Installing Components

Components are Joomla's content elements or applications that usually appear in the center of a three column Joomla layout, or on the right of a two column Joomla layout. Components are core elements of Joomla functionality. Joomla core components include: Banners, Contact, News Feeds, Polls and Weblinks. Members of the Joomla Community are producing third party Joomla components on a continuous basis. Let's try in this tutorial to install one component. First, choose your desired component and let's start.

Log in your administration section.

On the top menu go to Components-->Install/Uninstall. You will see now a list of components already installed on your site. Under that list you will see "upload new component" section. (under that you will see a list of directories. be sure that all that directories are writeable) Press "browse" and go to package you want to install. Select it and upload the file.

The next screen will show you if the comonent was installed succesfull.

For different components configurations we will make another tutorials. So, stay close.

Installing Modules

Modules extend the capabilities of Joomla giving the software new functionality.Modules are small content items that can be displayed anywhere that your template allows it to be displayed. Modules are very easy to install in the Admin Section. Joomla modules may include: Main Menu, Top menu, Template Chooser, Polls, Newsflash, Hit Counter, etc. Members of the Joomla Community are producing third party Joomla modules on a continuous basis. Let's try in this tutorial to install one module.

First, choose your desired module and let's start.

Log in your administration section.

On the top menu go to Modules --> Install/Uninstall. You will see now a list of modules already installed on your site. Under that list you will see "upload new module" section. (under that you will see a list of directories. be sure that all that directories are writeable). Press "browse" and go to package you want to install. Select it and upload the file.

The next screen will show you if the module was installed succesfull.

Go to Modules --> Site modules and publish the new installed module.

Thats all for now. In the future there will be tutorials about how to arrange modules on your mambo site.

HOW TO INSTALL A JOOMLA TEMPLATE When following the below instructions to install your Joomla Template you must already have the Joomla CMS installed on your website and you must have downloaded your ThemeStock.com template and have it readily available. Step 1 in Installing a Joomla Template: The file that you have downloaded from ThemeStock.com will have a file name similar to: TS-JOOMLA-TemplateName.zip Locate the folder on your hard drive where that template was downloaded to, and extract the zip file with WinZip or another similar extraction program. Extracting the file is typically as simple as right-clicking the file and clicking on "extract to here" as illustrated below:

After you have successfully extracted your files you will have a folder name similar to TS-JOOMLA-TemplateName which will contain 3 subfolders named PSD, HTML, and JoomlaTemplate as pictured below:

No further steps are required with these folders until you reach Step 4 of this tutorial.

Step 2 in Installing a Joomla Template: Log into your Joomla Administration Section. This is typically at a URL that looks similar to the below: http://www.yoursite.com/administrator After you have logged in, the administration section's "Control Panel" page will appear as shown:

Step 3 in Installing a JoomlaTemplate: On the top menu of the Joomla toolbar, mouse-over the "Installers" menu, then move your mouse down to "Templates - Site" option and click on it as pictured below:

Step 4 in Installing a Joomla Template: You will now be taken to the template upload page. Once you arrive on this page, click the "Browse..." button that is located in the "Upload Package File" section, and marked with the red arrow below:

A Pop-up Box will now appear for you to upload your template. Navigate through your computer to the folder that you extracted in Step 1 of this tutorial, then double-click on the sub folder named "JoomlaTemplate". Next, click on the zip file that is located within the "JoomlaTemplate" folder and click on open. The name of this zip file will be different for each template you download.

After you have clicked the open button, the pop-up box will automatically close, and you will be returned to the "Install new template" page. The path of the skin will appear in the "Package File" field, and your next step is to simply press the "Upload File and Install" button as indicated by the red arrow below:

Step 5 in Installing a Joomla Template: After your upload has completed you will be taken to the "Upload template - Success" page shown below. On this page clck the "Continue ..." button that is marked with the red arrow.

Step 6in Installing a Joomla Template: You have the final step in installing your new Joomla Template. Simply select the template name that you uploaded in step 4 of this tutorial by clicking on the Radio Button next to the name of the template, and then click the "Default" button located just under the main toolbar section at the top of red. This button is highligted in red below:

That's it! The selected Joomla Template will now appear with a green check mark next to the template name:

you can you reload your website page where Joomla is installed and enjoy your newly skinned Joomla site!

Install Templates

Manually Installing Templates

He have learned about how to install automaticaly Joomla templates. Now, let's try to install Joomla templates manually. This is a small tutorial about how to install templates manually.

Let's begin:

Get your zip files from our (or other) website. Unzip the file on your computer.

Log on with your ftp client on your site.

Find "Templates" folder on your root site and upload unzipped directory. The structure should look like this: /templates/mody_bluelight/index.php.

Log on your Mambo administration section. Go to Site --> Template Manager --> Site Templates
Select your new template from the list and publish it.

Go to Site --> Preview --> In new window

What is Joomla! ?

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Joomla! in Action

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our software:

• Corporate websites or portals
• Online commerce
• Small business websites
• Non-profit and organizational websites
• Government applications
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• School and church websites
• Personal or family homepages
• Community-based portals
• Magazines and newspapers
• the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

Joomla! for End Users

The basic Joomla! package is designed to be easy to install, even for non-programmers. Most people have no trouble getting our software up and running, and there is plenty of support available for newbies. We have a growing, active community of more than 150,000 friendly users and developers on our forums eager to help.

Once Joomla! is installed and running, it is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the critical data that makes your company or organization go. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla! site.

