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Add Video
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
This post applies to AllVideosPlugin only. If your Joomla website is not set up with AllVideosPlugin, this tutorial will not work for you.   This information was copied directly from the AllVideosPlugin Mambot Help page and edited slightly for your convenience.
 
First set up a folder call "videos" inside your Control Panel Media Manager. By default this folder is called "videos" and resides within images/stories. So the full path to this folder would be images/stories/videos.

Say you uploaded 2 videos called baby_david.flv and birthday_party.mov.
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Add Administrators/Users
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  1. Login to www.yoursite.com/administrator
  2. Click on Member Account Manager
  3. Click “New” in top right corner
  4. You must type in
    Name: (not required)
    Username: like JaneJackson
    Email address: (not required)
    Password: Make it random to start. Encourage new administrator to change it upon login. There isn't a "forgot password" for administrators
    Group: Registered * (If administrator, choose Super Admin)
  5. When a user is added to the system – she will automatically get an email that says:
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Add Events using JCal Pro
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
This post applies to JCal Pro extension only. If you're using 1 of the dozens of other Joomla Calendar extensions, this tutorial won't help you.
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Getting Started With Joomla Handbook
Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Getting Started with JoomlaSimple Handbook
The JoomlaSimple Handbook is a collection of Joomla tutorials aimed at administrators and developers. The administrator tutorials are geared towards less technical Website administrators with limited to no HTML skills (if you learn very basic HTML, your life will be much, much easier). 

Getting Started with Joomla
New to Joomla and don't know where to begin? Soon we will be launching a Newbies section, so check back soon. 

Public Disclaimer
A product of the Soapbox Collective, this manual does not apply to every Joomla set-up. This Handbook will only be useful to you, the administrator, if

  • You are administering Joomla version 1.0.8 - 1.0.15. or
    NOW ALSO - Joomla 1.5
  • You are using the JCE WYSIWYG Text Editor with File Manager Plugin. If you're not, many of the step-by-step instructions won't match your Joomla interface, and you will be confused.
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Joomla Mechanics
Sunday, 10 February 2008

 The following images show how items, menus, and articles can be modified by a non-technical Joomla administrator in Joomla 1.0. and 1.5. You will see these buttons and controls across Joomla.

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Joomla Control Panel
Sunday, 10 February 2008

Click here to see the Joomla Control Panel 1.0:

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Click here to see the Joomla Control Panel 1.5: 

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Add Content
Sunday, 10 February 2008

Adding Content to your Joomla website is actually a 2-step process. You have to create the Content and a Menu link from the Menu Manager.  If you publish the post, but don't publish the Menu item, your website will not appear on your website. This post covers Adding Content. The JoomlaSimple tutorial on adding menu links is on the left

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Content Editor Screen
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
The Content Editor Screen (also referred to at times as the Text Editor Screen) is a dizzying array of options. Very few options are necessary, but it helps to know what they all do.
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Add Menu Link
Sunday, 17 February 2008

As stated previously, adding content is a two part process. The first part is creating the content item/article and the second part is creating a menu link so that there is a way to get to the new content you just created. This covers step two - creating a new menu item to link to a content post (Joomla 1.0)/article (Joomla 1.5)

  1. In the Joomla top navigation bar, you will see a "Menu" button
  2. Rollover the "Menu," button and click on the appropriate menu. Hopefully they are clearly named.

  3. * Main Menu always contains a link to your homepage (whether it's published or unpublished). Joomla requires this.
    * Some websites may have Multiple Menu Systems. Either ask your developer or click around until you find the menu system that contains the links you are looking to add to.

  4. Click "New"
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Add PDFs
Sunday, 10 February 2008

 

This tutorial will only be helpful to you if

  • you are administering Joomla version 1.0.8 - 1.0.15.or NOW Joomla 1.5!
  • you are running JCE WYSIWYG Text Editor with File Manager Plugin (you have to pay $US 20 to download it -- very worth the money). If you're not using JCE with File Manager, this tutorial will not help you.

 

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Add Links
Sunday, 10 February 2008
  1. Highlight the word, phrase or image (after you insert the image) you would like be a link.
  2. Use the icon_link.gif icon to open the Link Manager Window. See details in graphic below.

    Joomla 1.0

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    Joomla 1.5

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External  Link

  1. If you want to link to an extrernal link, open a 2nd browser window and browse to the page to which you would like to link.
  2. Copy and paste the full path of that page address (starting with “http://”), go back to the Link Manager, and paste the link path into the field called “URL”


Email Link
Would you like a link to launch your client's email accout with your email address pre-populated? 

  1. Add your email address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) to the "Address" box (Joomla 1.0) or in Joomla 1.5 click on the email icon on the right hand side and then add your email address in the "Address" box
  2. You can skip the "title" unless you know exactly what you want to recommend the subject be. 

 

Internal Link

Joomla 1.0 
  1. Would you like to link to an entire Section's worth of content? Choose link to: Section.
  2. Would you like to link to a single page of content?  Choose link to: Article 
  3. Click insert and you are done!

 Joomla 1.5

  1. Once in the Link Manager, in the Link Browser Window you can choose to create an internal link to a specific menu or to a content item.  
  2. By linking to a content item you will be able to linke to a specific single page of contents.
  3. On the other hand, if you would like to tie the link to a whole section worth of content choose to link to a specific menu item. 
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Add Photos
Sunday, 10 February 2008
You can use JCE to upload your images one by one, or you can FTP en masse to the folder : /images/stories/. I have no idea why Joomla has a folder called "stories," but I haven't cared enough to find out. If you upload images anywhere but /images/stories/, these images won't appear as "Insert" options in your JCE image manager window.
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