On the left, you find shortcuts to frequently used parts of the admin area, such as creating new articles, changing the menu structure, or installing extensions. On the right is important information about the state of your site.
Here, you find the same options as in the control panel and then some. This is what the different menus contain:. Like other CMS, Joomla offers a way to change your site design without coding, which is what we will look at in this step of the tutorial. There are free and premium paid Joomla templates available. However, finding one can be tricky. Unfortunately, the CMS does not have a central directory for this.
Therefore, you need to look to shops to find them. Many of those who sell premium themes also offer free versions you can test drive. Here are a few places to get started:.
When selecting a template, besides your own taste, pay attention to a few important characteristics:. Installing a template in Joomla is quite easy in principle. Once you have made a choice, you usually get it in the form of a zip file. Either drag and drop the file into the field or click the Or browse for file button to find it on your hard drive.
Select it and Joomla should do the rest by itself. Alternatively, you can also install the template via its URL if you know where the package is located. Here, click the star icon to the right of the template name to make it the default for the entire site.
When you now go back to the front end of your site, you will see that its entire design has changed. Such is the power of templates. Note that, when downloading your template, you might get additional files such as quickstart , settings, and extension. The first is a complete version of Joomla including the template.
When you install that, your new design is ready to go when your site is set up, often including demo content. The other two files refer to stuff that you might have seen in the template demo site, such as sliders, etc. Most templates come with at least some customization options. You can access them by clicking on the template name in the list. In the settings, you can make adjustments to things like colors , fonts, logos , sizes, and much more.
In this case, the template even comes with its own settings page that we get to when we hit Template Options. Some Joomla templates also have a preview option where you can see changes in real-time. For example, below we have changed the social profiles and contact information in the top bar disabled the branding at the bottom and moved the top bar to the bottom of the page via the Layout options.
Right now, even if it looks better, your site is still pretty empty. Time to change that. At this point in our tutorial, we will go over how to use Joomla to create content. Unfortunately, we have to start with one of the more complicated topics, which is modules. These are little units of content that can appear in many places on a page like building blocks.
Here, set Preview Module Positions to Enabled , save, and close. So if you want to be good at it, you need to spend enough time learning it. And if you start early you would already know so much about the organization that when the GSoC begins it would feel like any other normal day. Every org is different. Stick with one or two organizations. You can submit up to three proposals as your project.
Make a detailed project proposal. Most organizations would review your proposal before you make a final submission. So, make full use of this opportunity. Is it practical to complete the project in the allotted time? Look at the GSoC website to see how many hours a student is supposed to work. Make reasonable goals accordingly. Do you have goals with deadlines?
You might want to break down your projects into weekly goals. This way, at the end of the week you can tell where you are headed. This has helped me a lot. Through this tutorial you will learn the basic file structure of a module. This basic structure can then be expanded to produce more elaborate modules. The helper class is defined in our helper. Our helper class has not been defined yet, but when it is, it will contain one method: getHello.
We use a helper class here to demonstrate this basic technique. Our module currently does not use any parameters, but we will pass them to the helper method anyway so that it can be used later if we decide to expand the functionality of our module.
This line ensures that this file is being invoked from the Joomla! This is necessary to prevent variable injection and other security vulnerabilities. The helper. As stated earlier, our helper class will have one method: getHello.
If you have more questions, visit the Joomla! Getting started on your Joomla! Many hosting services offer a simple one-click installation, but if you'd rather be more hands-on, have more control or are your own host, all you need is a Web server with PHP and MySQL. Most commercial hosts provide these as part of their basic package of services. Then download a copy of Joomla.
Then visit our install documentation to continue your adventure. If you're looking to get started in Joomla!
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