Via a simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new press releases or news items, manage staff pages, job listings, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your site. You can try our simple demo to get quick taste of what Joomla! is all about.

Taking Joomla! to the Next Level

Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your website sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for thousands of developers around the world to create powerful add-ons and extensions. Here are just some examples of the hundreds of available extensions:

• Dynamic form builders
• Business or organizational directories
• Document management
• image and multimedia galleries
• E-commerce and shopping cart engines
• Forums and chat software
• Calendars
• Blogging software
• Directory services
• Email newsletters
• Data collection and reporting tools
• Banner advertising systems
• Subscription services
• and many, many more…

You can find more examples over at our growing Joomla! Extensions Directory. Prepare to be amazed at the amount of exciting work produced by our active developer community!

Joomla! for Developers

Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla! package or in a freely available extension.

Thankfully, Joomla! offers a powerful application framework that makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla! into virtually unlimited directions.

Using the core framework, developers can easily build:

• Integrated e-commerce systems
• Inventory control systems
• Data reporting tools
• Custom product catalogs
• Complex business directories
• Reservation systems
• Communication tools
• Application bridges
• or any kind of application to suit a unique need…

If your company or organization hires a third party Joomla! developer or builds in-house software using the Joomla! framework, you are building on an open platform that does not tie you to any one developer or to a proprietary, closed application.

You can learn more about developing on the Joomla! framework over at our developer’s network. The beauty of Joomla! is that you can leverage our framework and user interface to deliver applications to your end users in a familiar, powerful environment.

So what’s the catch?

There is no catch. Joomla! is free, open, and available to all under the GPL license. We don’t claim to be perfect, and can’t promise to meet every requirement in the world. But for many web applications, our software is perfectly suited for the job. We are adding great new features with each release, and with the help and advice of our incredible user community we plan on delivering award-winning software for years to come.

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Joomla is

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. Joomla! includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla! is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

It is written with the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.

History

Joomla came into being as the result of a fork of Mambo by all of its then-core developers on August 17, 2005. At that time, the Mambo name was trademarked by Miro International Pty Ltd, who formed a non-profit foundation with the stated purpose to fund the project and protect it from lawsuits.^[1] The development team claimed that many of the provisions of the foundation structure went against previous agreements made by the elected Mambo Steering Committee, lacked the necessary consultation with key stake holders, and included provisions that violated core open source values.^[2]

The development team created a web site called OpenSourceMatters to distribute information to users, developers, web designers, and the community in general. The project team leader at the time Andrew Eddie, A.K.A. "MasterChief" (who rejoined the team as of 15 August 2007), wrote an open letter to the community^[3] which appeared on the announcements section of the public forum at mamboserver.com.

One thousand people had joined the opensourcematters.org forum web site within a day, most posting words of encouragement and support for the actions of the Development Team. The web site received a slashdotting and news articles regarding the event appeared at newsforge.com, eweek.com, and ZDnet.com. Miro CEO Peter Lamont gave a public response in an article entitled "The Mambo Open Source Controversy - 20 Questions With Miro".^[4]

This event has stirred deeply held feelings in the free software community regarding what shall constitute "open source". Forums at many other open source projects were active with postings for and against the actions of both sides. Rumor and accusations of wrongdoing by Miro and the Mambo Foundation were rampant.

In the two weeks following Eddie's announcement teams were re-organized and the community continued to grow. On September 1, 2005 the new name, "Joomla", which is the English spelling of the Swahili (and Urdu: جملہ and Arabic: جملة) word jumla meaning "all together" or "as a whole", was announced to a mixed reception of 3000+ faithful followers of the Development Team. It was chosen to reflect the commitment of the development team and community to the project.^{[citation needed]}

The first release of Joomla (Joomla 1.0.0) was announced on September 16, 2005. This was a re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 combined with other bug and moderate-level security fixes. In the project's roadmap, the core developers say Joomla 1.5 will be a completely re-written code base built with PHP 5. It was announced in 2006 and has been nominated for the vaporware award 2007, but with the transition from beta to first release candidate (RC1) on 21 July 2007, a second release candidate on 1 September 2007 (RC2) and a third release candidate on 6 October 2007 (RC3), a final product may yet be available before year-end.

Joomla won the Packt Publishing Open Source Content Management System Award in 2006.^[5]

Features

The Joomla package consists of many different parts, which are built to be as modular as possible, allowing extensions and integrations to be made easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins".^[6](Previously known as "Mambots".) Plugins are background extensions that extend Joomla with new functionality. The WikiBot, for example, allows the author of Joomla content to use "Wikitags" in Joomla articles which will auto-create dynamic hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles when displayed. There are over 2,100 extensions for Joomla available via the Extensions Directory, a site that OpenSourceMatters runs as an official directory of extensions.^[7]

In addition to Plugins, more comprehensive extensions are available. "Components" allow webmasters to perform such tasks as build a community by expanding user features, backup a website, translate content and create URLS that are more friendly to search engines.^[8] "Modules" perform such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like Google AdSense etc to be inserted within the base Joomla code.^[9]

Community

Joomla has an official and many unofficial communities. As of July 2007, the official Joomla forums claims more than 200,000 threads and over 1 million posts from over 138,000 members in 40 languages.^[10] Unofficial sites are published in many languages, often with Joomla extensions that are region specific. Bi-directional text support for the Hebrew and Arabic languages, for example, can be found on 3rd party community portals. Unofficial web developers also build extensions and web templates for commercial sale and offer freelance customization services. Usually a template is distributed as a zip file which can be installed using the Joomla installer.

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