Tiggeler E. - Joomla! 1.6 First Look [2011, PDF, ENG]

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Stepping Up to Joomla! 1.6
Chapter 2: Exploring your Enhanced Workspace
Chapter 3: Organizing and Managing Content
Chapter 4: Managing Menus and Menu Modules
Chapter 5: Managing Site Users with Access Control
Chapter 6: New Flexibility in Using Templates
Chapter 7: Unleashing the New Power of Extensions
Chapter 8: SEO Improvements
Index

•Preface
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•Chapter 1: Stepping Up to Joomla! 1.6
◦Upgrading from 1.5
■Joomla! 1.5 extension compatibility
■Changes for templates
■When should you move to 1.6?
■Migrating content from Joomla! 1.5
◦What's new? A quick overview
■1 - Usability enhancements
■A friendlier interface
■The great new time-saving toolbar
■2 - Working with content
■The endless joy of unlimited categories
■No more fiddling with menus
■3 - New ways to manage user access
■Do you want it simple? Keep it simple
■4 - Working with extensions and templates
■Updating extensions? Just lean back
■Templating to your taste
■SEO improvements
◦Summary
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•Chapter 2: Exploring your Enhanced Workspace
◦Before you start: choosing a safe root user's name
■Changing the root user's name after installation
■Logging in to the backend
◦What's changed in the backend?
■What's gone: no more sections
■What's been added: the Users menu
■What's been moved: some tools and odds and ends
■User Settings and Media Settings have been moved
◦Five great new time-saving features
■Timesaver # 1: going home in one click
■Timesaver # 2: adding new items in one click
■Timesaver # 3: Save & New
■Using the new Save & New button
■Timesaver # 4: Save as Copy
■Creating dummy content using Save as Copy
■Timesaver # 5: tabbed screens
◦One great life-saver: two-step deletion
■Deleting an item
■Exploring and restoring thrashed content
■Permanently deleting items
◦Customizing the looks of the backend
■Selecting another backend template
■Setting the backend template to suit your taste
◦Summary
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•Chapter 3: Organizing and Managing Content
◦Organizing content using nested categories
■Improvement #1: categories can now be one level deep
■Improvement #2: creating multiple category levels
■Creating a set of 'nested' categories
■Using nested categories in the sample data
■Exploring the sample data
■New category settings: notes and metadata
■Adding category metadata
■Fresh ways to display category contents on the frontend
■New category view # 1: List All Categories
■Creating a link to a site map
■Tweaking the site map display
■New Category View # 2: Articles Categories Module
■New Category View # 3: Articles (in) Category Module
◦Working with the updated article editor
■Creating a link to an article
■Inserting an article title as a hyperlink
■Using the updated Media Manager
■Enabling the Flash image uploader
◦Archiving articles
◦Summary
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•Chapter 4: Managing Menus and Menu Modules
◦Goodbye to a spartan Menu Manager
◦The all-new tabbed Menu Manager screen
■Exploring the new Menu Manager
■New ways to manage and edit menus
■A new shortcut to jump straight to selected menu items
■A new shortcut to jump to menu module settings
■New ways to manage and edit menu items
■Filtering the list of menu items
■Changes in the way you assign a menu item to the homepage
■New buttons to copy and move menu items
■Trashing menu items
◦Creating or editing individual Menu Items
■Choosing from new Menu Item Types
■New Menu Link Item type # 1: List All Categories
■New Menu Link Item type # 2: List All Contact Categories
■Setting the template for an individual menu item
■An overview of Menu Item Options
■Layout Options
■Article Options
■Integration Options
■Page Display Options
■Metadata Options
■Module Assignment for this Menu Item
◦Summary
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•Chapter 5: Managing Site Users with Access Control
◦What's new about the Access Control Levels system?
◦What are the default user groups and permissions?
■The default site-wide settings
■Default user groups
■Public – the guest group
■Registered – the user group that can log in
■Author, Editor, Publisher – the frontend content team
■Manager, Administrator, Super User – the backend administrators
■Shop Suppliers and Customers – two sample user groups
■Are there also sample users available?
◦Action Permissions: what users can do
■Permissions are inherited
■What do the available action permissions mean?
■Level 1 – site-wide permissions in Global Configuration
■Level 2 – permissions for components
■Level 3 – permissions for categories
■Level 4 – permissions for articles
◦Viewing Access Levels: what users can see
■Wrapping up: the ingredients of ACL
◦ACL at work: how to control user permissions
■ACL example 1: allow specific users to manage contacts
■Step 1: create a user group
■Step 2: tell Joomla! what the group can see and do
■Step 3: add users to the group
■Check if it works
■ACL example 2: allow users to edit one specific article
■Step 1: create a user group
■Step 2: tell Joomla! what the group can see and do
■Step 3: add users to the group
■Check if it works
◦More on Access Control
◦Summary
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•Chapter 6: New Flexibility in Using Templates
◦What's new? Finally, table-less templates
■What does that clean output look like?
■Why clean code is good for everybody
◦Introducing the tabbed Template Manager
■The Styles tab: selecting templates and settings
■Selecting a template
■Template Styles
■The Templates tab: exploring templates and editing code
◦Customizing templates using Template Styles
■Changing the site color and layout options
■Customizing the site logo
■Using a text logo
■Changing the header image file
◦Creating Template Styles to style individual pages
■Creating and using a Template Style
◦Assigning templates from the menu item itself
■Choosing a template from a menu item
◦Exploring and editing installed templates
■What templates are available?
■atomic
■beez5
■beez2
■bluestork
■hathor
■Previewing templates
■Exploring available module positions
◦Editing template code
◦Installing and assigning a new template
◦Summary
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•Chapter 7: Unleashing the New Power of Extensions
◦Changes in the extensions that come with Joomla!
■The new Redirect Manager
■New modules to display category contents
■Switching languages
■No more polls
◦Exploring pre-installed extensions
◦The new Extension Manager screen
■Tab 1: Install
■Tab 2: Update
■Tab 3: Manage
■Tab 4: Discover
■Tab 5: Warnings
◦New module features
■Setting a time span for publishing modules
■Creating a scheduled module
■Making use of the new Note field
■Assigning a module to specific menu items
■Assigning a module to all pages except a few
■Assigning modules from the menu item settings
■Changing module settings via the Edit Menu Item screen
■Displaying available module positions
◦Finding and downloading extensions for Joomla! 1.6
◦Summary
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•Chapter 8: SEO Improvements
◦The SEO bonus of well structured layouts
■Proper use of HTML heading elements
■Adding H3 through H6 headings
■Adding an alternative H1 page heading
■Page Heading and Page Title – what's the difference?
◦Configuring HTML page titles
■Setting the HTML page title
■Adding the Site Name to the page title
◦Entering site metadata
■Entering metadata for menu items, categories, and articles
■Choosing what metadata to set
◦Using search engine friendly URLs
◦Adding a site map
■Using the Xmap site map extension
◦Using the new Redirect Manager
■Creating page redirects
■Redirecting multiple old URLs in one go
◦More on SEO
◦Summary