An introduction to Joomla CMS.

1. Joomla Joomla is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) that powers 2.7% of the entire web. Arslan Farooq

3. What is Joomla

4. Joomla Benefits

5. Adding content to the front page

6. Formatting content

7. Adding external link

9. Deleting content

10. Using Templates (themes)

11. Changing look of site using templates (CSS)

12. Using Modules

13. Conclusion

18. Written in PHP, a free and open source programming language

19. Stores data in MySQL

20. Supports multilingual internationalization

21. More than 7000 commercial and free extensions / plugins

22. Very easy to use and nice user interface

24. Multiple WYSIWYG editors

25. RSS feeds support

26. You can set up a Joomla site in 15 minutes

27. Hands On Exercise Using Joomla

29. Click 'Add New Article'

30. Give article name, alias, status published, 'Featured' set to 'Yes'.

31. Click 'Save & Close'.

32. Refresh

34. Click an article name or tick an article check-box and click 'Edit' button.

35. Add bullets, bold, italic, heading style etc.

36. 'Save & Close'

37. Refresh page.

39. Click an article name or tick an article check-box and click 'Edit' button.

40. Select word(s) and click the chain button in toolbar of editor

41. Enter Google's address

42. Click 'Insert'

43. 'Save & Close' and Refresh

45. Click an article name or tick an article check-box and click 'Edit' button.

46. Click 'Image' button at bottom of the editor

47. Choose any pre-installed image from media manager and set options (alignment, border, dimensions etc)

49. Click an article name or tick an article check-box and click 'Edit' button.

50. Delete some paragraphs, 'Save & Close' and refresh page.

51. OR

52. Delete and article by selecting an article by its check-box and clicking 'Trash' button.

54. Click 'Template Manager'

55. Tick a template's check-box

56. Click 'Make Default' button

57. Refresh

58. Difference between Templates and Template Style (in Joomla 1.6)

60. Click 'Template Manager'

61. Click 'Templates'

62. Click current template

63. Click on current 'Style' to edit its CSS

64. Change background color of website from light gray to dark gray

66. Click Module Manager

67. Familiarize with the interface

68. Disable some modules and refresh front-end

69. Create a custom HTML module and show on sidebar

70. References http://www.joomla.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla Beginning Joomla! (2 nd Edition, Apress)

71. Thank You [email_address]