August 2008

Introductory: Learning Joomla! using Sample Data

All you need for this lesson is available in each Joomla! download

Written by Mark Dexter

Introductory: Learning Joomla! using Sample Data
Installation
Explore
First Change
Some Jargon Explained
Adding an Article
Registration and Login
More Cool Modules
Conclusion
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Joomla! Screenshots

Of all of the resources available to help a new user learn Joomla!, my favorite is the Joomla! Sample website. Why? Because it lets you see how a working site is built. With the sample website, you can see how the site is written in Joomla! and how it looks to the user. You can also make changes to the site and see what the changes do. In this article we will take a tour of the Joomla! sample website and see what it can teach us about Joomla!.


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  1. Cudos to all 3pds and their great work for making Joomla the most flexible and outstanding web front end ever!
  2. Thanks Sam for writing the blog. I second with you, that the 3rd party developers needs a raise for their hard work and their contributions. Without them, Joomla! wouldn't be what it is today.

    I also want to mention that we have had a remarkable development in JED. We started with 334 extension in March 2006. For one year ago we had reached 2299 extensions and yesterday we passed for the first time 4000 extensions.
  3. I, too, want to echo ssnobben and Lorenzo by thanking all of the third party developers for their terrific contributions and to all the JED editors who keep the JED so well organized.
  4. That sounds great. Which extension was the 4000th?
  5. Excellent work, however I wonder what the extra influx of extensions would be from duplicates where they have been updated from 1.0 series and released for 1.5?

    Take these away from the statistics and I would like to see the complete trend of genuinely new extensions to the directory. It would be more accurate.

    Regards,

    Joel
  6. 4000 reasons to go out and tell your friends that Joomla rocks.
  7. That is very good, but I wonder how much of this extensions are really extensions, and how much are module, and how much are plugins :)
  8. That's a hell of a lot of extensions.

    Nick
  9. How do you upload an image to a Joomla Template?
  10. How do i insert page breaks properly?
  11. Thank you for the tutorial. I was getting pretty lost until I found this. It was a great primer, and now I feel like I'm ready to explore Joomla! with greater confidence.
  12. How can I set up an online form, that can be submitted and emailed.?
  13. That is very good
    i want install a templete help me :\
  14. Joomla is "Content Building System" first and finally a "Content Management System" !!
  15. How can do I create a Scholarship online form for students to submit for scholarship?
  16. I'm trying to make a joomla website, but am struggling.8-)
  17. I need help how to install template.help needed pls
  18. This tutorial is extremely helpful. I have been studying the Joomla system and trying it for two weeks. This is best explanation of how it works that I have seen. Thanks!
  19. THis is by far the best tutorial I have found after searching around and I'm a real beginner when it comes to using Joomla!

    My only reservation is that I have followed the Quick Start Guide to the word... and it told me not to install the Sample site. Now I'm stuck in gaining the best experience form this tutorial!
  20. grazie!
  21. Thanks!:-)
  22. Hi there,

    How do I add a new position in the middle center of the page just below My First Article? Currenlty, the only spot there is "banner" and whatever I put there shows on every single other page. I downloaded JoomGallery and would like the gallery thumbnails to appear below My First Article and only appear on the homepage and no other pages. Please help!

    Thanks,!
  23. Great tutorial! Together with some other ebooks i think i will master joomla once and forever!
  24. Thanks for all sharing ..
    Your site is very useful for the beginning learner.
    but now, I have trouble in joomla. I have error code 212..and so on ... I so very poor mind for this :'(::\
  25. hi,,
    its a best solution and very easy to understand

    thanks,:-)
  26. Hi, thanks for this tut, it was just what I was looking for on the default data content management. I must say that Joomla is a bit overwhelming at first but it looks very powerful so I'm persevering because I think it will be a great tool to add the list - and the type of site requests I'm getting are leaning more to this type of application.

    Any recommendation on reading material for transferring data from Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 1.5 or one Joomla install to another.

    Thanks once again :-)
  27. Hi,

    In the Select Type filter i am getting only mod_mainmenu in the dropdown .. I am not getting anyother options as shown in the image .... Am i missing something here ????
  28. Hello Everyone! :-)

    I'm new to Joomla! (1.5.14) 8-)

    I'm reading many Joomla! literature before actually installing it to my pc and using Joomla! ;-)

    I hope "Learning Joomla! Using Sample Data" will help me ;-)
  29. error: doesn´t show box to select article in order to delete. HELP! php version?
  30. It is a very useful resource. It has made many many things clear. Thanks a lot Mark Dexter. Thanks to all Joomla members.

    Regards,
    Kambar Farooq
    A Beginner

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