Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration -- Table of Contents -- Joomla! 1.5 Content Administration -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Exploring Your New Joomla! Website -- Where to begin -- Logging into the Control Panel -- Getting around the administration -- Site -- Menus -- Content -- Components -- Extensions -- Tools -- Help -- Related toolbars -- Organizing your site -- Understanding Sections, Categories, and Articles -- What are uncategorized articles? -- Site wide settings -- Leave it to the experts -- Overview of the extensions -- Components -- Modules -- Plugins -- Summary -- 2. Creating, Editing, and Organizing Content -- General tips on writing content for the Web -- A note on copyright -- Making your home page engaging -- The Article Manager -- Filtering the display of Articles -- Column headings -- The toolbar -- Archive and unarchive Articles -- Publish and unpublish an Article -- Move or copy an Article -- Trashing an Article -- Edit, New, and Parameters -- Editing an existing Article using the text editor -- Opening the Article -- Editing the Article -- Creating a new Article -- Adding text -- Adding a table to an Article -- Breaking up Article content -- Adding a Read More link -- Adding a page break -- Using the JCE text editor -- Authorization and publishing from the frontend -- Adding content for approval through frontend access -- To submit an Article from the frontend -- What are Article parameters? -- The advanced parameters-but only if you really have to! -- Metadata information is what search engines like -- Summary -- 3. Managing Images and Videos -- Media Manager -- Accessing and using the Media Manager.

Creating a new subfolder -- A note on copyright -- What you should know about image and video files -- Choosing the best image file format -- Adding and managing images -- Uploading a new image -- Deleting an image -- Updating a Simple Image Gallery -- Changing the Simple Image Gallery's dimensions -- Using video files -- Choosing the best video file format -- Uploading a video -- Updating videos-AllVideos plugin -- Changing to a different video file and format -- Updating a YouTube video -- Changing the YouTube video dimensions -- Audio files -- Summary -- 4. Backing Up Your Website -- What's the Control Panel and where is it? -- Manually backing up your site -- Backing up the database using the phpMyAdmin interface -- Backing up the site files using the Backup Wizard -- Using an external FTP application to download and upload your files -- Restoring your website manually -- Backing up and restoring with the JoomlaPack component -- Understanding the restoration process -- Step 1: Create the archive file and upload -- Step 2. Creating a new database and user -- Step 3: Kick-start the installation -- Step 4: Restoring your website -- Summary -- 5. User Management -- The big picture: Who are users? -- Frontend users -- Frontend user definitions -- Administration users -- Editing the frontend Login Form -- Lost usernames and passwords -- Allowing new account registrations -- Adding custom text to the Login Form -- Directing registered users to a certain section of the site -- Managing your users: The User Manager -- Creating a new user -- Adding a new user as a site contact -- Adding a new contact Category -- Adding the new user to your list of contacts -- Adding a new customer manually -- Editing existing users -- Editing a user profile -- Updating the linked contact details -- Resetting a username and password -- Dealing with problematic users.

Deleting a user -- Blocking a user -- What if a new user can't log in? -- Sending e-mails to a group of users -- Sending a private message to a user -- Summary -- 6. Making Your Site Popular -- Overview of Search Engine Ranking -- What is metadata? -- General strategies for SEO -- Updating content frequently -- Link building -- Adding an external link to an Article -- Adding an internal link to an Article -- Social media -- Using social media for marketing -- Facebook -- Twitter -- StumbleUpon -- Delicious -- Reddit and Digg -- RSS feeds -- Social media on your site -- Customizing Stalker -- Making the most of Google -- Setting up a Google Account -- Setting up Google Analytics -- Research keywords -- Google's keyword tool -- Adding lots of content -- Pay per click traffic -- Keyword tips -- Creating a new, search engine-friendly Article -- Summary -- 7. Security-Precaution and Recovery -- Precautionary measures -- Keeping up-to-date -- Upgrade to the latest version of Joomla! -- Localhost environments -- Installing the upgrade patch -- Review your hosting account -- Change the administration username and password -- Why change the administration username from "admin" to something else? -- Reset the FTP login password -- Other precautions -- Installing and configuring jSecure authentication -- Downloading jSecure -- Installing jSecure through the administration control panel -- Configuring the jSecure Plugin to change the administration login URL -- What should I do if my site is exploited? -- Help, I can't log into the administration panel! -- Generate an MD5 hash value -- Reset the "admin" user password in the database -- Log into the administration interface -- What else should I do? -- Check for any new or suspicious files -- Run diagnostic scripts -- Advise your hosting provider -- Review the Raw Access Logs for your site.

How do I recover my site after a serious compromise? -- Summary -- 8. Menus, Modules, and Components -- Extending a menu with a new link -- Creating the Article -- Reordering menu items -- Removing a menu item -- Adding Web Links -- Setting the Web Links global parameters -- Adding a Category of links -- Adding the links to the Category -- Editing and deleting web links and Categories -- Adding the web links page to the (top) menu -- Advertising banners -- Setting up banner advertising -- Adding a banner Category -- Adding a banner client -- Setting the banner parameters -- Adding the banner -- Enabling the banner module -- Managing and editing banners -- Latest news module: Updating and adding -- Setting up the content -- Enabling the module -- Managing your latest news -- Random images module -- Change the files in the image folder -- Redirect to a different image directory -- Installing third-party extensions- modules, components, and plugins -- Position of modules -- Plugins -- Installing an extension -- Configuring the component -- Adding the new component to a menu -- Additional third-party extensions -- VirtueMart -- JCal Pro -- DOCman -- Letterman -- Core modules -- NewsFlash -- Who's online -- Polls -- Feed display -- Summary -- Index.