu item. You can leave all other configurations just the way they are. Below are our configurable items under "details".
Menu Item Type *:
This tells us the type of item this menu should point to. In this case that we are editing, it points to "Single Article". Click Select close to "Single Article" to see other components that a menu can point to.
Select Article *:
Since our menu item type is Article, we need to select the Article we want to point our menu to. From what is shown, "About" was the Article that was selected. You may Click Select to see other Articles that you can point the menu to.
Status: This is where you can set the Menu item to be Published, Unpublished or Thrashed.
Menu Location: Menu items are attached to a Menu, so you can choose here which of the menus this menu item is attached to.
Parent Item: This is where to choose whether this menu item is a parent item(standalone) or it is a sub menu. By default Menu item Root is selected; that means this menu is a standalone menu. But if this menu is a sub menu or drop down, then select the menu item that this menu is its sub menu.

Click Save & Close.

Create A New Menu Item
Lets create a new menu item that points to an external link to your Facebook Account.
Click Menu...then Main Menu
Click New.
In the "New" opened window, click Select in front of Menu Item Type * to pick the type of component this menu item will point to. In the pop up window, Click System Links, then Choose External URL.
We can now configure our External URL. The configuration here is just like configuring the menu item "about" that we discussed a moment ago except we have to input a Link for this menu item. So lets say our Facebook page URL is http://Facebook.com/SpringWebHost; this URL is now what we will type as our link.
Configure every other item just as we did for "About" menu item.

Adding A New Menu.
Like I earlier said, a Menu houses menu items, so if you have the need to group some menu items under one menu, this is how you can do that. So lets create a Menu called Policies.
Click Menu....hover your mouse over Menu Manager and click Add New Menu. In the window that opened, enter the Menu Title(Policies), Menu Type (Policies), and then the description of the Menu. Click Save & Close.
So whenever you create a New Menu Item, you can select "Policies" if the menu item falls under Policies Menu. Refer: (Menu Location: Menu items are attached to a Menu, so you can choose here which of the menus this menu item is attached to.).

I guess that guy was just trying to be of help.

vowiski: I care less about SEO.. Finding a balance with both humans and bot is the key now. I guess you
don't know what the humingbird search algorithm brings..

5. Creating Content

Overview of how content is created, managed, and displayed.

Joomla like any other website is driven by content. The Content Manager includes the Article Manager, Category Manager, Featured Articles Manager, and Media Manager.


1. Article Manager
This is usually a text file but you can add images, videos etc to it. From our homepage http://localhost:8080/JoomlaTraining or http://localhost/JoomlaTraining or http://YourDomainName.com/JoomlaSiteDirectory as the case may be, you will see the articles vividly displayed. The articles are:

Welcome to your blog
About your home page
Your Template.

We can create new articles or modify the ones we have there already to soothe our purpose. For a start, lets modify the first article on the homepage and then create a new one.

Modifying Welcome to your blog
1. Click Content. On the drop down...
2. Click Article Manager.
All the articles on the site will be displayed here.
Our Article of interest is Welcome to your blog. So click on it.

Now that the article is opened, lets modify it. From the opened window, there are so many parameters to format the article but you need not bother yourself much as most of the configurations here can be left just the way they are so we can discuss just the basics.

Article Title: As the name implies, this is the name of the Article. So lets change it from Welcome to your blog to[b] Welcome to Joomla Training Blog![/b], you may choose any name that is suitable for you. On the main body of the Article, you may change whatever you like.

All the other Tabbed menu items can be left unattended to but if you want to improve the SEO for this Article then click Metadata Options and fill the fields as required.

Click Save & Close. Go to the frontend and refresh your page to see the changes.

To create a new Article.
Click Content
Hover your mouse over Article Manager and click Add New Article.
Click New. Enter the Article Title, the Article content as required and then Click Save & Close.

To view the HTML source code of the Article, click HTML in the formatting tools area (just above the Article content area) of the Article. If you have a pre-formatted Article, you can paste the code here and your Article will be pasted in the content box. Click Save and go to the frontend to view your Article.


2. Category Manager
To access the Category Manager, Click Content, then Category Manager. In this window, there are two Categories created as we installed Joomla, they are: Uncategorised and Blog.
Click on any of them to see its configuration. The major thing here is to change the title of the category, you may as well ignore and create your own new Category. To do so: Click New, enter the Category name and click Save & Close.

Joomla Articles are grouped using the Category Manager. Grouped Articles can be easily accessed by a menu item or a module or can be linked to. On the homepage:

Older Posts houses
Welcome to your blog
About your home page
Your Template
Your Modules

Blog Roll houses
Joomla! Community
Joomla! Leadership Blog.

