Basics of Joomla! at MozFestPune, AIMS | Moz fest | 7th July 2012

1. mozFestPune
Allana Institute Of Mgmt Science
Saurabh Shah
Front-End Developer
ReMo
Joomla! Events Teams Member
Joomla! Social Teams Member
Joomla!Day India Organizing Team Member
Basics Of Joomla!

2. Cloudaccess.net
- I am Working Since 2009
- Only Dedicated Joomla! Hosting company , With Platform-
as-a-Service (PaaS), get hosting on premium equipment,
managed backups, Joomla! phone support, email, and lots
more.
- Demo.joomla.org has partnered with CloudAccess.net,
since May 2010 and is the official hosting company for
Joomla! Demo sites.
- Every month, over 22,000 new users sign up for the
services - that’s over 800 new Joomla! demo users every
day.

3. Cloudaccess.net
- We allow users to maintain the integrity of their content,
and continue to build and learn over an extended trial
period. Each demo site user will get a free, complete,
dedicated installation of the Joomla! CMS. Users sign up,
verify their email, and start building with complete
customization capabilities. After 30 days, a user can easily
migrate the site to another host or sign up with
CloudAccess.net for an ongoing account.

4. What is CMS ?
- A content management system (CMS) is software that keeps
track of every piece of content/data on a website much like a
local public library keeps track of books, music, films, and
other content in a library. Content can be text, photos, music,
video, documents, or just about anything else you can imagine.
- A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no
technical skill or knowledge to manage. Joomla! also functions
as an enterprise content management system (ECM) because it
can easily manage the entire scope of an enterprise or
government.

5. What is Joomla! ?
Joomla! is an award-winning open source application framework,
content management system (CMS) and enterprise content
management system (ECM) that powers nearly 3% of the world’s
websites. Because of Joomla’s extensible structure, there aren't
many things you cannot do, and that’s why it’s the perfect
application framework for individuals, small business, and large
enterprises. What sets Joomla apart from the rest is the
dedication to keeping things as simple as possible while
providing the most features possible. Joomla enables users of all
types to build websites and powerful online applications. First
released in 2005, Joomla! has gone through many updates, and
will continue to be developed into the future. Many aspects,
including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla!
the most popular website software available.

6. Joomla! Features
Joomla! CMS is built on top of an Application Framework
Application Framework - Build your own Apps
Advanced Login and logout features
Registered User Access
Manage Profiles and User field data
Content Management Access Control
Allow users to edit from the front end or back end
Allow access to different parts of the application
Hundreds of thousands of ready to go templates (see the list)
3rd Party Applications Support - Install ready-to-go applications
Build Quick Easy Brochure sites using the built-in CMS
Application Framework called the Joomla! Platform
Create Advanced Directories
Indexed Search with Smart Google *Like* search functions
Captcha built in to stop Spam

7. Joomla! Features (conti...)
Advanced Editor (WYSIWYG Editor)
Framework for Multilingual Applications
Multilingual Content Management System
Custom-built business intelligence applications
You own what you create in Joomla! - Open Source GPLv2
Develop Powerful Brands using Templates
HTML5 Enabled - CSS and advanced Java Script
Use Any Java Script (Moo-tools, jQuery, Twitter bootstrap and more)
Build Responsive Designs and bolt them to the CMS
Learn Joomla Implementation and assemble sites quickly
Design PSD and bolt it to Joomla!
Advanced Menu Control with Access Control
Add Advanced HTML5 Video
3rd Party applications to create a Advanced forms
Lead Generation Tool
Use Powerful 3rd Party Image Rotators

8. Joomla! Popularity
● Joomla is popular open source content management
system which is used to built websites.
● Reason behind its extensive popularity are :
○ Freely available and no individual is required to pay
huge amounts for the purpose of licensing it.
○ Joomla is easy to use and having extremely flexible
features which help in the creation of wide variety of
websites, such as personal websites, educational
websites, E-commerce applications and corporate
websites and many more.
○ One of the benefits of using Joomla web design
services is that, users can easily update and maintain
web pages from time to time.

