Joomla 3 Part C

This is the 3rd installment in my blog post series on Joomla 3 which is based on what I learn from the Addison-Wesley video training course. You can have an alias like automate having it say you have written an article for example. To do this click batch then select. You then scroll down to the bottom box which has various categories and has move and copy under each category. Move deletes the original where as copy copies it. The extensions are found under the extension menu. The most commonly used ones are there.  A joomla site is made up of things like extensions, modules & components. You can find more extensions which extend the usuability of your joomla site at http://extensions.joomla.org . A lot of these are free but some are ones you must buy. Sometimes there is a free version with limited features and one you buy that is a premium version. You should look for good ratings and reviews prior to downloading one, in particular look to see if it was complicated to install. If you install a banner on your page one nifty feature is it will tell you how many times it has been clicked. To set up a contact page which tells viewers how to contact someone. Click menus, contacts, contacts.You will then have quite a lot of fields to fill in with the ones with a star being compulsory. You then save and refresh it. To check for updates click components, joomla update. Every site needs at least an administrator who is normally the person who was responsible for building it. To redirect to another site click extensions, system, system redirect. Then enter both addresses. Choose save, refresh. Smart search isn't recommended for big joomla sites instead they use basic search. This is because as it scans the site it takes up a lot of resources in terms of memory space and processor power. To display weblinks within a category. Click components, weblinks, create category new. Fill in the fields. You then save and refresh. I will try and do the 4th and last blog post in this series tonight.