Putting An Article Into A Category:
Open an Article.
Under *Category, choose the Category you want the Article listed in.


3. Featured Articles Manager
It is used to control which 'Featured Articles are displayed on the Front Page and in what order they are displayed. The Front Page is often the Home page of a web site, but it can be any page in the site. The Front Page is created using a Menu Item with the Front Page layout.

To Feature An Article:
Open an Article. Look at the right side of the page, you will see Details. One of the configurable items listed there is Featured, select Yes.


4. Media Manager
To access the Media Manager. Click Content, on the drop down, Click Media Manager.
The Media Manager is a tool for uploading or deleting files in the <joomlaroot>/images/ directory on a web server. If you are using a control panel with a file manager, you will find your media files under the ‘images’ folder.

To upload images to the Media Manager, Click "Upload"...then Click "Choose Files". You will be taken to your computer hard drive to choose files you want to upload and Click "Start Upload". You will have access to these files later if you want to attach them to your Articles, Modules etc.

Here is, by far, one of the most common questions I get:

"I just started a new business. How do I get people to my site?"

Another great question from our community... because it's true --
the hardest part
about traffic building is getting to your first 1,000 visitors and
keeping the momentum
going after that.

Today you get your answer. If I started a new site, here's exactly
what I would do to get
my first 1,000 visitors:

The first thing to understand is there's an easy way and a hard way
to jump-start your
traffic.

In the old days, your only choice was to take the slow route: build
links to get search
rankings, grow your prominence on forums, and other things like
that. These were and
still are good, but they take time.

And I find that, when you're just starting, the key to keeping
motivated is to see quick
results. And today that is much easier because you've got sites
like Facebook and
Twitter with millions and MILLIONs of users on them every day.

(Plus, as an added bonus, it is easy to find people in your target
market on them, too.
Jackpot.)

So the easiest way to 1,000 visitors is by focusing time and energy
into building your
Twitter and Facebook profile.

========================
With Twitter do the following:
========================

1. After you create your profile start following other people and
companies in your
industry.

2. Perform keyword searches on Twitter for keywords related to what
you do. Also start
following 100 to 200 of those people each day.

3. Start tweeting about topics related to your industry (don't just
tweet about things
on your website).

4. You'll notice that after a few days 20 to 30% of the people you
follow will follow you
back. You can start manually unfollowing the people who don't
follow you back or if
you don't have the time you can use a service like Tweet Adder
which can do this for
you in an automated fashion.

5. Start participating on Twitter by tweeting at people in your
industry and retweeting
some of their tweets.

6. At this point you should have been on Twitter for more than 5
days and now you
can start tweeting about your company and content. Make sure you
aren't doing a
hard sell and that 80% of the time you are still tweeting about
stuff that isn't related to
your company.

========================
Now with Facebook you should:
========================

1. Friend thought leaders in your industry. Although a large
percentage of the people
will not accept your friend request, at least 10% of the thought
leaders should.

2. Start engaging with your audience by posting stuff on your wall.
The stuff shouldn't
be about your company, but more so about industry news and events
related to your
sector.

3. To create the most engagement post things that are short and
during times you
think your "target friends" are online.

4. Start commenting on your friends' wall and like messages that
you like within your
feed.

5. Start asking questions on your wall. These questions should be
related to your
industry. By asking questions you'll start to see more engagement
from your "target
friends".

6. After a week of engaging more heavily on Facebook you should
start seeing more
friend requests. Instead of turning away people you don't know,
accept them as they
could be a reader or your website or a potential customer of your
product/service.

7. At this point you should be posting information about your
company 30% of the time.
But, again, don't hard sell your product... only do soft pitches.

8. After you spend a month or so building up your Facebook and
Twitter presence it
shouldn't be hard to get at least a few thousand visitors to your
website just from these
2 traffic sources.

And that's all there is to it. It's not rocket science (anyone
telling you otherwise is trying
real hard to sell you something).

Building on that, the REAL key is to understand how social media
fits into your overall
traffic strategy.

Source: http://www.quicksprout.com/blog

Rizstar: pls why all the delays

I am sorry. I had a hectic week. We'll be through with the class this weekend.

kemini: I rather you call...

Posting links here is your best call.

Portofio isn't a source code.

5. Creating Content

Overview of how content is created, managed, and displayed.

elvis10ten: i got that under control now. But now am into two problems: 1)i wanna paginate in a joomla article, how can i ?. 2)i am looking for a very simple free joomla template with less images just like blogger or nairaland ?

Paginate as used in Q1. isn't a clear term in Joomla article. Do that question as an instance of a problem.

Q2. Send a PM to me so I can send a template to you.