9. Joomla! Popularity

10. New to Joomla! ?
● Start with latest version of the Joomla! and forget about
the Previous versions , Focus on the future. Current
Joomla! version is 2.5
● Use the documentation and forum for your most of the
help.
http://docs.joomla.org
http://forum.joomla.org
● Go to http://www.joomla.org and download Joomla!
latest version.

11. Joomla! Templates
● A template is the type of Joomla! extension that
changes the way your site looks. There are two
types of templates: Front-end Templates and
Back-end Templates.
● Joomla Template also allows users to override
the view of how extensions look.
● You can change the view of the extension by two
ways
css override & template override

12. 3 Important Topic which you should know
while working with Joomla!
1. Component
2. Modules
3. Plugins

13. Component
1. Components are the main
functional units that display in
your template, like contact
forms, Web Links etc.
2. They are usually displayed
in the center of the main
content area of a template
(depending on the template Component is under
structure). the red border

14. Modules
1. Modules are lightweight
and flexible extensions used
for page rendering.
2. These modules are mostly
visible as the “boxes” that are
arranged around a
component on a typical page.
Modules are under
Example: the login module, the green border
Polls Module etc.

15. Plugins
1. Provide routines which are associated with trigger events
within Joomla. When a particular trigger event occurs all
plugin routines of the type associated with the event are
executed in sequence.
2. Joomla! Plugins enable you to execute code in response
to certain events, either Joomla! core events or custom
events that are triggered from your own code. This is a
powerful way of extending the basic Joomla! Functionality.
Example : Comment system

16. There are 3 easy steps to
get started
1. Administration
2. Content
3. Navigation

17. 1. Administration
Front End Back End

18. Front End is called as Public View,
Which we see generally when we
navigate the site

19. Back End is called as Private View,
Which we see generally Don't have
access to.

20. Front End is for Public View / what
public can see.
Example: http://www.yoursite.com
Back End is for Administration work
Example: http://www.yoursite.com/administrator

21. 2. Content

22. Content - It contains the articles on
your website
Article Manager - Contains all your
articles / Add / Edit / Publish and
unpublish your articles
Category Manager - Contains and
manages all your categories and
subcategories

23. 3. Navigation

24. Navigation - Generally called as
Menus which enable users to
navigate throughout the site

25. 1. To create Menu , you need to go to the Menu Manager
(Backend -> Menu -> Menu Manager) , If it is already
created then skip to step 2
2. Go to the created/ existing menu , You need to create
a Menu item
There are various Menu types you can select from
Single article , category blog , featured articles ,
external url etc.
3. Select the menu type , select the Menu in which menu
item to be appear , save and close.
4. Other Parameters and Options for advanced users.
(which we will see over the demo)

26. DEMO

27. Language
- 68 available languages
- http://community.joomla.org/translations/joomla-16-translations.html
Example of Multilingual Site :
http://multilingual-joomla-demo.cloudaccess.net/

28. Joomla! 3.0
September 3.0 & March 3.1
New Markup and UI Based on Bootstrap
The most visible change in version 3.0 is expected to be the new markup and
UI, based on the Bootstrap HTML/CSS/JS framework from Twitter.
The goal for this change is to provide a standard set of UI “widgets” which
will allow extension developers and template developers to work from the
same set of markup standards.
This will allow extension developers to focus on functionality and template
developers to develop templates that work without modification across
multiple extensions.
The Bootstrap framework is based on the jQuery JavaScript framework.
Accordingly, as part of this change, Joomla 3.0 is expected to include jQuery.
MooTools will continue to be included as well.

29. Teams
communication team
leadership team
documentation team
events team
Bugs Squad
Joomla! Extension Directory(JED Editor)
Translation team
UX team
Long Term Support (LTS) Team

30. How to get involved with Joomla! ?
- Answer questions in joomla! forum
- Write Tutorials
- Write documentation
- Develop an Extension or Template
- Test and submit Issue report
- Join Joomla! working group
● Development Team
● Documentation Team
● Extension Directory Editors
● Sites and Infrastructure Teamp/Forum Moderators
● Translation Teams (Translations Forum)
- Help out a Joomla! event

31. Thank You !
Saurabh Shah
Twitter : @saurabhshah
Email
Work : saurabh@cloudaccess.net
Personal : shahsaurabh164@gmail.com
Work : http://www.cloudaccess.net
Personal
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